My experience with three mobile platforms

    Over the past 4 months, I had to, at my own whim, and somewhere, by my own will, to change three HTC Touch Diamond, Blackberry Bold, Apple iPhone phones , which represented three competing platforms. I want to tell about the experience of using these devices in business terms, I think it may be interesting to those who choose a device on a particular platform.

    Perhaps I'll start with the "drowned" HTC Touch Diamond. In general, with this phone and with the Windows Mobile platform, as a person who likes to delve into a lot of settings and appreciates a flexible platform, I have only pleasant memories. It is the ability to freely install any! applications downloaded from the site, downloaded from friends or simply bought on disk and attracts me to this device. Plus, I like the proprietary interface screwed on top of the standard WM6, and if it gets bored there are always alternative shells.

    In terms of use for business, everything is very good, here is Exchange mail (however, all the devices I use are different), free reading and editing of Microsoft Office files, and Opera Mobile's favorite. It is worth noting that it is for the WM platform that there are a lot of navigation applications, and the same Google Maps easily supports the analogue of the “electronic compass”, displaying the direction of movement on its maps (stone in the garden of the iPhone). I really like that the phone can be freely connected as an external flash drive and download movies, music, books, anything from the explorer. In general, in terms of convenience, there are only a few drawbacks, this is a crooked work with finger interest (although there are third-party developments), not the best on-screen keyboard and high power consumption.

    The second phone that was in my hands is the Blackberry Bold about which I wrote earlier . I won’t repeat myself, I’ll just point out that this phone is completely created for business, here there is increased data security, and linking to my own server and generally using it, I always felt that the “big brother” was watching and taking care of me :) So I I didn’t lose confidential information and stayed in touch always and everywhere. Although it was unusual to switch to buttons after the sensor, I quickly adapted to it. In general, as a corporate smartphone, he left me with the most pleasant experience in terms of ease of use and ease of addiction, and as a workhorse I would not refuse to make myself like that :)

    Well, the third device was recently donated to the tech 3G iPhone 3G. Actually this is its own ideology, which after a very open WM had to get used to for quite some time. I was very disappointed with the impossibility of simply adding drag and drop files to the device and the inability to work with it without iTunes. In general, Apple’s copyright policy is paranoid in some places.
    But it’s worth paying tribute that in terms of the user interface this is probably the friendliest device, though thanks to the synchronization mechanism that is not very clear to me, I decided to store my data and contacts ... in Google Sync. So for me everything looks like a mixture of technologies, I have a binding to corporate Exchange and personal Google Sync, which quite peacefully get along on my device. It’s somewhat upsetting the inability to exchange music on bluetooth and the inability to simply use pictures, on the other hand, it is not so often necessary.

    Total:

    WM
    + flexible platform
    + full Exchange support
    + ease of downloading files and transferring them
    + many navigation systems
    + many alternative browsers
    + full Office support

    - crooked finger interface
    - light system brakes
    -

    Blackberry battery gluttony
    + data security
    + user-friendly interface
    + traffic optimization and cost control for communications
    + ease of data recovery
    + advanced corporate integration
    + application download center
    + persistent battery

    - big brother monitors for you)
    - requires binding to the corp server
    - few third-party

    iPhone software
    + stylish design
    + user-friendly finger interface
    + application store
    + exchange support
    + advanced music options of life
    + fast built-in browser
    + many programs using the user's location

    - synchronization only through iTunes
    - it is impossible to edit Office files without third-party applications
    - a small number of navigation programs
    - apple's paranoid copyright protection policy
    - lack of a normal book reader

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