Android versus WinMo - a personal experience - Page 3

**redd214** · #21 (**permalink**) 03-26-2010, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by x10guy

Just curious. Why would there be a flame war? It is all personal preferences.

you must not have read the other android vs winmo posts lol, good points dishe very well thought out

**gTen** · #22 (**permalink**) 03-26-2010, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by x10guy

Just curious. Why would there be a flame war? It is all personal preferences.

flame wars don't need reason..they just need 2 people who disagree with each other then begin belittling each other rather then sticking to factual info.

**x10guy** · #23 (**permalink**) 03-26-2010, 06:51 PM

Sorry, I wasn't clear. (Yes, I've read plenty of flame wars.)
But this thread is very different. Why would you think a flame war would break out in THIS thread?

**gTen** · #24 (**permalink**) 03-26-2010, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by x10guy

Sorry, I wasn't clear. (Yes, I've read plenty of flame wars.)
But this thread is very different. Why would you think a flame war would break out in THIS thread?

he is going by trends that usually happen to threads like these so he is surprised there is actual debate and not a flame war. This section though generally is pretty clean as not to many visit it yet.

**x10guy** · #25 (**permalink**) 03-26-2010, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gTen

he is going by trends that usually happen to threads like these so he is surprised there is actual debate and not a flame war. This section though generally is pretty clean as not to many visit it yet.

It's those iphone threads that are the dumbest. People are wholly incapable of having a reasonable and respectful discussion. Andoid discussions are alot calmer.

tharealrender · #26 (**permalink**) 03-28-2010, 09:28 PM

i really am disappointed in windows decision to dump winmo 6.x. i own the tp2 and am in love with this phone. thankful for all of the great apps that have been developed. the ease of cusomization is freakin awesome. we have all of these options for ui and sense with those mods is way better than any other ui i've tried... even android imo. i think we owe all of this to those people that complaind so much about the smallest bugs in winmo over the years. now we'll have to go to the winPhone 7 os or android which still has many bugs. good post btw!

well, that's my 2.

**x10guy** · #27 (**permalink**) 03-29-2010, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tharealrender

i really am disappointed in windows decision to dump winmo 6.x. i own the tp2 and am in love with this phone. thankful for all of the great apps that have been developed. the ease of cusomization is freakin awesome. we have all of these options for ui and sense with those mods is way better than any other ui i've tried... even android imo. i think we owe all of this to those people that complaind so much about the smallest bugs in winmo over the years. now we'll have to go to the winPhone 7 os or android which still has many bugs. good post btw!

well, that's my 2.

+1. I just talked to a friend who has had a genuine Android phone for a couple of months. I asked him how he likes it. His very first word out of his mouth was "good". The second word out of his mouth was "But..." and he spent the next 5 minutes talking about just some nagging issues that he hopes gets fixed.

I think the people who are so anxious to jump to Android 100% once this project progresses farther will find out that Android is nice but definitely not perfect. It is just human nature to believe that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. For certain users, Android will be much better and they'll stick with it long term. For others, I suspect that they may quietly come back to boring winmo.

**gTen** · #28 (**permalink**) 03-29-2010, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by x10guy

+1. I just talked to a friend who has had a genuine Android phone for a couple of months. I asked him how he likes it. His very first word out of his mouth was "good". The second word out of his mouth was "But..." and he spent the next 5 minutes talking about just some nagging issues that he hopes gets fixed.

I think the people who are so anxious to jump to Android 100% once this project progresses farther will find out that Android is nice but definitely not perfect. It is just human nature to believe that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. For certain users, Android will be much better and they'll stick with it long term. For others, I suspect that they may quietly come back to boring winmo.

I don't know about grass but I know the robot is greener on the other side :P

Android is still young so that is to be expected but at least they are updating the platform regularly and it is publicly available...so if you don't like something you can always contribute to the project...winmo we have to hope M$ get it..which by WP7 looks like they don't get it

**x10guy** · #29 (**permalink**) 03-29-2010, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by gTen

I don't know about grass but I know the robot is greener on the other side :P

Android is still young so that is to be expected but at least they are updating the platform regularly and it is publicly available...so if you don't like something you can always contribute to the project...winmo we have to hope M$ get it..which by WP7 looks like they don't get it

I guess there are 2 ways to look at Winmo 6.x. It is a VERY old OS (that's why we hate it). But it's a mature OS so it works with most of our communication needs, email, exchange, outlook, office, etc. (that's why we stick with it).
Windows 7 is a completely different animal, err robot. lol.

MrPib · #30 (**permalink**) 04-02-2010, 02:13 PM

One thing to remember is that we had to jump through our share of hoops to get WM running just as we like, so of course we'll have to do the same for Android. My address book is in the Palm Desktop contacts app (with the nice Agendus overlay), so I had to install Outlook, then get the PDT -> Outlook export working, and then sync with the horrid ActiveSync just to get my contacts on my TP2!

Another example -- I used to have multiple Gcals, with stuff like kids' sports seperate. The google cal sync only lets you sync the primary calendar (which G says is WM's fault), so I had to merge everything into one cal. Wouldn't have had to do that for Android.

Of course, I had to jump through a whole different set of hoops when I went from a HP200LX to a Palm E2 a few years back. It's just par for the course.