I bought an AT&T Tilt, had problems, ended up with a Fuze. Now I find that the Touch HD or the Touch Pro 2 (Fuze 2) will be coming soon. I can't upgrade to that for the special pricing either. You can't upgrade phones for special pricing on ANY carrier. This isn't an AT&T thing, this is an industry thing. If you don't like it, don't buy a phone with subsidy, pay the full price for it, and then pay the full price when the next model comes out instead. That's the only way it's going to be "fair".
We used to use RT, and mainly ditched it because it was rather slow. It may have improved since then, as this was about 3 or 4 years ago that we moved to a different product that has a low license cost. I've been thinking about giving RT another try, just to see if they've made any improvements.
I'm ditching my laptop in favor of a small device (PDA) that will do 90% of the stuff my laptop does for me. That's the reason I'd like to see more pages render in a resolution that small devices can see.
I've been working with more xhtml lately, and from what I understood, that was the point of using xhtml for sites. They would render the same on all sorts of devices (in fact, the book I have gives info on where to get emulators for WAP browsers, etc.) Is this not the case?
You would think that with browser checks and such, a site would know what type of browser it was being displayed in and load the appropriate page. Either using CSS or XHTML, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Especially because XHTML is designed for this purpose.
Granted, flash sites (well, most of them) won't display correctly, but personally I avoid those as much as possible. There's too much to them that I don't need. Plus, if I need to grab info from the page to read later, it's more difficult in a flash site than it is anywhere else.
If you play the SSX series, GTA, GT4, and a few others, they already have in-game adverts. SSX 3 does it with dnL (the 7up with caffeine thing), Honda, and a few others. I can't remember what all was part of the GTA advertising, as I never played much of it, but I know it was there.
Personally, being a little new to the MMORPG type games, I have already found that as new updates/versions come out, they are raising the prices of them. That's one reason I haven't tried WoW or EQ2 yet. I can't see spending more than the $12 I pay for FFXI.
Although, with EQ2 now letting you order pizza from within the game, I might be a little more interested... (now that's a product tie-in.. just type/pizza in the game to order one from the local Pizza Hut).
Actually, I know quite a few people that are over legal drinking age, who play GBA quite regularly. I'm included in that group.
In most cases, I can go into a mall with the wireless adapter plugged in, Mario Golf ready, and find at least 2 - 3 other people waiting. Heck, I've seen adults playing Pokemon quite often as well.
Since they don't usually watch the TV show and are looking for a decent RPG, it's pretty easy to find people willing to have a quick battle or two. I think I got a couple of the monsters on my team from a guy at EB when I was walking past it. I looked in the store, he was the only one there that had a GBA with a wireless adapter connected.
I can see the same thing happening with the DS. Go walking by a store, the thing pops on and chimes in that there's another person wanting to play, and you go head to head at metroid prime right there.
Even better will be when they have games that use the 802.11b connection (which Sony will have available, but many developers aren't interested in activating yet). Just got walking around, find a local hotspot, turn on the DS and join in on a chat. Get someone that wants to play, pop in the game, and slap the guy around who lives in Florida while you're stuck in the Seattle rain.
That's the kind of thing I am looking for with the DS and the PSP. If the PSP turns around and offers this type of stuff, as well, then I will likely pick one up (well, I'll probably get it anyways if friends do). But until I hear that there are at least 3 - 5 PSP games that utilize their 802.11b connection, it doesn't seem like it would be worth it.
Personally, I went with the DS for now. It launches earlier, has good games lined up over the next 3 - 5 months, and it is more affordable with being $50 less.
I'm not interested in a handheld system that won't last for at least 6 hours per charge. My GBA: SP does that quite well right now. I have had the Lynx, Nomad, GameGear, NeoGeo, and TurboGrafix handhelds in the past. Yet, I always end up coming back to the GB and GBA.
People are saying that the DS will have crap for games, yet if you look at the titles that were listed for the PSP back when it was announced who the developers were, you would have noticed that most of the games were simply ports of the games they are playing right now on their PS2.
I'm also not too interested in having to buy all of my movies again in order to watch them on the PSP. Heck, for $225 (about), I can have a DS and a portable DVD player. Yeah, it's 2 devices to carry around, but at least I won't be shelling out another $20 per movie to include movies that I have already on DVD so that I can watch them on the PSP (while hoping the battery lasts long enough to finish the final scenes of the LOTR movies).
I'll hold off on the PSP for now. I'm not saying that I won't get one ever, I am just looking at the pros and cons of each device and right now, in my opinion, the DS wins and will be the one I purchase first. There's going to be at least 2 million more people in the next 3 weeks, worldwide, that have one. If they unlock the 802.11b stuff quickly, that's 2 million people I have the option of playing against.
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True... living literally right in the middle between Seattle and Portland, I wouldn't choose to be in either one.
I bought an AT&T Tilt, had problems, ended up with a Fuze. Now I find that the Touch HD or the Touch Pro 2 (Fuze 2) will be coming soon. I can't upgrade to that for the special pricing either. You can't upgrade phones for special pricing on ANY carrier. This isn't an AT&T thing, this is an industry thing. If you don't like it, don't buy a phone with subsidy, pay the full price for it, and then pay the full price when the next model comes out instead. That's the only way it's going to be "fair".
We used to use RT, and mainly ditched it because it was rather slow. It may have improved since then, as this was about 3 or 4 years ago that we moved to a different product that has a low license cost. I've been thinking about giving RT another try, just to see if they've made any improvements.
I'm ditching my laptop in favor of a small device (PDA) that will do 90% of the stuff my laptop does for me. That's the reason I'd like to see more pages render in a resolution that small devices can see.
I've been working with more xhtml lately, and from what I understood, that was the point of using xhtml for sites. They would render the same on all sorts of devices (in fact, the book I have gives info on where to get emulators for WAP browsers, etc.) Is this not the case?
You would think that with browser checks and such, a site would know what type of browser it was being displayed in and load the appropriate page. Either using CSS or XHTML, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Especially because XHTML is designed for this purpose.
Granted, flash sites (well, most of them) won't display correctly, but personally I avoid those as much as possible. There's too much to them that I don't need. Plus, if I need to grab info from the page to read later, it's more difficult in a flash site than it is anywhere else.
If you play the SSX series, GTA, GT4, and a few others, they already have in-game adverts. SSX 3 does it with dnL (the 7up with caffeine thing), Honda, and a few others. I can't remember what all was part of the GTA advertising, as I never played much of it, but I know it was there.
Personally, being a little new to the MMORPG type games, I have already found that as new updates/versions come out, they are raising the prices of them. That's one reason I haven't tried WoW or EQ2 yet. I can't see spending more than the $12 I pay for FFXI.
Although, with EQ2 now letting you order pizza from within the game, I might be a little more interested... (now that's a product tie-in.. just type /pizza in the game to order one from the local Pizza Hut).
Actually, I know quite a few people that are over legal drinking age, who play GBA quite regularly. I'm included in that group.
In most cases, I can go into a mall with the wireless adapter plugged in, Mario Golf ready, and find at least 2 - 3 other people waiting. Heck, I've seen adults playing Pokemon quite often as well.
Since they don't usually watch the TV show and are looking for a decent RPG, it's pretty easy to find people willing to have a quick battle or two. I think I got a couple of the monsters on my team from a guy at EB when I was walking past it. I looked in the store, he was the only one there that had a GBA with a wireless adapter connected.
I can see the same thing happening with the DS. Go walking by a store, the thing pops on and chimes in that there's another person wanting to play, and you go head to head at metroid prime right there.
Even better will be when they have games that use the 802.11b connection (which Sony will have available, but many developers aren't interested in activating yet). Just got walking around, find a local hotspot, turn on the DS and join in on a chat. Get someone that wants to play, pop in the game, and slap the guy around who lives in Florida while you're stuck in the Seattle rain.
That's the kind of thing I am looking for with the DS and the PSP. If the PSP turns around and offers this type of stuff, as well, then I will likely pick one up (well, I'll probably get it anyways if friends do). But until I hear that there are at least 3 - 5 PSP games that utilize their 802.11b connection, it doesn't seem like it would be worth it.
Personally, I went with the DS for now. It launches earlier, has good games lined up over the next 3 - 5 months, and it is more affordable with being $50 less.
I'm not interested in a handheld system that won't last for at least 6 hours per charge. My GBA: SP does that quite well right now. I have had the Lynx, Nomad, GameGear, NeoGeo, and TurboGrafix handhelds in the past. Yet, I always end up coming back to the GB and GBA.
People are saying that the DS will have crap for games, yet if you look at the titles that were listed for the PSP back when it was announced who the developers were, you would have noticed that most of the games were simply ports of the games they are playing right now on their PS2.
I'm also not too interested in having to buy all of my movies again in order to watch them on the PSP. Heck, for $225 (about), I can have a DS and a portable DVD player. Yeah, it's 2 devices to carry around, but at least I won't be shelling out another $20 per movie to include movies that I have already on DVD so that I can watch them on the PSP (while hoping the battery lasts long enough to finish the final scenes of the LOTR movies).
I'll hold off on the PSP for now. I'm not saying that I won't get one ever, I am just looking at the pros and cons of each device and right now, in my opinion, the DS wins and will be the one I purchase first. There's going to be at least 2 million more people in the next 3 weeks, worldwide, that have one. If they unlock the 802.11b stuff quickly, that's 2 million people I have the option of playing against.