New York Times: Windows Mobile sinking, Android and Apple benefit

I don't expect the Android/Droid phones to take market share away from the iPhone (well, not a significant percentage) but I definitely expect it to take market share away from Palm and Blackberry Devices.

http://www.droidforums.net

I left the Treo for the iPhone. It was a difficult decision, but I haven't regretted it. I did miss the data capabilities that the Treo was strong in, and it took a long time to see iPhone apps that supported editing MS Office documents. But now there are a couple of solutions here, and the media capabilities of the iPhone are a quantum leap beyond the Treo.

I had a T-Mobile Dash. And it ran windows mobile. It was a great phone. I even hacked it to work with ATT. It was nice that it worked with word excel and PowerPoint. And until I found docs to go I missed that editing capability.

I HAVE TO ASK, JUST WHAT DOES KING OF ALL BLOWHARDS, BALLMER, DO ALL DAY?

I had an htc tilt with wm 6.1. I am a total nerd and was extremely excited about the updated os. I actually bought the tilt from a friend that just didn't want it bc it was too much. So me being a techie geek bought it from her for well under what she paid for it. At the time I worked for AT&T and knew all the INS and outs of the tilt from training. After having the tilt for about 3 months it started going screwy. It was crashing, freezing, losing service, and got to the point where I would have to a soft reset on it just to send a picture msg! I checked up on the warranty and was able to exchange it for a refurb tilt! I've used the tilt for the last year withmaybe a freeze up every now and again but it just got boring. Working in tech support for AT&T when the gen 1 iPhone was released made me an auto-hater bc of all the issues that seemed to be happening. Buuut! I am happy to say I went to the other side! Bought an iPhone 3gs and love it! I will never be able to not have my iPhone! There r some things that I think apple should put in the next update but i'm a happy iPhone user and am never looking back!

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"Microsoft owned the smartphone market for years, so it is a mystery to me why they fell so far behind."

No big mystery. Gates & Ballmer only know how to make and sell 'successful' products when they can hide behind the twenty foot high walls of a monopoly. Kick them out of the fort and they're as clueless as rednecks in a Beethoven symphony.

"foundering"?

Fall 2008, I had had Verizon, but had allowed my contract to lapse, so I was an "unrestricted free agent". I had already decided to switch to Mac, and wanted a phone I could use for calendar, browser, email. I gave Verizon a fair chance; went to 2 Verizon stores, but they had no native Mac-compatible phones (and I hated both the models they indicated might work with Mac if I used a third-party app ... the Verizon store staff did not seem very knowledgeable or interested in the matter).
I ended up going to the West 14th street Apple store, got the iPhone3G, got my number ported over, no problem. My only complaint about the 3G (aside from ATT's less-than-spectacular network) is its poor battery life if I use AIM, Mail, or Safari a lot.

I had the first Palm Treo but it's lousy browser and non-existent media capabilities caused me to move to the Motorola SLVR for the iTunes integration. I've since owned all iterations of the iPhone and have been thrilled with them. I'm a total gadget whore and the iPhone is hands down the greatest toy that I've got.

I dropped a Motorola MPx220 Windows phone. The UI was very clunky, navigation was done with a 4 way pad for the most part. Files would get lost in the endless amount of folders. Most email would not download correctly. Also there was a bug where the voicemail icon would not turn off after listening to a new voicemail. Not once in the 2 years I own the phone did I see any software updates. Life is good with my iPhone.