[HD2 General] Xzeven:
Shirreer is indeed correct. There are people/professionals out there who sell services, offering their clients SEO/SEM and sometimes a bit of product bashing & Promoting on Forums if the need arises. It's a pretty common freelance job, often offered in UK/Irl/US at People per hour etc. It's nothing new. That doesn't mean its the case here, more than likely just a few moaners, but it does happen. Anyhooo thats just me validating Shirreer's point :)

I have to say though, there has been a sudden and major push by reviewers and reporters to make Windows Mobile look bad in the last 1-2 months, not they weren't before, its just worse than usual recently....hmmm. WM has it's flaws, lots of them, has been that way for a long time, I just don't understand the sudden resurgence of hate against it.

I don't often blab on about a point, but with all the flaming and negativity Im tired of all these threads, so I thought I might,here goes...

Personally I'm somewhat agnostic when it comes to Mobile OS's, since it is my job (or sadly WAS till a few months ago...recession and what not) to work with all platforms. I can tell you first hand WM was a pain, but no more a pain than Symbian or Apple, even Android. Every device & OS has its pluses AND minuses, that will always be so...after all if it wasn't, OS developers would never make money developing the next inevitable version, now would they :D

WM6.5 is a good enough OS. It, like is predecessor/s, has plenty of problems, flaws,foibles and fiddly bits. But unlike other OS's in my experience, it's almost endlessly tweak-able, mod-able, & fixable and has a massive software knowledgeable community behind it, even if that means breaking a few rules and licenses, be thankful MS turns a blind eye to it for the most part. That's something Google and especially Apple would never allow. Also remember WinMo a.k.a. WinCE and its developers, have been around many many years now, longer than certain others :)

WM5/6 are not simple OS's and really are suited for us tweakers and us XDA-Dev patriots... if your the type of person who likes to build a custom PC yourself, likes to buy a car and inspect the engine before purchase, like to change the background & screen saver on your PC/Mac/Linux computer, likes to peel off the annoying stickers you find on a laptop, like to eat different food at different restaurants sometimes because repetitiveness is boring, then WM6 is for you.

However if your the type of person who has concreted over a beautiful rose garden 'cause keeping it is too complicated, has never cooked your own food, turned on a dishwasher to wash 1 plate "because doing dishes is messy work", paid more to book a holiday from a street agent because booking on the interwebs is too much work (despite being cheaper) then WinMo 5/6 are not for you, stick with Symbian (Nokia mostly) or iPhone, or even Android. That is until WM7 comes around, if the hype is to be believed it will be THE OS to have, and more...user-friendly.

So lets just stop all this silly flaming. Its not doing anyone any good. Most people here are owners of the Leo/HD2 and should be very VERY proud of their purchase, the phone is probably one of the first proper mobile devices for the general consumer we've seen in a long time and it will be a loooong long time yet, and a hell of a lot of work, before another device will ever break that wow barrier which the Leo/HD2 has achieved and the now old (and boring?) iPhone achieved a time ago.

XDA-Developers should be just that about Development and constructive forums...not flaming. I dont mind the criticism a device gets as long as its constructive criticism and logical not irrational blabbing and flaming, please leave that for some other teen site and youtube :)

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Thumbs up, oh and lol :D