Windows Mobile Internet Testing - Very Interesting!

**shaun0207** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 12:05 PM

Hey everyone:

just got through reading this article over at Gizmodo. Very interesting indeed.
http://gizmodo.com/5106121/windows-m...-real-internet

**Hafrust** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 12:17 PM

This outtake from that article really made me laugh:

Even ceding the point that Windows Mobile is somehow more functional than the iPhone or Android, it's like comparing one of those 100-in-1 kitchen gadgets that'll blend, slice, dice, toast, saute, braise, set the table, clean the dishes AND suck you off while it's doing all that to a Waring MX1000 blender. It doesn't matter how much the all-in-one gadget can technically do if you can't figure out how to use it, and it performs every task with only mediocre results.

This is why Sprint doesn't market their WM phones as much as other phones. Yes, they can do a ton of things, but the average everyday user doesn't want to learn how to do it all.

**shaun0207** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Tripdub1

This outtake from that article really made me laugh:

Even ceding the point that Windows Mobile is somehow more functional than the iPhone or Android, it's like comparing one of those 100-in-1 kitchen gadgets that'll blend, slice, dice, toast, saute, braise, set the table, clean the dishes AND suck you off while it's doing all that to a Waring MX1000 blender. It doesn't matter how much the all-in-one gadget can technically do if you can't figure out how to use it, and it performs every task with only mediocre results.

This is why Sprint doesn't market their WM phones as much as other phones. Yes, they can do a ton of things, but the average everyday user doesn't want to learn how to do it all.

Exactly. They just want to be able to talk and text.

psiphi · #4 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 02:13 PM

Sad but true... I keep thinking I'll buy my wife a WM phone, but know she won't be patient enought to learn the tricks...

**shaun0207** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by psiphi

Sad but true... I keep thinking I'll buy my wife a WM phone, but know she won't be patient enought to learn the tricks...

i got my with the Mogul 3weeks before it hit the store cause she wanted it so bad. She plays games, emails & texts with it. She says it too complicated for all that other stuff.

jeffreytz · #6 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 02:43 PM

Well, compared to browsing on any of my old Palm-OS phones, my touch pro is an awesome web browser platform

and Opera 9.5 does some stuff better than my wife's iPhone/Safari, but I wish the Touch's screen was as responsive as the iPhones. A mute point since the iPhone isn't on Sprint and I actually use the data network.