[Touch HD General] maati:
The following statements only reflect MY needs/usage pattern/opinion, as I said that I do not miss anything on the Touch HD and it does everything I need, unlike the iPhone.

GENERAL USAGE

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

The Touch HD definitely runs more quickly, just as reliably but also less smoothly.

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

As someone asked before: Is it always adequate? I say NO.

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.

I never ever use the stylus, except for the calibration and for note-taking, which is, by the way, an advantage of the Touch HD.

HARDWARE

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

The lack of a hardware call button is definitely a disadvantage, as it takes a lot longer to make calls (unlock phone, go into phone, then to the dialer, this is three clicks vs. one on WinMo).

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

That never happened to me.

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

That never happened to me either.

By the way: There's lots of free lock screen apps for WinMo, and you can even turn them off or uninstall them if (like me) you don't need a lock screen :)

MULTI-MEDIA

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

The new HTC Album is just as smooth.

2. It can play music without occasional stutters.

That never happened to me on the Touch HD, whereas the iPhone did stutter sometimes.

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

Totally wrong. The iPhone can only play .mp4 video, which plays even more smoothly on the Touch HD. Furthermore, you can play other video files as well without having to recode transform them via iTunes.

4. It It can directly download free movies and musics without requiring any PC.

Err - the Touch HD does that as well, and it even lets you transform the downloaded files to the PC afterwards, without iTunes.

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

Wow. I guess doing that on the Touch HD would not be that hard.

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)

Wow. As I said before: Yes, some iPhone apps are better, but there's nothing that I really need. Music ID is totally sufficient for me.

7. Besides music identification, I can take a picture of a book, CD, or DVD, and get the prices from major retailers so that I get the best bargain.

The Touch HD does that as well. Again, the iPhone apps are better, but I'm not missing anything on the HD.

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

The Touch HD does that as well. There's several apps for that on WinMo.

9. Specialised applications to upload and share pictures and video on sites such as photobucket, facebook, friendster, flickr, and hundreds of other sites effortlessly.

I've never done that, so I won't comment on that one.

VOIP

1. It can provides much clearer, echo free conversation over wifi as well as over 3G, without having to use a headset.

Never done that as well.

GOLFING SOFTWARE (GOLF CARD ON IPHONE VS MOBILE GOLF SCORER ON WINMO)

1. GC lets me add as many players as I want per round, even after the round has started. MGS can't.

2. GC lets me play the first nine twice, or second nine twice, and to change my mind even after score recording has started. MGS can't.

3. GC lets me delete a player in the middle of the round if a friend decides to quit halfway. MGS can't.

I don't care about golfing software, I guess most people don't care about that.

BLOOMBERG APPLICATION

1. It can give me free bloomberg application. The same application on winmo requires subscription.

BANKING AND FINANCE APPLICATIONS

1. I can find many internet banking applications released by banks for the iPhone, but not for winmo devices.

2. Simmilar, organizations such as eBay, Paypal have released iPhone based applications to use their services. On winmo devices, these would have to be done using generic web browser.

What's wrong with a generic web browser? Most of the apps are too limited, so I'd use the web browser anyway. By the way, I like Opera a lot better than Safari.

USING LEXISGOO DICTIONARY

1.The iPhone version can translate from any language to any other language. This feature is not in the winmo version.

I don't know Lexisgoo dictionary, but what's wrong with google translate?

Again, I know some of the iPhone apps are better, but I don't care because almost everything can be done in the browser almost as fast and often with more possibilities.

READING EBOOKS USING WATTPAD

1. It can search for and download free ebooks directly to iPhone.

Interesting - I do that on the Touch HD as well...

BETTER WEATHER APPLICATIONS

1. It can automatically use the GPS location to search for the nearest weather station and add that into the database.

Why would I need that? Most of the time, I know where I am.

2. It provides animated radar for that area.

There's apps for that on WinMo as well. Hovewer, I don't need that, too.

3. It can give me camera captured picture of the snowfield

Don't need that :)

4. It can tell me if the snowfield is open or close that day.

Opera Mobile can tell me that, too.

5. It can give me the snowfield's trail map.

Err - well, I don't need that :) but I guess Opera could do this as well.

6. It can tell me how many lifts are in operation

Again, Opera can tell me that, too.

7. It can tell me if the airport is open or close.

?

BETTER WAY TO SEARCH FOR MOVIES AND RELATED DVD

1.It let me look for theaters around me, and tell me what movies are on today and also upcoming.

Opera can do that, too.

2.It plays the trailers of the movies to help me decide if I'm interested in it.

I guess all the trailers are on youtube, too...

3.It tells me what DVD related to those movies I can buy, how much it cost, and where to get them, and bring me directly to the site (e.g. amazon) selling that DVD.

That's perhaps a bit faster than Opera, but nothing that the HD can't do.

EMAIL

1. It can display HTML mails correctly.

That's a bit inconvenient on WinMo, but possible, and I don't need that ayways, the text is enough.

2. Using Group Mail application, I can send the same mail to a predefined group of people (e.g. all my golfing buddies) without having to enter mail address individually.

Never tried that, but are you sure WinMo can't do this? I bet it can.

TRAVELLING

1. It can show me live web camera for traffic, so that I can decide which way to take or to avoid.

There's no live traffic webcams where I live, so this is useless for me. I wouldn't use it anyway.

2. I can find many free bus and tube/train guide for many cities (such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney). Given point of origina and destination, it tells me how to get there. Similar applications on winmo are hard to find or expensive.

No, similar applications on WinMo are free, like for example Metro (which was not that hard to find).

3. It can help me look for specific type of restaurant in specified price bracket, and bring me there.

That's nice, I tought I'd use that when I bought the iPhone, but I never did.

NEWS APPLICATIONS

1. I can find many news related applications on iPhone, e.g., Channel News Asia, Wall Streets Journal, and ABC which provide not just the news, but also photos and videos.

RSS reader is enough for me, I can't read any more news than my 100+ RSS channels I subscribed to. Don't know why I would want even more news applications.

WIDE VARIETY OF REFERENCES, INSTRUCTIONS, AND EDUCTIION SOFTWARE

1. Lots of recipe application. If I like a recipe, it automatically create shopping list for me.

2. Exercise instructions, first aid/medica instructions, dancing instructions, golf swing instructions, information on drinks/wines/cocktails.

3. Really nice Television guides.

4. Specialised sporting results applications on all kinds of sports.

There's lots of apps for that on WinMo, too. Not as much as on the iPhone probably, but definitely enough for me.

GAMES

1. Extremely fast graphics.

2. Multitouch, so you can play guitar hero type of games where you may have to touch more than one place simultaneously.

I don't care about games at all.

Again, this is only what I use/need. Also, please don't argue that the iPhone does some of the things better or some apps are better, because I only said there's nothing that the HD can't do. I didn't talk about how fast it does everything, but at least I can say it does everything fast enough for me so that I don't need an iPhone and I can enjoy the freedoms of Windows Mobile.