>Does anyone know if we are going to see usability enhancements like Flash or more streaming audio/video capabilities in Windows Phone 7 in the reasonable future (ie before initial windows phone contracts are up for the people who jumped into it early)?
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>WP7 has some nice features but still seems pretty far behind other current generation smartphones in overall feature set.
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>I had been reading blogs/insider drivel last fall indicating Flash support was imminent or close, among other things.
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>It's pretty annoying to go to a LOT of sites where WP7 can't load Flash or audio or whatever, and know most other current phones do not have this problem.
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>I certainly would jump to another platform if a lot of this isn't addressed before my contract is up. I'd jump today if I wasn't stuck in the contract.

First of all, Flash is not supported on the IPhone only Android AFAIK. Android is gonna run into problems of its own (platform fragmentation, lawsuits from Oracle, etc).
WP7 is innovative, fresh and will be the dominate platform soon (Gartner and boys say by 2015; I don't think it will take that long. Its grown 2% market share in 3 months and will keep rising). The Nokia deal is a killer and when we start flooding the world with windows phone, things will onlly get better. I don't browse websites on the phone that much, usually looking for addresses or directions or such, so the lack of flash is not a stopper for me. I use my notebook if I need that.

I wouldn't abandon it yet....