Update: “Meh” is better than “hmph.” That’s progress. There is finally a viable Reader for wp7! Feed Reader 2.0 actually works! Five stars just for working. It has a Play Audio button that will read the post to me. Awesome. Cheering for you, wp7. You can do it, little wp7. (That was somewhat condescending. Where’s my January update? It’s March 16th.)

And Tumblr, where’s my Tumblr wp7 app?

So I went through a two week phase where I loved my wp7, Jenny.

• Love that when I add a FB friend, he shows up in my contacts, with all his FB contact info. If he’s already in my contacts, then his FB profile merges nicely (always with the option to unmerge).
• Love that I can see anyone’s FB news feed right from my contacts, I can write on his wall, and I can comment/reply/hit links from my contacts. No FB app necessary.
• Love the auto-upload to SkyDrive.
• Love the whole UI. It’s excellent.

But, things are getting worse on my list of reasons not to get a wp7.

• I was out of the US for two weeks, and it couldn’t get on my hotel’s wifi. My co-worker, with an Android, got on without a problem.
• Also out of the US, (in airplane mode the whole time), I could get on my company wifi, but at random intervals (don’t know how or why) I would get kicked off and onto the guest network that required a proxy.
• Browsing experience is awful. You can only go forward/back during your session. If you go to another browser window, or leave IE, and come back, then forward is disabled, and back takes you back to the last place you were on the phone.
• Marketplace crashes often, and crashes hard. Three hours ago I was looking for a Reader app. Clicked on “All”, and it gave me the “loading” bits. Back didn’t work. Had to hit the Windows button to get back home. Ever since, Marketplace won’t load. It starts to open, and then crashes. This happens often. Requires a reboot of the phone.
• No good RSS Reader choice, and Google reader in the browser isn’t great.
• No official Tumblr app.
• Can’t highlight from my Kindle app. Boo.
• SkyDrive itself is no good as a photo gallery. Picasaweb is one million times better. Of course, SkyDrive is a hard drive, not a photo gallery. I don’t even want it to change. I want to auto-upload to Picasaweb.

So, meh. I want this phone to be awesome, because the FB integration, the auto-upload, and the UI are awesome, but I’m not sure if I trust that the coming updates will fix the stuff that I hate. It doesn’t make me feel good that the update promised for “January” is now promised for “Coming Soon”. Boo.