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Stephen Fry, who described himself as "an amateur – which as you know is the French for lover", said that he has been trying a Windows Phone 7 handset for the past week

The writer and broadcaster said that while he "made no secret of what the chaps – and chappesses – at Cupertino [Apple's headquarters] have done since 2007, when I heard Steve Ballmer [CEO of Microsoft] use the word 'delight' about what this phone should do, I thought 'What joy there is in heaven when one sinner doth repent'."

The real test, Fry told the Guardian, would be whether he transferred his own SIM card from his iPhone to the Windows Phone 7 device. "I think I probably will, at least for a while."

What pleased him about the device was that Microsoft had finally thrown off the thinking that people are "one thing when they're outside work, and another when they've gone through the swipe barrier" – because it was that thinking which led to boring interface designs.

Instead, Microsoft had embraced the average person rather than the corporate one: "Now, they get it: that all human beings are human beings first. You don't judge the machines you use, or the houses you live in by listing their functions. The first thing you do is say how you feel about your office; when you buy a house, you do it essentially on the feeling."

As to the suggestion that people might accuse him of being fickle (and he insisted he was not paid to speak at the event in London), he said: "If I were Jeremy Clarkson, I could say 'I love the new Ferrari!' one week, and nobody would have a problem if the next week he said 'I love the new Audi!' It's the same with this. I just love technology."

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