[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] falc410:
Well I give you that much, before the Iphone 3G it was absolutely uninteresting without Jailbreak, but this might change due to the Appstore and the SDK. When i used my first WM Device there were only few applications available compared to nowadays.

But when I saw what was possible with Jailbreak on the Iphone I was quite surprised. You can record videos with the camera, you can have Instant Messengers run in the background and there is already a lot of software available - of course only open source and freeware. I remember that I had only few freeware software on my WM device, most of the software had to be purchased. Starting from a decent file explorer (Resco since the WM internal one was ****) to a decent Mediaplayer (Core player, well at least TCMP was still free but who would want to use WMP?).

So you see, most of your arguments go down the road there, since the WM core, even 6.1 still lacks a lot and most of the additional features comes from commercial software.

Same goes for the home screen, it's ok as it is, but I really had to purchase some things like SPB plus and more to make it worthwhile (well I ran WM 2003SE on my last device, maybe it got a bit improved with 6.1).

But from what I have seen on the Diamond the core of WM still lacks a lot!

Well I would not say lies, I really have to give kudos to the Apple Marketing department since they manage to sell old stuff as brandnew features and the whole worlds believe em.

You can zoom in and out of all office files and even run powerpoint files, you can just not edit them. But honestly I only edited a word file once in my whole WM era

Well I had both devices in my hands next to each other and gave both a try and the Diamond failed compared to Iphone. Back in the days of my WM era there was no Opera available and the IE was not useable at all! Later on you could purchase the Opera but I didn't want to pay for something that should have come with WM. HTC purchased the Opera for you, try using the IE for once if you really favor WM that much.

I could use the Iphone with one hand just fine, but same for the Diamond.

You can't really think the Diamond was marketed for business users. As a business user I have to have a phone that is realiable and works and not something I have to hard reset every week and spend countless of hours tweaking the **** out of the registry. And of course battery power is an issue, the Diamond just got not enough.

Also the missing SD card slot hurt me a bit when it only comes with 4GB space.

Even now in every review the Samsung i900 wins over the Diamond but most of the users are awaiting the X1. But lets talk about the Samsung first.

Somehow it wins reviews despite the screen only having QVGA resolution? And since Samsung got its own home screen similiar to the Iphone but at the start there sure won't be much software available that support this.

And for the X1, well it looks promising but the price is nearly the double of the Iphone! Even the Diamond would have been more expensive for me then the Iphone, and I didn't even include the additional costs for a bigger battery which the Diamond surely needs. Well on the Iphone you would have to pay for a battery change, true, but there are enough cell phone shops who do this for you at a much lower price.