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Windows Mobile 5 Already Does What the iPhone Does

by Leonard Brody | January 10, 2007 at 02:02 pm

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We were all very excited to hear that the iPhone announcement met all of our wild expectations. Steve Job's reality distortion field was in full effect. But in the ugly, sober light of day, a day later, what do we have? A phone that isn't quite a smartphone? A closed system?

We're going to compare the iPhone to Windows Mobile 5 so you can see that WM can already do everything the iPhone can.

SMS: The iPhone has an iChat-like threaded SMS app. Windows Mobile has it.

Calendar: The iPhone has a calendar that syncs to iCal. Windows Mobile has that with the Missing Sync.

Photos: The iPhone has photo browsing. Windows Mobile has photo browsing.

Camera: The iPhone has a 2-megapixel camera. The Cingular 8525 has a 2-megapixel camera.

Calculator: The iPhone has a calculator. Every phone has a calculator.

Widgets: The iPhone has expandable widgets for Weather and Stocks. WM can install apps that can do Weather and Stocks, not to mention RSS, Skype, Emulation Gaming, hundreds of other things.

Google Maps: The iPhone has Google Maps. WM has Google Maps and Windows Live Search.

Email: The iPhone has rich text email. WM doesn't.

Browser: The iPhone has a full-screen zoomable desktop-like browser. Windows Mobile has Mobile Opera, which isn't full-screen and doesn't zoom.

Music/Video: The iPhone is video iPod. WM has portable Windows Media Player.

Touchscreen with Multi-Finger Gestures: Yeah, WM doesn't do that.

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XxDeMoNxX

at 04:11 on January 11th, 2007

/me sticks windows Windows Mobile =). Cheaper. does about the same, not to mention i dont like touchthingies!

bloggi

at 05:29 on January 11th, 2007

I have always wondered what it is that people like about Apple's gadgets. Come to think of it: It is good that Apple often blazes the trail. In terms of usable products, more often than not I have found in disappointing to watch a friend tinkering around with an Apple Newton way back, see the quality problems in some of the iPods, having been to a friend and finding out that if I wish to have an IX-like environment, Linux probably does that better at a lesser cost. In all, Apple really seems like function following the esthetics.