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The windows mobile OS is a pretty good PDA OS. There, it doesn't really matter if you have to soft reset three-four times a day to get bluetooth working or if it crashes regularly. Just swear a little, reset and keep going.
In a phone things get different. There, the OS just can't behave like that, it drives people insane. I for one, a long-time PPC PDA user, won't buy a WM based phone because I want to be able to trust the underlying OS. I want the phone to ring reliably when a call comes in, I don't want it hung in some weird mode it just decided to go into. I don't trust WM to be bulletproof. Not even close.
Calling Symbian phones "feature phones" and dismissing them as that isn't just biased, it's quite incorrect. The OS is a full-on 32-bit multitasking OS and one that is both more tested and more reliable than WM. The fact that a vast majority of the phones out there (running Symbian 60 and smaller/older) are indeed phones with some smartphone functions included doesn't change the fact that the new UIQ phones and Nokia's Communicators are really full-fledged PDA's with phones - and that those machines are highly reliable, especially as compared to WM.
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