Nice article, and I quite like the WP7 as well... but preeminence seems unlikely. Earlier predictions of millions of Windows Phone 7 sales in the first few days did not come true. MS now says that only 1.5M devices were sold in the first 6 weeks. This compares to 3M iPhones in its first 3 weeks on the market.... and more than 300,000 Android devices being activated daily, meaning that another 12M Android devices were activated during WP7's initial sales frenzy. On that basis, WP7 is well behind Android and falling further behind every day. So if MS and its fans have something up their sleeves to justify the sunny confidence, IMHO they'd better reveal it ASAP.

Hi, JR...call me a skeptic, but I'm not sure MS' predictions were for millions in the first few days. (Unless you can provide an actual link).

And call me a bigger skeptic, but I'm not sure I believe the Android stats either.

Not challenging your view that preeminence seems unlikely, I'm just not sure I believe the numbers.

I've seen JB's phone and I like it very much - but I also love my HTC Evo. Even in places where I don't have 4G, it's still a great phone.