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Hi Rocco,
Sounds like you'll soon be writing for "Android Thoughts".
I think it's great that competing mobile OSs have come out, because that could only improve Windows Mobile. I hope Microsoft is getting the message.
I hope though, that the trend is not all towards these "all-touch" phones, in other words, everyone trying to make Iphone wannabes. The Iphone is apparently quite good at what it does, from what I've heard, and I doubt any of its imitators (including G1) come close.
However, I'm not interested in an all-touch phone. I currently have an MDA (HTC Wizard-WM5), and that is too touch-oriented to me. For my next phone, I'd like to have a keyboard, that one does not have to slide out, and can easily dial phone numbers with one hand, even without looking at the touch screen to see where the numbers are.
Although I am a T-Mobile customer, long out of contract, eligible for an upgrade, and long overdue for a change in phone, from the slow clunky and bulky MDA, I am not interested in the G1.
Although WM has a lot of problems, I already have a lot of WM apps (both for smartphone and touch screen-my previous phone was a SMT5600), and there are many apps available, far more than for the very new G1, and still pretty new Apple Mobile. (In the future, of course, those OSs will probably have many more apps available than now.)
So for now, still planning to get a new WM phone. Getting very frustrated with T-Mobile about that though, as they have not introduced a new WM phone in over a year, and have none with 3G, although they have been rolling out their 3G network. (Perhaps the agreement with Google was not to bring out any WM phones for a while, to make the G1 their premier smartphone.)
I'm thinking now of just buying one of the new WM keyboard-based smartphones (although interestingly, they now come with touch screen as well), such as Samsung Epix, HP IPAQ 910, or Treo Pro, unlocked, and forget for now this waiting for T-Mobile to come out with a phone I want.
(If anyone could compare the three models I mentioned, I would find that interesting.)
I don't think WM is dead yet, but I hope they are getting a wake-up call, and work seriously on improving the OS.
I sure hope they improve ActiveStync! That has always been so buggy, without an update for years!
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