I highly recommend this phone because of it's ease of use, integration with facebook, xbox, ms office, and windows live.

When you turn the phone on for the first time, you can enter your facebook login and all of your FB contacts instantly import to your contacts list. All of their phone, address, and birthday info is instantly on the phone. How awesome to not have to spend hours entering all of this info. Contact lists not only show info, but recent facebook activity.

The pictures hub not only shows your camera pics, but can show all the recent photos posted to facebook by your friends.

The ms office apps use windows live to automatically backup your onenotes so that you can create a grocery list on your pc at home, and it is instantly synced, wirelessly, to your phone so that you have the list when you get to the store.

If you buy a Zune pass for $15 a month you get to own (download drm-free) 10 tracks a month, plus you get UNLIMITED downloading and streaming of their entire music catalog. On Tuesday, when new albums come out, this is fantastic. You can download all the new music released, and delete it as you decide which ones aren't worth keeping. You aren't paying per track/album but you still get to own 10 tracks and "borrow" unlimited tracks. The best deal in the biz.

Everything about this phone is effortless. For most actions and activities, you don't have to launch an app as they are integrated into the phone from the start.

Later in '11, the phone will have multitasking, excel and word automatic sync, full-fledged hardware accelerated internet explorer 9 (capable of playing videos on webpages), and xbox gaming live with folks on their console (not turn by turn gaming but true real time gaming).

Overall, the phone has some minor flaws that are promised to be fixed on March 8, and with a summer released update. I am already in love with this phone and I can't wait for the updates to rollout. If you are hesitant about jumping on the Windows Phone 7 train, understand that I have zero reservations recommending this phone.
I highly recommend this phone because of it's ease of use, integration with facebook, xbox, ms office, and windows live. When you turn the phone on for the first time, you can enter your facebook login and all of your FB contacts instantly import to your contacts list. All of their phone, address, and birthday info is instantly on the phone. How awesome to not have to spend hours entering all of this info. Contact lists not only show info, but recent facebook activity. The pictures hub not only shows your camera pics, but can show all the recent photos posted to facebook by your friends. The ms office apps use windows live to automatically backup your onenotes so that you can create a grocery list on your pc at home, and it is instantly synced, wirelessly, to your phone so that you have the list when you get to the store. If you buy a Zune pass for $15 a month you get to own (download drm-free) 10 tracks a month, plus you get UNLIMITED downloading and streaming of their entire music catalog. On Tuesday, when new albums come out, this is fantastic. You can download all the new music released, and delete it as you decide which ones aren't worth keeping. You aren't paying per track/album but you still get to own 10 tracks and "borrow" unlimited tracks. The best deal in the biz. Everything about this phone is effortless. For most actions and activities, you don't have to launch an app as they are integrated into the phone from the start. Later in '11, the phone will have multitasking, excel and word automatic sync, full-fledged hardware accelerated internet explorer 9 (capable of playing videos on webpages), and xbox gaming live with folks on their console (not turn by turn gaming but true real time gaming). Overall, the phone has some minor flaws that are promised to be fixed on March 8, and with a summer released update. I am already in love with this phone and I can't wait for the updates to rollout. If you are hesitant about jumping on the Windows Phone 7 train, understand that I have zero reservations recommending this phone.