[pastafarian]

Originally Posted by insomniac

If this statement was true, then you wouldnt have to 'jailbreak' the iphone.
A good friend of my has one and I did that for him because he won one in some drawing at a company picnic. Its not the 3gs, its the version prior to that one, so I wont speak to much on the latest release, but I used his iphone when I dropped my phone down the stairs moving huge items to move to a new place and it hit the pavement 4 stories down after hitting many steps down, and everyone talks about its browser being superior, which is opinion, not a fact, I don't like pinching in, zooming too much, I can barely stand it on opera, hated it overly done on safari. Plus the browser is way too slow for me and doesnt support flash. I also couldnt stand the minscule sound from the speaker, which is easily fixed on my pro, I can play music and hear it alright or my fav radio talk show while i await a new headset in the mail, on the iphone, its not as easy a fix, that phone is too locked done, works on a closed source kernel, and you have to jailbreak it to do anything real with it, and apple is trying to make that operation illegal. For winmo, oh i hate the stock rom, so get another one, your statement is false. this is simple, a phone is a phone is a phone. What works for some, doesnt for others, I like funcyionality, others like fart apps and flashiness, its all what you like and what you need to get done, that simple, and who cares.

Sorry for the long rant

Jailbreaking is more akin to unlocking a WM phone to run unsigned code than it is a ROM flash. Though most chefs include different software in their flashes, the main driving force behind ROM development is finding a zippier experience and or improved compatibility with various software(sneaking in new features not released for that particular model doesn't really apply to the iPhone) . Speed and compatibility are generally not a issue with a stock iPhone. The same cannot be said for a TP, stock or otherwise. As for getting another ROM? I'm well past a dozen for the TP and probably flashed my Mogul over 50 times. The iphone isn't the end all be all of phones, but I'm surprised that anyone who used one extensively wouldn't see it's browser as superior to anything in the WM world. Forget multitouch, it's significantly faster and works properly with more sites than any WM browser I've tried (IE, Opera 8.x/9.x/mini, Skyfire, Iris, UCWEB, Fennec). The screen size alone makes it a better experience. About the only thing missing is flash support which isn't entirely important to me. Maybe there was an issue with the iPhone you used, because ever one I've used is much louder than the TP w/any audiopara fix around. HTC is famous for making quiet phones with inadequate ringer and speaker phone volume. That being said, the iPhone's walled garden is one of the things ( along with at&t) that might keep me from ever getting one. The iPhone is great multimedia centric computer with a lousy phone added on ( possibly due to at&t's service?). The TP (at least the CDMA models) is a decent phone addled by a 10 yr old OS running on modern hardware. I wouldn't say the iPhone is the right choice for me, but if I have to answer which device is better at its given tasks? The iPhone blows the TP away!