Now, I am happily dropping Android option and awaiting the Unlocked GSM Pre. May top priority in a PDA is single hand use which the Pre tops.

Thanks.

Steve

It was pointing out features you could or could not get on one platform. Yes, not all devices on some platforms had those features (not every Windows Mobile device has a hardware QWERTY keyboard, but a lot do), but whose problem is that, really?

But what's the point of attacking an older article like this when things have changed?

Steve

It was pointing out features you could or could not get on one platform. Yes, not all devices on some platforms had those features (not every Windows Mobile device has a hardware QWERTY keyboard, but a lot do), but whose problem is that, really?

Anyway, I'm not sure what your point is in attacking an article that's over 6 months old. As I've said before, things have changed, so let's let this article go, OK?

Steve

Anyway, this post makes no sense at all.

http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1330
Palm Pre vs. iPhone 3.0 3G S vs. Windows Mobile 6.5 – Feature Comparison Showdown

android has won just about every one of these the poster should more about this system before posting

You're apparently criticizing an article written four months ago based on what's available today. See below.

3.the g1 may be a tad thick but thats becasue its the only one with a full querty keyboard ( the palm pre is about a third the size so i don't count it) and the other android devices look more beautiful than any of the other phones (other phones including htc magic and i7500)

There are at least two things wrong with your claim.

First, many Windows Mobile devices have QWERTY keyboards, so your claim that the G1 is the only one that had one is false.

Second, the Pre's counts because it's a physical QWERTY keyboard. You can discount it if you want, but the author apparently thought it was good enough.'

Third, if you're going to nitpick on “full”, I'd say that no mobile phones have “full” QWERTY keyboards. Many don't have numeric rows, most have non-standard placement of symbols, almost none have a full set of cursor movement keys like real PC keyboards have, none are truly “full” size (obviously not practical on a phone, but “full” can be taken many ways), etc.

4.the g1 has one hand handling, all u have to do is use the virtual keyboard instead of the physical keyboard (the virtual keyboard is better and more responsive than iphone's)

Did the G1 have the virtual keyboard four months ago? I thought the virtual keyboard was part of Cupcake (or at least a later release of the original software).

6.the android interface is beautiful and getting better and better as it grows

Eye of the beholder, I'd say.

8.android has an app to run anything under microsoft office just fine and it is supporting 97-09

Did it have it four months ago? Do you have to pay for it? Windows Mobile includes Office support for free.

9.android's built in web interface is okay, but there are other internet browser's you can download, like steel and opera, that are beautiful

And other browsers exist for Windows Mobile, too — Skyfire, Opera Mobile, Iris (Webkit-based), etc.

However, you completely misunderstood point #9. It wasn't about the device's Web browser; it was about Web integration, in other words, how well the OS was integrated with online services (what some people call the “cloud”).

10.currently android has about 5,000 apps, good enough for anybody, and is by far the fastest growing os

Can you cite a reference for that claim? I suppose if you go from introduction with zero applications to 5000, it wins on a percentage basis (infinity is a big number).

However, Apple just claimed they had 50,000 iPhone apps available at the WWDC (that's debatable, but it's over 48,000 according to an app counter). It wasn't that long ago that they passed the 25,000 mark (and Windows Mobile). Even if it was 6 months ago, that means there are now 23,000 more apps in 6 months, far more than Android's 4,900 or so in the 7-8 months since Android shipped.

Second, your claim that 5000 apps is “good enough for anybody” is laughable — whether it's really “good enough” depends on whether an app is available for everything you want to do. That's an individual decision, not yours to make.

I realize that your point was more likely saying that lots of the iPhone apps are duplicates or stupid apps, but the sheer number means there's probably a better chance that some app important to a niche market is available, too. That's certainly true of Windows Mobile.

11.android is on tmobile with the g1 mytouch 3g (coming soon), and i7500 (comning in a few months), is on vodafone with the htc magic, and is coming to at&t as the htc hero, quite a few networks to choose from

“Coming soon” is different than “available”. And, again, how many networks was an Android device available on four months ago?

12.the g1 has a very nice full qwerty keyboard, a virtual one in landscape mode and portrait mode, as well as at-9 keyboard, all with auto cap auto punctuate and auto fix mispellings and many other nice features, i think it wins

I'm not sure why you're mentioning virtual keyboards or T9 here. The point was about physical keyboards and which phone had the best one (not just “had one”). Windows Mobile didn't get any points here, either; the author's opinion was that BlackBerrys had the best keyboards.

If you want to drag virtual keyboards in here, many Windows Mobile devices have had QWERTY keyboards and virtual keyboards for years (at least since the HP iPAQ 4300 back in June 2003). The Palm OS Treos also had them years ago. So what?

Finally, do you think the other platforms are standing still? Apple just announced its latest iPhone OS which finally adds copy/paste, video recording, voice command, etc. WM 6.5 is adding lots of Web service integration (MyPhone) and an app store. I'm sure RIM and Palm won't be sitting idly by, either.

Anyway, attacking the piece based on what Android has now is almost like criticizing stories that said the U.S. auto makers were doing great now that things have changed.

Steve

1.g1 has very sensitive touch screen and if you have root access you have multi touch

2.g1 has long touch and a sliding gesture that looks much better and is much easier to use than any of the other smart phones (i have had my hands on all of these smart phones)

3.the g1 may be a tad thick but thats becasue its the only one with a full querty keyboard ( the palm pre is about a third the size so i don't count it) and the other android devices look more beautiful than any of the other phones (other phones including htc magic and i7500)

4.the g1 has one hand handling, all u have to do is use the virtual keyboard instead of the physical keyboard (the virtual keyboard is better and more responsive than iphone's)

5.the g1 can do multi tasking amazingly it can be running up to fifty applications and games at once, and you can access this from a slide down notification bar, genius!!!!!!

6.the android interface is beautiful and getting better and better as it grows

7. i give the author credit on that one

8.android has an app to run anything under microsoft office just fine and it is supporting 97-09

9.android's built in web interface is okay, but there are other internet browser's you can download, like steel and opera, that are beautiful

10.currently android has about 5,000 apps, good enough for anybody, and is by far the fastest growing os

11.android is on tmobile with the g1 mytouch 3g (coming soon), and i7500 (comning in a few months), is on vodafone with the htc magic, and is coming to at&t as the htc hero, quite a few networks to choose from

12.the g1 has a very nice full qwerty keyboard, a virtual one in landscape mode and portrait mode, as well as at-9 keyboard, all with auto cap auto punctuate and auto fix mispellings and many other nice features, i think it wins

13.there is an okay camera on the g1 (3.2 megapixels) and on thei7500 there is a decent camera with 5.2 megapixels magic has 3.2 megapixels and mytouch has 3.2 megapixels

14.the palm pre wins if there really is a wireless charger, but the all of the above mentioned devices can last the entire day while surfing the internet and using the gps, or any other battery eaters,

15.author has this correct

16.the navigation on android is just fine and the phones are quite fast at loading web pages adn again you are not stuck with the default browser

summary

android wins!!!!

You were way off base–seems to me you're an android hater, pretty arbitrarily.

Not to mention you kept talking about “taking away points.” Don't be an idiot–that's now how reviews are supposed to work.