… the good. Surprise! IMHO, one of the best and stable products Microsoft has put out is Windows Mobile. 6.0 to be more specific because that’s what I use. I’ve been using an HTC Touch for more than a year and (surprisingly?) haven’t had a single problem with the phone or the Windows Mobile 6.0 software. Although I haven’t flashed ROMs I’ve been heavily using some 3rd party apps and have done some UI customizations. Nothing critical though, just installing a fraction of all the free apps out there. There was never a single moment where I had to restart the device due to a software bug or OS crash.
I’ve got HTC Home Customizer which adds 6 tabs instead of the boring 3 tab default layout in the home screen. This also allowed installing the vista icon set which is quite nice. HTC Touch doesn’t have 3G nor GPS but the device is quite functional and does have WiFi. Also, get PointUI installed if you like smooth animation effects like in an iphone.
Task scheduling functions which comes by default in WM6 is superb. You could schedule a task, which repeats from say, Monday to Thursday or which ever days you could pick and set reminders etc… The flexibility it provides for this is just fabulous and the interface is really easy to use.
The only minor annoyance I could think of is inability to use headphones when the phone is plugged into the charger or to the USB. Default on screen keyboard might be best used with the stylus. It’s not easy writing a text message with your thumb. There are plenty of free on sceen keyboards which makes writing with your thumb an easy task. PocketCM and TouchPal comes to mind. You have the word/excel/power point set but I haven’t used any of these. I’m not a big fan of wordpressors myself so that might be the reason for the lack of usage, then again other than reading a doc file that doesn’t have any fancy formatting it’s really hard to imagine someone doing their useful wordprocessing tasks using these. Adobe PDF viewer which comes with it is pointless. Why? when you zoom the text in a PDF to a readable level you’ll find yourself constantly having to scroll horizontally to read a sentence. This is the case with Adobe PDF viewer in almost all the mobile phones with a limited screen size.
Will rant about the current mobile device later.
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