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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I never owned one, but I thought the main issue was the barren app ecosystem? Everyone I talked to that had one really liked the ui

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    It may depend on the iteration you had. I remember very clearly that the touch interface was pretty good for a resistive touch screen, but I found icons and the interface to be made for ants and that was back when I had better than 20/20 vision. I also do remember that apps were pretty sparse.

    I think the interface was better than Palms interface and Blackberry's but the iPhone in particular had a better easier to navigate UI, and android (even though they took a little bit to catch up), also generally had a better interface.

    I feel like if you were a windows user it was fine. Other than that it just wasn't that great. But they didn't even try to compete once they got actual competition.

    Edit: My experience with Windows phone was from the Windows phone 5 interface (back when it was similar to the desktop client before they did their tile touch iteration to make it more like windows 8).

    So in fairness, it did get a little better but that was pretty much right before MS gave up on it entirely.

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