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Here we go yet again.

NZ, NZ, NZ... give it up. Seriously. The iPhone kicks ass, is the best smartphone out there and is constantly improving itself. But let's go point by point yet again.

Just as one cannot tell much difference in size between the screens of the HTC TouchHD and the iPhone...

Can you point out where I've ever claimed otherwise?

You didn't - but since you wanted to nitpick my own comparison between the BB Storm and iPhone's screens I figured I'd have an "NZ moment" of my own...

I wanted to stick with the default browsers for the iPhone, WM, and BB devices in my discussion... mainly because the 3rd party browsers for the iPhone either suck or you have to pay for... and the default browser of the iPhone, Safari, works pretty damned well on the iPhone so I'm good there.

So because the default browser on the iPhone is pretty good and there are no free 3rd party browsers for the iPhone, one cannot bring into discussion the free, good browsers for BB or WM? Can you explain to us how that makes sense?

Because, for the slow learner here, I am comparing nothing more than OS-based smartphone browsers (i.e. IE in the WM OS, the BB browser in the BB OS, and Safari in the iPhone OS - sticking with the stock browsers not add-ons. Sure, Opera might kick ass and may or may not be better than Safari but Opera is NOT the default browser with all or even most WM smartphones or BB smartphones. Any other questions?

WM is based on an old unsupported version of windows

WM has never been "based" on any version of desktop Windows so I'm really not sure where you are coming up with this stuff. Nor is iPhone OS compatible with OS X.

So I take it WM sprang spontaneously from a combination of a spring rain and a *****'s dream? Where DID WM come from? Hmmm... from wikipedia: "Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API." So perhaps I was wrong in this - but also from wikipedia is this about the iPhone OS: "The iPhone OS or OS X iPhone is the operating system developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone and iPod Touch.[2][3] Like Mac OS X, from which it was derived, it uses the Darwin foundation" so it looks like I was right about the iPhone OS being BASED on OS X - I never said it was compatible - two different things NZ, you need to get your reading comprehension straight... all this double talk of yours has gotten you confused.

or constantly removing the card to control the content

I'm beginning to doubt you've ever owned a device with a removable card. You do not have to remove the card to change the content on the card. Once you've inserted the card, there is really no difference between it and built-in storage, with the obvious exception that you have far more flexibility with removable storage, should you choose to exercise that flexibility.

Are you serious? Look up the specs for the following phones: Samsung M500, Samsung M200, Qualcomm/ HTC PPC-6700, LG Shine, Blackberry 8330. ALL of them have expandable storage via MicroSD cards and I have used all of them to store various types of media - mainly theme files and MP3s. And due to the fact that the storage was limited (I had a max of 1GB cards), funds at the time were limited (being a temporary worker I didn't have much money for too many things beyond supporting a family), and me admittedly not wanting to keep the same 10-12 songs on the cards yes I DID in fact remove the cards on occasion to connect them via an adapter to my computer to change out the files - because I was not able to do it with the card still in the phone... nor could anyone BTW... so done trying to nitpick?

And the HTC Touch Diamond has 4GB of storage? Not bad, not bad at all... a quarter of what I have but not too shabby I guess...

I won't say it is particularly good and it wasn't a selling feature for me but I was simply correcting you when you said there were no WM devices with more than 2GB onboard storage. My music collection won't even begin to fit on a 32GB device so quite frankly 32GB is as useless to me as 4GB.

You and I are in the same boat then in regards to the music files... I have to change out playlists on occasion when I get bored with what is on my phone...

No, that is NOT like saying very few iPhone models have 16GB of storage... and where did I say you could get a WM device with 16GB of storage?

As I've pointed out above, once a card is inserted, there is no difference between it and built-in storage (other than the lack of flexibility inherent with built-in storage). The card can be written to without removing it. So to make this artificial distinction and say that no WM device has 16GB of storage is... artificial. It would be like saying computers with hard drives screwed in the case have "built-in" storage and computers with hard drives on slide-out bays are inferior. Once the hard drive is in the bay, it is indistinguishable from a hard drive that is screwed to the case.

Give me some links explaining how to change the contents of an SD card still in the device because I've looked on many different forums for the phones I listed above and had not come up with anything so maybe you can... Until then, I stand by my statement of it not being the same thing and one having to remove the card and plugging it directly into a computer to change content.

and there is not a WM device or a BB device that could even use the blasted thing yet

Factually incorrect: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523628

I checked that link and it looked like everyone was discussing the 16GB card NOT the 32GB card. YES there are devices that can make use of the 16GB card - hell I think my BB 8330 curve can - but none so far can run the 32GB card... from THAT link it looks like the Uni has some issues with it. OOOOPS! FAIL! Looks like I was factually CORRECT! Damn NZ at least post a link that supports YOUR statement...

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