Windows Mobile. Shoot me now.

Link: Jane Lewis’s Weblog : We work in a fast changing World..

What I also found interesting was reading Ewan MacLeods blog,SMS Text News about the rumour of Apple and Rim joining forces to create a “new revolutionary ” mobile phone. Well flame me if you like, but dont we have that already….it is called Windows Mobile 5 with Windows Media player for Mobile and SD cards in all shapes and sizes !

Jane doesn’t have comments enabled on her blog so I thought I’d reply here.

I’m just so disappointed with Windows Mobile. It’s appalling. It’s perfect at done one thing — address book, for example, or calculator. Or MSN Messenger, or even playing music. Try and multitask and you’ve had it.

This isn’t a Microsoft-are-shit moan. This is an opinion based on real experience from a wannabe Windows Mobile fan. I went out and bought the top of the range device — the best HTC that money could buy. (The T-Mobile “MDA Pro”) And it just didn’t live up to my hopes.

And that’s what it’s all about. Hope. The device arrived and I was delighted. Absolutely delighted. But it was pathetic as a unified messaging device. I hoped I would be able to do my email on it. Forget it. I hoped I could multitask. Nonsense. I hoped I could keep Skype on all the time and talk to someone on a Skype call whilst sending a text message. Badly.

So I’m still hunting for the ‘new revolutionary’ device.

Seriously, anyone reading thinks my points are flawed — please, please, please put me right. Show me a Windows Mobile device that can actually be used by a day to day mobile warrior like myself, and I will buy it and love it.

Meantime, I’d love to see an Apple Blackberry.