At the beginning of the snowy weather I fell over and dropped my phone, the excellent HTC G1 Android phone. It showed now obvious signs of damage, but later it refused to start, and was later pronounced unrepairable by Phone Touch. I therefore decided to buy a replacement. I originally thought about getting another android phone, but I was tempted to try something completely different. After spending far too long reading specifications of all sorts of phones I decided on something completely different, a
The Sony-Ericsson P1i.
This is a complete change of strategy for me as it means that I'll be moving back towards a MS operating system: Windows Mobile. My last two phones were Linux-based: the excellent Motorola A1200 and the even more excellent HTC G1, the latter being an Android version. I am not sure whether Windows Mobile has a future, but with the price of the P1i much less than half the price of a high-quality hardware phone with Android I couldn't resist.
My main concern is that I can get Google Sync to work. I have found Google Calendar on the Android phone by far the most useful feature of a smart phone. If this works and I find that I like Windows Mobile the next thing you know you'll see me installing Windows 7 over Ubuntu on my laptop!
