iPhone is real [updated] [again]
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I'd like to feel the Braile Version... What with all those colourful bumps and stuff! Wonder if you get busy signals that ripple accross the touch pad? What happens if you put it on mute, put it down, and forget where you put it? Does it have a Kibbles and bits smell to it so that your seeing eye dog can find it for you? Have Apple really thought much about this, after all most phones these days are quite usable. Why pay $$$ for a phone, with a TV, and a radio and email - when you already have those things? Senario: I am driving my car (The reason you have Braile on the Drive up ATM's at Banks.) watching the news on my iphone - when all of a sudden it rings... Now even more distracted than before, and wanting to watch the news, with my radio playing in the background, I answer the phone call to say I'm busy at the moment, while now avoiding the car in front of me who is watching porn on his iphone (I know that because he's swerving!) So now I'm p'eed off because I missed the news, had to avoid an accident, and having trouble switching the phone off. As you can see I'm a fan of Weapons of Mass Distraction - Goooooo Apple, the members of the Accident Prone People's LeaguE (APPLE) love you. :cool:
Most normal mobile phones are shite to use. The smartphone variants are even worse. I welcome some Apple UI ideas for a mobile phone.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Looks cool, just too bad it is a phone! This is what the iPod should be like :)
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it gotta be a joke:-D
Be a diligent piggy.
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I don't think that is a "very important" thing, even in Europe. 3G is a bit of a failure and I reckon Apple is waiting for 4G rather. What do you want 3G for?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Here in Sweden 3G is really big. The net covers not far from 100% of the population so for us it's an important thing.
3G covers a lot of ground but usage is far below what the operators need to make money. Most users buy phones with 3G and don't use it or don't know they are using it. Those who do understand 3G are waiting for better packages such as flat-rate fees. 3G has been a big letdown and I doubt it will ever reach its potential. It will be replaced before it is used properly.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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3G covers a lot of ground but usage is far below what the operators need to make money. Most users buy phones with 3G and don't use it or don't know they are using it. Those who do understand 3G are waiting for better packages such as flat-rate fees. 3G has been a big letdown and I doubt it will ever reach its potential. It will be replaced before it is used properly.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Paul Watson wrote:
3G has been a big letdown
And surely it will be an even bigger letdown if phone manufacturers keep on releasing data orientated phones without support for it ;)
There are many phones already on the market with 3G support. They just aren't being used to their full. Apple isn't putting 3G into the iPhone because 3G coverage in the States is very poor. They will probably put 3G into the iPhone when it is released in Europe. It won't help 3G though and it will only be a selling feature, not a feature that many people use.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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There are many phones already on the market with 3G support. They just aren't being used to their full. Apple isn't putting 3G into the iPhone because 3G coverage in the States is very poor. They will probably put 3G into the iPhone when it is released in Europe. It won't help 3G though and it will only be a selling feature, not a feature that many people use.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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You make me curious! How come you know better than me about 3G and its usage here in Sweden, hehe?
I work in a telecomms research and innovation center in Ireland. Many of the projects here are trying to make use of 3G.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Most normal mobile phones are shite to use. The smartphone variants are even worse. I welcome some Apple UI ideas for a mobile phone.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Yeah, looks hot, but... It can't sync to Exchange, making it virtually useless in a corporate environment (the only way to truly have realtime access to email and contacts is through Outlook Web Access), the keyboard has no tactile feedback, which would undoubtably make typing laboriously slow, it can't open Word or Excel files which rules it out as a remote tool. It also doesn't support full WiFi and is not capable of being used with GSM worldwide (apparently the only carrier that supports it is Cingular)... erk! Essentially, the iPhone is the equivalent to gluing an iPod to an early 1990's cellphone... I'm really hope my boss doesn't buy one (either for himself or any of the other exec management team) cos then I'll have to support the wreched thing...
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Yeah, looks hot, but... It can't sync to Exchange, making it virtually useless in a corporate environment (the only way to truly have realtime access to email and contacts is through Outlook Web Access), the keyboard has no tactile feedback, which would undoubtably make typing laboriously slow, it can't open Word or Excel files which rules it out as a remote tool. It also doesn't support full WiFi and is not capable of being used with GSM worldwide (apparently the only carrier that supports it is Cingular)... erk! Essentially, the iPhone is the equivalent to gluing an iPod to an early 1990's cellphone... I'm really hope my boss doesn't buy one (either for himself or any of the other exec management team) cos then I'll have to support the wreched thing...
Apple knows there is a market of people who don't need Exchange and don't need to open Word or Excel files on a mobile phone. I am one of those people. As for GSM when it comes to Europe it will be open. And it will roam in Europe if bought in America on Cingular. As for the tactile argument we just don't know yet. It might be workable. Apple knows there is a huge market of people who want a good looking, easy to use phone. I am one of them.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.