I like a lot about this phone:
Higher Resolution than WM Smart phones
Simple Interface
WiFi & BT included
8 GB RAM included
However, I'm not sure this is going to be the runaway hit everyone here seems to think it will. First off, those of us that have attempted to use a phone without hard keys in the past know it's NOT a good experience. 2nd, How hard/easy will it be to send a text message. How marked up will that screen get from our greasy fingers touching it all the time. The lack of 3G is also a real downer. Many of the new stuff - Slingbox, MobiTV, etc will not work well using EDGE. Apple has cut off a larger potential market of users by leaving this out of the device.
Add a couple of the missing things I mentioned and you'll have THE device, as it is, its another very good device with flaws.
Since none of us have really have used the new interface, the jury is out on the true usability, we're just counting on Apple to do it right. Aside from that, HTC should be able to slap 8 GB of Flash into any of their current smart phones have a device that could at least compete with this, couldn't they?
This is a very impressive piece of hardware.
The screen has a great resolution, comparing it with others phones of the same size ( not JASJAR and etc ).
And funny how nobody here is talking about the Multi-Touch feature of the screen, this should be exponential better to type on the screen etc.
I hope someone at Microsoft is getting the spank for this one. Personally I prefer the PocketPC form factor to the smartphone. It just makes me sick how MS has basically abandoned the PPC over the last few years. I wonder if this will invoke a change in direction, or if my 4700 will be the last PPC I ever own.
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Hopefully this will prove that something like PPC phones are consumer items and not just for business professionals ("enterprise customers").
Just as the iPods showed that mp3 players were mainstream if they had enough storage, maybe so for PPC phones. 64mb of Ram and maybe 256 megs of ROM is just retarded.
And just maybe, American wireless companies will stop being 2 years behind everyone else in the world. You hear me Sprint?
I, for one, am dialed in for the iPhone. It will be great to come almost full circle to back to Apple for handheld productivity. Although I have a Windows Mobile PPC phone, I still use my Apple Newton MessagePad 2100.
Here in thailand this will never sell without gprs.
I like the size, weight, screen etc. and hope second gen wil have a good camera and gprs--so I am still leaning towards Nokia N95
Innovative, cool looking, feature packed, aimed at the "regular" consumer, not too expensive, has an ipod... I don't really see how they can go wrong, unless the text-entering via screen-only totally sucks.
We'll get one with a 99% certainty since my wife is a mac user.
I hope the contacts syncing is faster than with iTunes 7 and a 5th generation iPod. Hopefully it'll do so with a database format as well, rather than the "everything goes into one big file on the iPod" method that is currently in use.
I could care less about the iPhone. I'm probably the only person that is not excited by it. I hate the Apple Corporation, I hate their products, I hate MacOS and I hate their philosophy.
Good for you mate, we have to admire people like you, determined and well grounded in what they want but most of all ignorant and narrow minded. MS loves people like you, can't make a decision or choice on your own or without your TV. Enjoy your "smart phone" and Vista - it's so 2002!! :wink:
I have a feeling someone will be making a website called iphonethoughts.com. Otherwise, what category would this go to? Pocket PC Phone? Smartphone? Or maybe more Generalized?
iphonethoughts.com anybody?
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