Comparison Between Windows Mobile 6.1 and iPhone
Hey guys, Jon Rettinger here. So I’ve picked up the Pantech Matrix Pro from AT&T Wireless yesterday and I’ll be using it every since and I realized that I was getting a lot of questions about comparing it to the iPhone. So I want to give you guys a real quick demonstration of how Windows Mobile 6.1 Standards that’s a non-touch screen version compares with the iPhone on—some of the key features and the key things that you guys do on a daily basis. So I’m going to compare unlocking, changing ringtones, going from ring to vibrate, how to send a text message, how to view a webpage, adding a new contact and adding a new counter item. Some are just the most important things that you do on everyday basis. So just let me example of Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard and I’m going to use the Pantech Matrix obviously different windows, mobile devices, your experience made here adjust a little bit.
So the first thing both device are locked, let’s go ahead and unlock them. To unlock the Pantech Matrix and the Windows 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.1 go ahead and hit the button you got an unlock message right there and we’ll hit unlock that’s how easy to push the start key so slide this open and up is the start key and now the device is unlocked. To unlock the iPhone, push the button at the top of the device, slide that over and now the phone so unlocked.
So let’s say you’re going into a meeting, you’re going to class and you want to change your phone from ring to vibrate so you don’t distract whomever is around you. I’ll show you guys how to do that quick and easily on both devices. So on the Pantech which you’ll do is you take advantage of these sliding panels, you scroll down right to where it says profile, select it and select vibrate. Now it says vibrate right there this little icon at the top showing you that the phone is on vibrate. On the iPhone, to switch from ring to vibrate, take those switch on the side, give it a flip, a little icon right there letting you know you’re on vibrate and you are good to go.
So texting is a very big deal and important to me and I’m sure it’s important to you. Let me show you guys how to compose a text using the devices. So we’ll take advantage again on the sliding panels, we’ll go to the top, go to text messages and hit the compose button and now we can go ahead and start typing to and start typing a message. So it takes a few steps but not terribly difficult. On the iPhone, to send a text, we go ahead hit text, go right back out to messages and that’s really it and hit the compose button at the top and you are good to go; going back out to both of this.
Okay, the next thing and one thing that’s the most important to me on Mobile device is the web browsing. So how do you visit a webpage? So I’m going to show you guys that right now. Go ahead and open up the start menu, we’ll go to internet explorer and let’s go ahead and open up—let’s say you want to open up Pocketnow.com, so hit the menu button, address bar and then you can hit the delete to go back and you can start typing your address and there you go nothing too bad there. On the iPhone, you go ahead hit Safari, hit the bar at the top, soft keyboard automatically comes up and you can start typing your address, nice and easily there as well. So it’s back out at both of these screens. Okay and let’s say you want to add a new contact you just meet a new friends, just picked up a girl in the bar wherever it might be and you want to add her phone number so let me show you guys how to do that here. Again, we’ll use the sliding panels. So you want to go ahead and add a new contact, go to sliding panels right there at the top, you have a contacts button down below, hit the soft key, hit new and then now you can add a new contact nice and easily. To add a new contact on the iPhone, you can either go through the phone menu or hit contacts, post up your whole list of contacts here and hit the plus button and now you can add by first name, last name and whatever your choose.
Alright, let’s say you want to go ahead and change ring tones or seek of what you have as your standard and you want to hear something new. To change ring tones, on the Windows Mobile 6.1 once again you use those panels, slide over the ring tones, select it, pulls up your sounds manager and you can pick whatever tune you like. Find the one you want and just hit done. On the iPhone, to change ring tones, you have to go to settings, you have to go to sounds and here you can select your ring tones and you can scroll through and take a pick.
So let’s say you want to add a new calendar item. So on Windows Mobile, take to the calendar scrolling panels, new appointment go ahead and select it, subject, start date and you input it all right there. On the iPhone, you go ahead and hit calendar and again take advantage of that plus button and you can go through and start typing nice and easily right there. So guys, this is a real quick example of how different features and different basic functions work on the operating systems, Windows Mobile 6.1 standard so again that’s not touch screen and Apple’s iPhone. I hope you found this helpful. For exclusive contents you should follow me on Twitter, Twitter.com/Jon4Lakers and stay tuned in the coming days for a full review of the Pantech Matrix Pro. See you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.
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