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Yes. the Iphone is overated and not revolutiionary.
I will only add a bit myself. As stated above Time has not been a good magazine for years. Sounds like desperation on the part of Time/Warner and another grab at brainwashed Macheads to shower non-believers with more pathetic dribble about Macs, ipods, iphones and the "immortal" Steve Jobs. I imagine if Mr. Jobs passed gass through an iphone that would be an invention as well. here are a few reasons not to get an iphone: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2151961,00.asp http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=220 http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1890 hidari of the Year[/URL]. They did, however, list a massive machine designed to print books on-demand at about 100 pages a minute. In the long run, Time passed up inventions that could save us energy, make us more energy, make us safer, make our commutes easier, protect us from cancer and other diseases, reduce our impact on our finite resources, or bring knowledge to the third world... to name the iPhone as Invention of the Year. This, after copping out last year and naming "You" as Person of the Year. If I had a subscription, I'd cancel it, and demand money back to compensate for their defrauding me by pretending to be a serious news magazine.[/QUOTE] |
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here's the reason to get an iphone: you've got the internet in your pocket. bingo.
it also makes phonecalls, and it's a camera, and it's an ipod. and it's got a clock... all of which are very nice. especially the phone. and the clock. _and_ the internet. -bowerbird |
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11-04-2007, 04:37 AM | #19 |
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all those functions were in place before the iphone= nothing new.
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You want my vote for invention of the year? Here you go. Leaping: The PRS-505 came out this year, so technically, it could've been included in the list. Vivaldi: SUVs suck. Nate: Pepper Jack for me, please. Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 11-04-2007 at 09:27 AM. |
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Pepper jack, SUVs, and the 505 all suck! Well, maybe not the 505. Wish I had one myself, actually. Drat!
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And only the people who make the VentureOne would call it both a hybrid and all electric. Which is it?? And then post an "artist's rendering" instead of a real photo. Deception! Deception!
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I want one! Um, if you can promise I won't die in one on Houston highways.
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steve said:
> Any smartphone can do all that. yeah, right. and any car can drive down the same road as a b.m.w., but any car can't drive down the road the same _way_ as a b.m.w. but hey, no need for disagreement. if you're happy with the browser in your "smart phone", then i'm happy for you. really i am... truly... -bowerbird |
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Hi Bowerbird,
Could you elaborate a little about how specifically the iPhone is better for web browsing than the WM6 smartphone browser? The iPhone isn't currently available in the UK, so I've not yet had the opportunity to see one. I use my HTC smartphone extensively for web browsing and I'd be interested to know how the iPhone could improve on it. |
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> What will the Safari browser on the iPhone do > that the web browser on a WM6 smartphone won't? well, it will display on a bigger, sharper screen, for one. :+) other than that, i don't really know, because i have never even seen -- let alone used in the wild -- a "wm6" phone. because, to tell you the truth, the screen on the iphone is the smallest one that i've even _considered_ to be worthy of squinting at for long enough to interact with the web... if all you're doing is checking your e-mail, then you might be happy with your current phone, which is _fine_ with me. but every other phone that i have ever looked at -- with the exception of the sidekick, which seems highly under-rated -- has struck me as a very bad joke from the phone companies in terms of its capabilities as "a web-browser". my opinion... and believe me, i've been waiting for "the internet in my pocket" for a _very_ long time... since, like, the internet was invented... -bowerbird |
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p.s. if the nokia 770 coulda made phonecalls, i mighta bought that.
but they've lost their window of opportunity with this mac person... -bowerbird |
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