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(giving us wonderful mind-numbing features like a "Start" button and walking menus on a 3 inch phone screen)

Actually, installing the extension QuickMenu made the Start menu much more like the Desktop start menu and consequently infinitely more useable (with a stylus, of course):
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-quickmenu-v2-7.html

Two-dimensional icon grids or 'tiles' are generally terrible. The only valid use I've ever seen for them is when the 'icon' is actually a preview of the content, such as image galleries. For everything else, straight one-dimensional lists make much more sense (Windows Explorer: ALT+V, D).

http://crackberry.com/free-blackberry-storm-lightsaber-app-emerges

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-htc-light-saber-v1-0.html

http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/195472-dklightsaber-lightsaber-app.html

These don't count? Never underestimate nerds and homebrew.

You jest, but it's a big issue. It's got no lock-in like Android and iPhone UI, MS don't gimp your phone if you try and unlock it (and nor do the carriers) and there are plenty of useful (read: Not involving boobs, fart noises, or hideous bright colours) and mature applications for the platform from several websites listed on Google search.

The UI reponse and stability issues are really all that anyone who owned a WinMobile phone after version 5 complained about.

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ has some decent apps.

It isn't vim or emacs, but it might do for you: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-ppcedit-v1-4.html

Generally the best video player for Windows Mobile is this one: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tcpmp-v0-72rc1.html

And I use Visual Studio 2k5 with the .NET Compact Framework (and the emulator for debugging).

Layne

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ has some decent apps.

It isn't vim or emacs, but it might do for you: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-ppcedit-v1-4.html

Generally the best video player for Windows Mobile is this one: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tcpmp-v0-72rc1.html

And I use Visual Studio 2k5 with the .NET Compact Framework (and the emulator for debugging).

Layne

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ has some decent apps.

It isn't vim or emacs, but it might do for you: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-ppcedit-v1-4.html

Generally the best video player for Windows Mobile is this one: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tcpmp-v0-72rc1.html

And I use Visual Studio 2k5 with the .NET Compact Framework (and the emulator for debugging).

Layne

Here's my setup for when I need to do remote support while on the move:

HTC Kaiser (also sold as HTC P4550, TyTN II & AT&T Tilt 8925)

The phone has a slide-out keyboard which is quite useable and a 240 x 320-pixel, 2.8-inch display. Bluetooth and wifi (802.11g). The TyTN II is a quad-band handset with 3G and HSDPA and it also has GPS + Tomtom satnav!

PockeTTY

VNC

WM6 Remote Desktop (RDP)- can be downloaded from here if not pre-installed.

Roll-up fabric bluetooth keyboard

More phone info in the user forums and wiki:
http://www.htcforums.com/kaiser-tilt-tytn-p4550-f13/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=377
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Kaiser