[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
I always perfer a more capable and cheaper solution than a less capable and more expensive solution.

I can only evaluate what is available now. If in six month's time with 1Ghz WM and a well designed WIM7 beats what iPhone can offer, I will no doubt be switching back. I'm not a fanboy who try to defend the indefensible. Are you a wm fanboy who is defending the indefensible?;)

How much of your conclusion is based on real research and personal experience I wonder?

The answer depends very much on your mix of email, if they are breaks in the block to be selected etc. In some cases, block selection will be more efficient, and in other situaiton it will be less. In the extreme case, if the list of wanted email alternate with the list of unwanted emails, block selection could be clumpsy.

In any case mass deletion in iPhone is not as bad as you tried to depict and it is certainly not a crippled email client.

You're right, and I've no problem conceeding that in this specific regards winmo mail is easier but it is in no means saying that winmo OS is a more user friendly OS. Swiping to go to the next inbox is possible with the newer ROM, but don't forgot that before the newer ROMs came up with this, we have been moving from one inbox to another through the longer route, and would not call that a crippled email client.

Having said that, however, I should also point out that in some ROMs (Dutty's Xtreme 2.5 for example), the system does not consistently allow you to go from a mail to the inbox when you press the ok button at the top right corner of the screen (it goes back to TF3D instead). Since it is not possible to reliably go back to the inbox, there is also no means of going to another account directly. Try out this ROM to see it for yourself, and see how complicated it is to move from account to account in this case. If you have only a few accounts within the limit of TF3D, you will be able to click on the next mail account (however) to get there, but for people with more accounts, TF3D does not cater to it.

It is not true that you can only attach Photo. I just tried out attaching a MOV file without problem. I have never tried sending rar files on my winmo email client Perhaps you should next attach a two hour DVD movie to your friend with email?

I frankly have not come across any situation that I am not able to do what I want to do with my email yet. It's up to you to believe it or not. May be it's because I don't intentionally do silly things with it.

Do you hard SPL your phone? Do you flash cooked ROM?

Perhaps you never do. Because if you're using the newer ROM, you would know that the new start menu does not show you the five most recently used application anymore.

I suspect the majority of winmo users do not care about T9. I certainly did'nt.

You're wrong to say there is only one keyboard in iPhone. I use five (all native standard iPhone keyboards) even before jailbreaking.

Multitasking - yes. But I look at things that happens every seconds rather than things that happens every 10 days to gauge their importance. Multitasking is only important to me when I need to use my ewallet to register my software on the HD, and to sign in to websites on my HD. I do not miss it that much otherwise. iPhone does have certain task which are always multitasked, so it can play music in the background and run my XGPS navigation software at the same time, and will be able to accept a phone call while those are happening (music will be muted of course), and unmute the music after the phone calls. Yes, I can listen to music and do MSN simulatenously too. I can even download youtube files in the background and move on to doing other things. Not as limiting as you might have thought, is it?

But do I need to play chess, do a spreadsheet, chat with my friends on MSN, listen to music all at once? The answer is clearly no, even if the performance remains fast.

email client - already argued until the cow comes home on this. Your arguement lacks substance.

Lockdown. What is this? How do you conclude something without discussion? You again believe iPhone can't meet this extremely important requirment again, I gather. Care to explain what lockdown is?

Automation application. I assume you mean the profile changing stuff. Already discussed. If you refuse to reason, so be it.

Customization - already discussed. If you goal of owning the phone is purely to look at a different phone appearance everyday and do customization as a hobby in itself, this might be very important. If you aim is to use it to do things, the customization capability in iPhone is more than enough.