Thats a joke. Multi-touch gave you zooming and the ability to TRY and replace real buttons in game play.
In return is removed your ability to select text and cut and paste. Thats a joke.
There are many other ways of implementing zooming. An on screen slider would be one simple example, another would be the scroll wheel on the HTC Diamond for example.
The samsung Omnia has a 3.2 inch 400x240 screen, and is 0.5 inches and weights 5 ounces, and uses a better implementation of exchange activesync than the iPhone.
Windows Mobile integrates very well with Exchange server, with over 160 million installations, and much cheaper than Blackberry, and more flexible. There is wider device choice and price points, and the device is more programmable, and can be locked down. Which OS do you think is used by Symbol for example in its high-end industrial devices. Outside USA WM has higher enterprise penetration than blackberry, and is well very accepted by carriers. Your perception re WM and Blackberry is wrong.
Windows Mobile has pretty much erased PalmOS from the world map, have recently made their first full year profit, and has revenue growing >40% quarterly YoY for the last 8 quarters, and have made companies like HTC rich.
Windows Mobile certainly qualifies as a successful entry into a market formerly dominated by another company (Palm). The fight has now moved to the smartphone arena, and they are again very far behind Symbian, but MS likes being motivated by a challenge.
BTW, regarding the XBox 360, MS makes $75 on the hardware of each premium system, Sony loses $350 on each PS3. Guess which company is laughing these days.
Its too early to go urban. They should have spent at least another 2-3 years perfecting autonomous navigation in unstructured environments.
I know last year's challange seemed to be won rediculously easily, but I have seen no proof that that dormain has been fully conquered yet. If they wanted a challenge why not move onto wooded or swampy areas.
In this case it seems they are juat setting themselves up to fail.
...and its pretty cool. For one, its an extra service they provide to their existing satellite TV subscribers, but at no extra cost. Something like that is almost unheard of, so I'm quite impressed. Sure it uses some of my upstream bandwidth, but if this makes it so much cheaper for Sky that they can do it without charging me a fee for movies without any adverts at all then I'm more than happy to oblige. It even works when you are off-like, so you could potentially download a few movies onto your laptop and take it for a flight.
This is definitely not a case of something for nothing, and I'm more than happy to participate. In fact, I would say this is how it should be done right. Use P2P to reduce your distribution costs, and pass that saving on to the customer. Reducing distribution costs is especially important when content is offered for free, and its interesting to note that BBC is also looking into a similar P2P system to help distribute archive video material.
Some of the people who contracted Mad Cow disease were vegetarians who got it from using fertilizer that (unknown to them) contained cow offal.
This is a very sensational claim. Do you have a link? Do you even know that between 1996 and 2005 only 155 people in UK have been diagnosed with this disease? Its probably less than 200 people worldwide with this infection. I think this vegetarian fertilizer connection would have made major headlines. Sounds to me like you are just perpetuation a myth.
No mention made of "protecting our content" or "most people dont know what a rootkit is"! Major backtracking going on. They even talk about flexible access to content.
Sony probably still does not get it, but they are finally getting a) what people are so stocked up about and b) that they have a major PR disaster on their hands.
With the recent charges of price manipulation made in the UK, its oh so easy to slip in that Sony CD's will also mess up your computer, and stop you from burning MP3's in the future. I also slip in that you wont be able to swap/share PS3 discs with your friends. With the price fixing story still fresh in their minds people find it very easy to believe Sony is intent on gouging them.
They are going to have to do some major damage control, including groveling, to get this to go away. This press release is just the start.
Your linuxdevices article is misleading, as it only includes windows mobile smartphones, not the more powerful windows mobile pocketpc phones, such as the HTC Jam / XDA mini, which I am seeing all over the place these days. If you add those devices WM at least matches the numbers of the linux phones, and the phones are less locked down, making them a better choice for people who actually want to do more than make phone calls with their WAN-enabled mobile device. Its actually funny that these devices are being trumpeted here, when at least 20 Windows Mobile phone devices have been anounced/released in the last 2 months (inlcuding 3 with VGA screens and wifi plus 3G).
Take a look at this picture and guess which one is the pocketpc phone. And unlike the Treo with its huge aerial its actually attractive and small enough to hold to your heard.
I try my best to write and speak proper English. It is a pretty frustrating language, as it seams every single rule has a corner case where it's broken.
MS's strength historically is being responsive to threats, and to match competitors feature to feature.
Whether this will work against open source software (which ultimately costs nothing, meaning by slow erosion it will eventually take over) remains to be seen. Maybe the next move will be free software (as in speech and beer).
WM 5 is just the shell. The OS is the new Win Ce 5.1, on which you can run any shell. One of its main features is the integrated.Net compact framework. Also for higher power embedded devices there is always windows xp embedded.
Law enforcement by the judicial system is very weak in the UK. This is more likely to catch the person throwing a once off birthday party than the neighbor across the street with 20 ASBO's against him already, who drives around in a car with false number plates and lives in a council flat on Disability Living Allowance.
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Thats a joke. Multi-touch gave you zooming and the ability to TRY and replace real buttons in game play.
In return is removed your ability to select text and cut and paste. Thats a joke.
There are many other ways of implementing zooming. An on screen slider would be one simple example, another would be the scroll wheel on the HTC Diamond for example.
The samsung Omnia has a 3.2 inch 400x240 screen, and is 0.5 inches and weights 5 ounces, and uses a better implementation of exchange activesync than the iPhone.
The iPhone gets less "special" every day.
Isnt UMPC an abbreviation created by Microsoft?
Home users dont want YouTube, Google Video, Myspace and flickr? Tell me more...
Surur
Windows Mobile integrates very well with Exchange server, with over 160 million installations, and much cheaper than Blackberry, and more flexible. There is wider device choice and price points, and the device is more programmable, and can be locked down. Which OS do you think is used by Symbol for example in its high-end industrial devices. Outside USA WM has higher enterprise penetration than blackberry, and is well very accepted by carriers. Your perception re WM and Blackberry is wrong.
Surur
Windows Mobile has much greater penetration than BlackBerry, and has 3 times the market share.
Surur
You obviously have not heard of the IPhone (how's that cave?) And look, it costs exactly the same as the two PS3 SKU's!
Surur
Windows Mobile has pretty much erased PalmOS from the world map, have recently made their first full year profit, and has revenue growing >40% quarterly YoY for the last 8 quarters, and have made companies like HTC rich.
Windows Mobile certainly qualifies as a successful entry into a market formerly dominated by another company (Palm). The fight has now moved to the smartphone arena, and they are again very far behind Symbian, but MS likes being motivated by a challenge.
BTW, regarding the XBox 360, MS makes $75 on the hardware of each premium system, Sony loses $350 on each PS3. Guess which company is laughing these days.
Its too early to go urban. They should have spent at least another 2-3 years perfecting autonomous navigation in unstructured environments.
I know last year's challange seemed to be won rediculously easily, but I have seen no proof that that dormain has been fully conquered yet. If they wanted a challenge why not move onto wooded or swampy areas.
In this case it seems they are juat setting themselves up to fail.
Surur
...and its pretty cool. For one, its an extra service they provide to their existing satellite TV subscribers, but at no extra cost. Something like that is almost unheard of, so I'm quite impressed. Sure it uses some of my upstream bandwidth, but if this makes it so much cheaper for Sky that they can do it without charging me a fee for movies without any adverts at all then I'm more than happy to oblige. It even works when you are off-like, so you could potentially download a few movies onto your laptop and take it for a flight.
This is definitely not a case of something for nothing, and I'm more than happy to participate. In fact, I would say this is how it should be done right. Use P2P to reduce your distribution costs, and pass that saving on to the customer. Reducing distribution costs is especially important when content is offered for free, and its interesting to note that BBC is also looking into a similar P2P system to help distribute archive video material.
Surur
No one has cracked DRM WMV yet, and its not like there isnt plenty of free pron for the geek that succeeds.
Surur
Some of the people who contracted Mad Cow disease were vegetarians who got it from using fertilizer that (unknown to them) contained cow offal.
This is a very sensational claim. Do you have a link? Do you even know that between 1996 and 2005 only 155 people in UK have been diagnosed with this disease? Its probably less than 200 people worldwide with this infection. I think this vegetarian fertilizer connection would have made major headlines. Sounds to me like you are just perpetuation a myth.
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/vcjdqmar05.htm
Surur
No mention made of "protecting our content" or "most people dont know what a rootkit is"! Major backtracking going on. They even talk about flexible access to content.
Sony probably still does not get it, but they are finally getting a) what people are so stocked up about and b) that they have a major PR disaster on their hands.
With the recent charges of price manipulation made in the UK, its oh so easy to slip in that Sony CD's will also mess up your computer, and stop you from burning MP3's in the future. I also slip in that you wont be able to swap/share PS3 discs with your friends. With the price fixing story still fresh in their minds people find it very easy to believe Sony is intent on gouging them.
They are going to have to do some major damage control, including groveling, to get this to go away. This press release is just the start.
Surur
In other words, Sony wants you to buy as many plastic discs as possible, while MS and Intel wants you to buy as many computers as possible.
Now which one aligns best with our interest again?
Surur
Your linuxdevices article is misleading, as it only includes windows mobile smartphones, not the more powerful windows mobile pocketpc phones, such as the HTC Jam / XDA mini, which I am seeing all over the place these days. If you add those devices WM at least matches the numbers of the linux phones, and the phones are less locked down, making them a better choice for people who actually want to do more than make phone calls with their WAN-enabled mobile device. Its actually funny that these devices are being trumpeted here, when at least 20 Windows Mobile phone devices have been anounced/released in the last 2 months (inlcuding 3 with VGA screens and wifi plus 3G).
Surur
In the west you dont even know when "public opinion is being guided" in supposed national interest.
Surur
Unlike "PocketPCs", a Treo actually fits in a pocket.
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http://www.mobiletechreview.com/image/phones/JAM_
http://www.pdagold.com/img/articles/en/large/0000
Take a look at this picture and guess which one is the pocketpc phone. And unlike the Treo with its huge aerial its actually attractive and small enough to hold to your heard.
Surur
Of course the various pocketpc phones often have WIFI, like the HP 6315 and XDA IIs XDA IIi Motorola Mpx
Surur
I try my best to write and speak proper English. It is a pretty frustrating language, as it seams every single rule has a corner case where it's broken.
Seems, not seams. You need to try a bit harder.
Surur
Shall I add the myth of Japanese Marketing to your list?
The new Century is going to be the Asian Century. Nothing last forever, or even a few decades even. Just accept it.
Surur
MS's strength historically is being responsive to threats, and to match competitors feature to feature.
Whether this will work against open source software (which ultimately costs nothing, meaning by slow erosion it will eventually take over) remains to be seen. Maybe the next move will be free software (as in speech and beer).
Surur
http://www.ipix.com/photo_support/download/plugin. shtml
iPix (360 degree views of real estate) is one I ran into quite regularly on a number of estate agent web sites when I was property hunting.
Surur
WM 5 is just the shell. The OS is the new Win Ce 5.1, on which you can run any shell. One of its main features is the integrated
Surur
Law enforcement by the judicial system is very weak in the UK. This is more likely to catch the person throwing a once off birthday party than the neighbor across the street with 20 ASBO's against him already, who drives around in a car with false number plates and lives in a council flat on Disability Living Allowance.
Surur
I thought Duke sucked...
Oh sorry, this isnt Fark
Surur