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Originally Posted by virain
I took out my 2 years old Mio A701 customized with SPB Mobile Shell 2, PocketCM (freeware) keyboard and Contacts, and MS Voice Commander. So I showed how nice SPB Shell animotions are, very sensitive Sirf III GPS along with FREE Live Search, PocketCM keyboard with ability to add words to library, and not ONLY in English, handwriting with Transcriber, Contact search options with Mobile Shell and PocketCM, and when I start "talking" to the phone using Voice Commander, asking things like my next oppointment, battery status, dail a number, that stall the show.
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As someone who has used Pocket PCs since they first came out, and ditto with the iPhone, there's only two significant advantages you've outlined there: GPS and the voice command. Of these two, I find the lack of voice command to be the iPhone's greatest weakness; its psuedo-GPS works scarily well. On the other hand, the iPhone's media player and web browser beat WM's hands-down. There's no clear-cut victor. However...
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And BTW, My mio was pretty stable, untill I start loading it with 3rd party software. Let's see how iPhone will handle all those new upcomming soft, before we jump to conclusions who is better and who will survive or die. Cheers.
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This is a good point, except that I've found plain-vanilla WM to be only somewhat tolerable stability-wise. The last WM device I had that didn't memory leak regularly was my iPAQ 3870 running WM2002. Every single Pocket PC Phone I've owned since leaks memory regularly, necessitating regular soft resets. The iPhone is downright more stable to start. It's not perfect either, but it's
really rare that I have to reboot it.
Alex also makes good points: WM is great for the power user who's willing to spend hours setting it up. The iPhone is simpler out-of-the-box, and I think Apple deserves points for considering that kind of ease in the on-iPhone App Store plan. Apple also tends to follow the "less-is-more" philosophy, and tends to opt for UI simplicity over features. Most notable example: cut-and-paste still doesn't exist on the iPhone. This bugs power users, but many end-users prefer the simpler interface.
My post should not be construed as saying the iPhone will destroy WM. However, Apple has clearly done some stuff in building a simple-to-use-and-deploy API that Microsoft
really ought to take some lessons from.
--janak