Which Windows Phone are Windows Mobile MVPs Using?

[Pete Paxton]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?item=mvp-summit-which-windows-phone-are-windows-mobile-mvps-use' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?item=mvp...mobile-mvps-use</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"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&amp;T Pantech Matrix Pro which isn't available outside North America yet."</em></p><p><img height="58" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//spt/auto/1236648271.usr11642.gif" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="142" /></p><p>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 I currently have a Dash and an iphone, both which are feeling outdated.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em></em></p>

[Jon Westfall]

There are some strange people in this video, especially that big guy sitting next to some guy named Rocco...

[marlof]

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.

[jdmichal]

I'm still using a Cingular 8100 (Cingular-branded HTC Wizard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.)

[DRTigerlilly]

@ Pete
was curious as to why pr what you thought about the iphone feels dated

[Pete Paxton]

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.

[Rocco Augusto]

There are some strange people in this video, especially that big guy sitting next to some guy named Rocco...

Hey I know that guy!

[Chris Spera]

I am using a Samsung Epix. Its not a bad device; but its giving me some problems...

[bnileuk]

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.

[CeluGeek]

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.

[Sven Johannsen]

1. Copy, cut, and paste
2. A free tethering option
3. A "Today" screen
4. An office suite.
Sounds like you are planning to do some productive work with your iPhone...tsk, tsk...that's not what they are for ;) I'm waiting for the iPhone Shuffle myself..it just calls someone at random when you hit the single button :)

P.S. before I get slammed for iPhone bashing, my wife has one and I actually think it is a well thought out fun device. It just has some limitations, I don't want to live with. I'm actually considering a Touch as a WiFi based little MID.

[Pete Paxton]

Well it sounds like DataViz will have the office suite out by 2nd quarter so that will take care of that and will probably have some copy/cut/paste built into that program so it kind of takes care of that. I can live without the tethering and today screen part so I'm OK with it.

[daS]

Thanks for the video Todd and thanks for posting this! It was great to see all my old Windows Mobile MVP friends there!

While I miss being an MVP and especially visiting with the other MVPs at the various Summits and trade shows, I don't have any regrets about choosing to focus on other priorities: The latest being the expected new Shier model due to deliver on 07/08/09 (before WM7)! :D

[Sven Johannsen]

Well it sounds like DataViz will have the office suite out by 2nd quarter so that will take care of that and will probably have some copy/cut/paste built into that program so it kind of takes care of that. I can live without the tethering and today screen part so I'm OK with it.Not sure about that. As I understand the sandboxing architecture, you couldn't cut/copy/paste into any other app. If their Office suite is one big app you could cut a spreadsheet section and paste into a word processor, but you still woudn't be able to cut contact info and paste into word. Just my understanding, but I believe it would need a fundemental change in how the OS allows apps to work.

[Pete Paxton]

Well, when I mentioned it will probably have cut/copy/paste built into the program, I meant the office suite, not the global phone. But at least it's a start. And who knows, once the OS 3.0 is described on the 17th, we may see all the changes I want:)

[Sven Johannsen]

And who knows, once the OS 3.0 is described on the 17th, we may see all the changes I want:)
And if it does, the world will praise the brilliance of Apple for this technological achievement. Integration between apps on a computer...who could have imagined. It'll be as revolutionary as when Apple invented music you could take with you. :rolleyes:

[Pete Paxton]

Exactly, just like MS has done for years - Oh, except it actually works and looks polished:)

[Brad Adrian]

1. Copy, cut, and paste
2. A free tethering option
3. A "Today" screen
4. An office suite...

That's one thing that has always amazed me. The reviews of the new iPhone OS are all glowing about the fact that it will multi-task, cut-and-paste, etc. Those are ALL things that WM's been able to do since 2000! Why do so few people out there in the world realize that?

Oh, BTW, I'm no longer an MVP, but I'm using an AT&T Tilt. Ever since my kids started using text messaging to keep in touch with me while at college, I've HAD to have a QWERTY keyboard.

[jdmichal]

Other than the fact that I don't have a stylus anymore (and refuse to pay AT&T the $15 for a new one)

Dude, that's what they invented eBay for!

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-x-Retractable-Stylus-for-Cingular-8125-HTC_W0QQitemZ300274211323QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPDA_Accessories