[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Hi saminegm,

Thanks for your thoughtful, calm, and rational reply. Your comments are in brown and mine replies in blue.

1) It can run more quickly, reliably, responsively, and smoothly.

My HD is reliable, responsive and smooth (Miris ROM)

2) It can provide consistent user interface across all applications.

True. But is it ALWAYS adequate?

3) I can use finger all the way, and not having to pull out the stylus when the final application is evoked by the front end launcher.

True. And you cant you use a stylus if you want to. Make a few handwritten notes with your finger on your iPhone....

No matter which ROM is it, it will never be as quick, reliable, responsive, and smooth as the iPhone. You may have to use iPhone for a while and go back to winmo to instantly know it. I've tried enough cooked ROM to know it.

I suppose most things can be argued to be adequate and therefore to be accepted. A year ago, when there is no option, I'd accept it. Today, with iPhone, Palm Pre and Android platform available, do I still need to put up with it? That's for each of us to consider individually.

I also thought before that I must use the stylus, especially to write out Asian characters. Now, I often use my finger to write out such characters. It's a piece of cake. I can do it for English letters too, but iPhone keyboard is too excellent for me to want to use that method.

HARDWARE

1) It can prevent unintentional making of calls since there is no green phone hardware button.

PocketShield

2) It can prevent unintentional rejecting of calls when trying to take it out of my pocket.

PocketShield

3) It let's you hold it without having to worry about accidentally touching the hardware button.

PocketShield

Agree it will address the first two points,, but don't agree that it will help the third problem. In the third case, I may be using another application while accidentially touch the hardware button. In iPhone's case, you can never accidentally touch the button because the home button is concave, and is not touch sensitive. Therefore you can safely hold any where at the bottom of the phone, unlike in HD.

MULTI-MEDIA

1. It can smoothly and quickly scroll the thumbnail pages of photos with no lag or delay, using gestures alone.

True.

2. It can play music without occasional stutters.

I dont have stutters on my HD at all. And I am not tied to iTunes and a PC or Mac to get my files on the phone.

I'm also not tied to PC or Mac to get my files on the phone.

3. It can play video without frame drop, and without having to spend months tweaking it.

Well... there is a free tool here at devs which takes you two clicks to convert a dvd. Most files work without converting anyway.

But... why you want to watch video files on an iPhone with that low resolution?

It looks sensational on my iPhone if the video has that high a resolution to start with.

5. It can hide sensitive movies and pictures making it completely hidden from prying eyes.

Hmm... I can hide my whole phone. And there are tons of applications to encrypt files for WinMo

6. Shazam can do things which Music id can't.(e.g., Save all the tags I've made. After identification, let me either buy it from iTune or play the same music video from youtube)

Dont know about that.

Here is how it works:

8. Edit photos after taking it on the device without PC (e.g, Noise reduction, change contrast, change brightness, etc)

Good, but how do you tell if you editing is good with that resolution? Besides... What is the reason for editing? A 2 MB camera maybe?

3GS has higher resolution. Yes, you can see a big difference before saving the changes.