Windows Phone 7

I'm not fully convinced about the Windows Phone 7 ideas, but they have some cool videos really taking on me - one called "Really?" and another called "Season of the Witch".

The cool thing about the concept is that Windows Phone is not another mobile OS immersing you in its experience. As Steve Ballmer stated: "You get in, out, and back to life." - so the videos are making fun of everyone always everywhere looking at their mobile phones. And they've got a point there. Maybe we have no need for another "beautiful phone" phones using even more of your time. Not another phone that you just "keep using" because it looks so beautiful and works so well. Maybe it's time for phones using less of your time, that don't go in the way of communicating with others, but still let you do the things you want to do.

Or, maybe it's time for users that can handle priorities. Maybe it's not the phone that needs change. Maybe it's the people and their behaviour, which is not changed by a different type of mobile phone. Even then, the videos are still funny.

To finish: one quote from the developer videos (announcing the most recent tools available): "Go get 'em. Be inspired, be awesome, stay nerdy" :-).