Sick and tired of Windows Mobile on my Mogul. It's slow. It's designed for a stylus, not my thumb. On the plus side, I like the fact I can write applications for the phone in a very advanced development environment (e.g. Visual Studio 2008), do microsoftie stuff, etc. I haven't used an iPhone but from what I can see it has an exponential amount of more class and style over Windows Mobile. It's designed for the user's thumb to navigate. The same thing goes for Google's Android mobile platform. Although I've only used it in a virtual machine, it is a lot more intuitive for the user to use; A lot less like windows, and more like an operating system designed for a phone. That I think is the problem with Windows Mobile. It's roots are in the PDA where Windows CE was king and using a stylus to write notes was the norm. It doesn't apply to a touch-screen phone. I can't get my thumb to press the X buttons. I find it difficult to use a lot of applications where lists and buttons are so small, only a midget or stylus will be able to select them.
Some might say I should stop my complaining, since I bought a Mogul which is designed for the stylus. I say hogwash! A mobile OS with touch screen capabilities should assume the user will want to use their thumb since it's more efficient. Otherwise one has to use both hands (NO!) holding the phone and retrieving and using the stylus. Not an easy task to do while walking might I add.
Needless to say, Google seems to see the big picture with Android. I think when they release the source code for Android in Q4 of 2008, we'll see a slew of kernels and drivers being ported to the HTC lineup of phones. Unless Microsoft does a drastic update to Mobile 6.x, they will lose my loyalty and I'll be forced to move to Android. I've seen Mobile 7 screen captures, but I also see those blasted X buttons, which means Microsoft still doesn't get it.
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