[Gerard]

Well if a person has a grain of sense they'll not use iTunes to buy their music... unless of course they have a means of ripping high quality copies to some other off-device storage place. Otherwise a dual-hardware failure could cost an awful lot. Having experienced a couple of occasions where more than one device decided to die at the same time, this is clearly not an unlikely circumstance. Never trust only two hard drives with all your family photos for instance, as it's very easy for one drive to become corrupted (as recently happened to me when connecting it to a Linux machine, something that NTFS-formatted drive had never done before), then for the other to be the very last, and very vulnerable copy.

But this is off topic I suppose. And hey, one of Windows Mobile's strong points these days is the way user data is relatively safe on the device, not residing in RAM as it did prior to WM5.0. I've lost the odd thing thanks to software glitches and hardware failures since that change, but never on a WM device. A bit of configuration time lost is about the worst of it on this platform, and WM6.5 seems very stable generally. The devices are more solidly built too than in the old days. Very dense construction, where there used to be a lot of open space and room for flex when sat upon or dropped. Not a whole lot to complain about really, especially if one doesn't try to use Activesync, which I haven't in some time. Did about a year ago... funny really, how well it seemed to work for a little while... before it started eating some of my contacts mysteriously, duplicating others at the same time. So I ditched it from my system once and for all. never again to be installed for any reason. It's that bad. Resco Backup, PIMBackup, and once in a while a Phatware dbExplorer backup of PIM stuff, all copied to at least two locations besides my microSD, and I feel confident my most important data is secure. If an iPhone could offer that sort of peace of mind maybe I'd take it a little more seriously.