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Originally Posted by Sven
Yea, right. We haven't seen any advancement in devices in years. We are running the same speeds and memory configurations we have been running since the last days of WM2003SE.
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That's not true. Memory configurations have improved markedly. Back in WM 2003 SE, memory was limited to maybe 96 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM (because of battery life) with rare exceptions (the iPAQ 5550 had 128 MB RAM, but that was split between storage and program memory). WM 5 changed that by using flash memory for storage and only using RAM for program execution, and we now have devices with 256 MB (or more) ROM and 128 MB RAM. And that doesn't include devices like the Touch Diamond that have 4 GB (probably mapped as a fixed storage card).
Even processors have changed. I don't remember what the fastest processor in WM 2003 SE days was, but I think it was 400 MHz (it certainly was in WM 2003). Now we have devices with 500+ MHZ processors and even 624 MHz (like my iPAQ hx2795).
Granted, most of those are PDAs, not phones, because phones tend to use slower processors to maximize battery life. However, the HTC Universal had a 500+ MHz processor, and the new
ASUS P565 will have an 800 MHz processor.
So things have changed, just not as fast as we might have liked.
I agree that Microsoft's reasons seem wrong, but the truth doesn't need shading to prove that (see my rant above
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Steve