[SteinyD]

I have been a WM fanboy for many years. I don't want to admit what I've spent every time the next latest and greatest device has been released (usually HTC). I've enjoyed what the user community has brought to this platform by way of xda-developers, this website and others. However, with the release if the iphone 3GS, I had another look. I had said many times that I couldn't live without a phsyical keyboard, the ability to manage my device the way I want to manage it, etc. And then it happened. I bought it. There is very little I have missed about the WM experience except for complete Outlook synchronization and better alerting and alarming management as was provided by products such as PhoneAlarm. Otherwise, the Iphone just works. Love or hate how tightly Apple manages the app environment, it hardly every fails and I have once since getting the device have had to restart it.

Microsoft seems to have lost their way with the mobile platform. They have been exceedingly unprogressive in what they are producing. 6.5 is not a radically new product, offering radically new features or enabling new hardware abilities. The hardware vendors keep changing form factors and sometimes for the better, but where is it today compared to 5 years ago? Not very different. The OS is slow, the devices are prone to resetting or resetting to factory default. I guess this isn't much different from what we see on the Microsoft desktop. Windows 7 is going to make a difference. Do we have to wait for WM7 to be that for the mobile device? MS still won't acknowledge the existance of WM7 even under NDA discussion. They need to say something soon regarding their strategy before Apple and Google run away with the market.