New smartphone?

I'm sorta in the market for a new smartphone. What I have now is a Motorola Q from 2006. I've been mostly happy with it (except that it wasn't a touchscreen device), but it's been giving me more and more trouble lately. And the cell coverage by Verizon is, frankly, horrid at my current place of residence. Which makes the phone rather useless for me at home.

Back when I bought the MotoQ, I made the mistake of not researching software requirements before buying. I didn't understand that the non-touchscreen version of Windows Mobile was not the same as the touchscreen version of Windows Mobile. Which means that there are a lot of applications that I simply cannot run on the MotoQ (especially Pocket Quicken).

So this time around, I'm going to go in the opposite direction and look at the software that I want to run, then decide what devices will run it.

Pocket Quicken

Oh look, Pocket Quicken now supports the non-touchscreen phones like MotoQ. Basically, I can go with anything except an iPhone or a Blackberry.

CityTime Alarms

Only works with Windows Mobile 5 & 6, or the PPC 2003 version. But there are also versions for SmartPhones and Palm OS.

Agenda One

Windows Mobile 5 & 6.

IM+

BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME, Palm OS and iPhone/iPod Touch!

zaTelnet Professional

MS Smartphones and Pocket PC