Help 2 choose android instead of WM

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If those are your main concerns then yes Android can do those..

Originally Posted by CtDMonet

I think the best asset Android has is that it doesn't really have stated minimum requirements, so manufacturers just put the newest, coolest crap in them. They didn't really understand that Windows lies about minimum requirements. Instead of minimum requirements they mean, "If you want your computer to lock up and generally freak out every time you want to do a bunch of crap at once -- then these are the requirements" -- I mean I probably wouldn't have switched from my TP2 if it had a 1g processor, 4G & a capacitive screen, but I am very happy with my EVO.

ummm..not exactly...not stating minimum requirements does not make manufacturers put the latest and greatest..its more of the other way around..the cheaper hardware you put in the more profit you get..

The thing is what made winmo what it is today for us at least is HTC, and what killed was HTC..when HTC started out they were A LOT smaller then they are today..initially they just made stuff and had them rebranded by other companies such as Dell and HP, the carriers also decided to have their own pdaphones so they made things like the Sprint PPC6700 and the Sprint Mogul..they didn't even work directly but through a distributor called UTStarcom..

In the US, HTC was pretty much the only choice for winmo phones and they were pretty easy to hack..there were a few others like Samsung omnia. motorola and etc of course but were not as easy to hack...

HTC on its part literally put in the "minimum" hardware it could find..and not surprising since they could not afford better..they skimped out on licensing drivers and other things which contributed a lot to lagging out winmo..they also such in Touchflo3d which while made winmo more touch friendly bottled it down even more...

So effectively, they made winmo accessible for our moding pleasure but completely scared off the average consumers with lag, as their was very little competition HTC could easily do this..at the time M$ stood there and did nothing..this i why I say HTC made Winmo and killed winmo at the same time..

Even in Android unfortunately HTC still puts in the minimum hardware though..but they have grown a lot since then and right now competition is A LOT bigger then it was before..so I expect that in 2011 they are going to start releasing some "competitive" hardware at the very least..

If winmo were to have continued then you would have had a TP3 with a 1ghz processor in summer 2010..