I have to say that I agree about the Iphone...and you all know how hard that is for me to say..lol But I think almost hands down, the Iphone is the best entertainment device that also happens to be a phone. Now I have heard as just a phone it's just so so, but they did pretty much nail everything else.
Last week, my wife, Glenna, said she wanted a phone that could sync with her work outlook, mail, etc. So we went looking at the phones verizon has (long time users, I like the network, what can I say) Well we first looked at the blackberries and they are nice but she also wanted the abilbity to watch shows, listen to podcasts, music etc, surf the web and all that...well the one blackberry she really liked was the storm and given the reviews of the storm, there was no way (although I hear the storm 2 is much better), then we started looking at the windows mobile phones.....and OMG...I wanted to toss the phones accross the room, I mean they sucked, I don't just mean they were hard to use, they just sucked, compared to my Dare they sucked...and I like Windows...one of about 3 in this group... Just to send a text message was an effort in "how many steps can we make"... Anyway, she didn't get anything.....yet, the blackberry is still on the table but if verizon had the Iphone, we would have walked out of the store on Tuesday happy and verizon would have made some money.... So I will give props to Apple for the iphone....it does make you wonder though why these other handset makers are having such a hard time making an Iphone "clone"....I mean it can't be that hard, can it? Heath http://heathparks.com (site under construction) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> wrote: > > > So Rupert.... given your experience with Nokia and Apple, I would love to > > read your more elaborate thoughts on the two options for mobile smart phone > > puters. Are you leaning towards iPhone? > > I was a Nokia user for a long time...but without being a fanboy, I got > to say how awesome the iPhone is. The fact that you can figure out how > to do things without instructions is amazing. Hopefully, other > companies will follow this model. > > It's strange to me that Nokia is open and Apple is closed, but > developers have created many more applications for Apple than Nokia. > Being a big fan of Open Source, it's just an example that usability > will always win. > > As far as the camera on the iPhone 3GS, it's not something right home > about. The image is pretty poor. Little control. Bad mic. BUT BUT BUT > it is extremely easy to take a video and post it online. So easy. > > Hopefully, Apple with all their developers and design sense will just > set the expectation for how all phones should be, open source > included. > > Jay > > > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 >
