Precisely.
My Siemens SX1 is the closest so far - it only falls short on lens quality. Shame it can't work as a pen drive, although I don't have a major need for that.
It plays back XVid, RM, 3GPP video clips, MP3, Ogg audio, even makes phone calls with decent call clarity.
I got a Siemens SX1, and it fits the bill perfectly.
I can synch my address book and calendar nicely with Outlook, I can play a lot of the N-Gage and general Symbian games without any major problems.
Its got a built-in MP3 player, Ogg playback is fantastic. It supports hot-swappable MMC cards (so I could have several 1gig cards queued up).
And having it all in one handy little bit of black plastic is stupendously handy when out and about running - yesterday, out and about at lunch, listening to some Oggs, saw a Tank coming down the road, started up the camera, took a couple of pictures, still running and listening to the music.
I just couldn't do that with multiple little boxes, its stupid.
Oh, and its quite a good phone as well. I just don't understand the people who keep on harping on asking for "A phone that is just a phone". You can buy them - Nokia do a good range of really basic phones.
There is already a "rocket" on the road - the Light Car Company Rocket. Its an open-wheeler, 1+1 design, with a 1 liter bike engine. Amazing performance, designed by Gordon Murray (of McLaren F1 cars fame).
I know that broadband & faster connections are becoming commonplace, but there are still a LOT of people on dialup (a lot of places I know in the UK still can't get broadband).
Microsoft ignoring part of the market? Naaw, can't be true, can it?
Only in the US - here in the UK, Acorn ruled in education - the BBC Model B, and to a much smaller extent the Acorn Archimedes later on.
You still see them in schools from time to time, as the basic educational software is still sound (basics of maths/english haven't really changed that much... 1 and 1 is still normally 2, isn't it?)
At times I love working in tech support, others I absolutely loath it - I've had plenty of those left/right button type queries.
Passwords is still the bane of our lives though - how can someone get their password wrong 350 times? Its happened a few times, with plenty of people getting 100+ incorrect attempts, its embarrassing.
Not being sexist, but its invariably from women (stupid computer, that IS the right password I tell you!).
Apple copied the Xerox Parc systems, that used a 3 button mouse (select/menu/adjust), but apple decided to make it simpler.
I started off using the 3 button approach (Acorn Archimedes), and invariably found the user-interface preferable to the Windows/Mac environments, especially for scrolling windows - click the right mouse button whilst on the vertical scroll bar, move the mouse left/right, and it moved the windows contents left/right.
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Precisely. My Siemens SX1 is the closest so far - it only falls short on lens quality. Shame it can't work as a pen drive, although I don't have a major need for that. It plays back XVid, RM, 3GPP video clips, MP3, Ogg audio, even makes phone calls with decent call clarity.
I got a Siemens SX1, and it fits the bill perfectly.
I can synch my address book and calendar nicely with Outlook, I can play a lot of the N-Gage and general Symbian games without any major problems.
Its got a built-in MP3 player, Ogg playback is fantastic. It supports hot-swappable MMC cards (so I could have several 1gig cards queued up).
And having it all in one handy little bit of black plastic is stupendously handy when out and about running - yesterday, out and about at lunch, listening to some Oggs, saw a Tank coming down the road, started up the camera, took a couple of pictures, still running and listening to the music.
I just couldn't do that with multiple little boxes, its stupid.
Oh, and its quite a good phone as well. I just don't understand the people who keep on harping on asking for "A phone that is just a phone". You can buy them - Nokia do a good range of really basic phones.
There is already a "rocket" on the road - the Light Car Company Rocket. Its an open-wheeler, 1+1 design, with a 1 liter bike engine. Amazing performance, designed by Gordon Murray (of McLaren F1 cars fame).
Precisely - Asda is part of the Walmart group of companies, and is also quite possibly a better employer than Tesco, at least on pay.
I know that broadband & faster connections are becoming commonplace, but there are still a LOT of people on dialup (a lot of places I know in the UK still can't get broadband). Microsoft ignoring part of the market? Naaw, can't be true, can it?
Only in the US - here in the UK, Acorn ruled in education - the BBC Model B, and to a much smaller extent the Acorn Archimedes later on. You still see them in schools from time to time, as the basic educational software is still sound (basics of maths/english haven't really changed that much ... 1 and 1 is still normally 2, isn't it?)
Once I accurately dated a woman .. she gave me a slap for not being "flattering" about her age.
At times I love working in tech support, others I absolutely loath it - I've had plenty of those left/right button type queries. Passwords is still the bane of our lives though - how can someone get their password wrong 350 times? Its happened a few times, with plenty of people getting 100+ incorrect attempts, its embarrassing. Not being sexist, but its invariably from women (stupid computer, that IS the right password I tell you!).
Uh, dude - get it right.
Apple copied the Xerox Parc systems, that used a 3 button mouse (select/menu/adjust), but apple decided to make it simpler.
I started off using the 3 button approach (Acorn Archimedes), and invariably found the user-interface preferable to the Windows/Mac environments, especially for scrolling windows - click the right mouse button whilst on the vertical scroll bar, move the mouse left/right, and it moved the windows contents left/right.