The myTouch is a little smaller, a little lighter than the G1 due to lack of a hard keyboard, and that's one reason I waited for it. (I'd have had a G1 but I was still under a previous contract with TMobile, and by the time I was eligible for the full discount the myTouch had been announced so I figured I could wait another month or two for what clearly would be a better phone.)
It also has a nice solid feel to it, more so than my previous phones (Nokia). Who cares if you get that feel from a plastic case?
Your point that "Android phones...so far suck" needs to be backed up with negative points for all current Android phones, not just the G1. Otherwise it's a little unfair; with an open software architecture you're going to (eventually) have a wide range of implementations, from Yugos to Ferraris.
There's a headphone adapter for the USB port. It's not a big deal, really. I just leave the adapter attached to the headphones when not in use.
No complaints from me about the myTouch speaker. Volume is OK, and I certainly don't look to a phone's speaker for high fidelity. I never used a G1 other than to try it out in a store so I can't comment about that.
As long as the battery's big enough to get me a full day's use (even with GPS and Bluetooth always on, I usually have a decent charge left at the end of the day, battery icon around half full depending on how heavily used), smaller = lighter is better.
I don't know where you get 2.5" for the screen. Both the G1 and myTouch have 3.2" screens. I don't think the screen is small enough to suck. I have presbyopia (not too advanced yet) but I can read the myTouch screen *without* my glasses.
To be honest, I haven't gone out of my way to test this camera's quality; I took one picture in my backyard the first day I got it but it was low light (about half an hour after sunset) so not a good example. I do plan to try it out on some nature subjects when I go on a road trip in a couple of weeks.
I'm confused. Either the G1 "sucks", "is the third best phone" you've owned, or has given you "more satisfaction...than any other phone". But all three?
But thanks for answering me with some specifics. I only think it's overgeneralizing to apply these critiques to all Android phones.
More like millions if you divide the population of just the U.S. by 83.
Well, they are lifetime odds so whatever population you deal with you've got to divide by 83 times 70 (or whatever average life expectancy is for the population). 300M people/(83*70) = 51635.
If the lifetime odds of that were anywhere near 1 in 83, then there would be hundreds of thousands of such incidents every year. So far, I'm not seeing it.
I wish I were as pleased as you. About a month ago I went to look at Linux netbooks at Micro Center. They didn't have any. It turns out that enough people were buying the Linux ones, then returning them on finding out they didn't have Linux, so they were "refurbishing" them by installing Windows and then selling them at a discount. Huh?
(The salesman informed me that the refurbished units with Windows preinstalled still included a Linux install disk...and then I walked away.)
But in the handset arena I suppose Linux has a much better chance of displacing MS than in netbooks.
The problem with Android phones isn't the software (which rocks), it's the hardware (which so far sucks big-time).
Could you maybe enlighten us? What experience of yours prompted this opinion? I've got a myTouch and the hardware is fine. Actually my one complaint is on the software; so far the Android team has not enabled Bluetooth file browsing services. And even that's not a major deal because there are other ways to do what I need.
The idea behind Schrodinger's Cat is whether superimposed quantum states can affect properties of macroscopic entities ("macroscopic" being a relative term in this context; compared to an atom or molecule a virus is macroscopic). It doesn't require a living subject; by using a living subject in his thought experiment Schrodinger was using a reductio ad absurdum argument.
And yet we went into two stupid wars anyway. So a 60% popular vote would not have been any worse than the reality we did get, it just wouldn't have been sufficient to prevent stupidity.
I'm not saying I disagree with you on consensus democracy, just that you need a better example...
Well, that's sort of the point of my post. Who can falsify a claim about free will if we don't know what alleged force that will is supposed to be free from?
...a result of direct democracy, not of the democratic republic. We have both in California (ballot initiatives and a legislature), but the former results in too many bad populist ideas getting passed, and the latter is currently dysfunctional.
The state badly needs a Constitutional overhaul. It's sad that the current Constitution can be amended by a 50%+1 majority, whereas increasing taxes takes a supermajority.
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Let's hope they have!
You mean "abomination". If they abort it, then we will never see it, which would be a good thing.
Here you go.
Regression toward the hits *is* an outside influence.
"animal" already includes "humans". "living being" includes animals, plants, bacteria, alien life forms, etc.
If his signature is an illegible scrawl he wouldn't have to sign the true cardholder's name.
The "22 out of 200" is directly from TFA. RTFA.
Did they really *not* include the adapter *with* the G1? The myTouch came with the adapter. I believe you can by a new one, retail, for a few bucks.
The myTouch is a little smaller, a little lighter than the G1 due to lack of a hard keyboard, and that's one reason I waited for it. (I'd have had a G1 but I was still under a previous contract with TMobile, and by the time I was eligible for the full discount the myTouch had been announced so I figured I could wait another month or two for what clearly would be a better phone.)
It also has a nice solid feel to it, more so than my previous phones (Nokia). Who cares if you get that feel from a plastic case?
Your point that "Android phones...so far suck" needs to be backed up with negative points for all current Android phones, not just the G1. Otherwise it's a little unfair; with an open software architecture you're going to (eventually) have a wide range of implementations, from Yugos to Ferraris.
There's a headphone adapter for the USB port. It's not a big deal, really. I just leave the adapter attached to the headphones when not in use.
No complaints from me about the myTouch speaker. Volume is OK, and I certainly don't look to a phone's speaker for high fidelity. I never used a G1 other than to try it out in a store so I can't comment about that.
As long as the battery's big enough to get me a full day's use (even with GPS and Bluetooth always on, I usually have a decent charge left at the end of the day, battery icon around half full depending on how heavily used), smaller = lighter is better.
I don't know where you get 2.5" for the screen. Both the G1 and myTouch have 3.2" screens. I don't think the screen is small enough to suck. I have presbyopia (not too advanced yet) but I can read the myTouch screen *without* my glasses.
To be honest, I haven't gone out of my way to test this camera's quality; I took one picture in my backyard the first day I got it but it was low light (about half an hour after sunset) so not a good example. I do plan to try it out on some nature subjects when I go on a road trip in a couple of weeks.
I'm confused. Either the G1 "sucks", "is the third best phone" you've owned, or has given you "more satisfaction...than any other phone". But all three?
But thanks for answering me with some specifics. I only think it's overgeneralizing to apply these critiques to all Android phones.
More like millions if you divide the population of just the U.S. by 83.
Well, they are lifetime odds so whatever population you deal with you've got to divide by 83 times 70 (or whatever average life expectancy is for the population). 300M people/(83*70) = 51635.
Yes, the second thing.
Or this. The third response is apropos here.
How ironic.
Ironic, how?
If the lifetime odds of that were anywhere near 1 in 83, then there would be hundreds of thousands of such incidents every year. So far, I'm not seeing it.
I wish I were as pleased as you. About a month ago I went to look at Linux netbooks at Micro Center. They didn't have any. It turns out that enough people were buying the Linux ones, then returning them on finding out they didn't have Linux, so they were "refurbishing" them by installing Windows and then selling them at a discount. Huh?
(The salesman informed me that the refurbished units with Windows preinstalled still included a Linux install disk...and then I walked away.)
But in the handset arena I suppose Linux has a much better chance of displacing MS than in netbooks.
You're supposed to wait until he mentions undocumented aliens...
Really shouldn't respond
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So basically your method of ignoring the three points you quoted is to respond to each of them?
The problem with Android phones isn't the software (which rocks), it's the hardware (which so far sucks big-time).
Could you maybe enlighten us? What experience of yours prompted this opinion? I've got a myTouch and the hardware is fine. Actually my one complaint is on the software; so far the Android team has not enabled Bluetooth file browsing services. And even that's not a major deal because there are other ways to do what I need.
The idea behind Schrodinger's Cat is whether superimposed quantum states can affect properties of macroscopic entities ("macroscopic" being a relative term in this context; compared to an atom or molecule a virus is macroscopic). It doesn't require a living subject; by using a living subject in his thought experiment Schrodinger was using a reductio ad absurdum argument.
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a horse and buggy loaded with terabyte drives.
And yet we went into two stupid wars anyway. So a 60% popular vote would not have been any worse than the reality we did get, it just wouldn't have been sufficient to prevent stupidity.
I'm not saying I disagree with you on consensus democracy, just that you need a better example...
After all, who can falsify your claims?
Well, that's sort of the point of my post. Who can falsify a claim about free will if we don't know what alleged force that will is supposed to be free from?
The moon gets as much sunlight over it's entire surface.
I'd think there'd be places near the poles, down in craters, that never get any sunlight.
whenever I post to twitter...Oh, wait.
Can't decrease spending. Can't increase taxes.
The state badly needs a Constitutional overhaul. It's sad that the current Constitution can be amended by a 50%+1 majority, whereas increasing taxes takes a supermajority.