iPhone to Windows Mobile: Eat my dust

Please for the love of god don't say "iPhone Killer" in my presence. Most of the "iPhone Killers" have crashed and burned with a few minor exceptions. Even if the googlephone is better, that term just implies that they are trying to make a iPhone competitor, not something actually better than the iPhone. I don't want something just as good and similar to the iPhone. I want something totally different and better in it's own way.

A good example of this kind of "Its just like an iPhone, but better!" marketing can be seen in the "Windows Phone" ad at the top of this page. They took WinMo and tossed in a shitty touch screen and similar interface and market it like an iPhone. This is exactly what a lot of the other handset makers are trying to do, and it works out terribly most of the time.

Google voice is awesome. If google makes a phone and allows this service, free of charge (unlikely it will be free down the road), they will make me change my service and buy their handset.

I don't care if it looks like an iPhone, I just require the "feel" of the iPhone. the interface can be totally different, I just want it to feel as smooth as the iPhone feels.

recap:
iPhone Killer=bad
iPhone wannabe marketing=bad

goooglephone original concept and design=good
googlephone google voice service=good

I couldn't agree more. It's about time Windows Mobile was taken out behind the barn and put out of it's misery!

There's positively a market for WinMo. However, MS needs to give it a ground up re-do. There's alot of folks who need to edit MS Office docs on the go, and Microsoft has always provided that. The OS has always had alot of potential, but very poor execution. Until Android there really wasn't an OS you could customize as much as WinMo, and even then you must either root it, or if you're bold enough to jailbreak your iPhone that was a possibility.

MS proved that they can make an effective UI. Bring the elements from the ZuneHD into WM, and seal off Office exclusivity so only WM devices could get it on a mobile platform, and MS may have a winner. Unless WM fans get something drastic though, it's so archaic in comparison. It's a little painful being a WinMo fan when we see ZuneHD users get what smartphones with MS's wares SHOULD had been getting.

Oh.. and, I have a Windows Phone. So no hate, just facts.