April Expert Round-Up: The feature/s I would add to Windows Mobile!!

April showers are bringing flash floods down here in lovely Ft Walton Beach, FL (where I happen to be working), and the monthly topic is proving to be at least as timely as the much needed rain--what with a new version of WM looming over iPhone like a thundercloud...maybe I exaggerate a bit. What I can state as fact, however, is that "TalkStreamLive" was the lucky winner of the VITO Communications Suite giveaway! Who needs an iPhone, when you can add all the animated goodies to WM using Communication Suite? Below is the summary (and links) to our experts' excellent enhancement suggestions for this month's topic, so hey MS? Listen up!...

Tari Akpodiete: Tari doesn't like jumping through hoops to play flash-based and QuickTime video files...

Tariq Bamadhaj: Hits the high-points of improving the touch interface, adding OTA system updates, and allowing Active Sync to support other mail and PIM programs (amen to that)!

Hal Goldstein: Hal wants "iPhone"-like multimedia capabilities, specifically a richer built-in player and browser that can support YouTube and internet radio. He also wants control of appointments with time zone changes, and Microsoft supplied automatic updates.

Dale Daniels: Dale admits to dallying with the iPod Touch (the shame), and thinks MS should advance WM suffienctly to allow us to finally throw away the stylus. Darn, stylus shopping used to be my excuse for going to the computer store...

Al Harrington: Says WM is fine the way it is, by golly! Hmmm, he may be right!

Tim Hillebrand: Tim outlines a laundry list of tweaks and enhancements that is almost a boilerplate system requirements document...the developers at MS and the OEMs might want to take the time to check this one out.

Mike Riley: Wants his next WM device to be like Steve Austin (if you don't know, google the "Six-Million Dollar Man"). Smarter, faster, slimmer, and better than ever before!

Several of our readers also contributed some great suggestions. One I agree heartily with (thanks nikia) was that MS ought to at least feature one or 2 decent games embedded within the OS. Bubble-breaker was lame back when it was new. I took the easy way out, and suggested that MS implement a real close button here. Thanks to everyone who participated, and commented, etc. A special thanks to VITO for sponsoring the giveway. Tune in next month for another great Expert round-up...