but man, this dude played it as hard as he could. I wouldn't write him off just yet.
I was paying into the 4 digits for computers when I was in high school, I paid $400 for a 1-speed cd-writer.
It's called being old, shit was expensive.
Which is actually the beauty of the phone, core functions eliminate the need for many apps. For example, Bing has a combo of shazam (bing voice), search and a QR code/MS tag reader (bing vision) that works really, really well, and it's all in the same interface and it's lightning fast to get into.
Win phone while a touch behind really is a clever, wonderful thing to use if given the chance.