Droid migration

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I've got tired of toting a laptop around to have something to do at doctor offices or whatever. The other day was doing some waiting room web browsing with the old Palm Windows Mobile Sprint phone, but it is an exercise in frustration except for news sites. Screen too small.

But I really like the small screen and easy-to-use keyboard on the gadget as a phone and personal organizer.

I have an IPod touch and don't like it very much. If I had to use an IPod touch as personal organizer, wouldn't be very happy. It would be even worse if it was also a cellphone. I wouldn't be an iPhone fan fer sure.

I have so much stuff in the Win Mobile phone. Appointment/daytimer, phone lists, TO-DO lists, shopping lists, important records. Shopping at wally world or home depot, the screen is plenty big for going thru a shopping list, cursoring thru and checking off items one-handed with dedicated real hardware keys. One handed operation a snap.

So was thinking maybe keep the Win Mobile phone till it wears out and maybe get a Motorola Xoom for web browsing and such.

HTC makes droids and also Win Mobile phones that look real good, with slide-out real keyboards. Was thinking maybe an HTC for the next phone, one OS or the other.

One problem with Win Mobile is that file syncing is closely tied with Outlook, and I don't use Outlook for anything else except syncing the phone. On the other hand iPhones, iPod Touch, iPad are just as tightly tied to iTunes, and I also hate iTunes.

Has anyone migrated from Win Mobile to a droid and transferred massive calendar, contact, and task lists? How did you do it, and was it easy or a nightmare?

If there was much chance of having to re-do substantial parts of what is in my phone (and backed up on Outlook), I'd probably upgrade to the latest-and-greatest HTC Win Mobile phone just to avoid having to manually duplicate the data. But the Android OS seems the most open or future-friendly OS, though of course Google is more likely to be the anti-christ than Microsoft or Apple.