iPhone or Windows Mobile?
After Linux-mania we can see that Mac-mania is starting (in my opinion Apple could have bigger success than Linux due to marketing)...
Few years ago everyone was buying iPods - even I bought one for my girlfriend. I really loved iPod itself, but I was never able to get used to iTunes, especially not after I gave a try to Windows Media Player 11 and XBMC ;) For MP3s I used my PDA, old Dell Axim (first version) - it had one huge advantage compared to other MP3 players, enter button was bigger, so when I bound it to Skip song button in WMP, I was able to switch to next song by simply hitting my pocket.
Right now everyone is buying iPhones - but I am still conservative and keep my WM6 device. There are 2 reasons for me:
- I am still not really used to touch screens, I am faster with keyboard
- my favorite and most commonly used feature from WM6 is missing
You ask which feature? Most of the time I am
- calling someone
- sending messages
- searching emails
For calls and sms messages I first need to find person - and this is for me field where WM6 is still superior. For searching through address book WM6 is using T9, which is extremely fast if you get used to it.
For example if I would like to call my girlfriend (Iwy Janeckova entry), I can simply press either 499 (4=i, 9=w, 9=y) or 5263 (5=j, 2=a, 6=n, 3=e)... Also if I am not sure if I should use "v" or "w", I can use 1 (which acts as *). So I could achieve same result witt 4*9 (i, *, y)...
This is really killing feature for me - hope so that either WM will become competitor of iPhone in rest of categories (WM7 maybe, but it's going to be TOUGH challenge) or iPhone will implement something similar for searching (which is more probable)...
Well, I missed searching emails bit - T9 is also implemented there and most people are not aware of this... Most of the time if I want to get email I am searching for I need to type only 3-4 numbers. I wish something similar could be implemented also for desktop Outlook ;)
Martin