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Global_Stoner said:
Like I said icon at top of the screen, press it for a drop down menu of all you running apps, select or close the app you want from it. So we're talking the difference between one tap or two - hardly the end of the world.
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That's not running the standard WM interface. You're using the HTC Touch-Flo UI which does a good job of covering up the WM cracks but delve in deep enough and you'll soon end up consulting the Task Manager.
 
I honestly haven't had to go beyond it in the last couple months. I can't think of anything that I would need to do so. My only gripe was about the contacts being a bit fiddly and Dutties Rom's solve that. What do you do which would mean that you need to?

Anyway it doesn't take away from the point that the Palm interface's method of muti tasking is not revolutionary - very nice, but not ground breaking. Symbian has been touch of the button for many many years.

If the Pre had been available, I would have given it serious thought and next upgrade I'll look closely at Palm OS, provided there are decent mapping apps.
 
editor said:
That's not running the standard WM interface. You're using the HTC Touch-Flo UI which does a good job of covering up the WM cracks but delve in deep enough and you'll soon end up consulting the Task Manager.
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I'm not using touchflo, and it's only two taps to close an app. There's even a setting on my phone to change the function of the close button so it actually closes an application.
 
Sunray said:
Steve jobs didn't use it in the original iPhone presentation.

He just said he was 're-inventing the mobile phone' which is very accurate.
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LOL. How wrong can you be?!

Here's Apple's iPhone press release:
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 9, 2007—Apple today introduced iPhone, combining three products—a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps—into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.

“iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We are all born with the ultimate pointing device—our fingers—and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse.”

iPhone is a Revolutionary Mobile Phone
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows users to make calls by simply pointing at a name or number. iPhone syncs all of your contacts from your PC, Mac or Internet service such as Yahoo!, so that you always have your full list of up-to-date contacts with you. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and easily merge calls together to create conference calls.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html
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Sunray said:
Steve jobs didn't use it in the original iPhone presentation.
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Well, if we keep to the high-grade nitpicking standard for these sort of threads, I do believe he's correct. Steve Job's original presentation was not the same as the text of the press release.
 
Crispy said:
Well, if we keep to the high-grade nitpicking standard for these sort of threads, I do believe he's correct. Steve Job's original presentation was not the same as the text of the press release.
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You can spin it anyway you like fella, but Steve Jobs most definitely called the iPhone "revolutionary" which, I believe, was the claim being disputed. The word's plastered all over the press release, with his name on it.
 
editor said:
The word's plastered all over the press release, with his name on it.
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Ah yes, but he didn't say it in the presentation itself. It's important to be as narrow and anally specific as possible about these things, or we might all have to end up agreeing with each other. And where would the tech forum be then eh?
 
Crispy said:
Ah yes, but he didn't say it in the presentation itself. It's important to be as narrow and anally specific as possible about these things, or we might all have to end up agreeing with each other. And where would the tech forum be then eh?
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:D:D:D
 
Lookee here, a photo of a box!

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Been reading in places that review copies are now being sent out, and that they were told they'd get one four weeks before launch which means first week of June for US launch.
 
Crispy said:
Ah yes, but he didn't say it in the presentation itself. It's important to be as narrow and anally specific as possible about these things, or we might all have to end up agreeing with each other. And where would the tech forum be then eh?
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Classic...! :D
 
Crispy said:
Ah yes, but he didn't say it in the presentation itself.
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Oh, but he did, Mr Sarkypants. He was positively spinning with the 'revolutions'!
This is a day I've been looking forward to for two-and-a-half years. Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. ...Well, today, we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone ... are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone, and here it is.

http://www.iphonebuzz.com/complete-...-conference-and-expo-january-9-2007-23447.php
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LOL, PWN, HTH, HAND, Tea No Sugar etc.

:D :D
sumimasen said:
lol, Microsoft says hold off buying the iPhone or Pre, we may just surprise you this June
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Think I'ol take a raincheck on that one.
 
editor said:
Oh, but he did. He was positively spinning with the 'revolutions'!
LOL, PWN, HTH, HAND, Tea No Sugar etc.
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Oh god, the pain, the pain. I'll never post again. Tell my mother I love her. Into the dark I go.
 
Well at least we'll know by then at least...still be a stab in the dark on a UK date though! Arrgghhh so frustrating...
 
From my experience of using an iPhone and G1 (both virtual and hardware keyboards), I can categorically say that unless they've done something catastrophic to it, the Pre's Centro-like keyboard (and its placement) is going to kick the ass of both. As a big time keyboard thumper, that's the USP that's going to be draw me to the Pre.
 
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