The X1 is the best Win mobile device on the market at the moment from my point of view. It is fast and responsive.. so for any ppl who arent sure about WM and arent overly keen for s60 symbian phones try out the X1 it is awesome!!!
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So what is wrong with Windows Mobile?
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If you like windows and like the environment, I would also definitely suggest the X1, I mean c'mon, its a SE smart phone, you cannot go wrong.
If you wan't to try something with a slight unix flavour, try the iphone, but with that said, the iphone (even the 3g), is still in its infancy stage, so there will be a lot of tweaking here and there, but that is what makes it so fun, nothing on the iphone is set in stone (os wise), and a hack and a tweak is always possible/available
Piesang
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There is nothing wrong with Windows Mobile it's just not as nice as Symbian.
I'm using both and really like Symbian more. WM is just so boring. Maybe when Windows Mobile 7 comes out it will be nice for a month or two again.
The best spec WM phone is still the Omnia.
I'm using both and really like Symbian more. WM is just so boring. Maybe when Windows Mobile 7 comes out it will be nice for a month or two again.
The best spec WM phone is still the Omnia.
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Why? AFAIK that is one of the main selling points of the phone.
Yeah I see that but for example people who don't write emails etc don't need the keyboard, maybe it could have benefited them even more had they made a version without, like HTC did.
<moLe>
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I agree with those that say OS of choice all depends on what you are comfortable with, the mobile OS market is very competitve lately and for us as consumers thats a good thing. No phone manufacturer can afford to bring out a crappy OS anymore and currently it comes down to only one thing, how You prefer to do whatever you want to do...choice is a brilliant thing...
Arthur
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Not so - it's not MS that decides on WM upgrades for handsets. It's the handset manufacturers. They are responsible for WM upgrades and associated driver/device support. There's no generic WM - it's an OEM-only product because there's no generic or standard handset hardware for MS to develop for. MS has been trying for years to get them to provide WM upgrades for their devices, with almost no success. The hw vendors know that gizmo-geeks can't resist hardware upgrades.My guess would be noM$ likes the cash
AntiThesis
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Yarp but surely the manufacturers need to pay MS for the license should they decide to provide upgrades? I'm betting they aren't given them for free. Dunno... perhaps they are 
That would be pretty cool.
That would be pretty cool.MS & free are never in the same sentence im afraid
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry
Microsoft is good. I like Microsoft.
<moLe>
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Say what?
Those apps are all mostly included in the OS, just making it more bloated. And most of it pretty useless, I'll believe in MS if they include a full blown office suite with their OS's, a magnifier doesnt do it for me.
Those apps are all mostly included in the OS, just making it more bloated. And most of it pretty useless, I'll believe in MS if they include a full blown office suite with their OS's, a magnifier doesnt do it for me.
Arthur
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Blame governments, not Microsoft.MS & free are never in the same sentence im afraid
It's government who make it illegal for Microsot and no-one else to include anyhting new for free with Windows. Special rules and restrictions apply to Microsoft that apply to no-one else.
Maybe you've only recently come to PCs and don't know the history...
"Included in the OS" you say? That answers your question.
Microsoft has been fined several billion dollars -- extremely unjustly, imho -- because competitors run to the government and courts every time Microsoft includes something for free in the operating system. Before things were included they were separate apps, and some software house was reduced or put out of business because Microsoft included it ... leading to court cases, anti-trust actions, etc, etc. Remember when Netscape charged ordinary end users $495 for Navigator and Communicator? When MS came out with the world's first free browser they sued Microsoft and urged governments around the world to ban Microsoft and stop it from including a free browser ... MS was eventually forced to pay over $1.5 billion in fines simply because it bundled a browser!!
If Microsoft has been fined over $1.5 billion for including the browser in the operating system, and nearly $1b for including a media player, do you think they're gonna include a full-blown office suite and risk being closed down by the EU and US governments!!??