Happy To Be Back On Windows Mobile?

[Jon Westfall]

http://www.wmexperts.com/reviews/sm...in_triumph.html

"And so The Smartphone Round Robin ends: I’m back on a Windows Mobile device (a Motorola Q9h, if you’re interested) and I’m happy to be here. Ecstatic, even. There are lots of reasons I love Windows Mobile and why it’s a great fit for me. One of those reasons is pictured above. You can choose pretty much any form-factor to fit your lifestyle and have a powerful Smartphone OS in it. This is no small accomplishment - in fact I think it's probably more amazing that Windows Mobile supports such a wide array of phones than the fact that Windows itself will run on a wide array of PCs."

In a world where bashing Windows Mobile is pretty prevelant (Heck, even the spare PPCT editor has been known to use non-windows mobile devices... I'll not name names!), it's interesting to read one man's journey through different devices and his reasons for choosing Windows Mobile.

[Jon Westfall]

http://www.wmexperts.com/reviews/sm...in_triumph.html

"And so The Smartphone Round Robin ends: I’m back on a Windows Mobile device (a Motorola Q9h, if you’re interested) and I’m happy to be here. Ecstatic, even. There are lots of reasons I love Windows Mobile and why it’s a great fit for me. One of those reasons is pictured above. You can choose pretty much any form-factor to fit your lifestyle and have a powerful Smartphone OS in it. This is no small accomplishment - in fact I think it's probably more amazing that Windows Mobile supports such a wide array of phones than the fact that Windows itself will run on a wide array of PCs."

In a world where bashing Windows Mobile is pretty prevelant (Heck, even the spare PPCT editor has been known to use non-windows mobile devices... I'll not name names!), it's interesting to read one man's journey through different devices and his reasons for choosing Windows Mobile.

[Dyvim]

The main reason he chose Windows Mobile? He's a Windows Mobile enthusiast. Of course he was going to choose WM. (He actually didn't really have any choice about going back since it was a planned short-term series of exchanges.) Not surprisingly, the iPhone guy chose the iPhone, the Treo guy chose the Treo, and the Blackberry guy chose the Blackberry. Duh!

It would be more interesting to read the experience of OS-agnostic smart phone users trying out the various platforms for more than just a week each.

Still it was interesting to see what each of the 4 reviewers had to say about the other 3 platforms and why each preferred their own platform.

[tendomentis]

Maybe it's not exactly the same as, say, Symbian to WM, but after giving up my MPx220 (WM2003SE Smartphone) for a Pocket PC Phone (and then another Pocket PC phone after that one), I thought I could never go back to a WM Smartphone device.

But I, like the OP, was drawn to the irresistable Moto Q9H. It had everything my Pocket PC phone did (minus the wifi, but I got 3G in its place and a better camera) in a smaller package.....and I'm never going back to touchscreens

My Pocket PC phone made sense at one time, but in my life now I don't have time to deal with touchscreens (and the screen protectors and fingerprints that go with them).

[TonyR]

Interesting article. After being a Windows Mobile guy for a few years now, I have just made the switch to Blackberry. After using it for a few days now, I have no desire to switch back to WM.

[gavinfabl]

i have used the smartphone version but miss touchscreen. I miss proper editing in the touchscreen and scribble notes. And games that need a touchscreen. Apart from that smartphone version is brilliant.

I have also owned a sony ericsson m600i and a palm treo 680 in the last 12 months as well as many wm phones. For me the activesync app is the killer feature. Using livemail2web.com I have all my pim data always saved and synced.

[r@dimus]

I just shut down a Blackberry 8700c and lit up a AT&T Tilt running Blackberry Connect. Previous to the Blackberry's I had alwasy used standalone PocketPC's, and even while I had the 8700c I continued to carry the Dell X51v a lot. I'm quite happy to be back on WinMo.

[virain]

After misplacing my Mio A701 and being on a dumb phone diet, I am more than happy to be back to touch screen and all the GOODS that WM has to offer. :lol:

[superrrguy]

Wait, which version of Windows Mobile are you happy to be back on?

PocketPC, PocketPC Phone Edition, PocketPC 2003 Phone Edition Second Edition, Windows Smartphone Edition 2003, Windows Mobile 5 for PocketPC, Windows Mobile 5 for Smartphones, Windows Mobile 6 Classic, Windows Mobile 6 Professial for Touch Screen Devices, or Windows Mobile 6 Standard for Non Touch Screen Devices?

[adamz]

They must have gotten the idea from Pocketnow's Chronicles of a Windows Mobile user gone Symbian and gone iPhone series. :) For me it was quite a learning experience in switching to the Nokia N95.

[alese]

I sometimes get the desire to switch.
But then I look at the competition and when I think about trying to find new applications to replace what I use on WM (like PocketInformant, PhatPad, ListPro, E-Wallet, My Life Organized...) and then trying to transfer my data, organize and customize the device to my liking... the desire is gone. I don't even want to try WM Smartphone (sorry - Standard) because I know some applications are still missing (MLO) and because I really like to jot things down on my touch screen...

I'm just too comfortable with what I have to switch unless I'm forced, it took me too long to get things working the way I want.