Hey all,
At the moment I'm a quite satisfied WM user, but every now and then i think about conversion. There is no doubt that considering hardware only, the iPhone is amazing, if only for the capacitive touch screen. If the iPhone could run a decent version of WM, I would've bought one a long time ago. But since it doesn't, I've made up a list of things that I'm doing with my WM device, and have no idea if the iPhone is capable of doing. So, I'm here to ask, can the iPhone do those things (please specify if a non-free 3rd party program is required):
1. Free push e-mail, appointments, contacts and tasks from an exchange server or from Google.
2. Internet tethering via WIFI and a USB cable (WIFI tethering alone isn't enough).
3. The ability to have a RSS reader open while surfing. Meaning, I'm reading my news, see something interesting, so I press the link, and the RSS reader stays open or at least comes back easily at the same point I "left" him.
4. Reading PDFs from attachments or downloaded from web pages.
5. Handling attachments. Meaning, being able to receive and send all kinds of attachments including Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), photos, Zip/Rar archives, etc...
6. Download from web pages: photos, documents, Archives, etc....
7. Handling Office documents. Being able to at least view (if not edit) all kinds of Office documents, no matter if sent by e-mail, copied from desktop or downloaded from the web.
8. A fring-like program (Messenger, skype, etc..) that is able to stay alive and connected in the background and notify me of new calls/chats.
9. A TV viewing program. Something like SPB TV in WM. Basically a program that will let me view TV channels from around the world via the cellular internet.
10. (probably the least important) A Music ID program. Simply, a program that can identify songs by listening to them.
I know that it's a long list, and I'm aware to the fact that not everything can be done.
Thanks you very much in advance, would appreciate any answer.
At the moment I'm a quite satisfied WM user, but every now and then i think about conversion. There is no doubt that considering hardware only, the iPhone is amazing, if only for the capacitive touch screen. If the iPhone could run a decent version of WM, I would've bought one a long time ago. But since it doesn't, I've made up a list of things that I'm doing with my WM device, and have no idea if the iPhone is capable of doing. So, I'm here to ask, can the iPhone do those things (please specify if a non-free 3rd party program is required):
1. Free push e-mail, appointments, contacts and tasks from an exchange server or from Google.
2. Internet tethering via WIFI and a USB cable (WIFI tethering alone isn't enough).
3. The ability to have a RSS reader open while surfing. Meaning, I'm reading my news, see something interesting, so I press the link, and the RSS reader stays open or at least comes back easily at the same point I "left" him.
4. Reading PDFs from attachments or downloaded from web pages.
5. Handling attachments. Meaning, being able to receive and send all kinds of attachments including Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), photos, Zip/Rar archives, etc...
6. Download from web pages: photos, documents, Archives, etc....
7. Handling Office documents. Being able to at least view (if not edit) all kinds of Office documents, no matter if sent by e-mail, copied from desktop or downloaded from the web.
8. A fring-like program (Messenger, skype, etc..) that is able to stay alive and connected in the background and notify me of new calls/chats.
9. A TV viewing program. Something like SPB TV in WM. Basically a program that will let me view TV channels from around the world via the cellular internet.
10. (probably the least important) A Music ID program. Simply, a program that can identify songs by listening to them.
I know that it's a long list, and I'm aware to the fact that not everything can be done.
Thanks you very much in advance, would appreciate any answer.