Motorola SURF A3100 video (and pictorial) hands-on

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Josh G @ Jan 8th 2009 6:21AM

"If Moto had launched this running Android instead of WinMo, on the other hand, it would've been the runaway hit of the show."

See, this is what I don't understand. Android is a damned cool platform with heaps of potential, yeah, but it has nowhere near realised it yet.

The UI is frankly annoying [to myself, your mileage may vary]. While I'm certainly not an Apple fanboy [*cuddles Omnia*], the inconsistent UI and real quirks to Android turn me off it.

Don't get me wrong, it's got the potential. You bet it does. But it's nowhere near proven yet. Winmo is meant as a business OS [basically], and until Android has proper Exchange support and the like... well, its not going to get *that* install base. Even Apple saw that, and subsequently implemented it.

Android has the potential to destroy Winmo's share. That is not a bad thing, competition breeds innovation. But I don't see much innovation at the moment.

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dantheman99 @ Jan 8th 2009 12:58PM

Gotta agree with you there. As a Q9H user, I can honestly say that a fine tuned winmo 6.1 phone is perfectly operational and stable (unless the standard version of the OS is that much different performance-wise from the pro version). I guess I just don't understand why everyone's always ragging on it? Android is going to be great someday, but until it's completely there I don't see what the problem is with a manufacturer using a completely functional and solid OS on their phones.

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