April 21st, 2009
Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs HTC Touch Diamond2
3rd Party Applications: Windows Mobile has always been quite open to 3rd party applications and there are thousands of developers and applications currently available for you to install and use. I usually buy most of my applications directly from the developer’s website, but there are some other stores like Handango too. Windows Mobile Marketplace is coming sometime in 2009 so you will get an integrated application store to purchase applications from on your device. I am not sure how this will work with the existing application environment as there are still lots of unknowns surrounding the Windows Mobile Marketplace.
You can find an application for just about anything you want to do on a Windows Mobile device and most are pretty high quality as well. The iPhone App Store was a major eye opener for me when it comes to pricing though since I have been used to easily paying $20 a pop for a good WM application. People’s expectations for purchasing applications has drastically been changed by the App Store and it will be interesting to see if we see this type of pricing structure in the Windows Mobile community moving forward.
As I mentioned in the hardware section, you can run multiple 3rd party applications at the same time on Windows Mobile and that is a benefit to people like me who jump around between apps all the time as a part of my regular routine.
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Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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