[neoTouch S200 ROM Development] pongothemagnificent:
For the past four years i have been using windows mobile, i started back with my trusty motorola mpx200 with windows mobile 2002 standard yes you hear it right, after that i discovered that i could flash windows mobile 2003 and i said YES but how can i do it?, after that i submerge my self into understanding almost everything there was to know about my mpx200 flashing procedure and oh wow was i impressed, it completely blew my mind away knowing that i could FLASh my phone and change it OS almost like a computer and so after wm2003, i found a windows mobile 5 update and so i flash it and after a wile it was cool but i started to get bored of my mpx200, so i started reading about its brother the mpx220 and so i went and bought it used of ebay just like my mpx200, but omg when i got it in my hands i was so disappointed it had a smaller screen it was ugly as hell, AND I COULDN'T FLASH IT!!! that drive me NUTS!, but i said oh well il use it what the hell', after a couple of months i started reading about another smartphone the htc tornado(this was my first htc phone) and i went on and bought it yet again used form ebay =], and when i got oh wow the screen the size everything was perfect and guess what i could FLASH IT YES! and so my quest of flashing my tornado started flashing from winmo6.0 to winmo professional 6.5(at the very end of me having it), after that i decided i need a more powerfull phone, so i went on researching for a cheap pocket pc and so i found the htc blueangel, and i said i WANT IT, it was touchscreen a 400mhz cpu i said o yeah me want it NOW!, and so i bought for 60$ on ebay used LOLL ahahaha i love ebay :P, and well when i got it i was amazed it was so powerfull(for me atleast at that time) i went on and flashed 10000 roms =], and everything was well for a couple of months until i got tired of its dull screen and overall humongous size =D, then i said damn i need yet another phone and so i discovered the HTC Raphael, i said omg its got my name i want it! =), but there was a problem it was the priciest of them all 300$ used and i said damn thats to much for me, but i went on using my trusty brickangel , at that time i was unemployed and i was looking for a job and os i found one but still i was making enough to buy the htc raphael , but i remember that my older bro once said that if i found a job he would buy me a phone of my choosing, and so i told him yo bro i want this phone get it for me ahahaha( i was joking to him, i was going to save money and buy it), but guess what one day i come home and there it was in from of my laptop the most beautiful and elegant looking phone i had own till then, it was amazing everything was perfect about the screen/keyboard/ram etc(except for the slugish msm7201a it had it hated it) so again i flashed my phone like a maniac but in time i just couldn't stand its sluggishness, and so i started yet another quest for looking another more powerfull pocketpc, and so one day i was checking the General Section of xda and i found a post by hdubli "Acer s200 ask anything" and so i click on it and there it was the most beautiful stylish power pocket pc i had ever WANTED!!, it was simply amazing, i couldn't wait till i got it in my hands, and so i started saving money like a mother F**** =D, until one day i had saved 500$ which was what i need to buy my self the amazing Acer s200, so i bought it 2day air shipping, got it four days alter the ebay store raped me =[, but w/e i finally got it started using it and i just couldn't believe it, it was fast as HELLL! i mean it dint felt like i was using a windows mobiel phone it felt like something else, and so i said to my self damn i got a powerfull pocket pc but no roms to flash =[, but to my surprised i saw a post by hdubli stating he started experimenting with the acer s200 and so he manage to cook a custom rom and i said YES!! custom roms for me wooohoo!, and so few weeks later 23505 vanilla was out and i flash it, and damn was i impressed, everything was perfect exept for the damn wake up issues that started poping everywere on the acer s200 scene, but oh well i had to live it, so i decided to contact harshal to see if he could let me beta test his roms and so he said yes, so i started testing his roms for a wile everytime wanting to get my hands drity but he kept on saying he dint wanted to share his kitchen cause there was no fail save flasher yet, but few days later there was a russian rom update and so dimice made a hacked acer_euu.exe which enable us to flash withough active sync, so he shared his kitchen i downloaded and from this point my rom cooking addcition started i started to learn a lot from harshal, and i mean a lot he taught me almost everything i know about rom cooking(thanks harshal for this) and so i started to read a lot about rom cooking, and decided to make a public rom, so Black Neo beta was born, had a lot of sitback but i had to learn from trial and error, and so v1.0 came then 2.0,2.7(by this time i released my ktichen) and finally 3.0 also around here unforseenenemy jump into the acer s200 rom cooking scene( i taught him =]), after this 3.0 version, i decided to start a new line of roms 'Rosso Relativo" which i only have released an almost final beta, and now braze your self's for what im about to say, after a few days of working on the rom and thinking a lot about the windows mobile scene and the release of windows phone 7 series, i have given it a LOT of though, from this day on im resigning from the acer s200 rom cooking scene or let me put it this way i will not cook as much maybe 1 release every 9 months who knows, you maybe thinking why? well honestly i cant stand windows mobile anymore, im tired of its 2d UI, its everyday freeze ups and overall inestability i have stand up to it for far to long(more than 4 years), i no longer enjoy cooking roms for my acer s200,even tho builds are released almost constantly, its just the same every single time nothing changes(exept for 6.5.3) but regardless windows mobile 6.5/6.5.3 builds are just minor updates each time, most of these current winmo devices are capable of a much more rich UI with there open gl ES capable Onboard GPUs, and still they have a 6 years old kernel UI, for these and many other reasons i have decided to sell my acer s200 and buy my self am acer liquid, yes i know android is not perfect but for now its exactly what i want of an Mobile Operating system, i have used it before and i enjoy a LOT more than windows mobile...guys im so sorry if i let some of you down, im really really sorry but i just cant stand windows mobile anymore...and dont worry guys i taught unforseenenemy rom cooking and trust me he knows almost everything i know or maybe more, support his roms as his the best rom cooker after me, with this i also want to take time to thank people that donated, you guys help me a lot with my bills, i couldn't have done it withough you guys and for that you have my eternal gratitude and no i dont forget everyone else that supported my work and said nice things about my work, you guys made my rom cooking a joy =], so guys again im sorry if i let anyone down but i just cant go on with windows mobile, i might come back when wp7 releases i don't know, well see what happens.

Sincerly...Rafyvitto

PS: Windows Mobile will always have a place in my heart :P