[Touch HD General] fallenczar:
@maati

went through your reply of steve's post.

well, i must say that i was disappointed by the flimsy "excuses" (for the lack of a better term) you gave to defend the HD.

Here's a classic example that i always give - try adding more than 2 (or is it 1??) mobile phone with the correct category (Mobile) on your HD and see WM, an "Enterprise" OS flat on its face.

and in case you are wondering why the cat. is important, WM uses(or used to use it) it to automatically input the number in the "To" column of an sms in the messaging app.

Again, if we were to follow your lead in defending the HD, then all platforms are equal, since all of them have an internet browser, and can pretty much do all the things.

Again, your assertion that MS is pushing forward with Windows Phone 7 is contrary to the evidence that is available (wasn't WP7 supposed to be realised in 09 and now has been pushed to 10??)

Hoping that development of WP platform will be faster once WP7 is released is also nothing more than wishful thinking. Just to give an example WM app store charges a developer 99$ /yr/5 apps compared to Apples app store 99/one time/unlimited.

The SDK of WM is not free compared to the freely downloadable SDK of iPhone (and yes, even though you are require a Mac to run it, its still cheaper than the price of WM SDK)

Your assertion that iPhone 3GS will be obsolete within a few months is, well bizarre.

The ARM Cortex A8 processor used in the GS is about twice as fast as the ARM 11 based tegra at the same clock rate.So yes a tegra 1.2Ghz processor will be as fast as the OAMP-3 cortex 8 600Mhz proc. in the GS (btw, apple are known to underclock there proc. to save battery)

The only, area in which the iphone will be obsolete, is the screen resolution and probably lack of OLED/AMOLED (HTC will for Sure NOT release device with OLED/AMOLED) but then i'd rather have a phone that i can read under direct sunlight than have a wvga screen.

Which brings me to, the Love of WVGA screen displayed on this forum.

Honestly speaking, apart from internet, what all software's support WVGA natively??

i should know, i have a Universal, one of the first VGA devices, and the software support was abysmal.

maati, you should know better than anyone else that a poorly coded software can bring a fast system to a grinding halt, while an optimized and well coded software can squeeze the last drop out of the system.

i honestly believe, that MS and its stooges are only interested in adding bullet points to there software / Hardware, without wanting to optimize and test what they are doing.

Does anyone remember the windows updater (or whatever its called) application and service that made its début in WM6, till date, not even a single OEM uses it!! (and it was a copy of Symbians OTA FW updater)

Apple, on the other hand will always be 'Spec challenged", but they will test out and optimize whatever they are doing, so that the end user gets the best experience, case in point, the Tap to focus feature, why has no one thought till date that it should be you who should decide what should be in focus and not the biggest/most prominent/ object in the centre of the view ???