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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
This is a VERY helpful review. Thanks for producing the reliable kind of reporting that Thoughts has become known for.
I have a confession...
I've been a WinMob guy ever since the first PPCs came out in 2000 and I swore I would never get an iPhone (or an iPod, for that matter). But, here I am: I've had an iPod for over a year and upgraded my WinMob phone to a plain 'ol iPhone 3G just a few days ago. I realize now that there are a few things I'll miss out on by not paying the extra bucks for a 3Gs, but...
WOW!!!
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Yeah, as you may have guessed from my question uptopic, I'm on the verge of doing the same thing.
I'm eligible for an upgrade in a week. I"ve been a WinMob guy as long as you have... my first PPC was a Cassiopeia E115, which replaced my first and only Palm-Sized PC, a Cassiopeia E15. I was going to wait for the AT&T version of the Touch Diamond2, but the WinMob market seems stuck in neutral these days while waiting for the OS upgrades. So I've gotten the itch lately to try something different. A good friend of mine who's a long time WinMob user recently got an iPhone 3G and he's really happy with it. I played with it for a while and found lots of things to like. So next week I'll be retiring my Touch Diamond and picking up an iPhone 3Gs.
While I agree that the iPhone has some catching up to do in the area of industrial strength apps, there's enough out there for me to get up and running. QuickOffice for my office apps, Pocket Informant for my "power user PIM" and HandBase for a few simple database apps that I created. And the latter two are a mere fraction of the price of their WinMob counterparts. I still have to figure out my Lotus Notes access for work (blech, but that's what we use), but there are a few options there as well.
This doesn't mean that I'll never go back to WinMob. It'll be interesting to see what comes with V7... it may present a compelling case to return to the fold. But at least for now, the iPhone appeals to me more than the current premium WinMob phones.