03-10-2009, 05:00 PM
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Which Windows Phone are Windows Mobile MVPs Using?
"Last week, Microsoft hosted the annual MVP (Most Valuable Professional) summit in Seattle (which I was - unfortunately and the first time - unable to attend as well). There, straight on the Microsoft campus, my fellow MVP Todd Ogasawara from Mobile Devices Today recorded a short video where he asked other Windows Mobile MVPs which devices they are currently using. If you now think most of us/them are using HTC devices only, you are completely wrong. Based on this short video, it seems HTC and Samsung are well balanced while a couple of North American MVPs are now also using the brand new AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro which isn't available outside North America yet." 
Arne over at The Unwired is giving us the scoop as to which devices the MS MVP's are using. So after watching the video from the link, come back and tell us which device you're currently using or perhaps the device you'd like to be using. Arne's been using the Samsung i900 Omnia. I currently have a Dash and an iphone, both which are feeling outdated.
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03-10-2009, 07:21 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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There are some strange people in this video, especially that big guy sitting next to some guy named Rocco...
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Executive Editor - Android Thoughts
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03-10-2009, 07:39 PM
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I use a Samsung i780, just like my old buddy Sven does. Usenet users unite. I'm very much looking forward to using a Palm Pre, even when I can't sync it at work. But then again, when I attended, I used to bring an iBook and a Palm/Treo, next to whatever Pocket PC I'd be using. Thanks for bringing this video under my attention. It was a great trip down memory lane, since it shows a lot of the people I loved to meet up with in the past.
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03-10-2009, 11:58 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I'm still using a Cingular 8100 (Cingular-branded HTC Wizard, sans camera).
Currently lusting after the HTC Touch Pro2, though the continuance of the Qualcomm MSM7200A has me a little worried after the Touch Pro.
I would also gladly take an Android keyboard slider that doesn't look fugly. (Yes, I'm looking at you, HTC Dream.)
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03-11-2009, 12:34 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
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@ Pete
was curious as to why pr what you thought about the iphone feels dated
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03-11-2009, 01:28 AM
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I like the iphone but i wish it had four things (without having to jailbreak).
1. Copy, cut, and paste
2. A free tethering option
3. A "Today" screen
4. An office suite
I thought by now the iphone would have these, so it's beginning to feel a bit outdated to me.
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03-11-2009, 05:12 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Westfall
There are some strange people in this video, especially that big guy sitting next to some guy named Rocco...
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Hey I know that guy!
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03-11-2009, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Samsung Epix
I am using a Samsung Epix. Its not a bad device; but its giving me some problems...
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03-11-2009, 04:39 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2009
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HTC Cingular 8100
Ok, so I to am using the HTC 8100 still and here's why:
1) I have spent so long 'customizing the phone, it's hard to part with. I have so many efficient menu tweeks, utilities such as wireless time, today weather plugins, launchers and games that it would take a week to put what I need into a new phone
2) Thanks to our friends Microsoft I was able to download the .net 3.5 upgrade for free. Believe me if it wasn't for this I would have upgraded way before now. This was almost as good as a new phone and I think will keep me going for a maximum 12 months. Having just purchased an 8GB micro card that my current phone can not handle the Epix is looking really tempting.
3) I'm holding out as long as I can because I want the next phone to feel like a real upgrade. Other than the fact that I don't have a stylus anymore (and refuse to pay AT&T the $15 for a new one), I wish the keyboard was on the front and I want to use a faster processor with more memory I have no need to move on. My wife upgraded to an i-phone which is the first phone she's really been in love with, but to me it would have been a downgrade against the 8100.
Bear in mind that I purchased this phone for $50 as a refurb so I'm a little tight when it comes to money down on a phone. The way I see it is that the service providers charge so much per month the upfront costs should be way lower than they are. They'll get their monies worth out of me so why should I have to pay $199 for an Epix? You can't tell me they would miss $8 per month over a two year contract given everything I would be using.
What I want in the new phone? Full browser and gadgets! Everything else I have the know how to make work. From what I'm seeing today I'm just going to hold out and wait for Epix to have WM 6.5. In theory they should have fixed any hardware issues they had by then and hopefully moving to 6.5 will really feel like an upgrade.
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03-12-2009, 06:47 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I have a T-Mobile Shadow 2009. Yes, I still like non-touchscreen WinMo phones! I also have an iPAQ 910c, which I'm using a a PDA-only device because the phone portion is way too buggy.
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