[General Topics] theGanymedes:
Confused...

Hi there guys..

I'm planning to buy either one of these PDA's and I'm quite in dilemma in here. I don't have much experience on neither Windows Mobile nor Android.

I'm a senior university student in here (Turkey) on Computer and Educational Technologies. I'm an amateur computer programmer and planning to go on on this major. I'm also planning to go ahead in the area of mobile software development. This is why I'm quite confused which PDA to buy... I'll both learn to develop for this PDA and will also use it as my portable device.

As a portable device, since I'm a student, I'm quite in need of a PDA which can read and edit Office Documents, play MP3 and/or other media formats, display e-books (pdf, etc.), send-recieve e-mail's efficiently (actually push-mail can be quite of use here) and have Wireless access. I'm not planning to heavily use 3G or EDGE, but since campus has free wireless access, I'll be using Wireless internet a lot. Also, since a few my courses are requiring online-participation, web browsing quality is also important (flash support etc.). I'm also planning to use PDA to remote-access my pc (right now using PcAnywhere but not necessarily this one).

On the other hand, I'm quite a computer geek and I love technological stuff; so I'm sure I'm going to make this phone inside out :D . I like tweaking, playing with the insides of devices etc.

As a developer, I use C++ and C#.NET. I don't know Java and I'm not quite comfortable with it - I don't like languages which require intermadiate virtual machines or stuff (it's why I don't like to use C# much either). For all this years I've developed for Windows and quite happy with it - Linux systems are always been too confusing for me.

When I add these things up, I think of HD2; but Android platform also looks quite promising (the SDK is said to be better, I don't know based on what discussion). The other thing is, WM6.5 which is quite old now - don't care much about grey old-fashined buttons but - and it seems won't be supported in future. I use Windows at home, quite happy with it and it's why I'm tended to pick a WinMo device however this "dead end" future is really creeping me out.

I've though that since Android Rom's are developing continuously for HD2, it's better for me to pick that and if I feel WinMo is not well for me, I can switch to Android but this option doesn't make me feel confortable - why should I bother myself with such workarounds to use Android when I could buy an Android device directly?

Shortly, in the light of these specifications I made about myself, should I aim towards Android and pick Desire, or should I get a HD2 and switch to Android from there if and only if I need to? Or, with different words: Can an Android device (Desire, actually) give me ALL possibilities of a Windows Mobile platform (which is HD2) and also something more?

(FYI, screen size of HD2 seems quite attractive for me, since I'm also going to use PDA for remote-access to my pc but I don't know if Android is also rich about these areas.)

PS: I cannot wait for Desire HD - since it will be quite expensive when it comes out in here - and also I need a PDA quite much already. Actually, another point which makes the HD2 interesting is the news which pop up about "The Desire HD rom in HD2".

Please, can you help me to pick? :confused: