[Touch HD General] tkolev:
I just want to share my expirience with you. First of all I think it's fair to declare that I am a WM fan. I've used Symbian (for three days and never going to do it again), now I am using the OSX and WM. My wife wanted an iPhone 3G, so I bought her one and the 'fun' began... The first hour I tried to find how the heck do you close the applications. Then I realised that they are closing and not minimizing when I pressed the button. Well... >500 Euro for no multitasking in 2008... that's strange, but who am I to judge the all knowing Apple. Then I realized that Apple is just that - 'all knowing'... or at least they think of themself that way. There is only one place you can get applications for it and guess what - they have to be approved by Apple. Hmmm... that's not right, right? There must be some way you can install what YOU want on the phone and not what APPLE wants. I payed for it, not Apple, so I should be able to do with it what I want. Thankfully it seemed that I wasn't the only one thinking this way (my wife also thought it is stupid to be able to install just what Apple wants you to install and gave me the permission - it's her phone after all), so I jailbreaked the phone. Maybe it is fun to mention that while I was doing so, the Apple server went down and for several hours I thought that I bricked it because guess what is the first thing you must do when you change the OS? You guessed it! Get permission from Apple to use it. No servers, no permission, no phone... But that falls into the 'fun coincidents' category, not the 'rocks in Apple's garden', right? And there is also a very important reason why you SHOULD jailbreak the iPhone if you are on a plain voice package from the operator - there is no way to deactivate the data traffic and since the applications are mostly online oriented... you get the idea. I know that there are some people who will say that this is not true - you can disable the data traffic by entering wrong settings for APN and so on, but what happens when my wife needs to get online? Change the settings? Inpractical. So - to be able to get some basic functionality, you MUST jailbreak the phone. And since jailbreaking is somewhat compared with the flashing of a cooked ROM, we all know we do it. The only difference is, that I jailbreaked the iPhone to be able to do some simple stuff with it, and flashed the ROM of my HD to have the cool calendar tab in TF3D.

Actualy when I bought the iPhone, the HD was only a picture on HTC's site. It wasn't released yet, so I was using my old LOOX T830. A month later I bought myself the HD on the first week it was released, and let me tell you - it has nothing to do with the iPhone. IMO the Touch HD is not an iPhone killer - we bulgarians have a saying: "you don't pull out a knife to a dead dog". There is so much things that are wrong with the iPhone, that it's just not worth it. For the Apple fanboys I have just one example. Imagine you are in my shoes. Imagine you are expecting your first daughter in a couple of weeks. Imagine the hospital policy is allowing visitors for no more than 15 minutes twice a day. Imagine there is no hotspot in the hospital. I want to be able to see my baby all day. So how can you do that when you can't make a videocall, because Apple decided it is not worth putting videocall functionality in a 2008 phone? You use the iPhone for modem and make a videocall with Skype using the laptop's camera? WRONG! AT&T didn't want the users to use their unlimited data traffic (for which they payed in the package) to browse the internet with a laptop, so guess what - no modem functionality in the iPhone. The concept that you can do it, but you must hack the phone is wrong. And to all that say 'just wait - all of this will be available in 3.0' I have one thing to say: wait for WM7 - it'll make pigs fly!