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Originally Posted by x10guy
What makes this thread a bit unique from other xxx versus yyy threads, is that we are generally speaking about the same phone.
In this case, you don't necessarily have to choose one over the other. Once Android TP2 gets more robust, you can do either.
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The other thing that makes this thread different is that we're 2 pages into it and we have yet to start a flame war. It's still a discussion, and a reasoned one at that.
I personally go out and grab the daily builds once a week starting about 3 weeks ago on friday (most recent build) and play with Android over the weekend because I frankly can't take the risk that I won't hear the phone ring or miss a work call during the week (how pathetic is that, huh?). I can't believe the strides that have been made in such a short time and I think it's amazing what's been done. Maybe I'm just too used to WinMo, but I'm really not in love with Home or Home++.
I was also one of the first people to take HP/Compaq up on their promise to fix my iPaq back in the day if I bricked it putting Linux on it and home soldered a serial connector onto my USB cradle so I could flash Linux onto it, so I've been screwing with *nix variants on PDAs for a good 10 years...I like to think I'm open minded when it comes to the OS on my PDA.
I will say that I keep coming back to WinMo. I've tried Palm and just couldn't get used to the interface and the 'difference' between my desktop/laptop and the PDA. I had a Wizard (no, not the HTC Wizard and it's variants but yes I had one of those too) for a time but that was a joke. I had a Handspring which is just a glorified Palm with a compact-flash slot and had the same problem with it.
Compatability, availability of apps, ease of configuration of those apps and customization of the device coupled with a semi-familiar interface have brought me back to WinMo time and time again, warts and all. If I had a Mac at work or home I might feel differently about an iPhone, but I don't, so I don't. Not slamming, not hating, just sayin'.
All of that may change when my contract is up and WP7S (or whatever the acronym for Windows Phone 7 is) has been out for a while and Android has been out for a good couple of years. Here's to a long and fruitful life and people developing like the wind for Android. It can only help, don't see how it can hurt.