After upgrading my phone to a nice shiny MDA Vario ii pocket PC the first thing I did was find out what I could actually do with it, this spawned 2 blog posts, Make your blog phone friendly and, Set up Bluetooth GPS on your phone. It was only a matter of time before I started poking around in the software and looking to see what was available, eventually I found this great forum XDA-Developers with tons of information on various brands of Smart phone and pocket PC. There are some very talented developers and programmers who post on this forum and share their hacks and versions of phone operating systems. The main current trend is to copy the look and functions of the iphone and emulate it on windows mobile as shown in the short video below.
As far as I am aware, enthusiasts have managed to replicate most of the functions of the iphone on pocket PC's and every day someone is coming up with a new hack! Seeing this is decided to try this and flash my ROM (phone memory) with one of these iphonealike operating system hacks. After restarting my phone the thing looked and worked amazingly and all for a free download and a quick flash of the ROM. I don't think apple will be too happy about this but I expect with the speed and open access of the internet they will be helpless to do anything about it! After "upgrading" my phone OS the whole thing is easier to use, you can navigate without the need for a fiddly stylus and it looks great! For other operating systems hacks available for windows mobile check out the XDA-Developers Forum you'll be amazed with what some people have came up with!
That is pretty cool. You can play with this as you walk by the line ups at the Apple store.