[General Topics] airwave45:
I'm 44.

I travel too much

I run up phone bills that make me weep (and I'm good at what I do, so I'm not broke)

(this may be long, but there is a point)

WinMo, I've been using it on and off since WinMo5. the times I have been using it. It has put a smile on my face, done what I wanted it to do. been as responsive as I need, and generally helped me to be who I am now.

That is not overstating things, WinMo has made finding 'contacts' and getting 'the job done' possible, when I have been stressed and tired and lost.

It is not overstating things to say that the software has kept my life going the way I would wish, purely because it does what it says it will do.

to give you a little background (caveat, if this comes across as 'look at me!' it really is not posted for that reason and I apologise profusely in advance if it comes across as such) I'm well into the second half of a bottle of whisky :).

I have been in over 100 countries in the last 3 years, I have been 'lost' so many times I have lost count. my life keeps running because I can get who I want, to do what I want, purely by getting them on the single piece of technology that can do that for me, my mobile. (cell, whatever, for the non brit reader)

In singapore a few years ago, I was organising a project to get some scrap metal we owned to generate 30k usd/ day for us. I was using an HP WinMo 5 (8282?) phone at the time.

It was a beast, everyone I had called or who had called me in the last 2 weeks showed up on the display as I needed,things happened, things got done. the phone saved my life on that project.

easy to use

easy to understand

just excellent.

Then a disaster of mini proportions screwed me up for a few years, I was 'Sim Swapping' and managed to loose the UK sim I used as a primary, I called the TelCo and told them I'd lost the Sim, they cancelled the IMEI code on the phone . . . . bugger.

Came back to the UK, spoke to my boy (who I love dearly, but, he's a bit of a 'macophyle') decided to buy an N95. (so as to not look like such a useless 'old' fart in front of him)

used that for a year, apart from the nav functions, which really are great ! it was crap.

'upgraded' to an N96, hell, it was worse than the N95, less battery, less keyboard, less screen. absolute rubbish (IMHO)

on traveling down to the present work destination (Qatar) nice place if you like sand . . . . and dust . . . . and heat . . . and humidity . . .and dust . . and sand . . . and deciding 'ferk it! my life,my choices, back to WinMo . . ' I bought a HTC HD.

It was like a weight off my shoulders. here I was, shiny toy in hand, and it did absolutely everything I wanted it to. my entire contact list was there after 1 sync. all the functions that I wanted were there, and the 'there' was where I expected them to be.

I can not express simply how relieved I was or how happy I was at being back in an environment which I 'understood' which 'just worked'.

Now that you have the background, the rant . . . (you should have known it was coming, I did tell you)

I _am_ that person the platform developers are targeting. I _do_ the round the world things they glamourise. I _feel_ the pressure to get an iPoop, and I'm absolutely ferked if I will !

Having made the mistake once of going to S60 I'm buggered if I'll screw it up again by going to OS X.

The real part of the rant is the small bit at the bottom (here)

WinMo is really really really good at getting what I want done. I am the guy you have in the adverts, I am the guy who lives at the 'edge' (i flew hanggliders for 16 years and teach people how to fly in my time off now) and yet.

and yet.

and yet.

I feel pressured by my family to move to what I know is an inferior OS by didnt of a vastly superior advertising campaign by a vastly inferior OS.

Why oh why oh why does microsoft have such a crap marketing department?

The product (WinMo) really really is good. why are they so far behind the iPoop lot?

The Win 7 brigade are doing a fab job of 'underground' marketing for something which is also excelent and mainstream, please, just a little attention to WinMo, which is such a good platform, and round here, just phenomenal.

rant over

BUT! WinMo execs! ffs get it together. great product! Great hardware ! ferkin rubbish marketing.

The 'macophyles' are getting damp panties at 'voice activation' (we've had it for donkeys) 'cut and paste' oh ffs, please, this has been around since the 7o's and now it 'hip and trendy' ?

marketing, get your sh1t sorted . . . . .