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Windows Mobile - the OS that keeps on dissapointing!
%PM, %b %America/Chicago %2006, %R TechnologyWindows Mobile is one of those Operating Systems that I keep coming back to hoping that they've made progress by leaps and bounds - however it just keeps letting me down. I started off with PocketPC 2002 - it was OK, no big wow. I came from using a Newton 2100 so an HP iPaq with PocketPC 2002 was kind of blah. I got a semi-free upgrade to PocketPC 2003 - again no big updates, nothing cool. At this point soft-reseting was a twice-a-day occurrence and I had already lost all my data 5 times (3 of those I had not had any backups so I had to install everything from scratch).
I gave Windows Mobile a rest and went to the symbian camp and bought a P800 running UIQ and symbian 7. It was pretty nice! Even though it crashed a few times on me, it never lost any data! I came back to WM by getting the Siemens SX66 running Windows Mobile 2003SE thinking that there would be major upgrades performed to the OS. The hardware was what enticed me - Quadband GSM/GPRS + WiFi = pretty cool combination for back then.
Well...in two years I've had 3 hard crashes where I lost all my data - thankfully all of these times I had backups. The one problem is that since I am a mac user, I use my work PC to perform all my backups - so on a long weekend like this past one, if something goes bad, like it did, I have to wait to go back to work to do something about it! Now what did I do to ruin my smartphone? I just plugged it into power because it was only at 30% battery, so when I went to get it, it did not come back on! I pulled out the battery to make it shut down, and once I started it again - all gone!
The bummer is that no carrier had released Windows Mobile 2005 for this device because they want you to go buy a new device! There are other means of getting WM2005 on my Blue Angel (phone model name), but those are not official solution and do not work 100%. Then again the official solution does not work 100% - so I guess it is OK ;-)
I think I might be moving back to the Symbian camp - the Macintosh of the smartphone world ;-)
I gave Windows Mobile a rest and went to the symbian camp and bought a P800 running UIQ and symbian 7. It was pretty nice! Even though it crashed a few times on me, it never lost any data! I came back to WM by getting the Siemens SX66 running Windows Mobile 2003SE thinking that there would be major upgrades performed to the OS. The hardware was what enticed me - Quadband GSM/GPRS + WiFi = pretty cool combination for back then.
Well...in two years I've had 3 hard crashes where I lost all my data - thankfully all of these times I had backups. The one problem is that since I am a mac user, I use my work PC to perform all my backups - so on a long weekend like this past one, if something goes bad, like it did, I have to wait to go back to work to do something about it! Now what did I do to ruin my smartphone? I just plugged it into power because it was only at 30% battery, so when I went to get it, it did not come back on! I pulled out the battery to make it shut down, and once I started it again - all gone!
The bummer is that no carrier had released Windows Mobile 2005 for this device because they want you to go buy a new device! There are other means of getting WM2005 on my Blue Angel (phone model name), but those are not official solution and do not work 100%. Then again the official solution does not work 100% - so I guess it is OK ;-)
I think I might be moving back to the Symbian camp - the Macintosh of the smartphone world ;-)
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