Nickname said:
windows mobile is not in the game right now. windows phone 7 will be coming out in a couple of months and its supposed to be pretty good (we will see); windows mobile 6.5 is garbage and irrelevant.
oh and idk about how good battery life is from htc but all smartphones have pretty *edited*ty battery life.
To my knowledge, Windows Mobile was the first phone OS that let you install any app you wanted without having to go through a central store or a carrier’s app service. Even with the Android, you still have to use their market service to get even the free applications.
You can’t tell me that being able to simply download any app, from any source, and install it without a nanny carrier service or app marketplace as a gatekeeper is a bad thing. It’s still the only TRUE freedom-oriented OS in the phone market, and that’s pretty bad coming from Microsoft and all.
And yes, all smartphones have terrible battery life. In fact the new HTC droids have some of the worse battery life for a “new” phone I’ve ever seen. It’s not really about multiple applications running at once, it’s partly because they have to make the phones more powerful to support the heavier and more feature filled OS’s. Most of the battery issues are because people sit on the internet, IM, or GPS features all day long and constant use of a data or wireless network will drain batteries on even the most basic phone OS’s.
Phone manufacturers need to put larger or higher density batteries in their phones and start funding future technologies like nuclear batteries because this problem is only going to get worse as time goes on.