I'd go to my grave claiming that Pocket PCs were better and more fungible than iPhones manufactured up to 2012. when Apple's app ecosystem really took off.<p>Pocket PC was a beast, you could do anything on there. Even excel and ppt were there, stuff that Apple still hasn't perfected even today.
I guess I am one of the last Windows Phone holdouts. I will be retiring mine in a few weeks, maybe less, since Verizon's 3G service will be obsoleted I think in December.<p>It has been a good run for a reliable phone with great call quality and the ability to sync with all my Microsoft services. Great battery life, high quality build, simple and efficient interface. Just all-around an excellent product that saw no major apps developed to take advantage of all the goodness.<p>It is inconvenient to use now though since the browser is IE and most sites do not render well or at all on mobile with IE so I use it strictly for calls, photos, Office-related files, and texts.<p>I will move to an Apple iPhone. I am not nearly as familiar with that device as I am with Windows devices. I have not owned an Apple product since grad school in 1990 when I bought both an Epson PC (OS2 and MS-DOS) and a Mac SE/30. The SE/30 was a step up from my first PC, a 128k Mac which I still have. I returned the SE/30 for credit during the 6-week(?) time window you were given on Apple Credit to evaluate it (I think it was a $3600 purchase back then by the time I had all the peripherals). I simply couldn't afford to keep it. The PC had cost less than half of the cost of the Mac and the software ecosystem for geoscience on a Mac was still very small. The OS though was so much more polished, intuitive, and coherent on the Mac.<p>I am the last in my family to still use a Windows Phone. I steered everyone else to iPhones several years ago without ever seriously considering Android since it has tight ties to Google, which I have avoided as much as possible for years.<p>This video was a step back in time for me and a wake-up call that I should borrow the wife's device more often so that I can become familiar with it before I get my own.<p>It just feels wrong to abandon such a well-designed device simply because of a radio but it is what it is.