Wait what? Flashlights have an OS? Why would you do this? What is happening here?
Well sit down my little birdies, let me feed you…
Note: I’ve had this written since last week, just hadn’t posted it yet. I kept going between posting it, or splitting this article up in to 2, 1 comparing hardware, 1 comparing software, because I feel like this article kind of meanders all over the place. But I decided for my little blog site, this 1 massive post will do just fine.
Well, here it is. The article thousands of people have been waiting for! Ok, well probably no one… but here it is any way, my Fuze vs. iPhone comparison. I wrote previously about why I went with another Windows Mobile phone over the iPhone, and now here is the comparison.
I’ve had the Fuze for over a week now and had time to get used to it and play with all of its features.
The iPhone is running 2.2 Firmware and has been Jailbroken.
The Fuze is running a custom Firmware. Basically I’m running the AT&T leaked rom that is been modified. The rom is the official AT&T update that is coming soon, but it was leaked out and people already have it. I’m running a customized version that removes AT&T’s bullshit from it, an XDA-Developers member NotATreoFan (NATF) created. It’s version 4.5 of his rom, which is Windows Mobile 6.1
My general feelings on the Fuze as of right now: I LOVE IT. This is one seriously kick ass phone. It finally feels like a Windows Mobile device should be. It is very fast, you can multi-task like crazy on it and it has a very nice, easy to use interface utilizing HTC’s TouchFlo 3D (which comes on the device, stock).
Happy Halloween everyone!
I can’t believe it’s going to be November already. WHERE DID OCTOBER GO?!
Anyway, have fun and be safe out there. The girlfriend and I plan on feeding the little monsters roaming the neighborhood for a while, then heading out for a delicious D’Arcy’s Pint Horse Shoe.
I leave you with Bob’s RC Pumpkin
It’s been almost a week now and iGoogle still has no option of reverting. It is still loading slow and the new way their “widgets” load is fucking terrible.
As of today I am changing my home page on all of my machines at work and home. I refuse to use a home page that looks and functions like crap.
My new home page, which it seems a lot of iGoogler’s are fleeing to, is Netvibes. A very clean, organized, and functional ajax home page. I have it set up exactly like my iGoogle page was, matching feeds in the same place and it even has a Gmail widget so I can still keep an easy eye on Gmail!
If you used iGoogle and are upset with their changes, leave them. Leave them now and be happy with your new home page. I know I am!
FAIL:
WIN:
I have been using WM for nearly 2 years now. I started on WM5 and have been using WM6 for over a year now. I have had 2 different devices, both are PDA/Phone combination devices. The first was an HTC Wizard, and the second (and current) is an HTC Hermes.
I have loved these lil phones. They do literally anything and everything. Besides a phone and contact manager, you can surf the web, play games, emulate NES games, keep up to date on Weather, sports scores, RSS feeds, navigate using GPS, calculate anything you can imagine, take notes, photos, Exchange sync email, calendar, surf via Wifi, stream music and tv shows, or watch tv shows saved to your storage card…. etc… any way, you get the point.
These devices can do it all. If you want to do it, chances are some one out there has written a program that will allow you to do it.
But that’s where the glamor ends. Sure it may do all of these things, some of them well, some of them not so well, but it does not do them gracefully, or with ANY amount of style or intuition. The interface is a clunky disaster and navigating option menus and configurations is all but impossible at times.