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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Re: Nine Alternatives To Apple's iPhone
said by wmcbrine  :said by tc1uscg :It's slow, clunky and costly. You can call it many things, but "clunky" is not one of them. It's really not slow, either, except for the Edge thing (and it also does WiFi) -- 620 MHz ARM processor. I can pretty much bet if the phone was from, say Creative Labs, there wouldn't be much, if any, media frenzy about it. Indeed not, because there's zero chance that Creative Labs would ever produce anything like it. It just appears that when apple takes a dump, there are scores of people standing around to say "oh my god, what a new inovative pile of poop. And scores of other people standing around waiting to declare any new Apple product "poop", no matter how Insanely Great it really is. Oh well. I'm still waiting for someone to point out what is so great about this phone (other then it's marketing) that commands it's high price for as little as it does or lacks.. But hey, it's got a cool screen to keep you busy  and if other manufactures come out with phones that let you stroke the screen.. then I guess that's a plus.  | |
wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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said by tc1uscg :It's slow, clunky and costly. You can call it many things, but "clunky" is not one of them. It's really not slow, either, except for the Edge thing (and it also does WiFi) -- 620 MHz ARM processor.
I can pretty much bet if the phone was from, say Creative Labs, there wouldn't be much, if any, media frenzy about it. Indeed not, because there's zero chance that Creative Labs would ever produce anything like it.
It just appears that when apple takes a dump, there are scores of people standing around to say "oh my god, what a new inovative pile of poop. And scores of other people standing around waiting to declare any new Apple product "poop", no matter how Insanely Great it really is.
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by wmcbrine :said by tc1uscg :But there are 9 phones that can do what the whyPhone can't. Yeah, sure. But no sense of aesthetics in any of them. How nice is it to download at 3g speeds, when it means you have to view the result on a Windows CE device? The iPhone isn't perfect. It's just radically better... scratch that... it's really just in a different category. If the iPhone is what you want, you will not be remotely happy with any of the nine. And possibly, if you need something like GPS, you won't be satisfied with the iPhone. But if you had one, and traded it for one of the nine, I think you'd regret it. By the time Apple is ready for 3g.. 4G will be the norm.. 
But that's the whole point. What does this phone REALLY offer minus the touch screen, that other phones don't offer? It's slow, clunky and costly. I can pretty much bet if the phone was from, say Creative Labs, there wouldn't be much, if any, media frenzy about it. It just appears that when apple takes a dump, there are scores of people standing around to say "oh my god, what a new inovative pile of poop. This is really going to be big. We gotta have it. It so raises the bar on stink"... | |
wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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said by tc1uscg :But there are 9 phones that can do what the whyPhone can't. Yeah, sure. But no sense of aesthetics in any of them. How nice is it to download at 3g speeds, when it means you have to view the result on a Windows CE device?
The iPhone isn't perfect. It's just radically better... scratch that... it's really just in a different category. If the iPhone is what you want, you will not be remotely happy with any of the nine. And possibly, if you need something like GPS, you won't be satisfied with the iPhone. But if you had one, and traded it for one of the nine, I think you'd regret it.
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by wmcbrine :said by Anonymous_ :i am talking about ebay Price There's no reason to pay that. Nor to wait in line. Apple will keep making these as long as they sell. It's not a limited edition. The worst that happens is that you wait a few weeks... but probably not even that. (So, in other words, these people are nuts.) But, having seen the iPhone and seen other phones, there aren't nine other phones that can do what it does, nor even one, at any price. But there are 9 phones that can do what the whyPhone can't. | |
matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT | reply to wmcbrine
I'll wait for iPhone 2. It's bullsh*t that the Europeans get HSDPA and we get EDGE... not to mention the crappy non-replaceable battery that forces you to always be near a power plug. | |
wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
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said by Anonymous_ :i am talking about ebay Price There's no reason to pay that. Nor to wait in line. Apple will keep making these as long as they sell. It's not a limited edition. The worst that happens is that you wait a few weeks... but probably not even that. (So, in other words, these people are nuts.)
But, having seen the iPhone and seen other phones, there aren't nine other phones that can do what it does, nor even one, at any price.
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