Comments on: Why the Apple iPhone? http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/why-the-apple-iphone Helping you to get the most out of modern technology and communications since 2004. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/why-the-apple-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-3583 Tim Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:51:44 +0000 http://cow.neondragon.net/?p=3562#comment-3583 Talk of walled-gardens is rather beside the point. One2one (*spit*!) had that years ago too. Buy a phone saying "internet" and spend the rest of the night reading TFM wondering exactly what bit of it purports to have anything to do with even HTTP outside the telco's own network, let alone anything else. Interestingly, last December I chose the Nokia N95 on <i>3</i> because it has everything I wanted: working bluetooth, reasonable browser, lots of third-party apps thanks to a development platform, 5MPel camera, GPS, maps, skype and various other IM protocols, media player, etc etc. All this on an 18-month tariff from 3 that gave me "all the internet you can eat for a fiver", bringing it to £30/month and the phone unit itself was free. I am seriously amazed at how fast it's integrated itself into my driving life - blasting noise over the radio whilst tracing where I've got to on the map. It was a complete sanity-saver on holiday this summer - sitting on the beach in northern ireland watching people surfing in the sun, tapping away in <a href="http://www.fring.com/" rel="nofollow">fring</a> to skype and yahoo IM contacts. Raaarrrr. Oh, and 3 can't <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/iphone_app_store/" rel="nofollow">delete applications I've paid for & installed remotely</a>, unlike with the iphone, either. Talk of walled-gardens is rather beside the point. One2one (*spit*!) had that years ago too. Buy a phone saying “internet” and spend the rest of the night reading TFM wondering exactly what bit of it purports to have anything to do with even HTTP outside the telco’s own network, let alone anything else.

Interestingly, last December I chose the Nokia N95 on 3 because it has everything I wanted: working bluetooth, reasonable browser, lots of third-party apps thanks to a development platform, 5MPel camera, GPS, maps, skype and various other IM protocols, media player, etc etc. All this on an 18-month tariff from 3 that gave me “all the internet you can eat for a fiver”, bringing it to £30/month and the phone unit itself was free.

I am seriously amazed at how fast it’s integrated itself into my driving life – blasting noise over the radio whilst tracing where I’ve got to on the map. It was a complete sanity-saver on holiday this summer – sitting on the beach in northern ireland watching people surfing in the sun, tapping away in fring to skype and yahoo IM contacts. Raaarrrr.

Oh, and 3 can’t delete applications I’ve paid for & installed remotely, unlike with the iphone, either.

]]> By: Paul http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/why-the-apple-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-3575 Paul Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:08:18 +0000 http://cow.neondragon.net/?p=3562#comment-3575 I quite agree with you concerning the iPhone. Actually, what is great with the iPhone is that it is doing exactly the same with other phones as new MacBooks did with other computers: it brings a huge amount of innovations, it changes our ways to user our cell phones... What other brands (Nokia, Samsung, Sony...) couldn't do! Indeed, it is quite hard to change so quickly its business model... So, such a sudden change could only be done by a new builder! Apple did great. The iPhone is far from being perfect of course, but its attempt to bring a revolution to the cell phones world... succeeded! I quite agree with you concerning the iPhone. Actually, what is great with the iPhone is that it is doing exactly the same with other phones as new MacBooks did with other computers: it brings a huge amount of innovations, it changes our ways to user our cell phones… What other brands (Nokia, Samsung, Sony…) couldn’t do! Indeed, it is quite hard to change so quickly its business model… So, such a sudden change could only be done by a new builder!

Apple did great. The iPhone is far from being perfect of course, but its attempt to bring a revolution to the cell phones world… succeeded!

]]> By: Constable Odo http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/why-the-apple-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-3565 Constable Odo Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:44:56 +0000 http://cow.neondragon.net/?p=3562#comment-3565 I didn't think that everyone believes the iPhone platform is exactly open. I believe it's said to have far too many restrictions to be of any use and that's why so many developers are up in arms. The thing that really puzzles me is that the Palm platform which has been around for ages and is said to be totally open doesn't seem to be doing all that well. The company itself seems to be going down and so do the number of people purchasing Palm handsets. I don't think the Palm Pro is going to change many minds, either. I didn’t think that everyone believes the iPhone platform is exactly open. I believe it’s said to have far too many restrictions to be of any use and that’s why so many developers are up in arms.

The thing that really puzzles me is that the Palm platform which has been around for ages and is said to be totally open doesn’t seem to be doing all that well. The company itself seems to be going down and so do the number of people purchasing Palm handsets. I don’t think the Palm Pro is going to change many minds, either.

]]> By: neonDragon http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/why-the-apple-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-3562 neonDragon Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:43:45 +0000 http://cow.neondragon.net/?p=3562#comment-3562 I have bought a Nokia E71 which will be arriving on Monday. I have had an E90, N80 all with Symbian Series 60. I’ve used the iPhone a little in Apple stores, and the interface is leaps and bounds above ‘old style’ Symbian interfaces. I love using SIP, internet radio, voice commands on Symbian, and T-Mobile’s unlimited data tarriff is very nice. What I hate about Symbian is that the interface is slow and non-intuitive (I know my way around now, but from a human interfaces point of view it’s poor). The web browser on N80 was horrible, very slow, hard to navigate, hard to type in… many pages didn’t work properly. On E90 it was faster and websites generally seemed to work better. Apparently the E71 browser is comparable to E90 but unfortunately it’s still nowhere near the iPhone’s browser. Currently I go on websites on a mobile phone to find information when I have no reasonable alternative, like, searching cinema times when I’m out but not at the cinema. It’s something I avoid doing if at all possible, but it doesn’t have to be like that in this day and age. 3rd party applications are my main reason for not going the iPhone route at the moment. I like to put IRC, radio, jabber client on my phone. Apple have encouraged developers to create apps for their platform far better than Nokia, so with a fast expanding library of applications, my next phone after I tire of my E71 may well be an iPhone. But then again, I’m really looking forward to using the E71’s blackberry-style QWERTY keypad. We’ll see. :) As a footnote… PocketPC… don’t bother O.o I have bought a Nokia E71 which will be arriving on Monday. I have had an E90, N80 all with Symbian Series 60.

I’ve used the iPhone a little in Apple stores, and the interface is leaps and bounds above ‘old style’ Symbian interfaces. I love using SIP, internet radio, voice commands on Symbian, and T-Mobile’s unlimited data tarriff is very nice.

What I hate about Symbian is that the interface is slow and non-intuitive (I know my way around now, but from a human interfaces point of view it’s poor). The web browser on N80 was horrible, very slow, hard to navigate, hard to type in… many pages didn’t work properly. On E90 it was faster and websites generally seemed to work better. Apparently the E71 browser is comparable to E90 but unfortunately it’s still nowhere near the iPhone’s browser.

Currently I go on websites on a mobile phone to find information when I have no reasonable alternative, like, searching cinema times when I’m out but not at the cinema. It’s something I avoid doing if at all possible, but it doesn’t have to be like that in this day and age.

3rd party applications are my main reason for not going the iPhone route at the moment. I like to put IRC, radio, jabber client on my phone. Apple have encouraged developers to create apps for their platform far better than Nokia, so with a fast expanding library of applications, my next phone after I tire of my E71 may well be an iPhone. But then again, I’m really looking forward to using the E71’s blackberry-style QWERTY keypad. We’ll see. :)

As a footnote… PocketPC… don’t bother O.o

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