Windows Phone 7 is out, so we're going to review as many awesome and essential apps as we can, live, updating throughout the day. If you're curious about what Windows Phone, this is the place to really check it out.
Flight Control
Feels just like the iPhone version.
Facebook
It's a fairly full-featured, slick iteration of Facebook, but Windows Phone 7ified.
OMG: Our Manic Game
Ooh, this is like
Geometry Wars combined with
Ikaruga. Fun! And nice looking.
OpenTable
The Windows Phone 7 version of OpenTable feels classy, almost as classy as the restaurant you're making a reservation at.
FourSquare
It'll be good once they worked out the bugs—it's probably my favorite FourSquare version in terms of look and feel.
Flixster
The classic movies app from iOS and Android, but on Windows Phone 7.
IMDB
I don't think IMDB has ever looked this good.
Flickr Manager
A basic Flickr app for uploading photos and checking out your friends' photostream—gets the job done until there's an official Flickr app.
The Harvest
It may be $7, but it looks like Dungeon Siege (or the lousier Space Siege) on your phone. And that is great times for click-RPG fans.
Netflix
It's somewhere between barebones and decently featured. It's a lot more thoughtfully designed than say, the iPad Netflix app. You still can't manage your queue. But it works, and it's easyish to use, which is all most people are lookin' for.
Twitter
The official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 is one of the slickest Twitters apps you can get on any platform, and it's got all of the standard Twitter features you'd expect. Wish it was a little faster, though.
Avatar
Microsoft combined those crappy $1 apps—flashlight, ruler, level—into one app. Plus, they Avatarized it, so you can play with yourself.
Seesmic
Diehard Seesmic power users might be a little disappointed in the initial version of the app, which is a little limited in how ridiculous you can get with your social networking, but for most people it's a nice rollup of Twitter and Facebook which'll definitely get more powerful over time.
Shazam
Tells you what songs playing, of course. But it lets you dip into Zune Marketplace, which is handy combined with a ZunePass.
Yelp
Yelp has never been so red.
Newsroom
A nice-looking RSS reader with an even nicer feature: It pulls in full news feeds from pretty much every site you toss at it, even if full feeds aren't the default—like Gizmodo. $2.
The Weather Channel
A little busy, perhaps, but it is all the weather info you could want in a free app.
Pictures Lab
Your phone isn't complete until you can take photos that look like they came out of a $5 camera from 1974. Pictures Lab fortunately offers a ton of other effects for your money. $2.
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