[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Boinng:
I'll ignore the fact that this sentence makes no sense at all, and get onto the grist - yes, to quote you anything in my iPhone's email client I pretty much have to type it out. That's annoying sometimes, where the proper definition of "sometimes" is once in blue moon when I'm discussing something technical. There are ways and means of getting some limited copy and paste on the iPhone (such as web based applications that can copy text from a web page into an email), and if I persevered with those I probably could quote you the above... but yes, newsflash, the iPhone has no copy and paste.

It has a brilliant UI, unbeatable multimedia, fantastic value apps, it's the most dependable and reliable phone I've owned, the best mobile internet experience, the best physical hardware, best power efficiency, and generally the most fun and most useful gadget I've owned since my first smartphone in 2002, but it has no copy and paste.

Find me a thread on any forum, anywhere, complaining about the quality of video playback on the iPhone. Now try the same search on the Touch HD (there are plenty on this site for starters). The fact is, the numbers and screen specs are meaningless when video is effortless and superb on the iPhone, and troublesome and dissapointing on the HD.

So in other words, there's nothing much in it but the iPhone's easier to use? Yeah, I think that was my point too.

No, it's really not. Not unless you're 14 (and even then you'd have to be a pretty backwards 14). Trust me.

You're out of date, Apple lifted the restriction on ringtones ages ago, and it's the work of moments to put your own "custom" ringtones in itunes without paying a penny (and no it doesn't involve jailbreaking or anything like that). It's just a fact that most grown-ups don't bother.

If you were in anyway familiar with the standard of games on the iPhone, you wouldn't even be questioning this point. You don't have to be a fanboy to appreciate something that works superbly well, and games on the iphone are superb. Varied too - I don't know what you mean by "graphics violence" exactly, but the Appstore isn't short on ANY genre - puzzle, strategy, it's all there.

So why does the converter tool in the thread I linked to include SD settings?

Yeah, jeez, I know, pressing that ONE BUTTON to exit the app and go to the home screen is such a drag isn't it? So time consuming, and not at all intuitive - I often find myself searching around for that one single button, amongst all the other buttons that don't exist.

Itunes is fine, a simple way to organise music and video and get it on the phone, or more if you want it. Multimedia on the phone itself, that's masterly.

You've never seriously used an iPhone, have you? Did you pick up a 2G model a year ago or something?

So now WinMo is playing the "well you don't need to do that on a phone" card? I thought that was supposed to be Apple's excuse, and WM was the platform that let you do anything you wanted?

The iPhone is a mobile phone, but it's also a very credible portable gaming device, and the games industry is increasingly taking it (and the iPod touch) very seriously.

Yes, a vast array of useful apps. I know they're there, I use many of them.

Yes. Have you seen how many times WM users mention ibeer, ifart, and flashlight as if having some naff/fun apps can negate an entire software platform? Trust me, it's ridiculous.

Not true. Without jailbreaking (or spending hardly any money either) my iPhone currently sports the following:

Spreadsheet editing

Rich text editing

Encrypted password management

E-reader

Voice recorder

Twitter

Facebook

Wiki search

Blog editor

Voice-activated Google search

Live UK traffic reports

Live UK rail departure/arrivals info for any UK station

MSN/Yahoo messenger

TV Guide (including remote Sky+ setting)

Bloomberg live stocks/news

Doodle/note jotter

Movie listings for any cinema (complete with trailers etc)

Live football scores

Last.fm internet music streaming (intelligently matched to my own tastes)

Exchange Tasks, Notes, Out-of-office setting

Smart dialler

vCard sending

MMS

Seadragon mobile (not useful as such, but interesting to see what Microsoft would like to be doing in the mobile medium)

I've not even touched on the games I've got installed, and I've not scratched the surface of the other serious (and not so serious) 10,000+ apps in the Appstore either, these are just what suits me.

Email, or now MMS, either one suits me fine.

No, actually the whole point is I've never needed to hotswap a microSD in my life, or even coldswap for that matter once it's installed, and it takes a man to admit that. I'll go further, I'll bet that the majority of posters here don't need to hotswap a microSD card - it's pretty telling that the person here who thought it was a good boast against the iPhone had to test to see if it worked first. Why? Because they'd never ordinarily do it!

We all know the theory, we're all told that having swappable memory cards is a great thing, and we all ignore the reality that about 98% of us install the biggest card we can afford when we get a new device, and then leave it there. The only real benefit of removable media is to the manufacturers, since they can flog cheaper phones without having to pre-install the memory people need to actually use most of their features.

It's a nuisance, and Apple's reasoning is pretty mysterious, but I already have a WM device that just about manages TomTom, so it's not a problem for me personally. I suspect the iPhone mk3 will come packed with some serious built-in solution, and WM's market share will crumble still further.