I had an HTC Touch Pro and I now have an Applie iPhone. Both are/were connected to our company Exchnage server. No real difference in performance between the two, in terms of speed of the push, that is down to the network operator and the exchange server.

In terms of use, the iPhone stood head and shoulders over the htc. The email and calendar programs just don't like working with fingers, I don't think WM 6.5 has really improved in this area.

The only plus point is the notes and todo sections of Exchange, these are synced on the WM phone, but the iPhone doesn't sync with OneNote for notes and just doesn't do ToDo lists - although there are several apps which bring the ability to the iPhone, most under a tenner and money well spent, if you use them.

The Apple can read Office documents and PDFs as part of an Email, but can't load files or edit them. Again, there are severl apps available at different price points which bring the ability to the phone.

All in all, I wouldn't go back to the htc WM phones, at least not in their current form. When Windows Mobile 7 comes along... Maybe.

Cloaked_Wolf,

I haven't used Windows with my iPhone, so I don't know, but on the Mac, you go to the iPhone in iTunes and you can say which albums are to be transferred, so you can copy everything or specific albums, I assume it works similarly on the PC? You can select which folders to copy or not?

Am I right in thinking you cannot use MP3 music on the iPhone - if so thats a big negative point as I do not have any iTunes music just loads of "old fashioned" (?!) CD's which I rip to MP3.

I have about 4,500 MP3 tunes on my iPhone and I have dozens of MP3 podcasts I download every week, no problems.

WMA / WMV would be a problem, but MP3 is fine.

AAC is the "native" format, but the iPod / iPhone can happily play MP3.

Edit: I haven't downloaded any tunes from iTunes Music Store, I only have the CDs I bought over the years, which were also all in MP3. New stuff I rip in AAC, as the quality is a bit better.

To be honest though, I don't listen to much music these days, just the podcasts - the iPhone speaker is adequate to listen to podcasts in the car, with the iPhone either in my shirt pocket or in the hand hold in the door.

Thanks for that re. MP3 - most of my music is in MP3 format - Win7 does not seem to let you rip to AAC so I have mine set to MP3 at 320Kbps which sounds good.

Is your old SIM on the same network as your new SIM?

If so just pop your old SIM in and import the contacts.

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Once your card is in the iphone then go to settings, mail and then scroll to the bottom and you will see it say import sim contacts. Choose that option and job done.

Sync your old phone & sim with Outlook then sync your iphone with Outlook (that's what I did)

They're in the Nokia's memory so that won't work I'd already swapped the SIM over anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

I'm thinking that maybe the easiest idea. Not quite sure if putting Outlook onto a laptop with Lotus Notes is a good idea though.

An explaination of all the methods is nicely explained HERE

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iTunes rips to AAC, you'll need iTunes to use an iPhone. I also downloaded the corporate configuration tool for the iPhone, we have a "fleet" of 3 phones now; the directors never likes their BlackBerrys and swapped to iPhones after seeing mine. They love them, the only complaint being that the battery life is pathetic after the BB (they recharge that once a week, not daily).

Update time... I got the HTC HD2 yesterday, mainly because I still like Windows Mobile, but also I couldn't really justify spending £90 on a mobile, or £45 on a monthly contract to ger the phone for free.

I'll take a week or so of using the HTC before I say too much else, but first impressions are very good.

Thanks for all of your opinions and advice everyone.

Well I've decided to go for the iPhone GS on O2 network.

Should arrive Tuesday.

Hope I dont regret decision.

I don't think you will.

I had a nice story from a mate the other day.

He manages the servers at a local big company. He was on the way home on the bus when he gets an urgent Email on his iPhone. The server had gone down. So he had a bit of search on the App store, finds a free remote desktop app and downloads it to the iPhone. He uses it to access his server and fix the problem before he had reached his stop.

His face looked like this >

He tells me it is the best phone he has ever owned. He even got the phone free on T Mobile. (Don't ask me how I didn't even know they carried the phone.)

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I've got one of those from work.

Not bad but a little clunky especially when changing the call forwarding options