Can Sony not get anything right these days? First they splinter the Symbian OS with UIQ and now some moron gets the bright idea that SE needs to make windoz mobile phones? Nice to see SE is being so loyal to Symbian that they are jumping into the sinking ship known as Windows Mobile. Doesn’t SE own 28.7% of the Symbian OS? Looks like Nokia get’s the powerful Symbian OS all to themselves. It’s funny watching the once top tier device makers twitch and finally realize their products are crap which few are purchasing now that there is the iPhone.

The answer is as simple as “iPhone made by Apple”. The reason why Apple designed and built the iPhone is because the wireless industry was and still is complete crap when it came to devices, it’s been over a year now and still none of the device manufactures have come anywhere close to Apple’s iPhone.

iPhone for Business Is Now in Business
http://gizmodo.com/347063/iphone-for-business-is-now-in-business

iPhone combines three amazing products: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email, web browsing, searching and maps. It’s also a great communications and productivity tool for business professionals.
3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR for wireless data connectivity
Rich HTML email supporting POP3 and IMAP solutions
Visual Voicemail – select and listen to messages in whatever order you want – just like email

Thanks, but I’m not that young.

The one thing that I do miss that the BB doesn’t have but the WM and Palm OS’s have is the ability to edit documents. Not that I edit frequently, but it is a nice option. I’m just waiting for Dataviz with come out with the BB version of Documents to Go in order to do so. When it does come out, THEN I may need to make the switch to the Curve when it does come out on VZW. I’ll give it a try first on the Pearl, but for some reason I know I’ll get frustrated trying to read and use it on that small screen.

I didn’t mean to slam every Pearl user. I know folks who use them like crazy – more than I use my 8830 – but they tend to be younger, with better eyes (all the better to see that smaller screen) and more adaptable (T9 is sufficient for the under middle-aged set).

And you (and Keith) are 100% correct in that WM was designed for a computer, not a phone. But with that, it does a lot of things BB or Palm can only dream of. As a result, it does lose some points as a communications device – but that’s why I have my BB. I love my WM for the fact I don’t have to lug my laptop everywhere. I can create a Word doc or edit Excel files.

The WM crowd will point to the latest WM devices having a faster processor than the BBs, but that is a moot point – the WM device REQUIRES more power, just as a Windows or Mac machine requires more horsepower than does a basic Linux or Unix box.

And I agree with you about the Treo 700 crashing frequently – that came with Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition. Windows Mobile Professional 6 is much more stable – and faster. If I had to live with a WM5 device, it would see the freeway asphalt @ 80MPH.

I was reluctant to pick up my little WM6 device, because of past experiences with PPC5 Treos. VZW offered me one for their 30 day Worry-Free trial. I passed the 30 days and haven’t looked back.

All in all, when people ask me which device should they get, I first ask them what they want their phone to do. If they are low-tech but want lots of features, I point them toward a feature plan and a decent phone. If they want a trouble-free device that is heavily oriented toward the pure smartphone ideal, email & messaging, it is BB, hands down. If they want something that would allow them to leave that 17″ widescreen behind most of the time, I will recommend a WM6 device and not worry that they’ll hate me later.