It sounds like you had a similar experience as I had with OS X/Aqua. I bought a Powerbook because it was unix...but they changed things in annoying ways and the UI didn't work quite right with others. Changing back to Linux made me feel free again.
> What could be so pressing that you have no laptop, or access to a computer, yet you have a cell phone, proprietary AV cables, and a TV. This is some alternate reality isn't it?
Are you seriously suggesting you've never been :
1) without your laptop, and 2) without access to a computer, and 3) had your cell phone, and 4) near a TV?
The only issue is if you happen to have a cable, and that doesn't really require much forethought. I could easily imagine such a situation...cable in the glove compartment in the car, or I popped it into the suitcase. Even my parents' car has a sizable TV and even crappy hotels have reasonable TVs.
Of course, your 'tiny keyboard' comment is irrelevant since all phones I've ever used can use a bluetooth keyboard (I have an Apple one for my E90/E71).
IMO, *much* less hassle than a laptop, and it is good enough for most quick jobs, and even some longer ones. Heck, some phones even have HD video output so you don't have to put up with poor resolution - though in the case of the phone I'm referring to, it's not via a TV-out cable but something weird, so it's quite unlikely that your hotel or car would have a TV that would work with that....but the tech is not far from phones having HDMI out, I think.
My suggestion was based on the idea that you would have a small cable connecting this device to your stereo and you can then use your phone as if it were a remote control, except in this case it is the actual source too. It at least avoids you needing to drape a cable across the room, no?
The point of it in my case is that my phone doesn't have a 3.5mm jack (it has a stupid 2.5mm one), and with this device I can leave the phone in my bag or whatever and just have a short headphone cable attached to the small neat white thing attached to my shirt or something. I can even leave the phone charging somewhere while I wander around - which is what I did when I found my phone's batteries were dead when I got to the gym. I just plugged it in and set it playing music, while I did my work-out.
I have heard this device is popular with iPhone users too, now that Apple have deemed to let people who rent iPhones use A2DP devices.
I think there's plenty of point in it. Maybe you don't have such a need, but it sounded to me like you did.
It's pretty cheap too.
The only bad thing about it is that you can't replace the batteries - so stupid, but at least it's cheap.
Symbian has had this capability for many years via a 3rd party app that you can install (QuickOffice) - I expect you could buy it from one of the several app stores that sold apps for Symbian...all years before iPhone was released, let alone Apple's app store, and probably before Apple started development of the iPhone.
All Nokia S60/Symbian phones come with s/w to read MS Office format files. The E series also come with s/w to edit them. It's called QuickOffice. Here, read up on it :
"One of the interesting side stories is that Nokia's Symbian phones already have an outstanding Office compatible software suite, in the form of Quickoffice, which ships with every current Nokia Symbian phone. Quickoffice have released their own statement today noting that its Symbian business represents only a portion of its overall business and that it will ship on 200 million Nokia Symbian phones before Microsoft's product is even released. See below for comment and their statement in full."
I think you'll find *any* Symbian smart phone can use a bluetooth keyboard. I've had a 3250, E71, E90, N95, N73 and they all worked just fine with my Apple bluetooth keyboard.
I know of at least one developer that uses the hacked version of OS X for iPhone development. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Apple expect you to buy an Apple computer to develop for an iPhone - that is what warns me off.
oh, now it does...when I put the right emphasis on and fill in the '...' with the right words (something like 'is' and group 'from' with 'absent' rather than 'AMD'.
Why not just use RAID1 as a method for copying the data - it happens continuously, so it takes no time to make the copy. When you're ready to take the backup, shut the volume down/unmount/whever you need to do to make sure the volume is 'good', then fail that drive and switch it for another drive.
You can keep sets of drives just like you would set of tapes; and take them off-site/etc.
You most likely mean S60 which, while developed by Nokia, is not only available on Nokia phones - Samsung being the most notable current other company manufacturing phones running S60 (but also LG, Lenovo, and Seimens).
In any case, S60 is now being 'ramped down' and merged into the Symbian Foundation.
So, "Symbian" is not "also known as" Nokia. While there was a period of time after Nokia bought Symbian Ltd. when you could make some kind of argument, such a phrase has little meaning in general and certainly no meaning at all in the context of webkit (iinm, even Samsung phones use the same web browser developed by Nokia).
BTW, Nokia developed their webkit based browser, commonly known as "Web", and were shipping before the iPhone was even on the market[1].
[1] According to wikipedia, "Web" was released Nov, 2005; iPhone, Jan, 2007.
"To get a grasp of that kind of speed, consider that a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America onto a spot the size of a needle point."
Sure, but how many "Library-of-Congresses is that?
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How do they cripple my phone if I don't give it to them?
It sounds like you had a similar experience as I had with OS X/Aqua. I bought a Powerbook because it was unix...but they changed things in annoying ways and the UI didn't work quite right with others. Changing back to Linux made me feel free again.
Right, I had this same thought - how can they tell in order to do anything about it?
You can even run Python on S60/Symbian...
> What could be so pressing that you have no laptop, or access to a computer, yet you have a cell phone, proprietary AV cables, and a TV. This is some alternate reality isn't it?
Are you seriously suggesting you've never been :
1) without your laptop, and
2) without access to a computer, and
3) had your cell phone, and
4) near a TV?
The only issue is if you happen to have a cable, and that doesn't really require much forethought. I could easily imagine such a situation...cable in the glove compartment in the car, or I popped it into the suitcase. Even my parents' car has a sizable TV and even crappy hotels have reasonable TVs.
Of course, your 'tiny keyboard' comment is irrelevant since all phones I've ever used can use a bluetooth keyboard (I have an Apple one for my E90/E71).
IMO, *much* less hassle than a laptop, and it is good enough for most quick jobs, and even some longer ones. Heck, some phones even have HD video output so you don't have to put up with poor resolution - though in the case of the phone I'm referring to, it's not via a TV-out cable but something weird, so it's quite unlikely that your hotel or car would have a TV that would work with that....but the tech is not far from phones having HDMI out, I think.
yes, the charging issue might be a blocker - I doubt it like to be constantly plugged in and charging, but I'm not sure.
I noticed that part, but didn't know much about NeXT - it's a bit obscure.
I think the link to WorldWideWeb is more helpful, since it states out-right that Objective-C was used.
In any case, I thought Mosaic was the first web browser, so I was wrong all over the place.
My suggestion was based on the idea that you would have a small cable connecting this device to your stereo and you can then use your phone as if it were a remote control, except in this case it is the actual source too. It at least avoids you needing to drape a cable across the room, no?
The point of it in my case is that my phone doesn't have a 3.5mm jack (it has a stupid 2.5mm one), and with this device I can leave the phone in my bag or whatever and just have a short headphone cable attached to the small neat white thing attached to my shirt or something. I can even leave the phone charging somewhere while I wander around - which is what I did when I found my phone's batteries were dead when I got to the gym. I just plugged it in and set it playing music, while I did my work-out.
I have heard this device is popular with iPhone users too, now that Apple have deemed to let people who rent iPhones use A2DP devices.
I think there's plenty of point in it. Maybe you don't have such a need, but it sounded to me like you did.
It's pretty cheap too.
The only bad thing about it is that you can't replace the batteries - so stupid, but at least it's cheap.
I wonder if this would work for you :
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/accessories/all-accessories/headsets/bluetooth-headsets/nokia-bluetooth-stereo-headset-bh-214
I've been impressed by the quality when using it to connect my Senn HD-25 headphones and my E90 (which has a stupid 2.5mm socket).
Symbian has had this capability for many years via a 3rd party app that you can install (QuickOffice) - I expect you could buy it from one of the several app stores that sold apps for Symbian...all years before iPhone was released, let alone Apple's app store, and probably before Apple started development of the iPhone.
All Nokia S60/Symbian phones come with s/w to read MS Office format files. The E series also come with s/w to edit them. It's called QuickOffice. Here, read up on it :
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/10289_Quickoffice_responds_to_Nokia_.php
"One of the interesting side stories is that Nokia's Symbian phones already have an outstanding Office compatible software suite, in the form of Quickoffice, which ships with every current Nokia Symbian phone. Quickoffice have released their own statement today noting that its Symbian business represents only a portion of its overall business and that it will ship on 200 million Nokia Symbian phones before Microsoft's product is even released. See below for comment and their statement in full."
I think you'll find *any* Symbian smart phone can use a bluetooth keyboard. I've had a 3250, E71, E90, N95, N73 and they all worked just fine with my Apple bluetooth keyboard.
Thanks for being rude. I had thought I was looking quite hard, since I actually downloaded the source code to have a look.
The link you referenced had no reference that I could see to 'objective' but I found this one which did, so I assume you meant this :
I know of at least one developer that uses the hacked version of OS X for iPhone development. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Apple expect you to buy an Apple computer to develop for an iPhone - that is what warns me off.
Really? I just looked at Mosiac's source and it looks like regular C to me. The last time I looked at Objective C, it looked, er "not a lot like C".
I've probably missed something, and I'm sure you'll let me know what it is :)
oh, now it does...when I put the right emphasis on and fill in the '...' with the right words (something like 'is' and group 'from' with 'absent' rather than 'AMD'.
never mind...
> decoding of HD video ... absent from AMD hardware in Linux
eh? Doesn't make any sense to me.
I thought it was, "Spell different - it's the American way".
Why not just use RAID1 as a method for copying the data - it happens continuously, so it takes no time to make the copy. When you're ready to take the backup, shut the volume down/unmount/whever you need to do to make sure the volume is 'good', then fail that drive and switch it for another drive.
You can keep sets of drives just like you would set of tapes; and take them off-site/etc.
> to pay higher prices for non-Chinese products
No one wants their Apple stuff to be even more expensive that it already is, thank you very much!
NB, not all Chinese products are cheap and/or poor quality; it's all a matter of quality control and demand.
...as do many Nokia phones...eg the N70...announced 27 April 2005, and the N95 too.
Wish I had mod points - that's hilarious :)
> in the cell phone world
In the cell phone *world* perhaps, but when it comes to the USA, Nokia are surely the underdog.
> and even Symbian (aka Nokia).
Er, not quite - or at least misleading.
You most likely mean S60 which, while developed by Nokia, is not only available on Nokia phones - Samsung being the most notable current other company manufacturing phones running S60 (but also LG, Lenovo, and Seimens).
In any case, S60 is now being 'ramped down' and merged into the Symbian Foundation.
So, "Symbian" is not "also known as" Nokia. While there was a period of time after Nokia bought Symbian Ltd. when you could make some kind of argument, such a phrase has little meaning in general and certainly no meaning at all in the context of webkit (iinm, even Samsung phones use the same web browser developed by Nokia).
BTW, Nokia developed their webkit based browser, commonly known as "Web", and were shipping before the iPhone was even on the market[1].
[1] According to wikipedia, "Web" was released Nov, 2005; iPhone, Jan, 2007.
"To get a grasp of that kind of speed, consider that a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America onto a spot the size of a needle point."
Sure, but how many "Library-of-Congresses is that?
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