[General Topics] Koksie:
Go for the Prophet!

1. yes, the processor has a lower clock speed, but the processor is a dual core and has a different architecture. it is therefore less power hungry, meaning that your battery will last longer. secondly the speed is not noticably lower. It is the same as the AMD and Intel processors in desktops, different Ghz, but equally quick. Perhaps it is a little slower, but only if you play a video, run TomTom and several other applications you'll notice it. In normal use the speed differences are neglectable. Watching full screen video's or using navigation apps is no problem at all on my Wizard (TI OMAP 200 Mhz).

2. Wm5 is a hugh improvement over Wm2003 SE. It is more oriented on one-handedness and with some handy apps installed I almost never have to pull out my stylus for simple actions like I used to do with my magician. Only more complicated actions require stylus use. Furthermore WM5 uses persistent storage in flash ROM. This means that when your battery runs out, all your data is saved. With Wm2003 SE, which uses RAM for storage, all data is lost if the battery is removed or runs out. basically this means that you never have to worry about your battery running low on Wm5. This is a hugh improvement in my opinion. Wm5 uses RAM exclusively for running programs. Since WM 2003 also stores programs and data there, less RAM becomes available after installing apps and data on the device, leading to slower operations. With Wm5 all is stored in ROM, thereby leaving RAM for running them, saving you RAM and thereby working speed. I install almost all my apps and data on my device now I use Wm5, with my magician I had to really take care to install most to the Sd card to save precious RAM.

Wm5 is the new standard, all new software will be written for this platform. Slowly WM2003 software will disappear from the market.

3. I don't own a Prophet, so I cannot really judge here, but on my Magician the camera was really crappy. On my Wizard, the quality is much better and I have heard and read that on the Prophet the cam quality is even better. However, I have no personal experience with this. Perhaps someone else on the forum can answer this for you.

4. Yes, you can use an SDIO card for Wifi in your Magician. However, that takes away your SD slot. That means you can hardly save files you download through Wifi and the apps you installed on there (in order to save RAM, where the WM 2003 OS stores apps and data) cannot be used when the SDIO slot is used for the Wifi card. Sandisk has produced a combo card with a Wifi adapter and 256 MB flash memory for SDIO use, but these card are not produced anymore and from Ebay or other online sources they cost around 80 euro's (when I last looked, a year ago). This almost takes away the 100 euros price difference. Furthermore, when you want to use this combo card you have to install your apps onto that SDIO card as well, meaning either a double install or having to use the combo card all the time. It protrudes approximately 1cm from the SDIO slot. And the 256 MB is not much if you want to install MP3 or Navigation cards onto it.

The Prophet is definately the better choice in my opinion, it also features an FM radio is my memory serves me well.

Concluding: WM5, integrated Wifi, the better camera and the small speed difference in the processor make the Prophet the winner of the two.