[HD2 General] maati:
OK, first of all, let me say that I've owned an iPhone 3G for quite some time, before switching back to Windows Mobile with the HTC Touch HD. I know what I'm talking about.

I do not agree with most of the points made by the OP.

Let's see...

First of all: Yes, the HD2 has crossed a certain line. Maybe they should have used a 4" screen and made it a bit smaller.

But the iPhone is not easier to operate with one hand at all. Because of the smaller screen and lower resolution, you have to use the pinch to zoom gestures more often on the iPhone, and this can't be done with one hand.

Moreover, the iPhone is a lot easier to drop on the floor accidentally. Because of the much better materials used for the HD2, it doesn't slip out of your hands as easily. The overall build quality of the HD2 is also much much better - the iPhone really feels cheap in comparison.

Not at all.

In my opinion, the HD2's UI, just as the Android or webOS UI, is really way ahead of the iPhone's.

The iPhone UI consists of just a launcher screen with stupid buttons that do nothing except for launching apps and displaying numbers. There's no possibility of getting importand information directly, without launching the apps that contain it. Any information is typically 1-3 clicks away on the iPhone, whereas on Windows Mobile and other OSs, you can see what matters to you immediately when you turn the device on.

Another thing is the way it deals with notifications. Windows Mobile, Android and all the others have well thought out concepts for dealing with all kinds of notifications, be it missed calls, mails, RSS feeds, IM messages, warnings or whatever. On WM, you can choose how to deal with notifications or put them into notification areas to deal with them later and you get everything in one area (that is, when you tap the top bar, or pull it down on Android). The iPhone has nothing like that, which makes it really really bad as a communications device.

So for me, the UI of Windows Mobile, even without Sense (because Sense is just like the standard UI with bigger buttons), like the UIs of Android and webOS, are really light years ahead of what you find on the iPhone.

The iPhone's UI may be easy to use at first, but you reach its limitations very fast, like the missing concept for notifications, missing settings, missing options of displaying information and so on, as soon as you've reached those limitations, the iPhone is a pain to use - and I say it's so limited that really lots of users get annoyed by the limitations sooner or later, most of them just don't know that there's better UI concepts on other OSs out there.

Bull****. Complete and utter bull****. It's exactly the same.

If you have to repeatedly do any gestures, it's just you not being able to use it properly. This happens on the iPhone as well and just as often.

LOL at that. No, really. Windows Mobile's copy&paste feature is just so far ahead... the c&p feature on the iPhone feels like it's been implemented within three hours at night after the Apple programmers got home from some party - drunk.

That's personal preference, but I personally find it much better than the iPhone one.

BIG win for the HD2 there! It supports landscape mode, which is important for lots of people who use it in the car. The iPhone does not.

Let's look at it the other way round: WM's heritage is it's HUGE advantage! Because it is still BY FAR the most powerful operating system for a smartphone.

Building a new UI is easy, but implementing all the thousands of features that WM has over the iPhone is not.

So IF Microsoft finally wakes up (and I think they already did), they have a HUGE advantage over Apple, because they have the much better technologies.

Unfortunately, MS has waited a bit too long and let the others catch up quite a bit - but they've still got far more powerful technology and they just have to make use of it.

There's more than 30,000 applications for Windows Mobile available! Including 'superb games' and pretty much all the same stuff that you find in the iPhone app store.

Just because you don't have them in your Marketplace doesn't mean they are not there.

And this is not all: There's HUGE amount of applications that are not available on the iPhone, or not unless you jailbreak it, because Apple doesn't allow them - e.g. Google Voice, Emulators, alternative media players that can play any file format and so on.

And that's still true today, nothing has changed there.

Not true.

If you jailbreak an iPhone, you get the basic features that WM has OUT OF THE BOX.

If you hack a WM device, you get A LOT MORE that you'll NEVER be able to get on an iPhone.

At least you can buy as many miroSD cards as you like, you can take them out if you don't have a cable and you can take multiple cards with you.

And apropos cable: The iPhone still has that crappy proprietary port and no USB storage mode, still needs that buggy iTunes software.

The HD2 can be plugged in wherever, whenever you want with microUSB cables that you'll soon find everywhere and without proprietary software that doesn't allow you to copy to/from your device whatever you want.