Windows Mobile 6.5 does not deliver

[superfly]

I personally don't know how people can use Windows - Mobile or not. I've used Windows XP (not Vista), and I find it irritating, slow, buggy, and unwieldy.

I also used the (at the time) wildly touted WM 6.0, and found it also lacking. My phone actually blue-screened, it was slow, despite being a "smartphone" my menus didn't scroll - you can to go down to the 0 - more... option to get to the next page of menu items (WTH???). The interface was poorly thought out.

As a comparison, on my out-of-the-box install of Kubuntu (on a computer with 512 megs of RAM) I get effects that outdo Vista Business Ultimate's piffly effects (I've seen videos/screenshots). It also doesn't cost me anything to get, nor install or upgrade (and new versions come out every 6 months - imagine paying R4400 twice a year for your upgrade!).

That said and done, this is just my experience. The good old YMMV rule applies.

 

[Speedster]

I personally don't know how people can use Windows - Mobile or not. I've used Windows XP (not Vista), and I find it irritating, slow, buggy, and unwieldy.

I also used the (at the time) wildly touted WM 6.0, and found it also lacking. My phone actually blue-screened, it was slow, despite being a "smartphone" my menus didn't scroll - you can to go down to the 0 - more... option to get to the next page of menu items (WTH???). The interface was poorly thought out.

As a comparison, on my out-of-the-box install of Kubuntu (on a computer with 512 megs of RAM) I get effects that outdo Vista Business Ultimate's piffly effects (I've seen videos/screenshots). It also doesn't cost me anything to get, nor install or upgrade (and new versions come out every 6 months - imagine paying R4400 twice a year for your upgrade!).

That said and done, this is just my experience. The good old YMMV rule applies.

And where do you get the software you use? Do you have Access? Or Outlook? Or Exchange server? Or any of the other 1000 of programs the rest of us "normal" people use each day?

Also, can you just turn on the PC and it works, or do you need to run a whole bunch of lines of code to make each program work?

 

[_TrXtR_]

I personally don't know how people can use Windows - Mobile or not. I've used Windows XP (not Vista), and I find it irritating, slow, buggy, and unwieldy.

You just took the point away of reading the rest your post. Ive used ubuntu, it's irritating, slow, buggy, and unwieldy.

I also used the (at the time) wildly touted WM 6.0, and found it also lacking. My phone actually blue-screened, it was slow, despite being a "smartphone" my menus didn't scroll - you can to go down to the 0 - more... option to get to the next page of menu items (WTH???). The interface was poorly thought out.

You should stop browsing so much porn. It will make your phone more stable .
WM has a bluescreen? Ive never seen it. It sounds like you installed it on the wrong hardware. If not, unlcky. I installed android on my phone and couldnt get nothing working.

As a comparison, on my out-of-the-box install of Kubuntu (on a computer with 512 megs of RAM) I get effects that outdo Vista Business Ultimate's piffly effects (I've seen videos/screenshots). It also doesn't cost me anything to get, nor install or upgrade (and new versions come out every 6 months - imagine paying R4400 twice a year for your upgrade!).

You can run neanderthal software on a neanderthal machine? Congratulations. Adding all those lovely effects still doesnt take away the part that my girlfriend falls asleep when I show here how 'easy' it is to hook up her ipod. Our ubuntu nights always ended up in boredom for her, and hours of googling to solve problems for me. It's usually no different.

That said and done, this is just my experience. The good old YMMV rule applies.

Just as you have had a bad experience with software X, I have had a bad experience using your preferred software Y.

My point...
Software sucks. It just does. It doesnt matter if it's made by an open source
foundation, or by a corporate monster. It's from one crappy problem to another. But, I must admit, after leaving ubuntu for windows 7, the idea of turning back has faded to what my nightmares or made of.