__/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:50 \__
> Michael Glasser (Snot) snotted:
>
>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>> 1467293.L4iPHs5q1t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 1/10/07 5:09 AM:
>>
>>> __/ [ Nick Ballard ] on Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:52 \__
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> __/ [ Nick Ballard ] on Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:41 \__
>>>>>
>>>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>>>> Is there any phone with embedded Linux that has the features and ease
>>>>>>> of use of the iPhone (info can be found on http://apple.com).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wow. It's as if they re-worked the Newton housing and then crammed in
>>>>>> an iMac.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows, Linux, or Symbian makes no difference. If that thing works
>>>>>> as well as it looks, it will put all other phones to shame.
>>>>>
>>>>> Palm handhelds have served as excellent MP3 players that use SD cards
>>>>> for storage. Some of them, like the Treo, have the 'missing'
>>>>> functionality. There's not much going for the iPhones other than
>>>>> style/hype. Same with the iPods although I'll admit that what they did
>>>>> with the nano is worth a round of applause. They actually created
>>>>> something unique.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The cost/performance ratio actually looks pretty close here, considering
>>>> the cost of the flash storage and 3rd-party multimedia & productivity
>>>> apps required to make the Treo perform the functions of the iPhone.
>>>
>>> I've taken a look at the iPhone's interface. It looks like a nice design,
>>> if not oddly similar to Palm OS, particularly its default (homebred)
>>> launcher. My PDA cost me 107 pounds over 2 years ago and it includes
>>> Bluetooth which I never use. As for storage/volume, I doubt many people
>>> need to use 20 GB _at one time_. All in all, it's probably the name, the
>>> reputation and the hype that will help the iPhone compete with the
>>> somewhat similar OpenMoko (FIC), for example.
>>
>> Ease of use matters. What other cell phone matches the ?iPhone in that
>> and has a close set of features?
>>
>
> Most modern ones. They just don't have the touchscreen (which I would not
> trust anyway to work long enough) and the memory size
> Otherwise featurewise it is exceeded by some. And those are easy to use,
> too
The resolution of the screen is quite high and the features list impressive,
but there are other devices that offer a huge amount of these (even parity),
only for less. They just don't happen to be preceded by the little 'i'. Many
people would still argue that the Windows Mobile (CE) devices got sold
because people naturally think that machines with identical logos
interoperate better. The same applies to Web servers, among other things.
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