Nah. All modern smartphones do the basics fairly well
How dare you! 😉
Previous versions of Windows phones were considered not so great, but in real terms they will probably be fine for what you want. The new ones are Windows mobile 8 which is supposed to be a lot better. It will be interesting to see how they get on with apps though, because MS have created an app writing environment which will be the same on PCs, tablets and phones, so theoretically you could get a lot more developers working on apps.
I think Windows phones should integrate with Windows PCs nicely, although I’ve never used one.