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Originally Posted by 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.
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Sorry for quoting myself here, but what I should have added was that I was much happier with one device. While I had my WM device(s), I was able to get my corporate mail on the same device using Good Link. One device was a requirement I've had for a long time and was finally recognized in the last year or so (due to corporate constraints). However, now that I've bought the iPhone for personal use I was forced to make a conscious decision to move back to two devices - one for personal and a blackberry (data only) for work. Apple continues to make very small steps towards enterprise security compliance. As a matter of fact, with their security features in their OS 3.0 having been hacked a few weeks ago, our company folks are now completely disregarding any consideration for the iphone with this OS release. So the iPhone isn't perfect but quite I have found it to be quite a bit more reliable in its day to day use as compared to the WM based devices.