Ok, I made a mistake, my cell provider only had one wifi smart phone, the HTC S710, I had read here and there that Windows mobile was not the best OS for mobile phones, but I needed a phone to receive email, and at work, most of our servers a linux or unix ... except email server (by special request of the owner/boss), which is windows 2003 with Exchange 2003.
So i thought I would try a windows mobile phone, I was using a pre-production model of another brand I cannot name, and it was very buggy (the original phone I got with my contract had failed shortly after warranty had expired).
So, I went for this phone and I was not very impressed. The s710 was just as buggy as my pre-production phone, which used another proprietary OS ... On the S710, the browser, ie, is terrible in windows mobile phones, and I know that I can get opera and I do not mind paying. The problem was, that it was just too buggy, I removed the bar at the top of the screen with the shortcut stuff, because I wanted more screen estate ... well, sometimes it re-appears after I reboot the phone, sometimes it appears twice ... both times empty, with no shortcuts ... that sucks ... I just wanted it to go away! I understand why HTC are pushing androoid.
Palm have the best OS out there, I think, it is very stable and multi-platform (it syncs with any serious OS out there ....). Why Palm went with WM is a mystery to me, they have tried to go bust for years, now, maybe next year (2009) they will succeed! They had it all, really, they had it all and lost ... you cannot even get a Palm phone from a French provider ... I just hope no company will ever hire any of these [I needed to change the URL, they are hiding], it will mean your company is doomed, sell your shares, be quick or you're lose it all.
When I used ie to go on the Internet via wifi it was terribly slow, unusably slow ... although I was less than 3 feet away from my airport ... slow even displaying www.google.com, so not rendering-related. The pages of the provider were completely broken in the browser of the phone, that was the provider's fault, I know, but it really felt bad.
I sent the phone back to the provider, we have 7 days to send it back in France ... and the provider put me on a blacklist for cell providers in France ... I am getting very upset with this provider, n9uf telecom, recently bought up by SFR (vodaphone-like). I chose SFR as my first phone provider in France two years ago, but quickly moved to n9uf because I had my internet there and because I kept getting spam text messages, although only 5 people had my phone number and I had never entered it into any online form!!!! In short, SFR sucks biiiiig time!
I do not regret sending it back though, the usability of wm6 is terrible, there is no way to quit an application other than by using task manager, I guess this is good for media player, for all others it sucks and you should always have the option to close the app from within the app itself, wtf, guyz??? On the performance side, the phone is totally underpowered, the processor is far too slow, this combined with the fact that apps don't close when you leave them makes this phone too slow for me ... I am not even the impatient kind of guy ...
So I guess I will be getting the iphone soon, because I need a phone now, my charger is dead, and since it is a pre-production phone, it uses a special, incompatible charger ... or a blackberry Bold, I would love to get the Storm, but the only provider here that has that on offer is .... S F R.
