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- diggNewton, on 11/21/2008, -0/+17I suppose if you don't mind paying $9.99 for the Zagat program, you're not the type of person that is shocked by a $300 meal. I want a program that gives me stern voice directions to the nearest pizza-shop for when I'm drunk. And OpenTable is brilliant -- but I don't think Taco Bell takes reservations.
- nickycakes, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7just use the yelp app....20x better and free
- jhop, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4So your iPhone is resistant to "water-*****"? Tell me more...
- Michas, on 11/22/2008, -2/+6Why is this on the front page?
- jwolcott, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4The Zagat mobile site is also pretty cool (and free!): http://Zagat.mobi
(you have to view it via your mobile phone or it'll redirect you to their .com...it actually looks quite snazzy on my iPhone. For those of you too lazy to whip out your mobile, here's the site via a Nokia emulator: http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php?webaddress=zagat.mob ... - rednaxela825, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78jCcLLjv0&feature ... - quazywabbit, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Honestly I believe that the iPhone has a lot of things going for it. It has removed the need for a computer for many parts, but still is not complete. All that is left is 100% perfect voice recognition in all languages all of the time and maybe a way to have it interface with other devices easier. Sure it isn't going to replace a computer for everything but it does allow you to be anywhere and access all the information that you need which is why it sold (and still sells) like crazy. a $400 device that not only does calls, but has full web, email, music, video, and apps that make life simplier.
- priegog, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4Ugh, poor Dvorak. Really.
It's not like I don't agree with him on SOME of what he talks about, but just as he criticizes people running to blog about their new phones, he takes the time to redact such a long column saying NOTHING. Somebody call the WAAAAAmbulance. The internet is a big place, it's not like he gets force-fed every single tech blog in existence.
In the end, he's just a grumpy old man who each day gets technology less and less. Why does anyone still take him seriously? It's like that Motorola CEO who can't use email. I mean, seriously, you're putting him in charge?
Technology is not JUST about engineering anymore. Not about specs. Computer processors have already reached a point where it's not a crucial thing to keep in mind when buying a computer. In a few years we'll get there with memory, disk space, bus speed, graphics and miniaturization too. Tech today is starting to become more and more about ease of use, ubiquity, design, commodity. As it should be. This guy just doesn't get it at all. - hadak, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Dang, I wish my Blackberry had those :
- zdiggler, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2heh.. My cheap LG have built in flash light with 20,000 MCD LED most useful thing, when power goes out. LCD back light is No where near flash light.
- captcanuk, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2The iPhone has a tonne of great apps that help with dining out including more well known apps like urbanspoon but also less well known apps like ***** (http://www.appcraver.com/domo-orrigato-sushi/).
- tech42er, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2For anyone who didn't get hadak's joke: http://mobile.zagat.com/blackberry.htm http://www.opentable.com/mobile/
- jayrok, on 11/22/2008, -1/+2Ravioli? Holy Cannoli!
- funnygreen, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1open table helps me close the deal.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1I agree, but I would consider this spam, given that the website has a mobile version that works just as well on any web enabled phone out there and doesn't cost 9.95$. Reserving a table with a phone is cool, but only when the technology works.
I remember the ultra lame iPhone "flashlight" app being dugg onto the front page, two months later, its ends up on a top 10 list of worthless iPhone apps, which also gets dugg onto the front page. I really wish people would be more selective in their diggs and stop pushing every iPhone app out there. - NewGTGuy, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Yup. That's a classic.
- paulclough, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1http://www.laptopworldonline.net
I find it disgusting Apple are allowed to get away with this, if Apple come out with their "own" podcast application in the next year, you can be guaranteed I'm not going to buy it. - PeterVine, on 02/28/2009, -0/+0If you're fed up with reading about the magnificent Apple Iphone but don't want to shell out the big money for a new Iphone take a look at this site:
http://www.discountcellphoneheaven.com
You won't find a better bargain on both new and used Iphone's. - QuickTease, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0oh Opentable, how I love thee, let me count the ways...
- zdiggler, on 11/22/2008, -9/+9 iPhone and gPhone be damned! I'm sick of reading about new phones.
by John C. Dvorak
I've had it with cell phones—all of them. I'm sick of reading about new phones. I'm sick of news about the iPhone, how cool it is or that it lacks a removable battery, and gosh we need to discuss this important flaw incessantly. Who cares? It's a friggin' phone, for God's sake. And now I'm sick of hearing about Google's Android phones. The gPhone, the G1, the Android, or whatever you want to call it. Who cares?
Exactly why is so much time spent talking about these devices? Are we that bored?
"But it's open source, and golly, you can get the apps from anywhere! You don't have to go to the evil Apple store; you can even change the code in it."
"Oh, did you hear that a kill switch is built into the software?"
"Yes I did. That's bad, but Apple's is worse."
"My goodness, yes, it's surely worse with the Apple phone. Oh, my."
Shoot yourself.
When someone gets hold of a new phone, the next thing you know they are all over the Net reviewing it in minute detail—as if it were a great piece of literature to be deconstructed. Everyone who doesn't have the new phone is immediately jealous. "Oh, I want one of those so badly!"
This phone thing began a few years back. You'd go to a restaurant and all the phones would come out, everyone oohing and ahhing over the various models. It's completely ridiculous. "Wow, nice phone. What is it?" "Oh, it's my new Nokia X-9000. Look, it has a built-in laser pointer!" "Wow! I want one!" Gee, could we be any more decadent?
And then there were the lines around the block for the iPhone. It looked like a 1933 soup line. Why did people stand in line to get a phone? They already had one, but there they were, standing in line to pay full price and sign up with a carrier that nobody likes. Historians of the future will look at this sort of thing and equate it with pole-sitting in the 1920s. "Look, a guy's sitting on a pole!" "Wow, great! Hey, everybody, over here!"
To make things sillier, now we have word that Motorola is going to add a social-networking component to its version of the Google phone. All the BS surrounding the phone isn't bad enough, so we have to add this other dimension.
Since the invention of Friendster and LinkedIn and the sudden emergence of the buzz phrase social networking, there has been a thematic concept lurking in every high-tech cubicle: "Let's make social networking a component of our product." "Great idea!"
Isn't a phone by its very existence already a social-networking device? Why create phony initiatives just to throw in an investor-friendly term? Exactly how did this so-called component become so utterly important to everything? That's the real question. And what's so special about social networking anyway? Creating a computer database of people you really don't know and just pretend to be friends with so you can say hi once in a while? These networks are pretty flimsy, let's face it. On a phone this is called the address book.
When I hear about the need to add a social-networking component to anything, the first thing that comes to my mind is SCAM. I'm not sure how it's a scam, I just know that it is one on some level. I want a word processor so I can write columns and books, not to meet new friends.
But my complaints are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Everyone will be jabbering about the new phones, and then they'll be jabbering about the variations of the device, and then jabbering about the cool apps they're so proud of because they got them for free. "I didn't pay for my apps" is a cool mantra to be expressed constantly—until you ultimately take yourself out of the game. "Oh, YOU bought an app? Tsk, tsk. Poor fellow. I'm so sorry for you!"
I guess the social-networking component might be a good thing after all—for people who cannot talk about anything other than phones. It will give us more people with whom we can discuss phones. And this time, we can do it on the phone, without ever getting off the phone. Only in America. - HolyFuck, on 11/22/2008, -4/+0Water-*****-proof, god damn it's so ***** awesome.
- HolyFuck, on 11/22/2008, -9/+1My iPhone is water-*****-proof bitches. How'd you like that?
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