(Ever try using that TINY TINY keyboard with your fingers? Sure, the stylus can do it.but who wants to use a stylus anymore?) Windows Mobile 6.5 is getting there, but still has a lot of work to do. On its face, Windows Mobile 6.1 is a BEAR to use, especially when compared against other devices.
HTC SYNC MANAGER SUCKS ANDROID
HTC TouchFLO3D, Palm's customizations, etc.) makes jumping to Android and, for Palm, WebOS that much more attractive. On top of all of this, the fact that service providers always had to customize Windows Mobile to extremes (i.e. Then there's Android which basically claims ALL advantages Windows Mobile use to have, but in a much more elegant fashion. Even Palm, which is on life support, can compete with WebOS. Blackberries are still the swiss-knife of corporate and personal email collaboration, but are now able to do media fairly well (though they still suck horrendously for internet browsing). Today, iPhone can do those same tasks faster, easier and much more elegantly than WinMo could ever dream of doing. Unfortunately, this usually means they inherently become the master-of-none, as their background processes would often cause lock-ups, memory leaks and other baddies and had horribly high power consumption, especially when compared to the RIM and Palm devices. You could check your email on them, play music and videos, surf the web and run most of the apps like being on a PC. I think that its latest competition is starting to reveal just how outdated the platform is.Įver since I can remember (user since Smartphone 2002 with the MPx200), WinMo devices were designed to be the jack-of-all-trades. I don't think that Windows Mobile was a screwed up product. She returned one and got another, no better. To reboot, it was faster to just pop out battery.
It's like they were deleting the first, moving all the others down in memory, rewriting them to flash, then repeating.Įven trying to turn the thing of was nearly impossible to figure out. Every now and then, she'd need to delete a bunch of them because it ran out of memory (a user should never have to worry about this, IMHO.) Deleting all of the messages took at least half an hour. No ringing, no voice, nothing.īut my favorite was how it handled text messages. And audio would sometimes just stop working. And the need to manually delete stuff when it ran out of memory was just crazy. Email was painfully slow, particularly when you had attachments or images. It would just refused to connect to the headset after a while until one power cycled it. Doing anything required far too many clicks. Settings scattered through like 17 different sub-panels, combined with a ton of completely useless settings. It locked up constantly, got to where you could not actually make calls, ran out of memory, etc. It was the worst, most pathetic attempt at an OS I've ever seen. My wife had a Palm Treo with Windows Mobile. Still, Internet Explorer and Windows Mobile sure look like two examples of that. It's so total of a stop, it really looks intentional, but it's a little hard to believe even Microsoft execs could be so short-sighted as to purposefully derail development. Overall, Windows Mobile is clearly suffering from that Microsoft problem that once they think they are in charge of a market, all innovation completely stops. WinMo 6.5.1 is getting decent, and its UI doesn't look like it was from 2001, but it still has those general WinMo unexplained slowdowns and could use a lot of improvements. Based on my playing around with the leaked builds, WinMo 6.5 is still rather crappy. That said, yes, WinMo 6 is totally crappy. There are people out there with hacked ROMs running leaked builds of 6.5, but you can hardly judge the final OS based on hacked ROMs running leaked builds. The first phones with it are slated to ship in late October. Unless you're an internal tester, you do not have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone.
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