[cyberhusky]

Microsoft still has no iPhone answer

For example, I was just at the Miami Boat Show last week and experienced the following:

- Couldn't get a web site displayed on a high-end WM phone; pulled out the iPhone and it came up perfectly.

- Had no WiFi access and needed to do some database work on my web site requiring the laptop; the WM device got the laptop onto the network in 15 seconds; the iPhone sat powered off, unable to help at all.

- AppStore showed me that 5 apps had new updates - that is very slick; I have no idea how old my WM apps are and never check.

- TomTom on my WM device navigated me perfectly around all of the nasty Miami traffic; the iPhone's Google maps are nice but terribly inadequate for real world live navigating on streets.


All of these devices have their place.

+ Displaying Websites is a strong feature of the iPhone!
+ Tethering (using the mobile phoen as modem via laptop) is possible with all modern mobile phone except for the iPhone where it was only possible until 3.0 or a jailbroken iphone.
In the USA At&T doesn't allow tethering, but in the rest of the world it just works! My MSI Netbook running OS X Leopard just uses the iPhone as modem if I don't have WiFi access.
+ Navigon Navigator just replaced my TomTom standalone solution! (I used to have TomTom since it beginnings (Psion times in the 90s, had it on many Sony Ericsson phones) but it looks like Navigons solution is just better!!

See here the comparison table:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/iphone-nav...xr5133.php

For me the iPhone replaced many systems: my macbook, my Psion Pocket Computers and Palm PDA.

OK the iPhone still lacks some features but they will come as Palm, Google & Co won't sleep.

As for mobile phones running Win Mobile: all the versions I tried didn't satisfy me, because they were just pain slow! OK I'm spoiled by Psion pocket computers (Psion 5MX Pro) which did just start when pushing the ON button. No waiting at all and they did run 20-25 hours on just 2 plain AA 1,5V batteries. Complete office system, I used them for navigation with TomTom and on the sailing boat with scanned charts.

Today the Psion OS is called Symbian OS and runs on 90% of all mobile phones (50% on smartphones)
That's why I always had Sony Ericsson mobile phones until I got the iPhone.
Everybody I know who had or has a Win Mobile phone just replaced it by a non Windows system because it didn't work as supposed!