I'm a long time user of Windows Mobile, primarily in non-phone Pocket PC's. In that environment I like it - the OS is stable and with Mobipocket as an ebook reader and TCPMP as a media player it's a fine, stable platform for running non-Microsoft apps - none of the built in ones were any use anyway - Media player was just abysmal. As long as the OS was just sitting there doing minimal OS'y stuff and not interfering it was fine.
However, I HATE it as a phone OS, it just never felt like a good fit. It felt like it was a non-phone OS being frigged around with until it worked well enough to release, it was unstable, slow and buggy. I tried an SPV-C500 then an SPV-C600 and neither were any good. I tried so hard to like it as I was a long-time pocket PC user but it was no go.
There are lots of great phone os's out there and IMHO Windows Mobile will always be playing catch up.
I'm a long time user of Windows Mobile, primarily in non-phone Pocket PC's. In that environment I like it - the OS is stable and with Mobipocket as an ebook reader and TCPMP as a media player it's a fine, stable platform for running non-Microsoft apps - none of the built in ones were any use anyway - Media player was just abysmal. As long as the OS was just sitting there doing minimal OS'y stuff and not interfering it was fine.
However, I HATE it as a phone OS, it just never felt like a good fit. It felt like it was a non-phone OS being frigged around with until it worked well enough to release, it was unstable, slow and buggy. I tried an SPV-C500 then an SPV-C600 and neither were any good. I tried so hard to like it as I was a long-time pocket PC user but it was no go.
There are lots of great phone os's out there and IMHO Windows Mobile will always be playing catch up.