Comments on: Samsung to Follow the Crowd: Ditching Windows Mobile

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:44:10 +0000

Fortunately, someone did some research and it turns out that this whole story is largely FUD.

By: John in Norway

John in Norway — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:32:43 +0000

I recently bought a Windows Mobile smartphone because it was so cheap and I hadn’t played with WM for a long time. I didn’t plan on using it as a phone, obviously. Nothing can replace my E90. Imagine how shocked and disappointed I was to find that the same bugs that plagued the 2003 version I have in my Toshoiba e800 are still present in this latest version! Problems opening Word documents in Mobile Word, no support for password protected Word documents, Activesync (or whatever they call it) still being one of the worst applications ever – when it does connect, why does it let the phone switch off when it’s still transferring files? I’m not surprised people are always complaining about how out of date it is.

By: NeoteriX

NeoteriX — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:24:42 +0000

Samsung making its own Smartphone OS…

Huge mistake. Are they seriously going to try betamaxin’ it out there in the big bad world of smartphones? Have they learned nothing from their Instinct, the wanna-be iPhone killer?

By: Name

Name — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:31:59 +0000

The Blackberry, despite considered by many to be the ideal e-mail tool, misses the mark in important ways (no HTML e-mail? Really? and the UI is awful). The iPhone, despite being a very popular consumer device, misses the mark in important ways (encryption support, remote wipe, application control, awful ActiveSync implementation) as well. Android doesn’t have EAS at all until 2.0. So, if you are using Exchange (and if you’re business/enterprise, it’s a very strong bet that you are), and you want to control the device, it’s Windows Mobile, or it’s nothing.

This is about money, and nothing but money. Windows Mobile costs money, and Android does not. It’s that simple. Anyone who deludes themselves into thinking it’s anything else is just missing the mark.

By: Denkie

Denkie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:40:21 +0000

Samsung abandoning ship is a serious blow to the Windows Mobile platform. It is plain to all that the viability of Windows Mobile is now under serious question.

I think business and enterprise users really need to think about abandoning the sinking Windows Mobile ship. The obvious alternative is RIM’s Blackberry, and then iPhone and Android, all of which recently increased their market share.