Hands-On: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

All it looks to me is ugly as hell. I really don't get it - since when did high contrast UIs for the visually impaired become mainstream? Also, what's innovative about little numbers overlaid on icons (tiles) showing you things like how many messages you have? Why isn't Apple suing Microsoft for that and the other things they stole from the iPhone (scroll bump, etc.)? How come only Android gets picked on? WP8 is so two-thousand and eight - not to mention as homely as a shaved cat. I can understand why a lot of people like iPhone. I can even get the Blackberry thing, because some folks simply cannot type on a touchscreen (I'm one of them). However, WP8 brings absolutely nothing new to the party. All it would take is a single decent An...
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