One more tiny victory for Windows Phone, this time with a fifteen year old and his Christmas list. Christina Tynan-Wood writes in Family Circle about her son, so adamant for an iPhone thanks to peer pressure, changed his mind once he had spent some time with a Samsung Focus Flash. It might be just one person's experience with a WP handset, but it points out the same thing that is reported time and time again - once people try Windows Phone with an open mind, they love the interface, they see what it can do, and it becomes something they want.

Over to Christina:

[my son] took me aside for a serious conversation. “I don’t want an iPhone,” he said. “I want one like that ….” He pointed to the Focus Flash in my hand. But he looked troubled – breaking with his friends was giving him pause. I assured him that he should get what he wanted not what other kids wanted. He nodded, scratched out the one item on his wish list, wrote in “phone like yours,” and handed it to me, grinning.

This is a great look at the upside and downside of owning a Windows Phone, especially as so many people social circles will default to a standard phone, especially in the youth market.

What I'd like to see is a follow up in a month, once her son has used the phone in anger, and at school. Will he still be happy with his choice?