Iphone vs other smartphones
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With Apple it's a case of "you'll get what you're given and be happy with it". That's why there's such a rampant jailbreaking scene. Jailbreaking has many advantages and no disadvantages. A lot of the moans from dusk2dawn can be addressed with third party applications. For proper business use most people simply want Exchange/Calendaring and bluetooth to hook it into their car. SMS forwarding and all that crap is kiddie territory. Business cards have always been a farce as different phone vendors use different formats anyway.
Currently A2DP requires the use of a bluetooth dongle, but there is a third-party bluetooth stack being developed as we speak which should provide all the usual bluetooth profiles you might want.
I spent the weekend modifying and compiling OpenOffice Calc for iPhone, which needs a little further development, but does work.
So it's not all bad news, just depends on whether you're prepared to spend a bit of time getting it fine tuned. From a hardware and aesthetics perspective it destroys most other phones.
Currently A2DP requires the use of a bluetooth dongle, but there is a third-party bluetooth stack being developed as we speak which should provide all the usual bluetooth profiles you might want.
I spent the weekend modifying and compiling OpenOffice Calc for iPhone, which needs a little further development, but does work.
So it's not all bad news, just depends on whether you're prepared to spend a bit of time getting it fine tuned. From a hardware and aesthetics perspective it destroys most other phones.
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From: Land of Ice and Fire
dusk to dawn..I assume that your statement that the iPhone is a joke, comes from hours, days, weeks or months of dissatisfied usage? Or is it like the EU people that preferred the Russian satellite positioning system over the US GPS, because the specs were so much better. Of course, they lacked receivers, production facilities etc......
If the iPhone is a joke, then I will laugh for a long time. There are a couple small things I would change, but this will come. In the meantime, it is by far the best device I have had in my pocket. The SMS ferature of being able to follow a conversation for months back, is SUPER! All my photos, easily accessed, some great games, a full ipod, saves me taking out the laptop at airports....yeah, some joke!
Woohoo!
If the iPhone is a joke, then I will laugh for a long time. There are a couple small things I would change, but this will come. In the meantime, it is by far the best device I have had in my pocket. The SMS ferature of being able to follow a conversation for months back, is SUPER! All my photos, easily accessed, some great games, a full ipod, saves me taking out the laptop at airports....yeah, some joke!
Woohoo!
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Ferry,
I'm relatively neutral when it comes to fan-boyism, but I would like to point out that most of the features you just described are SOP on a number of modern smartphones, not least of which the Touch HD which I plumped for in the end.
Threaded SMS conversations - check
Photos, easily accessed and displayed in glorious resolution - check
Great games - I'll grant you that the iphone has some good ones, but there are a few good ones for winmobile if you can be bothered to pay for them. I can't because I'm tight... But sudoku, chess, the little ball maze thing and a couple of others do well enough to pass the time when I'm a bit bored
Ipod in a phone - check (although a little digging is required to find software as good as the ipod stuff on the iphone, the stuff out of the box was good for small collections of music, but perhaps had not been designed with a 16gb memory card in mind!)
ChiefE - Google for XDA developers forum, have a look at the Diamond section in the forums and see if anyone has a solution for you, there are numerous upgrades (official and otherwise) kicking around that you may or may not know about. One disadvantage against some non-iphone devices, harder to get hold of updates (but at least we don't have to use Itunes!)
I'm relatively neutral when it comes to fan-boyism, but I would like to point out that most of the features you just described are SOP on a number of modern smartphones, not least of which the Touch HD which I plumped for in the end.
Threaded SMS conversations - check
Photos, easily accessed and displayed in glorious resolution - check
Great games - I'll grant you that the iphone has some good ones, but there are a few good ones for winmobile if you can be bothered to pay for them. I can't because I'm tight... But sudoku, chess, the little ball maze thing and a couple of others do well enough to pass the time when I'm a bit bored
Ipod in a phone - check (although a little digging is required to find software as good as the ipod stuff on the iphone, the stuff out of the box was good for small collections of music, but perhaps had not been designed with a 16gb memory card in mind!)
ChiefE - Google for XDA developers forum, have a look at the Diamond section in the forums and see if anyone has a solution for you, there are numerous upgrades (official and otherwise) kicking around that you may or may not know about. One disadvantage against some non-iphone devices, harder to get hold of updates (but at least we don't have to use Itunes!)
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From: Tracey Island
Not being a Mac/Apple fan boy, I put off getting the IPhone for a long time. Completely missed the first version.
Now that I have one, I can only say I'm glad I didn't choose one of the others out there.
A lot of people I know are having problems with their winmobile phones. (Not all granted) and wish they had gone for the Iphone instead. Of those with the IPhone, well none seem to regret the decision.
The longer I have it and the more Apps I discover a use for the more amazed I am by it.
Horses for courses I suppose. It ticks all the boxes for me.....and I haven't even done a jailbreak..... yet.....
Now that I have one, I can only say I'm glad I didn't choose one of the others out there.
A lot of people I know are having problems with their winmobile phones. (Not all granted) and wish they had gone for the Iphone instead. Of those with the IPhone, well none seem to regret the decision.
The longer I have it and the more Apps I discover a use for the more amazed I am by it.
Horses for courses I suppose. It ticks all the boxes for me.....and I haven't even done a jailbreak..... yet.....
