Not suprising
I also see almost all iPhones and BlackBerry's. I have a Curve for work. It's ok. The battery life is amazing - I only need to charge it once or twice a week. I should mention that I only use the BB for email, rarly phone calls. Still, the battery life is impressive.
I think Microsoft has just sat around and done nothing significant with the Pocket PC since they changed it from using ram for "drive c:" (you know what I mean, main storage memory) to using flash for storage in WinMo 5 - if you want to call that significant. They still have not fixed (so it is fixed for all devices, all oems) the problem that causes programs to crash if the app or the apps open file is stored on a storage card. If it's fixed on your device, thank your OEM. Imate has not fixed it and I'm using WinMo 6.1. That's been an issues since at least 2003se. I was not happy when I got my $800 WinMo and it still had that issue. Also, mine only supports MicroSD, not even MicroSDHC!!! What a joke!
I'd switch to a different platform but I love the apps, non-Microsoft apps mostly, for the Pocket PC. Once there are good replacements for a different device, I'll probably switch. So far, the iPhone isn't close nor is the BlackBerry from what I've seen. Yeah, I think the iPhone has more apps but not as good, not as full featured, or maybe just not what I'm looking for.
I'm surprised microsoft is wasting more time and money on the Zune. Most stores figured out a few years ago that nobody wanted the thing. The Zune HD looks very impressive but I think they're going to have a hard time selling it in an iPod world. MS really needs to kill the Zune, which never seemed to have any market share, and put resources in to WinMo, or maybe kill WinMo too and just put resources into Windows 7. That may be the only area they have some chance. I like Bing but I think they need a lot more than that to make a dent in Google. If they can really make Win7 as good as it seems and support it very well maybe they can start getting some Mac people back on PC's.
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