Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

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Click & Solve » Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile.. — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:37:04 GMT

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re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Deano — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:54:02 GMT

You can put the word 'lover' back when referring to me and my iPhone.

Here's a little background: I tried two of latest and greatest Windows phones from HTC and Samsung respectively and although the hardware was attractive, well built and used a form-factor to my liking, the OS itself (and a couple of stupid ideas on the manfuacturer's part) that led me to conclude Windows-phones are not yet for me. Here's a few of the 'whys' -

1. interface too small, not finger-friendly

2. crashed (a lot)

3. too many notions ported straight from the desktop experience that simply don't apply on a device of their size

4. the touch-screen thought I was providing input with my ear when making calls

5. the phone is an appliance, if I hit 'Start' then *start* something, don't give me more choices. If my microwave did that, I'd return it

... there's more but I'm starting to irritate myself. The iPhone certainly has its flaws but, in general, it's a purpose-built device with a usability model that's on-point with my requirements. Of course, there are a few exceptions but that's exactly what they - the exception, not the rule.

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

SpatDSG — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:14:54 GMT

So - you never need to reboot? Do you run a lot of 3rd pary apps?

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Laurent — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:53:38 GMT

Coming from Windows Mobile World (WM5, and I liked it), I recently bought an iPhone.

Here is the result :

Windows Mobile :

Too Slow, and not really smoothly

Keyboard are really too small

Not really user friendly

IPhone :

Missing lot of features that exist in window Mobile (Contextual Menu, Stereo Bluetooth Headset, Free Synchronization, Today Screen, background applications, remote RCP)

The solution I found: Jailbreak iphone, still missing Stereo Bluetooth Headset, a real media player (like TCPMP for windows mobile) and contextual Menu but Cut/Paste is ok, and I can access my device via SSH, like other unix.

Ps: I have rebooted my Iphone 6 times still September 2008 because of Third apps (apple store and cydia app), which is a little less than my old window mobile.

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Kevin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:01:53 GMT

Case in point: On my HTC WinMo phone, opening settings takes 3-5 seconds. All to show an incredibly sparse UI made up of a series of comboboxes.

On the iPhone, a beautiful UI opens almost instantaneously, with a beautiful transition.

On my HTC, I have to use my thumbnail to click many UI items. Really, MS? Who OK's the release of that?

I'm still not at all convinced MS takes mobile anywhere nearly as serious as it should. WinMo looks like the product of a skeleton crew running on a constantly shrinking budget.

And I was a WinMo developer.

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

SpatDSG — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:36:47 GMT

OK - so I was talking to some folks and see that iPhone can only run one app at a time. I guess that helps in enforcing some level of stability but IMO it would stink to have to be watching my movie, and then need to check my GPS as I drive down the road and now I have to restart my movie at the next stop light...

Bah.

spat

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Scooter — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:37:02 GMT

I run WinMo on my ATT Fuze (HTC Touch Pro), and I gotta say, the performance is less than stellar. I do run 3rd party apps, since TouchFlo is running on top of the mobile shell.

All in all, I have to reboot the phone, as with every Windows mobile phone I've had, almost daily, or every other day. I'm not sure if this is an issue with AT&T or the OS, but I lose connectivity to the network when trying to browse the Internet. Interestingly enough, e-mail will continue to flow (possibly because of direct push?)

I am a former iPhone user, and it's still in my locker. I'm using the Windows Mobile device, and can't wait for the 6.5 to release to see if that changes any behavior. I will say that with the iPhone, no background services can run, so this does help out with performance, but no cut and paste!

My 2 cents

Scooter

re: Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Pablito de Casita — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:55:37 GMT

Part of the problem is the way the OEMs ship the phones. A clean build HTC Touch Pro using HTC's standard ROM runs lickety-split. Take the same phone, load the carrier's settings on top of it (Now it's an ATT Fuze) and it crawls.

Comparing iPhones to WM devices is apples and oranges. Apple controls the platform from start to finish whereas MSFT ships an OS to an OEM who puts it on their platform and ships it off to a carrier who adds more third party applications. I understand this is a business decision made at the onset of WM and actually applied to Windows as well. MSFT makes the OS and someone else makes the hardware and the device drivers.

Should MSFT make a phone on their hardware using their OS in a manner that the Zune is a single source platform? That's an intriguing thought and one worth exploring.

Will it happen?