[crimsonsky]

Long time Windows Mobile user here, but I have surrendered to a Blackberry Curve. I'm now using my T-Mobile Wing purely as a PDA and my Curve as my daily driver device.

The BB OS is just so much faster and the keyboard on the Curve is a true joy - much better than the slide-out keyboard on my Wing. Nice little features - automatic capitalisation of sentence beginnings, automatically capitalising the letter I when used as the 1st person singular pronoun, double space adds a period (just like the iPhone), automatic adding of periods and @ signs in URLs and email address, etc. Simple little things that really make it so easy to do email and web browsing on the BB. The BB browser is at LEAST as good as PIE and Opera Mini on the BB is outstanding.

Where Windows Mobile has the BB OS beat is applications and there are quite a few apps that I use under Windows Mobile that have no equivalent on the BB or poor relations (Phatnotes and Pocket Bible in particular). But as a mobile communications device, the BB is hard to beat.

The Bold is basically the Curve on steroids (higher resolution screen, faster processor, more memory). If T-Mobile carried it, I would have opted for it instead of the Curve, but the Curve suits my needs just fine.

The Storm looks way promising and with its tactile feedback may actually be an iPhone contender to take seriously. I'm not a huge fan of touch screen devices (I use the stylus on my Wing) mainly because of the smearing and fingerprints that get all over the screen, but I suspect that this doesn't bother most folks! The biggest problem with the Storm is lack of WiFi since apparently Verizon doesn't believe in equipping its phones with it. If the Storm ever makes it to T-Mobile, I'm sure it'll gain both WiFi and UMA which would make the device infinitely more useable to those folks who rack up the phone minutes (calls started on WiFi don't count against your wireless minutes).

I think that between the BB and the iPhone, Windows Mobile is being seriously challenged and Microsoft really needs to take a hard look at how WM develops if it's going to continue to be a viable contender.