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Windows Mobile any good?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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I've been using a Nokia 6600 for about a year, It's served me pretty well, but I'm getting married pretty soon here, and my fiance and I are looking at merging our Cell plans. I've got T-mobile, and I was looking at Smart phone options. My Fiance's contract expires in April, and I'm in a position to abandon mine if needed. The iPhone is too expensive, so I'm not interested in switching to Cingular just for that.
However, this post is about Window's Mobile 5. I was looking at the t-Mobile Dash, and I don't know anything about Win Mobile. Is it anything like Windows Desktop? Does it have any better security? Are there virus' out there for phones? I know I can sync it with The missing Sync, so that's not a problem, but I don't know anything about the OS and it it's worth working with. Also, I'm greatly concerned about ridiculous DRM, is that on WM 5?
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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A friend has a WinMob phone and he likes it a lot. It's one on Cingular, and I don't know which one it is (he doesn't share it to play with), but the OS works just great. It really is a phone that's a small computer, rather than the way my RAZR is-a phone with some computer-like capabilities (which is fine for me).
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I'd look at Windows Mobile 6 devices instead of WM5; it's a pretty nice upgrade from WM5 and everyone should have it soon.
In my experience WM is a great PDA interface and an ok phone interface. Security is good, and there aren't any widespread viruses (there are some proof of concept viruses, just like OS X). It might support PlaysForSure (I'm not sure) but it handles DRM-free content just fine.
edit: WM6 adds:
- HTML support in email
- Windows Live for Windows Mobile
- File transfer capability in Windows Live Messenger
- New versions of mobile Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with rich editing
- Remote wipe capability for stolen and lost devices
- Call history in contact cards
- “Calendar ribbon” for more easily viewing schedule by day or week
- New versions of .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server built-in
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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I used to have a Windows Mobile 2003 device. That was pretty much crap. Crashed all the time.
Currently I have a Motorola Q which runs Windows Mobile 5 for Smartphones. Its quite nice to use (though I can't seem to get bluetooth syncing to work, but I think that's more of a problem with Vista's version of ActiveSync than with the Moto Q itself).
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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The WM5 devices are very good - the WM6 devices are great. Take a look at the Samsung Blackjack (WM5 with AKU2) or the Cingular 8525 - both 3G devices (very fast - 700-900k downloads). Both will be able to be flashed to the WM6 code when the carriers/manufacturers finish testing. I've seen WM6 running on 8525s and know that code exists for the Blackjack. Very very nice.
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