i used to work for ATT in customer service and well I will always be a WM fan...
like everyone said... its personal preference, but in the end... people have been labeling it wrong ( first true smart phone) yea riiiiight!!!! when the iphone first came out it wasn't 3g, no mms and no video... still no flash on the camera... and tethering none of that either. yea there were work arounds... liike just emailing via text #. (ie
1235551234@att.mms.net) or your friends mmsing you to email. but what a hassle.
imho... it would a great smartphone... for 11yr olds and people over 50... and it does have its advantages ie batterylife and ease of use.
but at the same time... multitasking??? how bout flexibility to build on it? none whatsoever. you want the ability to remote control your desktop? you gotta pay!
1. you stated something about speed. the hermes was slow and wm5.1 sucked balls. yes it was held back... but now its better. you can regedit to change soooo many things. lots of free "apps" and 3g (for sprint/verizon) is waaaaay better coverage than ATT.
2. cost... if you jailbreaked 5 att Iphones... and flashed 5 WM devices... w/ sprint vs att your cost would be (for similar plans)
unlimited data
unlimited talk
unlimited text
ability to tether
gps
(gps bluetooth system) as far as i know apple relies on triangulation instead of gps until the most recent 3gs.
yearly cost sprint= 4799.40 att =9838.92 (plus the cost of the gps bluetooth system which is 69.99 per device. (not added) and thats also if they have the ability to tether. which the iphone doesn't. yet. btw att to my knowledge will not allow tethering unless the use of thier connection manager is used. im sure they got around this w/ windows/wm but how are they going to do that w/ apple proprietary systems? aka "unhackable" idk!
seriously... can you download apps larger than 8 megs w/o requiring the use of wifi? plus the fact that its not insurable ... and you have to go w/o a phone for about 2 weeks if your iphone dies on you through warranty. no ability to use microsoft push... (i think) not fat finger friendly.
btw (for a 16 gig mem card you can buy cheap... you would have as much music capabilities as an i phone... but... if your iphone dies... can you say you can hard re-set and w/o plugging into a computer... be able to listen / view your saved info... pictures/vid/music? would you have to search and re-dl all of your apps/games? (few of the joys of having a seperate memory card) can you have more than 32 gigs of programs /music in your phone? (being able to swap mem cards)
att has a great system for simultaneous talk/data...
but they haven't been able to fix the 2g/3g swapping.. it will drop the call if it goes from 3g-2g... and 3g usage kills the battery twice as fast. i remember when they first found out about it.... people were calling w/ thier new lg 3g phones and we were instructing them how to lock it into 2g mode, unfortunately... it gets locked there and there is no way you can unlock it unless you warranty the phone.
and it seems like... all you are trying to do is try to convince people that iphone is the way to go. if you can argue my (atleast monetary) argument... i might have a change of heart! if you can argue both.... maaaybe.
again... I know there are perks w/ the iphone. battery life and ease of use...
but its just not my flavor.
thats my 2 cents. sorry about the book.