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hiraethified
Come on: people are always comparing and discussing the feature sets of unreleased products here.
Palm: Pre, webOS & app discussion
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hiraethified
Hasn't quite gone to plan with the one button mouse though, has it?
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hiraethified
It may be old tech to you, but 553 million picture messages were sent last year in the UK - up 23 per cent on 2007.
That's more than 1.5 million per day in the UK alone. Nearly 5 million were sent on Xmas day.
Kid_Eternity
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There's a difference between us shooting the breeze on here about it and some proper article with comparison charts! It's a nonsense, the comparison chart compares a real phone with one that that could and probably will change when it's actually made available.
I didn't say Apple are perfect.
Kid_Eternity
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I won't buy a phone that's not in the shops yet.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I've never really use it, but I think you missed my point. Millions of people were using floppy discs when apple phased them out no doubt it caused lots of frustration for people who used them. Not saying its right, just the way apple does stuff, I'd be very surprised if you ever saw MMS on an iphone. Copy and paste maybe.
Crispy
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From phones?How do reckon that compares with email?
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Here's a copy of the developer presentation -
It's almost an hour long and shows actual Javascript code and a very simple app being developed. It looks pretty simple to get started with.
In the skim viewing I gave it, it didn't really seem to do anything much that a plain web app couldn't, but I didn't have an hour to sit and listen to it all. There's some talk of the HTML5 local database use, and the internal db storage called Depots, the Mojo framework etc.
The development and demos are all run on a Mac using an emulator and TextMate. The emulator looks nothing like the Pre screens that were demoed at the launch, but I'm presuming that's because the demoed app was so simple.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
How do reckon that compares with email?
Comparing emails sent from phones would be quite interesting...
Given that we are talking about smart phones here, yes it would.
How does your personal ratio compare?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I haven't sent an MMS for years but as my phones have got more capable send more and more emails.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I send about three or four MMS a year at best (less now I can upload straight to Facebook), and can send double or more than that in emails each day.
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hiraethified
I've no idea, but there's no doubt that a growing amount of consumers send MMS messages in vast numbers every day, and it's a serious omission off any new smartphone.How do reckon that compares with email?
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hiraethified
You're welcome to keep on trying and spin that anyway you like, but the fact remains that with 1.5m MMS messages sent every day in the UK, it's a very popular messaging service that is growing in use (up 23 per cent from last year).
The lack of MMS on a modern smartphone is a serious omission, regardless of what Apple aficionados insist.
Piers Gibbon
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interesting...I never got into MMS..maybe 3 in total.. have always had a smartphone though so I guess that's why (emails)
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hiraethified
The vast majority of mobile phone users have never sent an email from their phones.
I've only ever received 1. Ever.
I think I tried to send one once but it involved lots of faffing around on the Nokia I had. So I gave up...
Piers Gibbon
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yeah I can believe that..am trying to migrate my girlf away from hotmail to her grown-up email address
so she can use the Centro properly and we can stop spending all our money on intercontinental smsDo you think that's true for smart phones?
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hiraethified
There's ample evidence that people don't use all the features on their smartphones (see below for example) and I certainly know people with smartphones who have never sent an email, although there's no question that millions of MMS messages are sent from smartphones.
Crispy
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"Hardware on mobile phones has been outpacing the software capabilities"
Certainly agree. It's only now, bump started by apple, that the phone manufacturers are coming to understand that sotware is important. More important than hardware in many ways.
Certainly agree. It's only now, bump started by apple, that the phone manufacturers are coming to understand that sotware is important. More important than hardware in many ways.
Do you believe the vast majority of smart phone users have never sent an email from their phone?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Many people never used memory sticks whilst there machines had floppy drives, despite them being superior. It was only when computers stoped shipping with them that they made the change.
Stop supporting MMS and people will switch to email. This will cause problems for all the people who haven't got email or haven't got their phone setup to accept it, but we got over this with floppy, I'm sure we will get over it again.
Stop supporting MMS and people will switch to email. This will cause problems for all the people who haven't got email or haven't got their phone setup to accept it, but we got over this with floppy, I'm sure we will get over it again.
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hiraethified
Eh? I certainly haven't said anything like that, but there is ample evidence that a sizeable percentage of people who buy smartphones don't use all the features. I've no doubt that email would be one of those unused features for some.
It seems to me that you're on some weird stat-twisting mission to 'prove' that MMS isn't important just because the iPhone hasn't got that capability.
Here's the facts: MMS is used by millions of smartphone users. It is growing in use and with 1.5m MMS messages sent every day in the UK, it is patently obvious that it is a hugely popular service. For a smartphone not to have this useful feature is a serious omission right now (that may change in a few years of course).
And here's the facts to back that up:
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