other phones either cannot do it at all, or can do with difficulty Cellphones powered by Microsoft software can do things, that other phones either cannot do at all, or can do with difficulty. Generally there are 2 types of them: Microsoft smartphone (small screen, phone keypad) and Pocket PC phone (big touch screen, stylus), therefore everyone can find something for himself or herself!
The list of things you can do with Microsoft cellphones follows (in random order).
make regular telephone calls
read ebooks
Pocket PC phone: the cost free Microsoft Reader makes reading e-books a bliss! Moreover Microsoft provides totally free dictionaries: English-English, English-German, etc, etc - that are accessible with just 2 screen taps
Microsoft smartphone: no Microsoft Reader available, but several 3rd party readers available
listen to MP3 files (music, audiobooks, etc)
The pre-installed Windows Media Player supports not only WMV and WMA formats, but also MP3
browse Internet
the pre-installed Internet Explorer (IE) lets you browse not just WAP pages, but also regular HTML pages
record voice notes and play them
back
... and since all Microsoft cellphones feature SD card slot, the recording time may be long
watch movies
you can use for both and additional software like PocketMVP or PocketTV; sometimes you need to make down-convertion of video files, but generally the quality of playback is nice; moreover thanks to SD card slot that is available in all Microsoft cellphones you can store severa hundred MB of movies with ease!
play computer games
... not only as native applications, but also with several game console emulators, that are available both for Microsoft smartphone and for Pocket PC phones
view PDF files
... with free Adobe Reader for Pocket PC phones or with ClearVue PDF for Microsoft smartphones
listen to radio over Inernet
... with pre-installed Windows Media Player - no need to install some pesky Real player for this purpose
synchronize emails, appointments and contacts with Microsoft Outlook
use them as alarm clock
particularly Pocket PC phones are excellent in this role because you can set several alarms at once
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