[Touch HD General] mib1800:
This is quite strange. Mine is just lukewarm. Did you set wifi mode to full? My HD last 30-50% longer than my friend's Iphone. Both of us are using wifi for most stuff.

I have been using Fring to skype/gizmo (for occasional overseas calls) and I dont have voice issue. Main usage is still voice chat over msn. Unfortunately most Iphone VOIP clients cant work to full potential due to no multi-task limitations (same issue with IMs)

I remember seeing quite a few WM freeware which allow you to do this. Like those available for Iphone, these apps do not integrate to phone contact system so its usefulness is quite limited.

Primitive maybe but at the very least it is well integrated. I am quite impressed with spb diary which I use. It can inject the weather info into my 7-day appointment lines which are shown on the Today screen.

Are you trying to imply Iphone 2MP non-AF is better than THD 5MP AF camera? Hope not. In daylight, THD takes pretty good sharp picture (still can't match my N82 tho). The touch-focus capability is pretty good tho.

Didnt follow this cycorder developmnet for sometime but can this app record with audio now? Or is it still limited to certain time or does it still take forever to save the video?

I will be very surprise if this is not available for WM.

Agree with you here. I am envy of those mashup location apps which are pretty impressive for Iphone. Unfortunately for those of us who dont live in US, quite a lot of them are pretty useless. Hopefully someday these are ported to WM/Symbian.

However, one redeeming factor is that WM/Symbian have those event-based location apps which Iphone cannot support for the moment (or maybe never). E.g. auto-send sms when you are near a location (very useful for me as I am picking up someone from work regularly). Or auto-on BT once I am in office so that my PIMs can sync via BT without me touching the phone. Or taking photo/notes about a place and the next time you hit that location again, an alert is sounded and info is automatically shown on the screen.

Another aspect which WM has advantage are the availability of those profile and call filter/mgr apps (e.g spb phonesuite) which Iphone may never have (without jailbreak)? E.g. auto activate a late night profile that blocks all calls except those from your loved ones. Or auto turn your phone to vibrate (as well as block some calls) during meeting and back to normal once meeting is over. I am still looking for a more advanced one that is available on Symbian which also allows rule-based rerouting of calls or interacts with users via touch tone or allows user to leave a message.

The above 2 factors are the ones that tilted my decision towards Touch HD. Do I want to be tempted by nifty Iphone apps which I may use once in a blue moon and forsake all daily conveniences brought about by these automation apps (which I take for granted eons ago with Symbian and now the HD)? For me it is very clearcut no.

I get stutter playing some high resolution or high bitrates video but for "normal" (i.e. those resolution supported by Iphone), I dont encounter problem. No issue with high resolution divx video played with CorePlayer. Compared to my friend's Iphone, good res video is definitely much sharper and clearer on the HD. However, color is not as vibrant.

That's the thing. If you copy photos to Iphone it resize all your photos (to phone resolution) and the viewer uses pre-generated thumbnails. On HD if I use Resco viewer (which pre-generate thumbails), it is much faster than the HTC viewer. And dont forget, HD has to process 5MP photos compared to 2MP on Iphone.