Living with the LG Optimus 7...Day 2

OK, after another 24 hours I can report:

All of my initial observations are correct...
No way to share contacts
'Me' page does not have profile information, even if your Live account has the details, and no way to link it with your FB/Live information if you have it your details on exchange or even if you create a 'Me' contact.

The MSFT Social answers site is a good place for discussion on problems, go to the WP7 section.

In hindsight, I think "Windows Phone 7" is a terrible name, because doing web searches for information on the phone brings up all sorts of Windows 7 information not relevant to the phone...you have to get a bit boolean about WP7 searches. ;)

More after the break...

Living with the LG Optimus 7...Day 1

I picked up my Optimus 7 yesterday and here are my first impressions:

Hardware



I quite like the LG hardware. The brushed metal backplate looks good, the dimensions are the right size of screen real estate and hand-hold friendliness (for me). The responsiveness is great and takes only light touches to manipulate. The only thing I don't like is the the side mounted USB port (I mean, why?!) and its little flimsy cover...can't see that lasting very long. I really like the raised hard keys at the bottom in chrome, they look and feel good. One thing I have to get used to is using the power button rather than any other hard key to wake the phone up...too many months on a fruity device, habits are hard to break!

Follow the link for my full Day 1 lowdown...