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Well two posters have said it already, but so what? Most WM devices out there will not be able to upgrade and take advantage of these new features due to the insane carrier/MS tug-of-war. The only possible alternate is to go through the pain and hassle of obtaining cooked ROMS and hacking/lashing something together that might work, kind of sort of.
MS lost any advantage they had years ago. I really have tried to stick with it, I have a touch pro on Vodafone, and the released ROM was unusable, requiring many iterations of WM 6.1 and 6.5 to find something that was vaguely useable. I also have an AT&T 8125 sitting the in cupboard, brand new, never used oh and an old IPAQ 3660 that runs some nav software.
My phone/PDA for the last two years has been a Blackberry 8820, which is a competant phone but lacks 3G and, to be honest, Blackberries are kind of boring. They do the job but there is not much glitz of glamour. So this week I went over to the darkside and got a 32G iPhone 3GS. I am happy; the phone works well as a phone, PDA and ipod. The OS is a joy to use and is very slick. The beauty is not just skin deep.
The war is over. 6.5 is just OK, the honeycomb icons are not easy or intuitive and options and settings are spread all over the place. Even on a decent machine like the HTC TP, it is sluggish and freezes for many seconds without explanation.
- Tim
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