So here I am almost a week later with my HTC Surround. Overall my impression of this phone is improving as time goes on. It just works.
In my prior post I mentioned that one of the features I liked was the ability to sync wirelessly. Well, that didn’t pan out to well. The software seemed to hang a bit. So the Zune software needs some work.
I found my first bug in the software, and saw some areas for improvement.
I’ll cover those in specific post because I don’t want it lost in the noise of one long blog post.
However my overall thoughts are positive. I love the speech recognition, it just works well. The responsiveness of the phone is awesome. The applications for the phone is still a bit weak, but its early. It takes time to build out a great eco system.
The one thing I did notice is that WP7 apps cost money. Not many free, high quality, applications out there. A lot of, what appear to be OK quality for pay apps. I think this will also change over time as the eco system builds up. Right now you have a lot of early developers trying to make a few bucks off the early adapters.
I’ll follow up with three post in the near future, one more tonight.
1. The bug I found.
2. Improvements I’d like to see.
3. Applications I miss from my iPhone.
Check back soon.