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I had a "less is more" thought when I was debugging my girlfriend's HTC Touch Diamond last night. It's a Windows Mobile smartphone, and she deleted a program. Then she kept getting an error on startup telling her a component was missing and to reinstall the program. I ended up having to delete a shortcut from the Windows\Startup folder to fix it. Sometimes I wish phones just made calls!

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The problem is that Windows Mobile just sucks.

WM on HTC is pretty good. One of my major requirements is that a cellphone should be able to share its internet connection with my laptop. On the HTC that's easy (using bluetooth or USB, and it works with Vista,OS X,Linux). I'm in the market to get a new phone (and even move telco), but when I see the efforts involved in getting an iPhone, blackberry or Android device to do this kind of sharing/tethering, I just stick with HTC.

I just stick with HTC

You mean WM, but yes, this was a nice feature. Too bad nothing else on the phone was usable. (If you really want to tether, just get a dongle for your computer and save yourself the hassle. I find that Wifi is pretty much everywhere, though.)

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