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With the impending changes to the iPhone to make it more “business friendly” and Android on the horizon, Microsoft has to be feeling the heat. Don’t forget about Symbiam and Palm too. Don’t count them out. Anyhow, Microsoft seems ready to move forward and work to make the user experience for general consumers better, but they aren’t getting it done too fast. Gears over at CoolSmartPhone posted a great commentary about the subject today. I would love to include more than 1 Windows Mobile Device in the Best of 2008. 

Personally I’ve seen a lot of change this year, but alas it’s not been with Windows Mobile. Sure, we saw the launch of Windows Mobile 6, but the improvements weren’t perhaps seen or appreciated by the end user. HTML email? Uh-huh. Calendar ribbon? Uh-huh. Windows Live Messenger? That got removed by the carriers anyway.

Yes, it looked a bit glossier, but somehow it seemed to run slower, and that “Pictures and Videos” application was still forgetting which folder it was in last time you used it, then taking ages to draw the preview thumbnails of your pictures.

For the business world the benefits of Windows Mobile are endless. Always-on email, Exchange sync’ing and remote device management are just some reasons why it does well. For normal consumers though, it’s a totally different story….

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