Mobile Ministry Magazine: The Zen of. . . Windows Mobile

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

The Zen of. . . Windows Mobile

An excellent article on choosing a Windows Mobile device versus a PalmOS one has been posted over at PocketGoddess. Here is a snippet:

...I thought about the Pocket PC (now Windows Mobile) platform several times over the years, but only in passing. After all, I read all the stories about how Microsoft’s mobile OS was hopelessly bloated, about how it takes more taps to do things, and of course about how there are literally thousands of Palm OS applications to choose from, many free, that far outstripped the more limited selection of software available for Pocket PC.

In effect I had become a Palm OS “fangirl” in the sense that I had dismissed the competition without really giving it a closer look and honestly evaluating whether or not the devices and software met my needs...

Read the rest.

In my opinion, this has to be one of the most well thought out decsions on using the correct mobile device for one's needs that I have read in a while. Kudos to PocketGoddess for an excellent article, and more so for making an informed decsion that works best for her.