![]() ![]() There are also fairly decent RSS reader applications to be found in the Windows Phone Marketplace which sync with Google Reader. On the iPhone, you can launch into an “edit” mode for mass editing, but you can only move or delete the emails once there. In fact, it even offers something the iPhone lacks – the ability to select multiple messages and mark them as read, or unread, or flag or unflag them for follow-up. For example, if you’re on the iPhone and use Apple’s mail client, you’ll love the Windows Phone mail app. Of course, for many users – particularly those who turn to native applications for things like checking email and news, this is of no matter. Google Reader, similarly, is downright unusable in this ancient, dumbed-down format. That means, instead of getting something that looks like this, you get this. The attractive, better-than-a-native-app Web applications Google built for smartphone users are not available to those on Windows Phone 7. Using the Gmail and Google Reader Web applications on the Windows Phone 7 device is like traveling back in time to the early days of the mobile Web. But for someone like myself, who is heavily invested in many Google products from Gmail to YouTube, it’s disconcerting. I suppose becoming unbound from the Google experience on a Windows Phone 7 device makes sense – after all, the two companies are major competitors. And this may be the one sticking point that sends me back to Android. But there’s one thing that Windows Phone can’t do well – it can’t deeply connect me to the Google experience. I’ve also installed an interesting smattering of useful apps and have pinned various items to my homescreen. In the first week, I’ve discovered what it’s like to use a Windows Phone with a Mac, how to customize the device to my needs and how to enjoy (and curse at!) the Zune Marketplace.
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