iphone

godsshoeshine wrote:
why not just get a regular netbook at that price

i was thinking the same thing, but for that price you're getting a netbook PLUS a top of the line android phone.  maybe another way of looking at it is that you'll be spending $200 on a high-end phone anyways, so the "netbook portion" is $300… slightly more reasonable.

also, you don't have to sync your phone to the netbook since the phone is the netbook.  apparently that's worth something to some people.

If that dock doesn't work as a stand alone as rumored (ie, the phone is required) that is dead on arrival.  Poor move Motorola/at&t.

sweetcell wrote:

godsshoeshine wrote:
why not just get a regular netbook at that price

i was thinking the same thing, but for that price you're getting a netbook PLUS a top of the line android phone.  maybe another way of looking at it is that you'll be spending $200 on a high-end phone anyways, so the "netbook portion" is $300… slightly more reasonable.

also, you don't have to sync your phone to the netbook since the phone is the netbook.  apparently that's worth something to some people.

yeah the $200 price for the phone is fine, but newegg has several netbooks around $300 that have operating systems. once youre paying more for teathering, it makes no sense to buy the bundle in my opinion

godsshoeshine wrote:
yeah the $200 price for the phone is fine, but newegg has several netbooks around $300 that have operating systems. once youre paying more for teathering, it makes no sense to buy the bundle in my opinion

I'm with shoeshine.

The current extra price of Data Pro + Tethering on at&t would get you a Wimax mobile hotspot on Sprint with an already developed 4G network (plus you could connect 7 more devices).  Why wouldn't you do that and get a full blown netbook for that price, you know, in case you want to edit word and excel documents or something?

don't get me wrong, i'm not a fan of this setup for $500+.  i agree that at that price, consumers could do much better for themselves.

My 80 year old stepdad has been waiting years for the iphone to appear on Verizon, and yesterday two new phones arrived at their house, one for him and one for my mom. 

I've had two phone conversations with my mom on her new verizon iphone.

Both calls dropped.

I called Jobs.  He said they were holding it wrong.

i remember when my friend got verizon after years of sprint. he called me all excited and told me "now i'll never have dropped" and then the call dropped

vansmack wrote:
The last thing the mobile industry needs is consolidation of OS developers.  We've only got 4 (Apple, MS, Google and Palm - sorry symbian folks, but you've been relegated to the cheapie bin)….  

If you only need a hardware provider, MS would be much better served by contracting with HTC to provide a MS branded phone.  It would cost half as much, it's already used to your platform, and they're putting out the most innovative hardware on the market (sorry Apple folks, but the iPhone hasn't changed its appearance in 3 years now, to where HTC has a new phone every 2 months or so).

How on earth did I predict the death of Symbian and then argue that MS should partner with HTC?

Nokia was the obvious choice there and it only took MS 1.5 years to take my advice, albeit with a much better plan then I laid out.  I should have nailed this - Nokia's phone are sick, and this could be a KILLER partnership.

This is a good, balanced look at the Verizon vs AT&T issue.    Bottom line seems that while Verizon's physical network is better for now, they suck in many other important ways.  Glad I followed the advice given here and stuck with AT&T when getting my new phone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html?_r=1&ref=cellphones

sweetcell wrote:
don't get me wrong, i'm not a fan of this setup for $500+.  i agree that at that price, consumers could do much better for themselves.

Engadget likey the Atrix 4g, no likely the peripherals:

We wanted to love this dock, but at the price Motorola is asking and for the small amount of utility it actually provides, it seems clear to us that your money would be better spent on a tablet or decent netbook.

adobe capitulates to apple, flash holes to be filled on i-devices soon

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/14/adobe.flash.war/index.html

sweetcell wrote:
adobe capitulates to apple, flash holes to be filled on i-devices soon

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/14/adobe.flash.war/index.html

I don't read it quite that way.  Flash was never going to beat out HTML5 as the next standard when Apple, Google and MS all adopted it in the desktop and mobile platforms, so Adobe is smart to give it's developers an easy conversion tool.  Their hope is that developers will still use Adobe tools to create content regardless of output format - that's how they made their money anyway.

Adobe was fine giving the finger to the iPhone as it loses market share (I heartily disagree with the authors contention that "Apple's iPhone holds the most interactivity- and video-hungry portion of the smartphone market" as all stats seem to indicate that Android has surpassed iOS in both market share and internet traffic), but Adobe can't be sitting on its hands while the iPad takes a huge early lead in the tablet market.

If you want to develop for the tablet, you'd be smart to adopt HTML5, and Apple isn't the only one saying that.

I feel like I should have a contest for the boardie with the best map or craziest location:

iSpy Conspiracy: Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You?ve Been, All The Time

holy crap that's scary. 

<dork alert> the article mentions that location is taken every second.  if one makes the estimate that timestamp + longitude + latitude = 24 bytes, that amounts to~720 MB of data per year.  where is that being stored?  might be lower if the device doesn't store repeated data while the device is at rest.

iPhone is how you communicate with SATAN!!!

sweetcell wrote:
&lt;dork alert&gt; the article mentions that location is taken every second.&nbsp; if one makes the estimate that timestamp + longitude + latitude = 24 bytes, that amounts to~720 MB of data per year.&nbsp; where is that being stored?&nbsp; might be lower if the device doesn&#039;t store repeated data while the device is at rest.

I think you may have over read that statement.  It says the timestamp is accurate to the second, but that doesn't mean that they take it every second.

Shit's going to start getting serious if it's discovered that Apple gets that file via iTunes or OTA.

Frank wrote:
iPhone is how you communicate with SATAN!!!

i use mine to communicate with smackie

godsshoeshine wrote:

Frank wrote:
iPhone is how you communicate with SATAN!!!

i use mine to communicate with smackie

Same difference?

godsshoeshine wrote:

Frank wrote:
iPhone is how you communicate with SATAN!!!

i use mine to communicate with smackie

potayto, potahto.