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Originally Posted by goducks
I hear "power user" all the time in reference to WinMo, but I am a little mystified as to what that means. What, exactly, can't an Iphone do that a WinMo phone can? Documents look better on its screen than on my Intrepid. It has push email and PDA functions that integrate with Exchange servers.
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LOL...that could start a pretty contentious thread. Fortunately we're stuffed down here in the Intrepid forum in the bowels of obscurity where it'll remain civil.
I can SSH into my servers and fix things (I can get root, and I run my own mail server. Not particularly well, but I do...I think that makes me a power user). I can copy and paste things from a web page into an email and vice versa. Is it important? For me, yes...I communicate with customers that way all the time. I type lengthy emails at times (a pain on any device, but one without a hardware keyboard
tenbds to loook lke thus becase i cant hit alll th keyw right. Well, not me, but the ones I get from friends who use the iPhone (in their defense, I think they are getting better at it as time goes on, which is a fair point). I use FTP and a text editor to modify text files and HTML documents when I'm away from my desk. It's not fun, but it works and I don't have to carry a laptop around all the time.
2. Of course documents look better on the iPhone than the Intrepid. My #1 complaint about the Intrepid is the screen resolution. I bet my TP2 looks just as good as the iPhone screen, though. The Intrepid screen is a throwback to smartphones of 5 years ago. Samsung goes retro.
3. Don't know if iPhone does server search (Exch2007 feature), or remote wipe, or some of the other nifty things you get with WinMo Exchange. If it does, that's great...just don't know.
Also I don't like the control forced on iPhone users. You'd have to jailbreak your iPhone to get most of the similar tips and tricks working that WinMo users can enjoy on a stock ROM. Maybe the iPhone is such a perfectly usable device that it needs no tweaks, though.
That's not to say the iPhone isn't a groundbreaking device that will hopefully continue to revolutionize how people interact with mobile devices. For some people the iPhone is great, and it would be even better on VZW's network, if they can all whip 'em out, measure 'em, and just get over themselves for a change. But I agree with OP here that all roads are starting to lead to iPhone clones, and I think that's a shame. Apple innovated, people bought iFart in droves, and the rest of the world is playing catch up. Only they're just doing myFart, they're not doing anything new and exciting. Since we know W7 is just going to be a crap teenage-friendly iPhone clone with pretty screens and huge text that doesn't fit on the screen and plays lots of music and shows pretty pictures, and Palm is about to vanish off the face of the earth (in perhaps the ultimate irony), that pretty much leaves Android as the only game in town within a year for people that want flexibility and control (and copy and paste...and multitasking). That is, here in the states, lest the Europeans harp on me about Symbian.
Unrelated, but...OP, don't settle for the saga...based on the reviews it's awful. I think you'll be miserable.
Whew. What a way to start a Monday.