Windows mobile -> iPhone Users

i switched from the Tmobile dash and LOVED the iPhone personally i didn't like WM from the beginning but i needed something more powerful. Glad i switched

 

The thing I miss the most is the excitement of seeing the phone crash.

 

I switched and am happy for it. Overall, it's all better than my winmo experiences, though there are a few things I miss about my old phones:

- Email gave me the option of returning to the message list after moving or deleting a message. iPhone does not and this really bugs me.
- I could block sending my caller ID, except to numbers in my contacts list. Of course, this didn't work if I initiated the call from my car's handsfree setup.
- I customized my own Home screen to include time, unread emails, upcoming appointments, etc. such that I could see at a glance without unlocking the phone.
- There was an LED that alerted me to various things without having to turn on the display.
- They could record video, albeit poorly.
- I could set a default reminder on new calendar events, such as "15 minutes." On the iPhone, it has to be set manually each time.

I certainly DO NOT miss all the crashing and spontaneous reboots, dropped calls, poor battery life, and clunky user interface of my old phones. Also, the browsers always sucked and did a poor, slow job of rendering pages. Worst of all, the phones had a registry which required a special editor to enable some of the changes I wanted. I hate Windows registries.

 

The only thing I miss about my Windows Mobile phone was that I could tether over usb reliably in one click. Tethering over wifi works, but is a bit of a pain, and still drains my battery at times, even with the latest version of pdanet.

Otherwise, there were a few more options with emails and calendars on winmo, but overall doing much of anything on my old phone was such a pain that just because I could do something didn't mean I often did. The iphone, with a few minor exceptions, is a joy to use day in and day out.

 

I think you're responding to me so I'll point out that I don't want to wholesale block my caller ID. I want it to be visible only to people in my contacts. I want friends and family to know I'm calling, but not businesses, etc.

 

I had a few windows mobile phones, Tmobile mda, cingular 8525 and the at&t tilt

I miss being able to listen to xm radio that's about it i don't miss the crashes and other bugs and flashing them was a pain.

 

What I miss...

Two words: COPY, PASTE!

 

I rate 8.9/10

have been a win mob user for years, and this August moved to iPhone and LOVING it.

Things i miss:

• Copy & Paste
• Led/Visible notification
• Hard disk usage, though have found a work around
• Battery swap (again more of hardware and NOT OS related

Thats it, otherwise pretty kewl hand set.

 

I still have and use my wm phone I just move my sim back and forth between iphone and htc 8525.

 

Having owned both types of phones, they crash about the same. I hate to break it to you but 99.9% of the time crashes are hardware, not software, related. My Razr never crashed. My WiMo crashed about once or twice a week. My iPhone crashes about once or twice a week. (I consider a crash anything that requires me to restart the device manually to get it working correctly.)

 

I don't miss it one bit. The holding on to memory despite closing out programs, the crashes, the freezes and the horrible horrible lag time with EVERYTHING. Much more happy with my iPhone.

 

I probably had it the worst before I got my iPhone, I had a T-Mobile Wing, people who work at T-Mobile stores even steer their customers away from it.
The Wing didn't have any program memory, and it really hated to sync with my Mac. Also had a 201Mhz TI OMAP Processor, which means SLOW SLOW SLOW. Pocket Internet Explorer was worst than a WAP Browser! Glad I switched too

 

safari crashing is nothing compared to windows mobile crashing i would have to take my battery out all the time. iphone isn't perfect but it just works so im happy for that. The most stable phone i have ever owned was the blackberry 8800 that phone was a beast and battery life was outstanding.

 

Windows Mobile Smartphones (without touchscreens) are usually pretty stable by themselves.

Windows Mobile phones work best in the hands of technically adept people, who don't mind seeking out and installing stable tweaks and utiltities.

I would not give one to my non-techie wife unless I sharpened it up myself.

As for crashing, yes it's a bit more pain on WM. However, iPhones can get into weird states too. Like tons of "Other" showing up. Or having to "recover", meaning reinstall the OS. You never have to reinstall WM.

 

yeah that is really true


after i installed some programs on my blackjack II and tweaked the UI a little bit the phone is alot more stable now


but im getting my iphone soon

 

You obviously don't use your iPhone too much do you?
My iPhone crashes as much as, if not more than any WinMo device I've ever owned.
Common issue when you have an under powered hardware platform trying to do too much at one time.

 

This isn't the case for me. I occasionally have apps quit back to the springboard on my iPhone (perhaps once every week or two) but my winmo phones often required rebooting if they didn't restart spontaneously during a phone call. This happened two or three times a week. I use my iPhone far more extensively than I did those old phones precisely because it is stable enough to do so and without the frustration. I've never had my iPhone reboot itself except during a firmware upgrade of course.

 

User error is probably the main cause.

My phone is fully loaded with all the essentials including web cam wallpaper with weather and bunch of other stuffs.

Crash is rare.

 

I used Win Mob for several years, and developed commercial software for it too. Having become increasingly frustrated with the somewhat flaky sync solutions between my device and my Mac, I made the switch to the iPhone and have been more than happy so far.

What do I miss?

• Copy/paste occasionally
• Proper birthday reminders (though that's probably more of an iCal issue, and I get round it with Gmail calendaring)
• Calendar scheduling flexibility - just try scheduling a recurring meeting on the second Tuesday of every month on an iPhone, for example
• TomTom on the same device, which was very handy
• A decent spreadsheet tool available out of the box. I guess there might be one in the AppStore, but it was handy to have something preinstalled on WM.
• A battery that lasts for more than about a day.

I thought I'd miss the handwriting recognition, having hated using the onscreen keyboard on the WM devices, but I'm very happy with the iPhone's keyboard.

So, other than the final point in my list above, I'm a very happy iPhone user