JNM
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a) The Tilt 2 (Touch Pro 2) comes with everything needed to take it to work and make immediate use of the phone. I use MS Office heavily and having it on the phone is a huge plus. Unlike other platforms it is included on the Touch Pro 2 and the HD2. Yeah, the other OS devices have "an app for that" but so does Windows Mobile, and its included. The Touch Pro 2 has the best keyboard I have used in a very long time and call quality that leaves no one wanting.
These devices could improve upon third party application quality. While I detest buying business applications that should be on business smartphones I like finding a great application to keep me entertained. Many iPhone applications I have tried are well engineered whereas I am not seeing the same caliber of work for Windows Mobile.
b) I like some of what HTC has done. I see HTC Sense as something that, as has always been done with WM, makes the Today Screen better. However, I really don't like that they take over the messaging application with their own, much slower, and often unreliable messaging software. Windows Mobile devices are respected for having email, texting, mms, etc covered. These are handled more cleanly on WM than any other so HTC should have left it alone.
With the latest versions of WM, much of HTC's works is very useful, and betters the phone, but it is NOT necessary. WM has improved drastically and can stand on its own merits.
c) I cannot say with any direct knowledge where WM is going, but I really hope that more desktop functionality comes to the phone. I want it to be what its name implies. I want Outlook Mobile to gain more advanced functions. I want the difference between my computer and my phone to be less about what can be done on one versus the other but more about how things are done on one versus the other. Same/similar capabilities though.
d) They would love everything about Contact, Calendar, and Tasks Management since they are similar, yet more cleanly displayed, than on the BlackBerry. The browser, either of them, will be a nice thing as welll. They'd love being able to use the device as a Wifi router.
However, they would certainly miss push notifications. Sure, Windows Mobile offers it for the Exchange account, but all of the rest pull on a schedule. There are free third party push options that work VERY well for WM but that it not included from the start.
e) I have not found a need for many applications to be added but the few I have are excellent. I think that Apple has taken an overwhelmingly massive lead here and everyone else better focus on quality applications rather than trying to mathc the sheer number in the application store from Apple.
I am a BlackBerry user (currently in remission), Windows Mobile user, and an iPhone user. I also used the Nokia E71 and E61i for over a year. I will use whatver works best for my needs. Right now, as has been the case for many years, that is Windows Mobile. I thought I would be missing my 9700 by now, having given it up to move back to the Touch Pro 2, but I am not missing it at all. The Nokia devices are usually better built than all of the others, but S60 really just has fallen so far behind in crucial areas that I can't use those devices. Their Calendar application cannot manage invites, nor categories, or even tasks! Contact fields are missing in the address book! It has been that way for years.
My Windows Mobile phones let me set them up and get to work very easily. It is a full business package. I got my Touch Pro 2, added MS Voice Command, Telenav, and entered my Exchange server credentials. I might tweak a ringtone setting here and there but I am now ready to use the phone, get my email (with all of the subfolders (Nokia...you listening?), and access my contacts. I can run through the last few articles that have come in for review and edit them on the spot (no need to buy an app for that).
When I buy an expensive smartphone it needs to include everything I will need in order to use it. The Touch Pro 2 does this well.
Ambien says goodnight!
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