Why buy a new PC when it's only moderately more powerful than the PC sitting on my desk since 2009? The best thing I ever did was drop SSDs in all of my PCs and laptops. Except for my game machine, which I keep bleeding edge since I have nothing better to do, my PCs are aging - 2007 to 2011. I have the memory maxed out and SSDs but I don't think a new processor makes much sense right now in a machine I use for checking email, surfing and looking at pictures. I have no plans to upgrade anything any time soon (except, uh, that game machine I was talking about).

Stop being so Linuxy.

I have no limit because I pay Charter/Spectrum for a business line that has no limits & priority tech support.

The Download application has been around for years, and it's been redefining the word suck for years. If you enjoy waiting 10 minutes to see the same 10 applications displayed every day, the Download! application is for you. To even mention it in the same breath as Apple's App Store is delusional. And as a Symbian coder, I'll agree with the parents above... the platform sucks to code for. It's a totally non-standard (no exceptions, what?) platform that makes you account for design decisions/tradeoffs which were made over 10 years ago and should be a non-issue today. When they did the big binary break and added Symbian Signed they could have addressed a lot of this, but they chose not to. And don't get me started on Symbian Signed. Pay to have your app tested, pay to have it signed. Pay more to have your app tested if you start going deeper into the phone. Pay to have your app re-tested if you fail the test for somewhat arbitrary reasons (just check on Forum nokia to see some test rejection horror stories). Pay Nokia for the privilege of helping to grow their platform. Is it any wonder that while the total smartphone marketplace has been growing, Symbian marketshare has shrunk for 2 years running?

To give a few examples:

I don't know which version of windows mobile you're using, but have never seen *ONE* of those complaints on my phone, with the exception of the activesync issue.

Since I don't have SMS issues, can use MP3 for ringtones, and don't have misspelling prompts, I'm thinking you're using a carrier modified version of the phone's firmware. Please complain to your carrier, not to /.

Note: I'm a linux desktop user, and a Symbian user. But even I can't stand this much fud.

SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional

1. Opera 7.x
2. StarOffice

The thing I love about SuSE is that almost everything else I'll ever need is already there. Mozilla, GAIM, XTERM, XMMS, Gimp, GQ View, etc. It's just a matter of moving all my data back over.