Two FUNDAMENTAL Flaws with Xphone II :-(

I have found two fundamental problems with Xphone II:

1. AvantGo is not supported on the Microsoft Smartphone platform.
2. Skype for Pocket PC will not run on the Smartphone edition of MS Windows Mobile.

I realise that lacking WiFi, the Xphone II is not of any huge use to me for Skyping so this is no great loss but not being able to use AvantGo on my Xphone II is a true let-down for me.

I love the AvantGo service and have used it for years on various Palm devices. I was hoping to be able to carry my AvantGo offline content with me on the phone but find this is not possible so I'll still have to carry the aging Palm Vx. The Vx is pretty good but its lack of colour the fact that the screen is the old pre-transflective version mean that readability can be a bit sucky, to use an over technical term.

Looks like I'm off to the great Pocket PC RSS reader repository on the net to cobble together a substitute solution for my once-glorious AvantGo situation.