OT - iPhone

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:38:34 +0100, Trooper
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I'm no fan of cell phones but this Apple iPhone looks interesting. This
is one gadget
that I just might have to get more sooner than later.

From what I understand you can surf the net on this thing? Is that
correct?

Anybody think this could really be a gigantic must have item for the
next five years?
Anybody predicting this could revolutionize the phone/computer merger?
Sounds like
this thing could do it all like something off Star Trek.

Opinions?

Surfing the web on your phone is pretty usual these days isn't it? At
least it is in the UK. My past 2 phones have had full web browsing.


Do you really surf the net on your phone that much? How does the
battery hold up?


I hardly use it all, so the battery holds up fine However I have had
it available for use for at least the past couple of years.

I occasionally use it to google something if I'm out and about, or to
check online prices when shopping, but other than that, it's pretty
painful on a small screen.

I have no cell phone but would like a way to see the wunderground.com
weather radar when I'm about to commute home on my bike.

So far nothing has seemed cost-effective. I'd say it's worth
about a dollar on days when it's iffy as to rain showers moving through,
which is maybe 5 times a month. So $5 a month, or some usage-sensitive
charge.

Everybody wants subscriptions.

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:02:37 GMT, "Von Fourche"
wrote:



I'm no fan of cell phones but this Apple iPhone looks interesting. This
is one gadget
that I just might have to get more sooner than later.

From what I understand you can surf the net on this thing? Is that
correct?

Anybody think this could really be a gigantic must have item for the
next five years?
Anybody predicting this could revolutionize the phone/computer merger?
Sounds like
this thing could do it all like something off Star Trek.

Opinions?



I'll wait for a price drop. Or maybe just get a Blackberry.
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Boris wrote in message
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Maybe it's just me, but I've never understood why anyone would want to
watch or do things on a screen so small. Seems we're always looking for
larger monitors, larger TVs, larger camera LCDs...

It may be 'handy' once in a great while, but if that's the case, it's a
high price to pay for convenience for that one time.

I agree with the point about the screen size. I'm a pixel junkie. I was one
of the first to get a laptop computer with a UXGA display, and I have never
for a moment considered going back to anything with less resolution. I've
never been able to understand how someone could live with XGA. It's like
having tunnel vision. Screens on pocket-sized devices have always been a
joke - they either try to work with regular PC-based UIs, squeezing normal
web pages into a tiny window, leaving you to scroll all over the place, or
they drop back to text-based lists - and all at painfully slow speeds.

The real innovation in the iPhone (based on what I've seen in the online
demos (I definitely wasn't about to go wait in line at an Apple store)) is
that it makes the small screen usable. There was some real innovation in
human factors (which one would expect of Apple), but most importantly, they
didn't cheap out on hardware. They made the screen as big as they reasonably
could, they packed in as many pixels as they reasonably could, and they
included a graphics engine that was up to the task. Then when they turned
their programmers loose on it, they were able to put their creative talents
to work. As a phone, and as a music player, the iPhone appears to be
mediocre. But as a reference platform for all small-screen devices, they've
set the new standard. They'll probably never be able to take a significant
increase in market share away from MSFT for the computer desktop, but they
now have the opportunity to take control of all the small screen devices out
there. What they need to do now is get the licensing right. Make the
agreements too restrictive and no one will sign on. Make them too easy, and
someone else will take the initiative and grab control away from them.