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By chance (yeah right) I also did some tests comparing front-ends and OS...

I don't want to belittle the "evaluation" of other people (even people that have no idea what they are talking about - don't speak for anybody in particular), I just have my own "semi-experienced" opinion (I have more than 10 years with microsoft -and other- mobile devices, way before it was "fashion"). I hope people value it. Better ask a meteorologist about the weather not the weather girl from evening news. Just saying.

1. Android is nice, but I find myself using it just for the nice games available for it. Nothing that I REALLY love in Android and miss in WM6.5.3. Android is more flexible than iPhone OS, yet iPhone OS is smoother (but what is iPhone OS? A set of shortcuts :D).

2. WP7 (there is no WiMo7 btw...). Saw it both in beta (in WPC this year in DC) and final. Really nice. Smooth, smart (maybe too smart). Also Microsoft realized that with entertainment you DO get in a manager's pocket more easily (see iPhone). But that's all. Not a "real OS". All functions I like and need, are not there. It's clearly a consumer device at least for now. Ah, WP7 of course doesn't look AT ALL AND IN ANY WAY same as ANY iPhone OS. In fact I don't think it looks like anything else. Some people (me included) just say WP7 is like iPhone 1, because of it's limited functionality, lack of copy-paste etc. ...but doesn't look ANYTHING like iPhone. I don't think anybody that has really seen (let alone used) the two OSes would ever say otherwise. :p;)

3. CHT 2.0.0 (final not beta). Great! Way better AND way faster than 1.8.5. Cookie sure did his optimizing but added like a thousand features. Remember CHT also runs fine on much slower devices (like my Touch Pro). CHT (and Sternas has already said that himself) is a huge project, it's like Sense-from-scratch. If someone uses CHT don't forget the new add-ins and esp. the great CHTSheduler which replaced buggy commercial solutions for me and my trusty (but obsolete unfortunatelly) CommMgrPro. I have no doubt if a CHT 3 comes out, it will be total replacement of all Sense, something that can in fact start even from today since now Cookie has a more clear plug-in "API".

4. Artemis. Nice, clean build, way better from stock. As long as it stays FAR from adding bells and whistles not all people like and remains close to "stock" feeling, it will be my custom OS of choice. (for example I don't understand why Sternas would make his own half-baked -sorry- solution for screen auto-rotation when there are way better freewares he could include in his ROM). A Greek makes it and that gets an additional vote from me. ;) It will get one more vote when he ditches X2 (which btw seems obsolete as nobody develops it any more). Basically it sucks. Sternas is very good at solving problems (better than I expected) but most of the times does it silently (in next version). I might have like less frequent but more elaborate builds, but he still manages ok. He is a good cook. A Master Chef. :p

Artemis + CHT2. Nice. It's like not having HD2 any more, but HD3. :D

This is my opinion. I just felt I should post it. It was just an impulse. :cool::p

I have one saying though: Always use YOUR OWN eyes.