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Old 07-16-2010, 02:43 PM
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Moving on from TP to Android - deciding on Droid X vs. Incredible

I'm reaching the 2 year mark with my Touch Pro which has been a great phone for me. For the first year I used the SSK 2 (6.1 WM) ROM and then upgraded to SSK 3 (6.5 WM). The apps I use a lot are Pocket Informant, TomTom 7, Note2Self, Audible and Opera Mini 5 in addition to the built in ones. I also replaced the dialer with PhonEx 2.2 just to have a more finger friendly dialing experience.

I help small businesses deploy handhelds so from time to time I get to use blackberries and iPhones for a few days. I've only owned Treos and HTC sliders so this will be the first time using on screen keyboard. I found landscape typing on the Incredible to be just as easy as my Touch Pro physical keyboard. For years I've reworked WM 5 and 6 phones to be as finger oriented as possible. Before the iPhone had come out I had decided that Microsoft needed to ditch the stylus and ancient Win CE style input forms. I downloaded any app that took WM in that direction.

The advent of the iPhone was frustrating to me because ATT's network doesn't cut it for the coverage I require (can't be dropping calls during delicate server support calls). I prefer Microsoft's business model to Apple's and the Apple marketing hype and the droves of sheeple that follow it turn me off. But...they did get the smartphone almost exactly right. All of us on these forums had been telling Microsoft (well each other, MS should have been listening) for years what they needed to do.

I had fun customizing the Windows Mobile phones but it was mostly out of desperation that I got into it. I'm not waiting for WM7 because it sounds like MS has iPhonitis. Android appeals to me as an open platform like what we're used to with pre-WM7 Windows Mobile.

Anyone else deciding on Droid X vs Incredible as replacement for TP?
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