What is there to say about the iPhone 3G that our readers haven't already heard? The browser: still awesome and still probably the best on a mobile device (though when SkyFire and Opera get their kinks worked out, we just may have to revisit that). The keyboard: better than most of the soft keyboards you'll find on Windows Mobile if only because of its incredibly good auto-correction. The applications: many are of a better quality than what's available on Windows Mobile, but they still haven't caught up the the breadth and power of what's available on Windows Mobile.

The real story between Windows Mobile and the iPhone platform is this: the iPhone has elegance while Windows Mobile has power, versatility, and openness. It's that last one that's clearly becoming a bigger factor in my mind as time goes on (as it is with the entire the entire WMExperts Team). Podcast downloading is the touchstone example of the moment, but there are plenty of others. I'll get into it quite a bit more in the final review, but for now, sit back and watch my video first take.

Meanwhile, WMExperts is taking most of the rest of the Thanksgiving holiday off, so posting will be pretty light and the podcast will be off this week. Have a safe and restful weekend, everybody!

Here you go, folks, our unboxing, hands-on, comparison, TouchFlo 3D (redux), Opera Mobile 9.5 video extravaganza with the all new Sprint Touch Diamond. We're loading the device up now to bring you a full review in the coming weeks and also to give it the same definitive iPhone video smackdown treatment we gave to the original Touch and iPhone.

Impressions: Everything we liked about the original Touch Diamond is here, but slightly faster. Sprint's crap-apps are less in-the-way, the added thickness doesn't bother us nearly as much as we thought it might (it's barely noticeable), and we're loving the red paint.

Questions: give 'em to us in the comments.

This week we chat up the Motorola Q9eeeech, the HP iPaq 900 series, and the 800w (again). Yes, we also talk about that “other Smartphone” you may have read about in the news.

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We just finished the iPhone 3G Live Blog over at our sister site, theiPhoneBlog.com. The big news for Windows Mobile users is twofold:

1. There was plenty of Windows Mobile mockery to be had. Most especially, they made fun of the Task Manager. The iPhone's solution is to offer a push notification feature to all developers in place of background tasks. While we here at WMExperts think that true multitasking is probably still a better way to go, we are a little jealous of the ability to have any developer be able to push out notifications for IM, Tweets, or whatever.
2. The iPhone 2.0 software is coming soon and it's going to drive a much bigger wedge in the Enterprise Smartphone space than we'd previously thought. We already knew that the new software will offer Exchange push email support. It's not as good as what's available natively on Windows Mobile, but it might be 'good enough.' The bigger news, though, is that 35% of the Fortune 500 companies took part in the SDK Beta program. That's a lot of big companies giving serious consideration to full iPhone support.

We'll add one more - Apple beat Microsoft to the punch as far as offering “Exchange services for the rest of us.” Their new MobileMe, while poorly named, is full push email, contacts, and calendar for Joe User. Sure, it's $100 bucks a year (ouch!), but it's getting to market before Microsoft was able to integrate and utilize the services they acquired by buying Danger.

What do you think? Do the new iPhone software services and features pose a more serious threat to Windows Mobile than they did before?