This seems to differ between countries. Here in Germany organic milk is raw milk, unpasteurised, unhomogenised, just filtered. It has to be stored cool at all times and has to be consumed within 96 hours after the time of production.
dude, why don't you just buy milk in smaller quantities and more often? that way the milk won't spoil and is always fresh. anyway, it is very dangerous to left even sterilized milk open for more than 3 days because even if it won't get thick it still can go bad and this way be much poisonous than standard spoiled milk (which is just a kind of joghurt).
USSR used to be a major aircraft manufacturer, be it military or civil (Tu-104 was the first reliable jet airliner, Tu-204 was the second fly by wire airliner and so on). Nowadays the Russian aircraft industry has fallen behind Brazilia which hurts both the wallet and the national pride.
So it is both - a need for serious computing and serious need to build new computers.
Dude, please read first, then answer. My description was a direct response to the "I despise the crappy hardware coming from HTC" of Mike Buddha.
I explain why HTC hardware isn't crappy and then you come with software arguments. The software is a whole different story and there are enough arguments for and against either iPhone OS or Windows Mobile. But still it has nothing to do with the hardware made by HTC.
It's more pixels, sure, but I've never had the feeling that the iPhone (mine is a generation older) is seriously lacking. So Touch HD wins, but I don't see it as a big time.
Try to use a Touch HD for a couple of days, especially for eBook reading. After you go back you'll understand the lack of resolution and screen size. That is the reason why I used HTC Universal for four years - it was the only 3.7" VGA phone.
This compensates a lot, of course, but is that memory card as fast as the iPhone's internal storage? Speed counts.
It is a Class 2 MicroSDHC card. Not the fastest one out there. Since I had some Class 6 cards before (which is as fast as it gets), I chose to use them. So I have sped up the memory in a way and have got lots of storage handy - MicroSDHC are small and handy. But even Class 2 is enough to watch a movie without skipping frames.
The big category you skipped is speed. How fast is the Touch HD? How fast can its GPS find where you are? How fast does it switch between apps, get your mail, show where you are on the map, etc? Without that, your comparison is woefully incomplete.
Since it has got a resistive touch screen, a somewhat slower CPU and real multitasking with background processes it feels a bit slower. To your other questions: if the ephemeris data is current (The QuickGPS service downloads the data from the internet for a week advance) then you get a GPS fix in about 5 seconds. Without ephemeris data you get a fix in about 10-12 seconds. Switching between the apps is also different than with iPhone because of the real multitasking - if both apps are already opened the switch between them is instantaneous, otherwise it depends on the app sizes. It is rather like working with a portable pc. As for gettint mail, it also depends what software you use - there are a couple of different email applications for windows mobile. Same goes for about everything else - my navigation software (iGO 8) takes about a minute to start, but doesn't need an internet connection, has 3D turn to turn navigation with different voices and even text to speech and so on. An additional bonus is the integrated radio of Touch HD - it supports RDS so a couple of developers took their time and wrote a TMC driver for Touch HD which works with major turn to turn navigation applications.
I think the best description would be: somewhat slower but way more powerful.
It depends. If it is a Russian ship name then Beluga is only a kind of sturgeon, the whale is called Belukha for about a century already. If it is a western ship then it is either the whale or the sturgeon because the word was borrowed from old Russian.
A guy smuggling some radioactive element in his trousers is caught at the customs. The customs officer barks at him: Are you stupid? It is radioactive, you won't have any children after this. The guy answers nonchalantly: As long as my grandchildren won't starve I don't care.
The thing is, I know the iPhone well. I even had an iPod Touch for a while - which has got the same touchscreen. It does feel way more responsive than of the Touch HD but it is lower resolution, smaller and cannot be used with a stylus (Windows Mobile handwriting recognition is very good and the one of Calligrapher is excellent) or when you wearing gloves (it can get cold in winter).
There are some applications which aren't available for iPhone (Turn-to-turn navigation is critical for me but Apple forbids it), multitasking is also disallowed if you aren't willing to jailbreak. And - this is the matter of taste - I don't really like the iPhone shell. It feels for me like a Palm OS 3.0 in Technicolor. I don't like the standard Windows Mobile shell either, but in that case I still can install a different one - which is impossible on iPhone. Also, iPhone was intentionally crippled for years (no Copy&Paste, no A2DP, no OBEX) so only recently the device became really useful. Before OS 3.0 it was just an expensive toy which lacked functionality that other devices had for years.
Finally, developing with.NET compact and Visual Studio is okay, too, as long as you stay with a specific.NET version.
Most of your arguments are about software. GP stated that HTC hardware sucks. My Touch HD has got an extended battery of 1700 mAh with the same size of the original battery (albeit somewhat heavier). There are still more applications for Windows Mobile (especially useful application like turn to turn navigation systems). Windows Mobile 6.5 works fine on my Touch HD and even 6.1 supports multitasking while iPhone OS does not allow it.
So the only valid point of yours is a somewhat weaker CPU, but I think that the huge, high resolution screen and all the other options more than balance the weaker CPU out.
Well, my HTC Touch HD has got 288 MB RAM and 512 MB storage. And a headphone jack. Hint: HTC makes different devices for different customers. Their cheaper devices should be avoided, better to buy a used former high end device than a new cheap one. Their higher end devices are celestial, though.
Let's compare my HTC Touch HD (which is an older device) to the newest iPhone 3GS:
Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm vs 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm - no real difference Weight: 133 grams vs 146 grams - iPhone wins Display size: 3.8" vs 3.5" - Touch HD wins Display resolution: 480x800 vs 480x320 - Touch HD wins big time RAM: 288 MB vs 256 MB - Touch HD wins Internal memory: 512 MB vs 8GB or 16GB: iPhone wins Memory card: microSDHC up to 32GB vs none at all - Touch HD wins big time again (and you get a 8GB or 16GB card with every new Touch HD) Camera: 5 MP with video and 1.5 MP forward camera vs 3 MP with video - Touch HD wins Battery: 1350 mAh removable battary vs 1219 mAh non-removable battery - Touch HD wins big time
HTC has managed to put a bigger, higher resolution screen, microSDHC drive, a bigger, removable battery, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a higher resolution camera into a package of same size and nearly same weight as iPhone 3GS (thus negating the arguments that a removable battery and a memory card drive add so much to the device size). How is it crappy now?
Then the scheduler on the iPhone is does suck because I extensively use multitasking on my Windows Mobile device (HTC Touch HD) and the battery life is descent.
Probably because you are too lazy. Come on, people are able to learn different languages with different alphabets, say, cyrillic, hebrew or greek but you cannot learn a script form of your own language?
Russian cursive is much more difficult than English cursive because - Russian printed alphabet lowercase and uppercase letters are the same while they are vastly different in cursive - Russian cursive is based more on latin script while the printed letters are based on greek script - There are many ways to write a single letter in cursive - There are many similar form for letters which forces one often to guess
And still russian children generally manage to learn it by the first grade. What's wrong with you, dude? Are you somehow less intelligent than an average russian kid?
So if the scheduler works fine, why everyone assumes that the battery life would be about three hours if Apple would allow multitasking for third party apps?
How do Windows Mobile and Android manage running background apps perfectly fine? Does Apple have some inferiour programmers who cannot implement a proper scheduler?
The battery of my WM phone generally lasts for three days. With full multitasking, a larger and higher resolution display than iPhone and lots of eBook reading on the device. And the best thing is, my device is only slightly larger due to the huge screen.
There are also other benefits of multitasking like using ICQ while listening to music while reading a book.
I, on the other hand, don't know anybody except me who paid more than 500 Euros for their computer (and in my case the money was spent gradually over a year).
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Oh, he might try but a colonel only commands a single regiment while a general commands at least two ;-)
This seems to differ between countries. Here in Germany organic milk is raw milk, unpasteurised, unhomogenised, just filtered. It has to be stored cool at all times and has to be consumed within 96 hours after the time of production.
dude, why don't you just buy milk in smaller quantities and more often? that way the milk won't spoil and is always fresh.
anyway, it is very dangerous to left even sterilized milk open for more than 3 days because even if it won't get thick it still can go bad and this way be much poisonous than standard spoiled milk (which is just a kind of joghurt).
USSR used to be a major aircraft manufacturer, be it military or civil (Tu-104 was the first reliable jet airliner, Tu-204 was the second fly by wire airliner and so on). Nowadays the Russian aircraft industry has fallen behind Brazilia which hurts both the wallet and the national pride.
So it is both - a need for serious computing and serious need to build new computers.
Dude, please read first, then answer.
My description was a direct response to the "I despise the crappy hardware coming from HTC" of Mike Buddha.
I explain why HTC hardware isn't crappy and then you come with software arguments. The software is a whole different story and there are enough arguments for and against either iPhone OS or Windows Mobile. But still it has nothing to do with the hardware made by HTC.
Try to use a Touch HD for a couple of days, especially for eBook reading. After you go back you'll understand the lack of resolution and screen size. That is the reason why I used HTC Universal for four years - it was the only 3.7" VGA phone.
It is a Class 2 MicroSDHC card. Not the fastest one out there. Since I had some Class 6 cards before (which is as fast as it gets), I chose to use them. So I have sped up the memory in a way and have got lots of storage handy - MicroSDHC are small and handy. But even Class 2 is enough to watch a movie without skipping frames.
Since it has got a resistive touch screen, a somewhat slower CPU and real multitasking with background processes it feels a bit slower. To your other questions: if the ephemeris data is current (The QuickGPS service downloads the data from the internet for a week advance) then you get a GPS fix in about 5 seconds. Without ephemeris data you get a fix in about 10-12 seconds. Switching between the apps is also different than with iPhone because of the real multitasking - if both apps are already opened the switch between them is instantaneous, otherwise it depends on the app sizes. It is rather like working with a portable pc. As for gettint mail, it also depends what software you use - there are a couple of different email applications for windows mobile. Same goes for about everything else - my navigation software (iGO 8) takes about a minute to start, but doesn't need an internet connection, has 3D turn to turn navigation with different voices and even text to speech and so on. An additional bonus is the integrated radio of Touch HD - it supports RDS so a couple of developers took their time and wrote a TMC driver for Touch HD which works with major turn to turn navigation applications.
I think the best description would be: somewhat slower but way more powerful.
It depends. If it is a Russian ship name then Beluga is only a kind of sturgeon, the whale is called Belukha for about a century already. If it is a western ship then it is either the whale or the sturgeon because the word was borrowed from old Russian.
Beluga is a kind of sturgeon.
Yeah. There is an old Russian joke:
A guy smuggling some radioactive element in his trousers is caught at the customs.
The customs officer barks at him: Are you stupid? It is radioactive, you won't have any children after this.
The guy answers nonchalantly: As long as my grandchildren won't starve I don't care.
if automated filtering would be that good then you could use the same engine to make the actual automatic translation.
The thing is, I know the iPhone well. I even had an iPod Touch for a while - which has got the same touchscreen. It does feel way more responsive than of the Touch HD but it is lower resolution, smaller and cannot be used with a stylus (Windows Mobile handwriting recognition is very good and the one of Calligrapher is excellent) or when you wearing gloves (it can get cold in winter).
There are some applications which aren't available for iPhone (Turn-to-turn navigation is critical for me but Apple forbids it), multitasking is also disallowed if you aren't willing to jailbreak. And - this is the matter of taste - I don't really like the iPhone shell. It feels for me like a Palm OS 3.0 in Technicolor. I don't like the standard Windows Mobile shell either, but in that case I still can install a different one - which is impossible on iPhone. Also, iPhone was intentionally crippled for years (no Copy&Paste, no A2DP, no OBEX) so only recently the device became really useful. Before OS 3.0 it was just an expensive toy which lacked functionality that other devices had for years.
Finally, developing with .NET compact and Visual Studio is okay, too, as long as you stay with a specific .NET version.
I prefer the possibility to use a stylus and to use the screen with gloves. Both won't work with a capacitive touch screen.
Most of your arguments are about software. GP stated that HTC hardware sucks. My Touch HD has got an extended battery of 1700 mAh with the same size of the original battery (albeit somewhat heavier). There are still more applications for Windows Mobile (especially useful application like turn to turn navigation systems). Windows Mobile 6.5 works fine on my Touch HD and even 6.1 supports multitasking while iPhone OS does not allow it.
So the only valid point of yours is a somewhat weaker CPU, but I think that the huge, high resolution screen and all the other options more than balance the weaker CPU out.
Okay, let's put the specs aside.
Please, explain how the Touch HD hardware is crappy. I am very curious.
Well, my HTC Touch HD has got 288 MB RAM and 512 MB storage. And a headphone jack.
Hint: HTC makes different devices for different customers. Their cheaper devices should be avoided, better to buy a used former high end device than a new cheap one. Their higher end devices are celestial, though.
Crappy hardware coming from HTC? Are you nuts?
Let's compare my HTC Touch HD (which is an older device) to the newest iPhone 3GS:
Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm vs 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm - no real difference
Weight: 133 grams vs 146 grams - iPhone wins
Display size: 3.8" vs 3.5" - Touch HD wins
Display resolution: 480x800 vs 480x320 - Touch HD wins big time
RAM: 288 MB vs 256 MB - Touch HD wins
Internal memory: 512 MB vs 8GB or 16GB: iPhone wins
Memory card: microSDHC up to 32GB vs none at all - Touch HD wins big time again (and you get a 8GB or 16GB card with every new Touch HD)
Camera: 5 MP with video and 1.5 MP forward camera vs 3 MP with video - Touch HD wins
Battery: 1350 mAh removable battary vs 1219 mAh non-removable battery - Touch HD wins big time
HTC has managed to put a bigger, higher resolution screen, microSDHC drive, a bigger, removable battery, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a higher resolution camera into a package of same size and nearly same weight as iPhone 3GS (thus negating the arguments that a removable battery and a memory card drive add so much to the device size). How is it crappy now?
and it would be more appropriate - a sabre is a curved single-edged sword which is handled with one hand only.
It is not a bug.
How much is 2+2*2?
Same goes with sentences, there a rules to parse them.
Then the scheduler on the iPhone is does suck because I extensively use multitasking on my Windows Mobile device (HTC Touch HD) and the battery life is descent.
Why go that far? Let's say sperm is a human being.
Probably because you are too lazy. Come on, people are able to learn different languages with different alphabets, say, cyrillic, hebrew or greek but you cannot learn a script form of your own language?
Russian cursive is much more difficult than English cursive because
- Russian printed alphabet lowercase and uppercase letters are the same while they are vastly different in cursive
- Russian cursive is based more on latin script while the printed letters are based on greek script
- There are many ways to write a single letter in cursive
- There are many similar form for letters which forces one often to guess
And still russian children generally manage to learn it by the first grade. What's wrong with you, dude? Are you somehow less intelligent than an average russian kid?
So if the scheduler works fine, why everyone assumes that the battery life would be about three hours if Apple would allow multitasking for third party apps?
How do Windows Mobile and Android manage running background apps perfectly fine? Does Apple have some inferiour programmers who cannot implement a proper scheduler?
The battery of my WM phone generally lasts for three days. With full multitasking, a larger and higher resolution display than iPhone and lots of eBook reading on the device. And the best thing is, my device is only slightly larger due to the huge screen.
There are also other benefits of multitasking like using ICQ while listening to music while reading a book.
I, on the other hand, don't know anybody except me who paid more than 500 Euros for their computer (and in my case the money was spent gradually over a year).