Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
jæd said:Give it about 6 months and you'll probably have them free on contract...!
I reckon so too.
jæd said:Give it about 6 months and you'll probably have them free on contract...!
editor said:Well it does say, "the 8GB version has been listed at £329 ($662) that may include the country's VAT tax"
I think that £330's a bit rich for me for a phone. Even a Treo!
editor said:Thing is, if I had a phone that costs that much, I'd be really wary of taking it with me all the time, which kind of defeats the whole point of having a good phone in the first place.
MAKER OF entertainment gear, Apple is planning to release a cheaper Iphone based on the Ipod Nano.
According to a JP Morgan report Apple has filed a patent application document dated July 5 that refers to a multi functional hand held device with a circular touch pad control, similar to the Nano's scroll wheel.
Talking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, unnamed people in the supply channel indicated that the report was true and they are preparing to make the cheaper phone.
Chang said Apple plans to convert the Nano into a phone and price it at $300 or lower. He said this would be a way for Apple to launch a lower end phone without severely cannibalising iPod Nano.
The new phone will have limited functionality, he added.
Worked in the old days though. Finger on wheel, pull round to the right number.Crispy said:No kidding 'limited functionality' - the touch wheel would be a rather limited input device for a phone.
After you on the rotary dial to enter text messages thenBob_the_lost said:Worked in the old days though. Finger on wheel, pull round to the right number.
Could still work but yeah, pain in the arse.Crispy said:After you on the rotary dial to enter text messages then
Funny too:So are you returning this thing [the iPhone]?
I should, but no. Don't look at me that way, let me explain. Look at other handsets from Nokia, Helio, Palm, Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung; or anything running the vomit-inducing Windows Mobile. What they generally have over the iPhone, all these critical but technically minor functions, the iPhone could theoretically fix with a patch or two. Meanwhile, those companies in turn will never be able to make as great a UI and platform as the iPhone has the potential to be.
This Notes app is useful in the same way that a man dying of hunger eats rats and berries—you can't be choosy when it's all you've got. In the absence of voice notes, to-do lists, and Microsoft Word support, Notes is the only place in the entire phone that you can actually take down notes (unless you count writing an email to yourself). And thanks to the fact that it doesn't actually SYNC to anything through iTunes (not even to the Notes in Mail.app under Leopard yet), it stays on your phone until you delete it.
Not a surprise.Kid_Eternity said:Another rumour, big update coming for the iPhone, including things like adding Copy and Paste (which some have complained about on here too)...
Crispy said:Not a surprise.
They haven't exactly learnt from Apple's consumer-wooing interface, have they?ruffneck23 said:
*hand waggle*Kid_Eternity said:Yeah...almost a dead cert we'll see at 3G version over then...
editor said:There's a big review here with a massive hands on guide:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/no-bs-iphone-review-276116.php
*goes off to read
adds: Blimey. He's a lively one alright:
Funny too:
[No] Sending an SMS to more than one recipient at a time.
Crispy said:*hand waggle*
not so sure about that, not this soon anyway.
Crispy said:I've got 5p here says we won't. man enough to put up yours?
Crispy said:woah woah, uk release?
ach. I've got £5 that the iphone will make my breakfast by 2012. Now that's a man's bet.
Pretty standard MO for apple - OSX 10.0 and the 1G iPod lacked some pretty important functionality as well.Bob_the_lost said:Hmmm, a cunning way to prolong the marketing hype? After all they knew all the launch units would go like hotcakes no matter what was in the box. Or just lucky for apple...
editor said:They haven't exactly learnt from Apple's consumer-wooing interface, have they?
Yes. I'm sure some spoddy bloke will be along to update the interface right up to a glossy Windows 98 look shortly.ruffneck23 said:ah but its all open source , so someone will soon change all that
rocketman said:Here's a rumour - iPhone to gain many new features in future software updates.
Some of these could be quite good - photo sharing, iChat support, iWork integration and so on, others should perhaps have existed before release.
Anyway, for those interested, here be the linky
http://www.pdalive.com/showarticle.php?threadid=13781