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• Ray Luebbert on the post Can Windows Mobile pull up its socks?:
  While I agree that WinMo has been dragging its feet, it has been due to the fact that an outside influence needed to catalyze the marketplace into recognizing many of these unfulfilled needs. However, this catalyst emerged over a year and a half ago in the form of the iPhone announcement. MS is not driving the technology forward, quite the reverse, consumer demand is trickling up to manufacturers who in turn request updates. MS has been a great dampener to progress. However, because the other options have been so much worse, it has been able to stay ahead, until now. With Android in the market place, open-source hounds can be appeased at the same time as technology sophomores are given easy access to a soon-to-be sleek app store. The technology inept can certainly go the Apple route, where all the choices are made for the consumer already. The app store: I don’t really favor it for myself, but I am heartily in support of what it represents. It means easier access to apps for novice users. That means better apps available for everyone. Cloud-computing: That’s why I use SkyFire. Other apps SHOULD be doing this, but few are. The OS could be too. Mostly this is not happening because MS hasn’t encouraged it. The touchscreen: I have an extreme loathing of everything Apple. However, the iPhone has a couple of key characteristics that I hope to see in the marketplace as a whole. Touch is good, multi touch is better; the gestures like pinch and spread make sense intuitively. As a result, the browser and photo viewer have a tremendous advantage when compared to these functions on other devices. MS doesn’t really have any functions that are designed for finger access. Everything is designed around the stylus, though a fingernail will do most of the time. The bottom line is that I have no love lost for MS, and would jump ship to a better option in a heartbeat. Right now there isn’t one, but soon? Perhaps.
  
  
• Bambi Blue on the post Video: CNET prefers Samsung Omnia to BlackBerry Storm:
  Hi Andrew - thanks for reading! Where do I start... hrmm. The Storm, like all BlackBerrys, is a business oriented phone. It is not really about bells and whistles - though it has some - but more about efficiency. If you are a business professional that needs to stay in regular communication with work, then this is the phone for you. But from the sounds of it the Omnia is exactly what you're looking for: The Omnia has an amazing camera on it 5MP auto focus with face detection, panorama shot, and video recording (with editor). The Storm only has a 3.2 MP camera. The Omnia has 16GB of internal memory (that's 23 DVD quality films, 8000 MP3 songs, 12,000 5MP pictures) - versus the Storm's 1GB of internal memory. The Omnia has a huge range of mobile browsers to choose from such as Skyfire, Iris, Opera, and a handful of others. The Storm only has Opera Mini and its proprietary BlackBerry browser. The bonus in having these available browsers (Omnia) is that they allow you to view Flash which is something that BlackBerry can't do yet. And finally, I would have to say a big selling point would be software availability. You can download almost anything for a Windows Mobile phone - games, software apps, IM's - where the Storm is definitely more limited. You can do almost anything you can do on your desktop PC with a Windows Mobile phone. I hope this helps, Andrew!
  
  
• RS on the post Video: BlackBerry OS running on a WinMo phone:
  I'm game. However, I wouldn't be too surprised either if it runs like a dog if it has to run on TOP of WM. One thing that's amazed me with the Android build for the Sprint/Verizon Touch has been how amazingly fast it is. I oritinally thought it was running on top of WM, but apparently it shuts WM down before launching so it doesn't suffer from having to share resources. It really is amazing/disheartening to see how much faster Android seems to run on the device.
  
  
• andrew schumacher on the post Video: CNET prefers Samsung Omnia to BlackBerry Storm:
  hey im in a kind of a bind between these phone i like the new backberry but am really pulling towards the omnia is there anything u can tell me that would make my decision easier on me cause im looking for the best phone that i will enjoy for a longperiod of time (camera and internet are a plus)
  
  
• Oscar on the post How-to: Getting Internet Sharing to work on your AT&T Fuze, Sprint Touch Pro, HTC Touch Diamond, and Samsung Epix!:
  any body could give me more details on this? I tried doing it, deleted the file and when I went back to internet sharing, a new option was there. I could pick phone as a modem or sprint. The PC connection has to be done through bluetooth PAN right? any aditional steps I need to take? any tips? thanks in advance!