[Device Reviews and Information] shoey5:
Just felt like writing about my experience using an Apple Iphone in comparison to the many WM devices I've used over the years. Was over at a friends house today and got a chance to play around with his Apple Iphone. While I'm not ready to give up my WM HTC Trinity with it's advantage of push/exchange integration and abundance of 3rd party apps, there were some things about the IPhone that left me a bit envious.

First was the physical dimensions of the Iphone, while a bit big compared to my Trinity the thinness of the device made it feel a hell of a lot smaller. I was picturing a wallet type hard case for it that would allow me to fit it into my back pocket or inside jacket pocket without it bulging out.

Second was the overall look and feel of the interface, all the applications were well blended into the theme and the little effects made using it quite enjoyable. There was a little lag calling up apps from time to time but overall I found it to be a lot snappier when calling up an app. A lot different from Windows Mobile devices, just take the WM Calculator as an example, even after all these years looks like something that came out of Windows 3.1. Microsoft really needs to get rid of that PC minded interface and make something much easier to use.

Now the thing that impressed me the most was solid feeling and sensitivity of the IPhone touch screen. The sensitivity was very very impressive. I did a comparison with the IPhone and my Trinity side by side pressing keys on their respective calculators to see how much pressure it took, no matter how slowly and softly I tried pressing the Iphone the second I felt my finger touch the screen I got an instant response. Doing the same with the Trinity provided a harder press and it wasn't always consistent. I tried the same test on the Trinity using the stylus trying to press it ever so slightly to get feedback but it always took a bit more inconsistent pressure. Unlike the Iphone touch screen which felt solid to the touch, the you could feel the Trinity screen indenting slightly.

I think Apple is still years away from catching up with WM devices in regards to 3rd party software and improvements to their built in applications and we know Microsoft is going to update the overall look of WM in the next version but if anything good comes out of the Iphone competition, I hope WM manufactures like HTC and others will start improving the overall designs of their devices with thinner dimensions and more importantly better quality touch screens. HTC making a piece of software and touting it as a new Touch technology just doesn't cut it, what they really need is to start using a screen that is sensitive to the touch with a finger. TouchFlo is a nice to have but it's just layered over a Desktop Computer like interface and the screen isn't sensitive enough to get 100% response to what you're doing every single time like the Iphone.

I've been thinking recently of upgrading to an Ultimate 8150 for the fact that it has a hardware keyboard, reason being I just never found the finger method of using a WM5 device to be all that great and I hate pulling out my stylus to dial a number ect. After using the Iphone, except for the advantages of a hardware keyboard when needing to dial an extension or tapping out a quick sms in certain circumstances like driving or not being able to look at your device, I would have probably been more than happy with the touch screen if it had the same quality touch screen as the one found in the Iphone.