[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kainppc6700:
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I used to have an Omnia also, and it was good hardware but the screen sucked (WQVGA anyone?) and it was only ever released on the Verizon Wireless network, both of which were dealbreakers (not to mention the fact there was no stylus silo) for me even though it was thinner, a nicer form factor, had more storage, had a card slot, nicer camera, better battery, and better hardware keys, I realized when I got my Diamond that I could never go back to the Omnia.

Actually, Windows Mobile was fully optimized for touchscreen devices when it was first released. The non touchscreen ones never really took off and I have yet to see one in person.

I have to admit though that Windows Mobile manages battery life a crapload better than Android. Android wants data and everything to be on all the time - even when you don't want it to. Take the device out of standby, and it'll try to connect to EvDo again for no apparant reason. That's Android's biggest failure - horrible battery life and resource management.

I've never heard of that happening before in my entire life. My Omnia had a great touchscreen that didn't melt.

On the contrary, Windows Mobile manages resources extremely well compared to Android, and it is far faster (I have used both on my Diamond to compare how each directly treats the hardware). My Diamond lets me turn on and off Bluetooth, WiFi, and EvDo at will from one easy control panel linked to off the today screen to control how quickly your battery life evaporates. My Diamond has a little task manager built right into the top right corner of the today screen to help manage memory without going into any application. All in all, if you had two identical handhelds with the same hardware inside and ran Android on one and WM on the other, the one running WM would do a far better job of managing the hardware and resources that it has to work with.

Last time I checked, Android was more of a memory hog. It doesn't even have a built in stock task manager (although some of the default ROMs come with a "task killer" just because Android is such a memory hog).

There is a glitch where if you leave the Sprint carrier customizations on your Device, it will slow to a crawl, but the only thing beside this that could cause what you are talking about is just launching 80 applications and leaving them all running simultaneously - that will slow things down a bit.

"Tons of reasons" huh? ☺

Let me help you with that statement:

"PS: Android can do some of the things that WinMo can do, but using significantly more battery, data, and processing resources than Windows Mobile needed to accomplish essentially the same task... Plus, it needs a Snapdragon not to feel more sluggish than Windows Mobile 6."

In the future, we may have to Migrate to Android only hardware if Windows Mobile cannot be ported to it, but for now, we've still got the HD2, possibly the best phone ever built... With only ONE flaw - it is GSM only, and not compatible with CDMA networks. Beside that one massive flaw, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the HD2 was the best phone ever built (even if I've only seen it on YouTube and XDA DEVELOPERS ;)).

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