I love the new HTC Vogue XV6900 phone...

I have been using our mobile phones since the beta days and I have to say this Windows Mobile 6 Professional (PPC) phone is certainly one of the best I have owned. I wasn't sure about the white to start but I like it now and I can always 'skin' it later. It weights only 3.8 oz so it is very small. It is certainly smaller than the iPhone.  It also has the new HTC TouchFlo capabilities that is really slick so I can flick through 4 screens and people have modified that to accommodate as many as screens as you want.

                                                                                     

I decided to take it a step further with some customizations to make it even better. First, I installed WisBar Advance and WisBar Advanced Desktop from Lakeridge Software in order to really change the way my screen looks.

Next, I installed a custom TouchFlo 'cube' written by some other WM phone modders, I added in a bunch of other modifications written by others WM fanatics such as a Vista dialer, Vista keyboard, a really slick Weather application, a zoom browser from Piscel (we need to add our Pocket IE with this), an animated lockscreen slider, and finally an iPhone like today screen, etc. It really is an incredible phone now.

Here are some screen shots of what I did:

  

      Animated Fire lock screen           Today Screen with Wisbar  

  2nd Today Screen with Wisbar   Piscel Browser drag web pages

  

      Piscel Browser Zoom                              Weather app

 

           Weather app radar                    Custom TouchFlo cube 

 

   Custom TouchFlo cube side II

The nice part about my phone is I downloaded most of this from the web for free from various sites on the web such as Lakeridge Software forums, PPCGeeks HTC Touch forums, etc. Some of these Windows Mobile modder folks are super talented as you can see above and I was able to easily tweak their screens to my liking. 

I did purchase the Wisbar apps for the custom menus, icons, and custom today screen from Lakeridge for $20 bucks total. Well worth it. I know you guys will argue that an iPhone is still better and believe me it is very well done but the cool part about the Windows Mobile platform is the fact I can do any sort of modifications I like to the phone such as above and install any applications I like such as GPS apps, arcade games, game console emulators, productivity apps, IM, etc.

There is a nice shootout with iPhone and the HTC Touch here.  If you haven't played with some of the newer generation Windows Mobile 6 phones and upcoming 6.1 phones I strongly recommend you try one out.