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I use to hate winmobile when it started. I was a PALM lover as I mentioned in one my old articles here. For me, it took winmobile a very long time to catch my attention. Even when there was a breakthrough, a really milestone on its evolution, when it was able to store all your data even the battery ran out, I still didn’t switch. Well frankly, from PALM I switched to Symbian UIQ with Sony Ericsson’s P-series.
After I did an episode with Mr. Brian Chua, a WM enthusiast and my cousing in law, He made me convert, at that time I was suffering from one UIQs biggest disasters, the Sony Ericsson P990, I Spent Php 42k and after 4 months it was down to half the price, after 1 year it was being sold less than Php 20k. As gadget enthusiast, I usually just sell my old gadgets in order for me to have a budget to buy new ones. I couldn’t do this with the P990. That experience just sucked.
So I shifted to winmobile, the HTC touch DUAL and I say, I am back to the glory days of palm! All the aps you could ever need. Yes it has the occasional quirks, but bearable, after my experience with the P990, this is heaven.
So to answer to my title, is Apples Iphone like going through what winmobile went through?
I hope not, if so its going to take them years to fix it and they are going to loose their marketing share. They better be careful with what they are doing right now, hiding all those bugs with HUGE MARKETING cover ups.
Apple: Our Ads Don’t Lie, But You’re a Fool if You Believe Them
Apple in Court Case: No Reasonable Person Would Believe Our Ads
I dont know what went wrong though, their first version of the iphone had some quirks like having to store two phone numbers to get the names to appear both in SMS and when calling someone (+63917.. & 0917..) to being unable to forward messages, which were quickly solved by third party applications.
This time on the Iphone 3G, it’s a system breakdown. Hangups, hiccups, screen alignments issues that result to ALL DATA LOSS, so I’ve heard.. I have never owned one so it’s not really fitting of me to say too much about Iphone 3G issues but this should help you out:
Isn’t it just Ironic, when you see all the Anti-Microsoft, Pro Apple ads dissing MS for crashing etc.. and most of it is happening on the Iphone 3G?
Please do not get me wrong, Iphone fans, I like the whole Iphone concept, I just know that there is still a lot of work to be done, and if they don’t fix it soon, it’s going to get the “Malamine” effect and people will start avoiding their products.
As of the moment, as a power user, I am sticking with winmobile and maybe just get an Itouch 32GB, an iphone without the phone 
(I am still waiting for them to put Bluetoth A2DP built in, once they do I will get that version)
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