I take it you've never used a macbook. The trackpad is unlike pretty much any trackpad out there. It is a HUGE glass capacitive touch trackpad that has some very very nice gestures built in. Just touching two fingers to it and scrolling up/down/sideways is so nice. Quickly fling all apps out of the way to see the desktop with a 4-finger swipe upwards. Spread all the apps on the current desktop apart with expose with 4-fingers down.
Browsing is nice too with 3-finger swipes sideways to go back and forth in the web history.
You can pinch zoom in pictures, or just put two fingers down and rotate them.
Also, no area is wasted for buttons, the whole pad presses down with a good tactile click.
I've hated trackpads for a long time, but upon using this one, after learning all the gestures etc I could never go back to a nipple(what I had before) or god forbid the old style resistive single touch tiny trackpads of other laptops.
They are all constantly on sale from 50-80$ Even $80 isn't so bad for all the software inside a standalone GPS unit costing at least $300 (and probably more) for the same features. Heck the map licensing alone is probably a pretty significant cost.
Calling $100 for a dedicated GPS with touchscreen AND the map licensing, all the R&D for routing, lane guidance, etc "maybe" justified is pretty crazy if you ask me. The $199 price point is a fairly sweet one.
In Prototype there was a full story with a satisfying ending. After the ending, you still had the whole world to continue playing in much as before. Gathering more secrets, killing more bases, improving your character etc.
I didn't play TOO much after the ending but it was still fun.
It isn't any kind of 'correction' causing it to be better with a faster draw speed.
The screen will be sampled ever so often, and if you move your finger quickly the samples will be far less, resulting in a straight line between them.
You can check this by drawing very quick circles on the device, you will notice it is composed of straight lines rather than a perfect curve. The effect will get worse the faster you draw the circles.
The iPhone does NOT join unknown networks, ever, under any circumstance.
The iPhone will pop up a list of available networks when you try to use data by default, but you just hit close and this goes away. This option is also easily disabled in your Wifi settings.
I'm just thinking about myself. Do I want to go through a metal scanner, then maybe be wanded, and sometimes patted down?
Or can someone in a separate room (who cannot see me directly) just look at a picture from one quick scan and pass/fail me. For me I chose the scan, but maybe some others are a bit more squeamish.
Unethical maybe, but unless the rules are different for reporters, many states, and all of canada operate in a 1-party recording law. It means that at least one person must know the call is being recorded.
So you can record a call between you and someone, but you cannot secretly record a call between two people with you not being on the call.
Some states do, though, have a 2-party recording law, which would make this illegal. I guess then it depends where the recording is taking place!
As one other poster began elaborating on, it is basically a full computer running a BSD variant. No the input isn't as nice as a laptop etc.
I open a terminal, I have bash. Some customer calls me asking me to do something on their server I just open a terminal and type ssh user@server. Something bigger? I get to a computer and throw up a 802.11G access point who's WAN is my cellular data.
I want remote desktop into my work session? done. Full desktop, very nice interface (compared to what you'd expect, not a desktop computer obviously).
I stream music and satellite radio all day. I can bring up videos on Youtube for any demos I want for people. I've got a full set of maps and full google search anywhere I go. I've got skype for free calling anywhere I am. I have a camera which I can quickly use an app to stick together a nice panoramic shot of where I am, and quickly email that file to anyone I want, anywhere.
Basically anything you do on a computer you can do on an iPhone.
The major upside to all of this? It is done with a UI that consistently reviews above anything else out there. The hardware quality is top notch, the thing is comfortable to use. There is an App out there for damn near any application.
Hell the damn thing is even a phone:D
Android is catching up. The phones don't seem to look at nice (to me or pretty much any review you read out there) and the OS itself feels a lot..younger (which it is) and is still going through growing pains. They have recently released a native SDK finally so you dont have to run all your apps in the JVM. It is coming along and I expect great things of it, it will just take time.
The iPhone was in the same position when it came out near 3 years ago. There were only web apps for it, no sdk, the damn thing crashed all the time etc. Now it is smooth, VERY stable, and pretty refined these days.
Hopefully this huge stupid monolog helps give you a satisfying answer of why the iPhone is so good. I like to consider myself a person without brand loyalty and will generally buy what I think is best at the time of purchase. I could care less about Apple or being their customer and I would move from the iPhone to an Android phone in a heartbeat if I thought any of the phones could really surpass the iPhone software AND hardware-wise, but that just is not yet the case.
As the other poster said, plugging in the phone in the evening really isn't a chore. I'm a heavy user and if I forget to do that, it will usually last the next day of light use as well, I just shut off 3G.
Anyways, for one, get an iPhone and you get all of this except for the uselessly over megapixelled camera.
For another, you're on S60. It's a total bitch to code for, the UI looks like windows 3.1. It just is not pleasant to use. Contrast that with an iPhone or Android phone and its night and day. Android JUST came out, so complaining about no skype (which you don't even have natively, you have to go through fring, which sucks). and no turn by turn GPS at this point doesn't seem relevant.
The iPhone platform has had some time to mature and has everything you describe.
Wifi? Of course. Skype ? Native skype client which I use to call right over 3G, not using any daytime minutes. Quad band GSM ? Naturally. 32GB storage? Check. Weather? Of course. Rss? Only about a billion apps for that. Calendering has been around since the days of early palm PDAs, so a phone without this would be dissapointing, but yes, my calender syncs with google, along with my contacts and mail over exchange. Wow opera and the symbian web browser, opera is now getting better, symbian browser is unusable on the modern web. PDF reading is no problem on either platform. There may not be a dozen mp3 players for iPhone but I bet there will be for Android. I play DivX/Xvid without issue. Connect to projector with sound/video in one cable? Check there too.
Just demonstrating how once a platform matures a bit (Isn't S60 like a hundred years old?) and gains some usershare, the functionality will come, the hardware will get more refined, etc. Give android some time.
I agree with the other child post. You can see your mac drive just fine in windows. The boot camp 3.0 drivers included on the snow leopard dvd mostly work fine (though some good updates are out there from the manufacturers such as realtek and nvidia)
If you do not have a snow leopard dvd, torrent and enjoy!
I have gone through every measure possible to avoid ever landing in the USA again on an airplane. I travel to Mexico or Costa Rica yearly on vacation, and usually take 1-2 vacations in the summer as well, and thanks to the lovely TSA and border agents, the USA has been semi-permenantly crossed off my tourism list. (semi because if they let up again I would consider going back. It isn't a grudge thing, just do not want to be harassed.)
All my flights I pay extra if necessary to bypass the USA all together, not landing in their airports even for stopovers. This has become standard operating proceedure for pretty much anyone I've spoken to who vacations regularly.
The USA is going to be facing some pretty heavy dollars lost in tourism from Canadian, European, Asian, etc tourists if no one is willing to fly into the country.
The TSA really needs to clean up it's act, even though I feel for them, since I'm sure there would be outcry as well were they to go 'soft on terror!'
Actually I realize now that even though very few will be reading now the "ac" between those two links was a fuckup, I meant to say to install the latest realtek sound drivers as well.
Here is some info not provided in the rest of the 'I'm posting from Win7" posts here is some helpful information.
First, the Snow Leopard DVD includes boot camp 3.0, which VASTLY improves the use of the touchpad under Windows XP or Vista. It also mostly works under Windows 7.
If you don't have a Snow Leopard DVD, here is a link to the drivers on TPB:
After installing this updating the sound drivers and video drivers would be advisable since the ones that come in boot camp suck and/or cause crashes.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us for video drivers. Select windows-7 then 32 or 64 bit depending on which you've chosen. ac http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
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I take it you've never used a macbook. The trackpad is unlike pretty much any trackpad out there. It is a HUGE glass capacitive touch trackpad that has some very very nice gestures built in. Just touching two fingers to it and scrolling up/down/sideways is so nice. Quickly fling all apps out of the way to see the desktop with a 4-finger swipe upwards. Spread all the apps on the current desktop apart with expose with 4-fingers down.
Browsing is nice too with 3-finger swipes sideways to go back and forth in the web history.
You can pinch zoom in pictures, or just put two fingers down and rotate them.
Also, no area is wasted for buttons, the whole pad presses down with a good tactile click.
I've hated trackpads for a long time, but upon using this one, after learning all the gestures etc I could never go back to a nipple(what I had before) or god forbid the old style resistive single touch tiny trackpads of other laptops.
I have run over 10 apps in the background on my iPhone (jailbroken of course) and it lost not a single iota of its smooth fluid handling.
They are all constantly on sale from 50-80$ Even $80 isn't so bad for all the software inside a standalone GPS unit costing at least $300 (and probably more) for the same features. Heck the map licensing alone is probably a pretty significant cost.
Calling $100 for a dedicated GPS with touchscreen AND the map licensing, all the R&D for routing, lane guidance, etc "maybe" justified is pretty crazy if you ask me. The $199 price point is a fairly sweet one.
How far away is the other rover, Opportunity ?
Maybe it could grab this one and they could both get out together? Or both get stuck together one of the two!
Actually you only need about 1/4 of the wavelength to get a good antenna. A full wave antenna doesn't provide a good match for real work situations.
In Prototype there was a full story with a satisfying ending. After the ending, you still had the whole world to continue playing in much as before. Gathering more secrets, killing more bases, improving your character etc.
I didn't play TOO much after the ending but it was still fun.
Definitely not lifted yet. Here is the more famous example:
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&resnum=0&q=tiananmen%20square
vs.
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=tiananmen%20square
There are no 600ft sailboats.
The Maltese Falcon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%28yacht%29
is the biggest at ~290 ft LOA.
Focus.
They don't change the contents of your email to include advertisements. Hotmail does.
It isn't any kind of 'correction' causing it to be better with a faster draw speed.
The screen will be sampled ever so often, and if you move your finger quickly the samples will be far less, resulting in a straight line between them.
You can check this by drawing very quick circles on the device, you will notice it is composed of straight lines rather than a perfect curve. The effect will get worse the faster you draw the circles.
The iPhone does NOT join unknown networks, ever, under any circumstance.
The iPhone will pop up a list of available networks when you try to use data by default, but you just hit close and this goes away. This option is also easily disabled in your Wifi settings.
I'm just thinking about myself. Do I want to go through a metal scanner, then maybe be wanded, and sometimes patted down?
Or can someone in a separate room (who cannot see me directly) just look at a picture from one quick scan and pass/fail me. For me I chose the scan, but maybe some others are a bit more squeamish.
I might agree with you except for the fact that I actually like those scanners.
It takes a few seconds to go through and saves me a wanding/patdown/metal detection etc. For me it is a much preferable way to go.
Unethical maybe, but unless the rules are different for reporters, many states, and all of canada operate in a 1-party recording law. It means that at least one person must know the call is being recorded.
So you can record a call between you and someone, but you cannot secretly record a call between two people with you not being on the call.
Some states do, though, have a 2-party recording law, which would make this illegal. I guess then it depends where the recording is taking place!
Agreed, you stroke her Gspot,. she is stroking your ego.
As one other poster began elaborating on, it is basically a full computer running a BSD variant. No the input isn't as nice as a laptop etc.
:D
I open a terminal, I have bash. Some customer calls me asking me to do something on their server I just open a terminal and type
ssh user@server. Something bigger? I get to a computer and throw up a 802.11G access point who's WAN is my cellular data.
I want remote desktop into my work session? done. Full desktop, very nice interface (compared to what you'd expect, not a desktop computer obviously).
I stream music and satellite radio all day. I can bring up videos on Youtube for any demos I want for people. I've got a full set of maps and full google search anywhere I go. I've got skype for free calling anywhere I am. I have a camera which I can quickly use an app to stick together a nice panoramic shot of where I am, and quickly email that file to anyone I want, anywhere.
Basically anything you do on a computer you can do on an iPhone.
The major upside to all of this? It is done with a UI that consistently reviews above anything else out there. The hardware quality is top notch, the thing is comfortable to use. There is an App out there for damn near any application.
Hell the damn thing is even a phone
Android is catching up. The phones don't seem to look at nice (to me or pretty much any review you read out there) and the OS itself feels a lot..younger (which it is) and is still going through growing pains. They have recently released a native SDK finally so you dont have to run all your apps in the JVM. It is coming along and I expect great things of it, it will just take time.
The iPhone was in the same position when it came out near 3 years ago. There were only web apps for it, no sdk, the damn thing crashed all the time etc. Now it is smooth, VERY stable, and pretty refined these days.
Hopefully this huge stupid monolog helps give you a satisfying answer of why the iPhone is so good. I like to consider myself a person without brand loyalty and will generally buy what I think is best at the time of purchase. I could care less about Apple or being their customer and I would move from the iPhone to an Android phone in a heartbeat if I thought any of the phones could really surpass the iPhone software AND hardware-wise, but that just is not yet the case.
As the other poster said, plugging in the phone in the evening really isn't a chore. I'm a heavy user and if I forget to do that, it will usually last the next day of light use as well, I just shut off 3G.
Does cloud cover really affect ground elevation radar?
What's with all the AC's lately?
Anyways, for one, get an iPhone and you get all of this except for the uselessly over megapixelled camera.
For another, you're on S60. It's a total bitch to code for, the UI looks like windows 3.1. It just is not pleasant to use. Contrast that with an iPhone or Android phone and its night and day. Android JUST came out, so complaining about no skype (which you don't even have natively, you have to go through fring, which sucks). and no turn by turn GPS at this point doesn't seem relevant.
The iPhone platform has had some time to mature and has everything you describe.
Wifi? Of course. Skype ? Native skype client which I use to call right over 3G, not using any daytime minutes. Quad band GSM ? Naturally. 32GB storage? Check. Weather? Of course. Rss? Only about a billion apps for that. Calendering has been around since the days of early palm PDAs, so a phone without this would be dissapointing, but yes, my calender syncs with google, along with my contacts and mail over exchange. Wow opera and the symbian web browser, opera is now getting better, symbian browser is unusable on the modern web. PDF reading is no problem on either platform. There may not be a dozen mp3 players for iPhone but I bet there will be for Android. I play DivX/Xvid without issue. Connect to projector with sound/video in one cable? Check there too.
Just demonstrating how once a platform matures a bit (Isn't S60 like a hundred years old?) and gains some usershare, the functionality will come, the hardware will get more refined, etc. Give android some time.
By android I meant the Nexus One
Haven't seen his in any of the replies, but the N900 is just like the Android in bands. 2G only on ATT.
I agree with the other child post. You can see your mac drive just fine in windows. The boot camp 3.0 drivers included on the snow leopard dvd mostly work fine (though some good updates are out there from the manufacturers such as realtek and nvidia)
If you do not have a snow leopard dvd, torrent and enjoy!
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5054638/Bootcamp_Driver_3.0_for_Windows_32bit__amp__64bit_%28from_Snow_Leopard
I have gone through every measure possible to avoid ever landing in the USA again on an airplane. I travel to Mexico or Costa Rica yearly on vacation, and usually take 1-2 vacations in the summer as well, and thanks to the lovely TSA and border agents, the USA has been semi-permenantly crossed off my tourism list. (semi because if they let up again I would consider going back. It isn't a grudge thing, just do not want to be harassed.)
All my flights I pay extra if necessary to bypass the USA all together, not landing in their airports even for stopovers. This has become standard operating proceedure for pretty much anyone I've spoken to who vacations regularly.
The USA is going to be facing some pretty heavy dollars lost in tourism from Canadian, European, Asian, etc tourists if no one is willing to fly into the country.
The TSA really needs to clean up it's act, even though I feel for them, since I'm sure there would be outcry as well were they to go 'soft on terror!'
Actually I realize now that even though very few will be reading now the "ac" between those two links was a fuckup, I meant to say to install the latest realtek sound drivers as well.
Mea Culpa.
Here is some info not provided in the rest of the 'I'm posting from Win7" posts here is some helpful information.
First, the Snow Leopard DVD includes boot camp 3.0, which VASTLY improves the use of the touchpad under Windows XP or Vista. It also mostly works under Windows 7.
If you don't have a Snow Leopard DVD, here is a link to the drivers on TPB:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5054638/Bootcamp_Driver_3.0_for_Windows_32bit__amp__64bit_%28from_Snow_Leopard
After installing this updating the sound drivers and video drivers would be advisable since the ones that come in boot camp suck and/or cause crashes.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us for video drivers. Select windows-7 then 32 or 64 bit depending on which you've chosen.
ac
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
After this it should be reasonably stable.
Sorry your majesty. I'm sure apple will release a shitty resistive touchscreen phone to accommodate your scarred fingers.