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Smartphone Shootout
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek's David DeJean makes the mistake of trying to compare the experience of Web surfing on a BlackBerry, Palm, and HTC smartphones to the experience on the iPhone. According to the DeJean, the three don't come close, but it's very interesting to read about the pros and cons of what can (and can't) be done with current mobile hardware and software."
What about the NokiaE70 (this
links to Maddox's comparison between E70 & IPhone.
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-1100-Prepaid-Phone-Tra cfone/dp/B000BF4406p /B000IEBSXG
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-1600-Phone-Unlocked/d
Not strictly a phone, but the nokia n800 has the best portable web I have experienced. 800x480 resolution combined with Opera works great for everything, including AJAX applications such as gmail.
Sounds like a problem on your client-side push setup. Whenever I see a message on or touched by a BlackBerry, it is completely stripped of all HTML. Same with Exchange Direct Push (unless you're running the latest software, which supports HTML email.)
I'm willing to bet you've never used an iPhone day to day for any signifcant amount of time.
I've had mine for a few weeks now. I use it for movies, music, my primary camera, and it is also my primary Internet connection because I have moral objections to giving comcast money. It is, of course my only phone as well.
I've never even come close to draining the battery in a single day, even using it to browse for hours while listening to music, or streaming h264 video over wifi, using it as a phone, etc.
Your claims are based entrely on uninformed opinion, and NOT any sort of experience or fact.
Also, the browsing experience is perfectly fine. The ability to easily and autmatically zoom to content negates the claim of screen real estate. Everything can be as large or as small as you like.
In short, you are a well spoken troll, but a troll nonetheless.
You offended the cult of Apple by insinuating that the iPhone was anything less than perfect. Thats why you got marked troll.
I'm not sure why the Nokia e61i was left out. I've never been a big cell phone freak; I moved up to an e61i after some twelve years of el cheapo nokias. QWERTY, excellent battery life, briliant screen (even in direct sunlight), wifi, superb call quality, superb speakerphone, the web browsing is a dream (has this handy zoom out feature, and when you scroll for a long time it zooms out also; totally usable). Dammit, it even has a 2 mp camera, blackberry software (though I don't use bb) and... here's the cracker, PYTHON! Doesn't get much more smart phone than that.
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Videos from that site are divided into 'try it at home' (safe) and 'don't try it at home' (unsafe). Blending fruit to make a drink is safe. Blending a crowbar to make iron filings is not.
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- allow you to use any song from your collection as a ringtone.
- allow you to share content-be it tones, music, pictures or video-over wifi/bluetooth with other devices/smartphone users.
- Let you simply use that entire 8 GB storage as a portable drive and copy whatever stuff u want onto it.(can it?)
- allow you to use any operator you like without having to be shackled to AT&T
- allow you to use any 3rd party application WITHOUT having to hack the firmware or do anything out of the ordinary.
Nokia and Sony-Ericsson devices let you do all that. It's just the simple philosophy at the heart of each one. Nokia/SE believe in letting the user be in complete control over their mobile phone, and to personalize it the way they want. You want to use it as a business phone? It can sync with Outlook/Notes. Music? Photography?Video? All these are supported, with no restrictions. 3rd party apps? The manufacturers realize that they cannot possibly cover every possible usage scenario, or think of everything a user might want. Hence an SDK for companies to create new apps and games. For example,check out miniGPS, which simulates GPS by detecting where you are within the GSM network and alerting you with reminders, or switching profiles (imagine phone automatically going to silent mode when you reach your office and reverting when you leave it). How about a bluetooth presentation director, so you can control a powerpoint presentation with your phone? It can be done.Or, check out Advanced Call Manager, that provides sophisticated control over who can contact you and when, and what recorded message to play for them. Or take Agile Messenger, that lets you chat on AIM,Yahoo,MSN,Google,ICQ and Jabber. There are several such companies offering hundreds of applications for smartphones and there's no limit to what you can find for your phone. Oh, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to use these applications, many average joes use them!
I agree that not everyone might want all these applications. But doesn't the same argument hold for your PC as well? You can customize a PC any way you want in terms of hardware, operating system, or other software. It's upto you- what you want and how much you're willing to pay for it.
It's about CHOICE. Putting choice in the hand of the consumer, based on the assumption that the consumer knows best what they want out of their phone. As opposed to something that's pretty to look at but strictly locked down, based on what Steve Jobs thinks you should be allowed to use, besides extorting money every step of the way.
Since this was about browsers-Check out the S60 browser as well as the response to the Reality Distortion Field regarding the iPhone's browser!! Finally, as an aside, what's up with depending on the operator to provide handsets? No wonder you get armtwisted into paying for ringtones and phones with crippled features. Or do you also buy your cars from the highway department? Nokia sells over the counter handsets, so all you need is a GSM SIM card. At least you'll get a fully featured phone that doesn't have features disabled!
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