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The downside of Windows Phone 7 is that it is the most limiting and sandboxed development platform of all mobile operating systems. No native code execution like Android, no multitasking, no direct access to the camera, no sockets support and more. Even Silverlight has less restrictions.

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Android has native code execution via the NDK:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

My mistake, i meant to write "No native code execution support like Android has".

no sockets support? sounds like a dealbreaker. does it have something similar to take up the slack, like a web access framework or something?

Only HTTP is supported unlike Silverlight which also supports TCP sockets and even multicast UDP with Silverlight 4.

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