R&D is irrelevant. What matters is implementation.
lol. Enjoy implementing nothing because you didn't research and/or develop anything.
Would you care to contribute or are here for comedic relief? R&D without implementation is pretty pointless isn't it? Granted, R&D is required to have something to implement but what provides consumers with value is how good the implementation is. Case in point, AT&T has access to superior technology to Verizon but they have messed up the implementation.
I picked Canada because I live there. I don't know where you live but wireless service is fine here on the west coast. Wind is irrelevant because it uses a non-north American standard frequency and is only available in a handful of cities nowhere near where I live. I'm on Fido but here we have a choice of Fido (HSPA/HSPA+), Rogers (HSPA/HSPA+), Telus (CDMA and HSPA+) and Bell (CDMA and HSPA+).
Do you live on the prairies or the bush country of northern Ontario by any chance? If so, sucks to be you.
Have you actually travelled in Europe? I have travelled through out the European continent and England with my iPhone and I did not find their networks to be superior to what I have here at home on the west coast.
R&D is irrelevant. What matters is implementation.
This from the most technological advanced country on the planet.....
AT&T happy to take customers money, not willing to spend millions for a working network.
You forgot the sarcasm tag I'm hoping. The US is not the most technologically advanced country in North America let alone the planet. While AT&T was slowly rolling out 7.2, your neighbours to the North were rolling out 21Mbps HSDPA on the incumbent GSM carrier. While Verizon was busy coming up with clever ads to attack AT&T, Canadian CDMA carriers were getting ready to launch a coast to coast 21 Mbps HSDPA network and launch the iPhone 3GS on their network making the iPhone non-exclusive in Canada. A lot of technology that you take for granted every day was invented in Canada. The robotic arm used to construct the international space station was from Canada.
BTW. How is that LTE thing going for Verizon? Will we see come out before 2020?
I travel all over (in the US). I usually consult in city that are not the major metropolitan centers (in the US). If you are NOT in the major metros (in the US), Verizon wins 9 times out of 10. Once I got back on Verizon, covered (in the US).
If you don't travel, get the best signal provider in your area. If you travel (only in the US), Verizon is best.
There, I fixed that for you. A CDMA phone is going to be useless outside of the US unless you have a "world" phone which also includes a SIM and GSM radio for the rest of the world outside of the US. If you travel internationally, you are better off with a GSM/HSPA phone.
The iPhone is a GSM device. Sprint runs a CDMA network.
You have a reading comprehension problem. I was talking about Verizon and Sprint following in the footsteps of CDMA carriers in Canada by launching HSPA+ (3G GSM). The Canadian CDMA carriers are no longer CDMA exclusive and now have a 3G GSM network that is twice as fast as Sprint's 4G WiMax. Consequently, they now have access to all of those wonderful GSM only devices like the iPhone 3G and they are now official carriers of iPhone along side the incumbent Rogers (formerly Rogers AT&T).
There is no exclusivity for the iPhone. Verizon and Sprint could have the iPhone right now but they are not interested in getting devices like the iPhone because that would just turn them into a dumb pipe. Verizon is all about the V-cast and other services along with disabling WiFi and locking down ringtone downloading. That is how CDMA carriers operate.
There was nothing stopping Verizon and Sprint from launching 21 Mbps HSPA+ networks in the US like their CDMA counterparts in Canada did this November. Verizon is going to drag out the LTE deployment as long as they can because nobody is pressuring them to change their game plan and they can milk the marketplace for every cent possible using CDMA. Most Americans seems to think that CDMA is "good enough" but it is slower than HSPA 7.2 let alone 21 Mbps HSPA+. Heck, even Sprint's "4G" Wimax is twice as slow as HSPA+.
If you want real cellular competition, go to the source of the problem and pressure the CDMA carriers to beat AT&T at their own HSPA game. Canadians put on the pressure and the carriers did something about it. Are you really going to let us Canadians make your wireless industry look like a joke?
It seems that most American consumers are bashing their heads against the wall for no good reason because they have not been educated on how to properly handle customer service issues with services in high school. A basic economics class that teaches you how to deal with businesses effectively should be a required class in high school curriculum.
Rule 1. Never go to the store you bought your phone from unless the phone is actually defective. They cannot help you with reception problems caused by network configuration or a lack of towers. You are wasting their time and your own.
Rule 2. Call the right person. Do not call and complain to customer service for half an hour. You are not going to get any results and you are again wasting time. Get transferred to someone who can reset your cell settings on their end.
I had a problem of not being able to call on my 3GS when at on in 3G mode despite having full bars and when I turned off 2G, i fell into GPRS instead of Edge. I called my carrier (Fido in Canada) and went through their menu until I got to a real person. I explained my situation to her and she asked me to turn 3G back on and turn off my iPhone while she reset things on the network end. Then I was instructed to turn the iPhone back on, go into settings, General, Reset and select "Reset Network Settings". This caused the phone to give a progress bar, then reboot on its own. That solved my problem. I had to enter my WiFi key again to join my home network but other than that, nothing was lost.
Seriously folks, give this a try. Try pretending that you are a polite Canadian rather that a "proud" American with a sense of entitlement when talking to AT&T staff on the phone and you will be blown away by the service you get. The golden rule of the bible will open doors while arrogance will cause them to close on you swiftly. CSRs are there to help you but they are not to blame for your problems with cellular reception and store employees are there to help you with hardware, they cannot help you with your service efficiently.
Browse the web just fine? Is that a real web browser or I-mode because the latter is really just a beefed up WAP standard that requires pages be written specifically for I-mode phones and are usually only available through a walled garden I-mode portal run by the carrier.
Those "icons" are called emoji and the iPhone also has that feature enabled if you activate on a Japanese carrier or download one of many free emoji apps to trick the OS into allowing you to enable it.
I never said it doesn't have kanji support; the interface is just less-suited to the Japanese language than a normal cell phone. Most people don't want to sit around drawing kanji, anyway.
Uh, ok. So a physical numeric keypad is more intuitive. Well, the Kana keyboard is laid out like a keypad with autocomplete options for various possible words based on the first symbol entered. The drawing method for Chinese handwriting input. My mistake.
You enabled emoji with an application. Normal Japanese phones come with tons of emoji and kaomoji, no applications required. I don't think most people want to have to go around downloading applications for things they take for granted.
Ok, now I believe that you have definately never used an iPhone. I enabled the emoji keyboard built into the OS with an application. By default, iPhones not activated on Japanese carriers (I'm on Fido in Canada) do not have access to the emoji keyboard but some app store programs trick the iPhone OS into allowing users to enable the emoji keyboard. Once, enabled, the application can be deleted. iPhones sold by Japanese carriers will have emoji available as a Japanese keyboard option along with Kana and a QUERTY keyboard for easier latin script text entry while iPhones from other countries do not have emoji as an option under Japanese without running one of those hack applications.
So, what you are saying is that you don't like the official definition of what a smart phone is and you prefer to invent your own definition and words like "brew" phones. Has anyone else here heard the term before?
Pocket PC is hardly open. You have to use closed source development tools from MSFT that you have to pay for along with running windows. The SDK on window mobile is also anemic and poorly documented. You are getting a very cut down version of windows on the device. You can customize the lockscreen background, make your own bloody ringtones easily and the built in apps do multitask on the iPhone. Third-party apps are required to close down and save their state to preserve performance and battery life. You have a very narrow view of what a smart phone is.
Get back to us when you stop using made up words like "brew" phones.
the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the full site
That means that they were measuring the traffic on the full site based on the logs which contain user agent strings. Those strings can be parsed for browser type and platform it is running on. They were not measuring the traffic on a dumbed down mobile site.
This leaves two possiblities.
1. Blackberry users do not surf because they know how crappy their browser is.
2. The browser on Blackberry devices is too crappy to handle the full site and gets redirected to a mobile version.
Can someone please define 'smartphone. Until then, such statistics mean little. The only meaningful ones are shares of the entire phone market. Which for Q4 2009 is about 2.5% globally. Probably higher in the US, but I couldn't find US-only (or North America) figures.
Sure, a smart phone can access email services using standard protocols such as pop3 and IMAP. It also has a browser that supports HTML and Javascript rather than WAP or I-Mode. Most smartphones also have support for rich contact lists with photos, addresses, email address as well as listing phone numbers.
Other features like third party apps and Exchange support do not make or break being called a smart phone but they contribute to the usefulness of a smartphone device.
Sorry, but what is your definition of a smart phone? The iPhone has third party apps, an official native SDK, a browser that supports HTML 5 and AJAX, an email client that supports HTML email using Exchange, Pop3 or IMAP and a calendar app that supports Google calendars through the iCAL protocol.
There are plenty of SSH and VNC clients for the iPhone.
Is your definition of a smart phone, a device that runs servers? Servers have no place on any phone other than for the "nerd" cool factor. You can run servers on the iPhone without jailbreaking, they just cannot run in the background.
The built in apps do multi-task and customizing a phone is not a measure of what a smart phone is to most people.
The iPhone does have Kanji support including the ability to draw the characters with your finger. It also has emoji support. In fact, I enabled emoji on my Canadian iPhone with a free app that unlocks it on non-Japanese phones. It has a useful texting interface. Have you even used an iPhone recently?
The creator of I-mode would tend to disagree with you.
Even i-mode's creator, Takeshi Natsuno, has stated "I believe the iPhone (a phone that uses the traditional TCP/IP model) is closer to the mobile phone of the future, compared with the latest Japanese mobile phones."[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imode
I-mode is basically a supped up version of WAP where you access a bunch of services based on what your carrier wants to let you access. The iPhone supports HTML and AJAX as well as standard protocols for email like IMAP, POP3 and Exchange as well as iCal for Google calendar. That, my friend is what a smart phone does. If it does WAP or I-mode, then it is not a smart phone.
It is back when engadget suddenly declared '99% of smartphone traffic on our mobile-specific website is from iphone' - the reason was that blackberry was identifying itself as full browser while engadget only targetted mobile specific browser and did the calculation.
Did you pull that out of your ass? Are you telling me that the default blackberry browser impersonated another browser? They would have the user agent string for blackberry devices in their logs.
No, I just find it laughable that people choose to put up with gaming hardware that has a 30% failure rate. If it was any other product, there would be a complete recall of the production line.
Flash? Yeah, they have some flash exporter but it produces crap code. The only reason why those flash exported games were allowed on the store was to prevent an outcry on the web. The code the exporter produces uses private apis which is against the SDK rules and it loads everything into memory limiting how much graphics and sound you can have. Natively written apps load gfx and sound on the fly as you need them.
Wait they like iPhone? How can this be? But I thought XBox is unpopular in Japanese because they hate foreign products. I guess all this time it was because XBox sucks.
The Japanese will buy foreign products but they are not willing to put up with half-assed foreign crap like the XBox 360 which has a failure rate in the double digits. They only buy crap from overseas (windows) when there is no other viable choice.
I can understand wanting to phase out personal cheques but a bank draft is a payment instrument that is drawn ahead of time into the account of the bank that issues it. How do they handle large purchases without at least a bank draft?
The current suit is brought in the name of Erik Andersen. Erik worked for an embedded Linux company, now defunct, for a few years and was paid to maintain Busybox during that time. During that time the company's name appeared in copyright statements, and mine mostly disappeared.
Why then does this have anything to do with Erik? It is not his code. He was paid to write it and the copyright was assigned to his employer.
Just ignore him, he states he's a Finn, but it was only the other week that he was a Canadian:
So, it is impossible for me to be both? I was born in Finland and I have citizenship there. I'm also a Canadian citizen. People can be dual-citizens you know.
I got the patents wrong and I'm not afraid to admit that mistake. Why don't you sign up for an account Mr. Coward? Nokia is trying to patent Wifi on a cellphone and a bunch of other obvious things that anyone would likely stumble across naturally. Nokia is just trying to protect their cartel.
Nokia has patented using Wifi on a cellphone. I'm sorry but the device is irrelevant. Unless Nokia invented WiFi, they have no business trying to patent some other person's work just because they implemented it on a new device. It is still a standard that was created by other people.
Also, it is inconceivable that Nokia wants to collect a percentage of the handset prices when, except for the cellular radio and related software, the iPhone is basically an iPod Touch and you don't see them going after Apple for it do you? If 70% of the cost of the device is not covered by Nokia's patents, why should they get a percentage of the price of the entire device?
Furthermore, shouldn't it be Infineon and other suppliers of GSM related components who pay the royalty fees? Why should the handset makers pay?
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R&D is irrelevant. What matters is implementation.
lol. Enjoy implementing nothing because you didn't research and/or develop anything.
Would you care to contribute or are here for comedic relief? R&D without implementation is pretty pointless isn't it? Granted, R&D is required to have something to implement but what provides consumers with value is how good the implementation is. Case in point, AT&T has access to superior technology to Verizon but they have messed up the implementation.
It's almost 2010 and we have yet to see any announcements let alone handsets or even an established standard for transmitting voice over LTE.
Do you live on the prairies or the bush country of northern Ontario by any chance? If so, sucks to be you.
Have you actually travelled in Europe? I have travelled through out the European continent and England with my iPhone and I did not find their networks to be superior to what I have here at home on the west coast.
R&D is irrelevant. What matters is implementation.
This from the most technological advanced country on the planet.....
AT&T happy to take customers money, not willing to spend millions for a working network.
You forgot the sarcasm tag I'm hoping. The US is not the most technologically advanced country in North America let alone the planet. While AT&T was slowly rolling out 7.2, your neighbours to the North were rolling out 21Mbps HSDPA on the incumbent GSM carrier. While Verizon was busy coming up with clever ads to attack AT&T, Canadian CDMA carriers were getting ready to launch a coast to coast 21 Mbps HSDPA network and launch the iPhone 3GS on their network making the iPhone non-exclusive in Canada. A lot of technology that you take for granted every day was invented in Canada. The robotic arm used to construct the international space station was from Canada.
BTW. How is that LTE thing going for Verizon? Will we see come out before 2020?
I travel all over (in the US). I usually consult in city that are not the major metropolitan centers (in the US). If you are NOT in the major metros (in the US), Verizon wins 9 times out of 10. Once I got back on Verizon, covered (in the US).
If you don't travel, get the best signal provider in your area. If you travel (only in the US), Verizon is best.
There, I fixed that for you. A CDMA phone is going to be useless outside of the US unless you have a "world" phone which also includes a SIM and GSM radio for the rest of the world outside of the US. If you travel internationally, you are better off with a GSM/HSPA phone.
The iPhone is a GSM device. Sprint runs a CDMA network.
You have a reading comprehension problem. I was talking about Verizon and Sprint following in the footsteps of CDMA carriers in Canada by launching HSPA+ (3G GSM). The Canadian CDMA carriers are no longer CDMA exclusive and now have a 3G GSM network that is twice as fast as Sprint's 4G WiMax. Consequently, they now have access to all of those wonderful GSM only devices like the iPhone 3G and they are now official carriers of iPhone along side the incumbent Rogers (formerly Rogers AT&T).
There was nothing stopping Verizon and Sprint from launching 21 Mbps HSPA+ networks in the US like their CDMA counterparts in Canada did this November. Verizon is going to drag out the LTE deployment as long as they can because nobody is pressuring them to change their game plan and they can milk the marketplace for every cent possible using CDMA. Most Americans seems to think that CDMA is "good enough" but it is slower than HSPA 7.2 let alone 21 Mbps HSPA+. Heck, even Sprint's "4G" Wimax is twice as slow as HSPA+.
If you want real cellular competition, go to the source of the problem and pressure the CDMA carriers to beat AT&T at their own HSPA game. Canadians put on the pressure and the carriers did something about it. Are you really going to let us Canadians make your wireless industry look like a joke?
Rule 1. Never go to the store you bought your phone from unless the phone is actually defective. They cannot help you with reception problems caused by network configuration or a lack of towers. You are wasting their time and your own.
Rule 2. Call the right person. Do not call and complain to customer service for half an hour. You are not going to get any results and you are again wasting time. Get transferred to someone who can reset your cell settings on their end.
I had a problem of not being able to call on my 3GS when at on in 3G mode despite having full bars and when I turned off 2G, i fell into GPRS instead of Edge. I called my carrier (Fido in Canada) and went through their menu until I got to a real person. I explained my situation to her and she asked me to turn 3G back on and turn off my iPhone while she reset things on the network end. Then I was instructed to turn the iPhone back on, go into settings, General, Reset and select "Reset Network Settings". This caused the phone to give a progress bar, then reboot on its own. That solved my problem. I had to enter my WiFi key again to join my home network but other than that, nothing was lost.
Seriously folks, give this a try. Try pretending that you are a polite Canadian rather that a "proud" American with a sense of entitlement when talking to AT&T staff on the phone and you will be blown away by the service you get. The golden rule of the bible will open doors while arrogance will cause them to close on you swiftly. CSRs are there to help you but they are not to blame for your problems with cellular reception and store employees are there to help you with hardware, they cannot help you with your service efficiently.
Those "icons" are called emoji and the iPhone also has that feature enabled if you activate on a Japanese carrier or download one of many free emoji apps to trick the OS into allowing you to enable it.
I never said it doesn't have kanji support; the interface is just less-suited to the Japanese language than a normal cell phone. Most people don't want to sit around drawing kanji, anyway.
Uh, ok. So a physical numeric keypad is more intuitive. Well, the Kana keyboard is laid out like a keypad with autocomplete options for various possible words based on the first symbol entered. The drawing method for Chinese handwriting input. My mistake.
You enabled emoji with an application. Normal Japanese phones come with tons of emoji and kaomoji, no applications required. I don't think most people want to have to go around downloading applications for things they take for granted.
Ok, now I believe that you have definately never used an iPhone. I enabled the emoji keyboard built into the OS with an application. By default, iPhones not activated on Japanese carriers (I'm on Fido in Canada) do not have access to the emoji keyboard but some app store programs trick the iPhone OS into allowing users to enable the emoji keyboard. Once, enabled, the application can be deleted. iPhones sold by Japanese carriers will have emoji available as a Japanese keyboard option along with Kana and a QUERTY keyboard for easier latin script text entry while iPhones from other countries do not have emoji as an option under Japanese without running one of those hack applications.
Pocket PC is hardly open. You have to use closed source development tools from MSFT that you have to pay for along with running windows. The SDK on window mobile is also anemic and poorly documented. You are getting a very cut down version of windows on the device. You can customize the lockscreen background, make your own bloody ringtones easily and the built in apps do multitask on the iPhone. Third-party apps are required to close down and save their state to preserve performance and battery life. You have a very narrow view of what a smart phone is.
Get back to us when you stop using made up words like "brew" phones.
the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the full site
That means that they were measuring the traffic on the full site based on the logs which contain user agent strings. Those strings can be parsed for browser type and platform it is running on. They were not measuring the traffic on a dumbed down mobile site.
This leaves two possiblities.
1. Blackberry users do not surf because they know how crappy their browser is.
2. The browser on Blackberry devices is too crappy to handle the full site and gets redirected to a mobile version.
Can someone please define 'smartphone. Until then, such statistics mean little. The only meaningful ones are shares of the entire phone market. Which for Q4 2009 is about 2.5% globally. Probably higher in the US, but I couldn't find US-only (or North America) figures.
Sure, a smart phone can access email services using standard protocols such as pop3 and IMAP. It also has a browser that supports HTML and Javascript rather than WAP or I-Mode. Most smartphones also have support for rich contact lists with photos, addresses, email address as well as listing phone numbers.
Other features like third party apps and Exchange support do not make or break being called a smart phone but they contribute to the usefulness of a smartphone device.
There are plenty of SSH and VNC clients for the iPhone.
Is your definition of a smart phone, a device that runs servers? Servers have no place on any phone other than for the "nerd" cool factor. You can run servers on the iPhone without jailbreaking, they just cannot run in the background.
The built in apps do multi-task and customizing a phone is not a measure of what a smart phone is to most people.
The iPhone does have Kanji support including the ability to draw the characters with your finger. It also has emoji support. In fact, I enabled emoji on my Canadian iPhone with a free app that unlocks it on non-Japanese phones. It has a useful texting interface. Have you even used an iPhone recently?
Even i-mode's creator, Takeshi Natsuno, has stated "I believe the iPhone (a phone that uses the traditional TCP/IP model) is closer to the mobile phone of the future, compared with the latest Japanese mobile phones."[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imode I-mode is basically a supped up version of WAP where you access a bunch of services based on what your carrier wants to let you access. The iPhone supports HTML and AJAX as well as standard protocols for email like IMAP, POP3 and Exchange as well as iCal for Google calendar. That, my friend is what a smart phone does. If it does WAP or I-mode, then it is not a smart phone.
It is back when engadget suddenly declared '99% of smartphone traffic on our mobile-specific website is from iphone' - the reason was that blackberry was identifying itself as full browser while engadget only targetted mobile specific browser and did the calculation.
Did you pull that out of your ass? Are you telling me that the default blackberry browser impersonated another browser? They would have the user agent string for blackberry devices in their logs.
Veiled raging at Microsoft.
No, I just find it laughable that people choose to put up with gaming hardware that has a 30% failure rate. If it was any other product, there would be a complete recall of the production line.
Flash? Yeah, they have some flash exporter but it produces crap code. The only reason why those flash exported games were allowed on the store was to prevent an outcry on the web. The code the exporter produces uses private apis which is against the SDK rules and it loads everything into memory limiting how much graphics and sound you can have. Natively written apps load gfx and sound on the fly as you need them.
Wait they like iPhone? How can this be? But I thought XBox is unpopular in Japanese because they hate foreign products. I guess all this time it was because XBox sucks.
The Japanese will buy foreign products but they are not willing to put up with half-assed foreign crap like the XBox 360 which has a failure rate in the double digits. They only buy crap from overseas (windows) when there is no other viable choice.
I can understand wanting to phase out personal cheques but a bank draft is a payment instrument that is drawn ahead of time into the account of the bank that issues it. How do they handle large purchases without at least a bank draft?
The current suit is brought in the name of Erik Andersen. Erik worked for an embedded Linux company, now defunct, for a few years and was paid to maintain Busybox during that time. During that time the company's name appeared in copyright statements, and mine mostly disappeared.
Why then does this have anything to do with Erik? It is not his code. He was paid to write it and the copyright was assigned to his employer.
Just ignore him, he states he's a Finn, but it was only the other week that he was a Canadian:
So, it is impossible for me to be both? I was born in Finland and I have citizenship there. I'm also a Canadian citizen. People can be dual-citizens you know.
I got the patents wrong and I'm not afraid to admit that mistake. Why don't you sign up for an account Mr. Coward? Nokia is trying to patent Wifi on a cellphone and a bunch of other obvious things that anyone would likely stumble across naturally. Nokia is just trying to protect their cartel.
Also, it is inconceivable that Nokia wants to collect a percentage of the handset prices when, except for the cellular radio and related software, the iPhone is basically an iPod Touch and you don't see them going after Apple for it do you? If 70% of the cost of the device is not covered by Nokia's patents, why should they get a percentage of the price of the entire device?
Furthermore, shouldn't it be Infineon and other suppliers of GSM related components who pay the royalty fees? Why should the handset makers pay?
My mistake. Nokia's patents are equally ridiculous as they are trying to patent Wifi use on a mobile device. The device is irrelevant.