Review: HTC Surround with Windows Phone 7
Social networking is somewhat hard to define with the Surround. Facebook is sort of built into the People Hub. From there, you're limited to interacting with wall posts and status updates. You can't, as far as I can tell, send messages through the People Hub to Facebook friends.
A dedicated Facebook application is fashioned after the Hubs; users swipe from left to right to access different segments of content. The main segment offers access to all the different facets of Facebook, including your own profile, friend requests, notes, account settings and so on. After that, the next segment houses the news feed, the second offers photos, the third offers events and other calendar items, the fourth offers notifications. This application looks great, works well, and I truly love the way it organizes friends' Facebook photos into a montage of images. This is great.
What's odd is that because some Facebook tasks are built into WP7, the stand-alone application doesn't interface with the other applications on the device. Microsoft added the elements of Facebook to WP7 that it thought were most important. Everything else is left to the application.
The Marketplace for Windows Phone fully launched on October 21, and a slew of applications were added, including dedicated official apps for Twitter, FourSquare, Seesmic, and numerous others. All the apps take on the graceful appearance of the WP7 Hubs.
Windows Phone 7: Hands-On
HTC Surround
