[HD2 General] mystik610:
We can pick at individual apps and functions between the phones all day to make one phone better than the other. Internet Radio and media? Games? Sure the iPhone wins. (and these are the primary reasons I kept my iPhone, other than the fact that I need a separate line). But there are aspects of the HD2 that vastly out perform the iPhone

There are a lot of things that are easier and better on the iPhone, but there are also a lot of things that are pointlessly complicated or impossible to do on it as well.

Exchange support on the iPhone? Used it for 6 months. Pathetic.

Mobile Office on the iPhone? Laughable.

Half-decent Calendar with alerts on the iPhone? Psht.

Having to use iTunes to load a damn file? Downright idiotic.

Having a real file system? Keep dreaming.

Attaching a file in an e-mail on the iPhone? Like pulling teeth.

Flash on the iPhone? You'll never see it.

The point is, there are weak and strong points to both OS's. You put yourself on a soap-box for having a 2 sided argument, but your arguments were one-sided both in content and in your attitude. If you were really trying to form a two sided argument, you should address the strengths and weaknesses of both, in a respectful tone. If you followed the flow of the thread, you would see that most (not all) were doing side by side comparisons of strenghts and flaws of both.

And the whole concept of the iPhone was copied from Windows Mobile. Apple hardly ever wins points for originality.

I'm not a fan of the WP7, but I wouldn't call it a carbon copy of the iPhone...Android is akin to that. Contrarily, it seems that windows is trying to differentiate itself from the iPhones interface, as is evidenced by the prominence of the 'live tiles' as opposed to Apple's 'spring board' (ripped off from Palm anyway).

Its inevitible that comparisons between the HD2 and the iPhone arise, and that people start to benchmark the two against each other....especially when T-mobile is marketing it as a competitor to the iPhone and offering trade-ins.

Apple has done a lot to push mobile technology forward with the iPhone...but they've also lost the 'mobile PC' roots and have caused mobile technology to regress is someways too. At the end of the day (and I've made this point before) WM and the iPhone stem from very different philosophies and serve very different purposes. As a , functional, mobile PC, business/power user's device, the HD2 performs beautifully. As an entertainment, multi-media device, the iPhone performs beautifully.

A lot of complaints stem from people who stand to benefit very little from the HD2. It's the equivalent to someone buying a Corvette and complaining that it only has two seats. As great of a car as the Corvette is, if you have no need to go 0-60 in under four seconds, and you have a lot of need for more than two seats, it would be a terrible choice of car for you! I made a comparison of windows mobile and osx to manual and automatic transmission cars earlier in the thread. If you don't know how to drive stick and aren't willing to learn, don't buy a manual transmission car and complain about how having to shift gears is too bothersome for you. And complaining about how complicated WM is on XDA DEVELOPERS is the equivalent to complaining about having only 2 seats in a Corvette forum!