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Jan 15, 2009View in Crawl 4
Sprint is MUCH better than AT&T, ever compare "3G" to EVDO?NO COMPETITION! and Verizon is a just a bitch limiting everything you do with those crappy Red themes.
I'm not sure paying $2.00 for ringtones is exactly what people had in mind. In addition to the fact that even if you buy an iTunes Plus song and buy a ringtone, the ringtone is still DRM locked.
<conspiracy theory>You do realize that apple doesn't want to cannibalize sales of their computers, right? Imagine how useful this would be:an iPhone with cracked BT stack (ie, jailbroken)a bluetooth keyboarda monitor plugged in via dockhardware to mount iPhone as trackpad/mouseYou can almost replace a laptop right there, with the appropriate software. This is totally possible today, and 16GB is plenty for a basic portable in terms of core OS + software + files.Maybe that's why they're dragging their feet on cut/paste?</conspiracy theory>
phoompJan 16, 2009
I dunno. Seems like it might be more comfortable in my pocket being smaller than the iPhone.
u8myfooodJan 16, 2009
Sprint is MUCH better than AT&T, ever compare "3G" to EVDO?NO COMPETITION! and Verizon is a just a bitch limiting everything you do with those crappy Red themes.
dragon76Jan 17, 2009
I'm not sure paying $2.00 for ringtones is exactly what people had in mind. In addition to the fact that even if you buy an iTunes Plus song and buy a ringtone, the ringtone is still DRM locked.
rimantasJan 17, 2009
Funny, because Pre's WebOS is based mostly on Apple's work in WebKit and HTML5
rimantasJan 17, 2009
Dug down for underestimating Javascript. And take a look at Objective-J:<a class="user" href="http://cappuccino.org/">http://cappuccino.org/</a>
kris33Jan 18, 2009
Touch typing? Good luck with that on a cell phone
r00fusJan 18, 2009
<conspiracy theory>You do realize that apple doesn't want to cannibalize sales of their computers, right? Imagine how useful this would be:an iPhone with cracked BT stack (ie, jailbroken)a bluetooth keyboarda monitor plugged in via dockhardware to mount iPhone as trackpad/mouseYou can almost replace a laptop right there, with the appropriate software. This is totally possible today, and 16GB is plenty for a basic portable in terms of core OS + software + files.Maybe that's why they're dragging their feet on cut/paste?</conspiracy theory>
r00fusJan 18, 2009
Foleo 2? Remind me again what it would take to make a "real" tablet PC that actually works