Comments on: The Handheld Dream Machine http://www.mobilitysite.com/2008/04/the-handheld-dream-machine/ Mobile News, Reviews, and Views. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:01:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: doogald http://www.mobilitysite.com/2008/04/the-handheld-dream-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4403 doogald Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:20:43 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/2008/04/the-handheld-dream-machine/#comment-4403 Perhaps part of the problem is that what you are looking for in a Windows Mobile device is not what somebody else is looking for. Microsoft has designed something that they think will appeal to the broadest group of users. Honestly, I don't care one bit about whether my phone is OS X, WM, Palm OS, Android or Symbian - I just want the thing to work well and work intuitively. To me, now and in the future, just to pick out one feature, working well as a smartphone means it must have a web browser that can display any web page well, not just special mobile pages, and in that, WM has a looonnnggggg way to go. By the way, if you are going to say that the iPhone is for "for finger fixated nose miners", you might not want to call for the same thing in WM . . . Perhaps part of the problem is that what you are looking for in a Windows Mobile device is not what somebody else is looking for. Microsoft has designed something that they think will appeal to the broadest group of users.

Honestly, I don’t care one bit about whether my phone is OS X, WM, Palm OS, Android or Symbian – I just want the thing to work well and work intuitively. To me, now and in the future, just to pick out one feature, working well as a smartphone means it must have a web browser that can display any web page well, not just special mobile pages, and in that, WM has a looonnnggggg way to go.

By the way, if you are going to say that the iPhone is for “for finger fixated nose miners”, you might not want to call for the same thing in WM . . .

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