iphone

vansmack wrote:

Venerable wrote:
who buys a palm?

People who bought their first smartphone just over a year ago should not cast stones in the direction of Palm.  Afterall, Palm invented the smartphone.

i'll have you know that it's been over 2 years now. . . and i remember how much smackette hated her palm.

Venerable wrote:
and i remember how much smackette hated her palm.

Hated?  Really?

She was upset that one particular application for doctors wasn't available as promised when it was released, otherwise she loves the phone.

WebOS definitely has had it's growing pains, but I don't anybody who hates the Pre.

EDIT: She's going to love it even more next month: Video Recording Coming to All WebOS Phones in February

EDIT #2: Palm just dropped a bomb with a Mobile Hotspot app that'll bring WiFi routing to up to five devices, not unlike the MiFi devices already offered by both Sprint and Verizon.

vansmack wrote:

Venerable wrote:
and i remember how much smackette hated her palm.

Hated?  Really?

She was upset that one particular application for doctors wasn't available as promised when it was released, otherwise she loves the phone.

WebOS definitely has had it's growing pains, but I don't anybody who hates the Pre.

this is what i get for making a joke about the palm.  you'd think it was the 20s and i was dissing the new oldsmobile.

vansmack wrote:

Got wrote:
it doesn't even have multi-touch.

Well, it doesn't have Google supported multitouch, but it's hackable and Google won't block it when the hackers add it.  Apple's patent is the only reason why the Nexus doesn't have multitouch.

And if you needed further proof of this theory:

Euro spec Nexus One Does Multitouch

Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/09/google_nexus_one_vs_apple_iphone_3gs.html

i knew this would come up sooner or later… an inherent issue of open-sourcing a device that handles sensitive info:

Malware Sneaks Into Android Market

the masses eventually caught it, but how much info was collected before the malware apps were discovered?

back from the dead:

Windows Mobile 7 rumors coalesce around Q4 launch, MWC announcement
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/windows-mobile-7-rumors-coalesce-around-q4-launch-mwc-announcem/

Has anyone visited 930.com via iPhone Safari recently?  The entire website is now more mobile browser friendly, however I'm not a huge fan to the use of brown font for the forum links.

yup, like a week or two ago it went from web-default black text/blue links/white background to something that looks much closer to the "full version": black background, white text and horrible brown links… i hated the brown when the redesign went in, and i hate it now.  which design idiot came up with that combo?!?  yellow would have been better.  i view the site's mobile version on the blackberry's default browser, i use operamini when i want to view the non-mobile (full) version on the go.

Yeah, the brown is really grimey and not the easiest to read under certain lighting conditions.

Various lighting conditions often seems to be ignored, or probably just not understood enough, by too many people designing websites. Not only do different machines display differently but they will be utilized in lots of different lighting environments. That's especially true with all of the high tech phones and laptops used nowadays. What looks nice and clear on one machine and in one room may be extremely difficult to view in another. Brown against black or grey is not a safe choice unless one can have better control over the actual viewing environment.

Yellow would be easier but I would avoid a bright out and out yellow as the contrast may be too high and blur out to some eyes. Would have to try out some of the others but a slightly more muted yellow, like maybe a gold or something, might work much better.

But yeah, I'm fully with you on all of that.

What's a mobile browser?

one that refuses to sit still.

I enjoy the tenacity of Google….

Google Voice comes to iPhone and WebOS as a Web App

vansmack wrote:

chaz wrote:
I think that the android phone to get will be htc's stab at 2.0. 

I think you're right about this, and if you can hold off, I'd go with their snapdragon version in the HD2 mold that runs Android - it will run 2.0 much better.  I expect a March release date for that phone.

This may be the phone that gets me to leave WinMo (as sad as that will make me and my beta testing ways….).  The more it looks like Sprint will not get the HD2, all all rumors seem to point that the HTC Supersonic will be on Sprint AND be a WiMax phone, I don't know how I could pass on this beauty….



4.3 inch sceen, Snapdragon processor, WiMax and Android…

That does look sweet…

chaz wrote:
That does look sweet…

It has 4 basic buttons and is black and shiny. You're easily impressed ;)

so who is going to get an ipad now???  Thing looks like a ginormous iphone  ;D

this big ipod touch is the dumbest thing ever.

It's everything I asked for in my Crunchpad….I just wish they'd announce the price!

vansmack wrote:
It's everything I asked for in my Crunchpad….I just wish they'd announce the price!

$799 is my guess.  care to speculate?