[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
It may not be very complicated to have mass email in window mobile, but the fact is I could not find it all these years. Always have to individually add the receipient's name in the past.

The way it is done with all the iPhone applications I have come across all work the same way: they provide a grouping facility to assign contacts to the group. Then, by clicking on the group, control is passed to the standard emailing, with all the associated names already populated. This is actually not the most ideal way from my viewpoint but is the best available now. The more ideal way is to be able to start the standard email program, and just add the group as the receipient from there, without having to invoke the mass mailing program first.

What's the difference? Well, there are other programs such as quote programs, or photo programs which wants to bring in their own information just before the stanard email is run. In such situation, the mass mailing programs fall flat. I discover now that it has similar limitation when forwarding mails. Therefore, I still do not consider the iPhone solution to be 100% adequate yet, but it is still much better than what winmo has to offer.

The bottom line based on my own observation is: In terms of sharpness in very good lighting condition, HD performs better and gives sharper image. In poorer lighting condition, iPhone performs better. Overall, iPhone tends to give more consistent quality image while HD's tend to be either extremely good or extremely bad.

Not sure what they have in US, but I find heaps of application of interest for Asia, which Google map does not cover. Example: (a) based on your GPS position, find all the cinemas around that location, show the movies they are running and watch the trailers. (b) Based on the GPS position, show the weather forecast of the nearest weather station (c) Bus guide that shows you how to walk to the starting bus stop (d) Electronic Road Pricing (CBD entry charge) that tells you in advance the price you would have to pay if you drive through the gantry nearest to you. (e) internet radio that looks at where you are and automatically configure the local stations for you.(f) Many twitter programs uses your locations to fingure you what are the other members around you are saying (g) Many dating applications (err, I don't use it myself, cough cough), and many more.

You misunderstood me. I'm not saying we need to keep out third party picture viewers. What I'm saying is that there is'nt any in window mobile that is really useable at the moment. I have tried many many. If they try to imitate what iPhone is doing, they tend to be extremely sluggish. But perhaps you know of at least one that is'nt so, and could share with me what that application is. At this moment, my impression is that HTC album is the best out there.

To be honest, I do not have a need to use such program so I do not know too much details.

I'm very new to iPhone so I'm also not sure if we can preserve jailbroken applications after the next upgrade. I'm aware however that Apple tried to close the ability to sim unblock with the 2.2.1 firmware. Those who unknowingly upgraded from 2.2 to 2.2.1 found that it was not possible to sim unlock anymore, although you can still jailbreak. I made this mistake too. However, I simply get my service provider to sim unlock for me before I jailbroke and problem was solved.

It is very easy to reinstall jailbroke third party application automatically. There is an application to back up an index of all the installed jailbroke third party software, which is part of the settings synchronised by Apple in the iTune. In the event of having to restore iPhone to the factory condition, I simply reperform the jailbreaking, restore from the itune backup (which automatically puts back all the program I have purchased from Apple Store), and let the system automatically reinstall all the jailbroke third party programs for me.

It is a lot easier than doing it in winmo platform IMO, but I'm comfortable doing it iPhone way or Winmo way.

iPhone main problems, as I said are the lack of navigation software due to Apple's strange policy disallowing such software. But I understand that Apple has just changed their position on this and hopefully that problem would be history before the end of this year. The inability to swap in a spare battery is a problem for me at times. Surprisingly I actually found a speadsheet program in iPhone, so although this was thought to be a problem area, it turned out that it is not. The keyboard is far better than I originally thought, requiring much less precision than I first understood. The best thing is I'm also able to enter Chinese characters with Pin Ying and handwriting recognitions without any third party program.

I now use both devices and HD's role is only for running TomTom, Garmin, and Mapking (depending on which country I'm travelling in).