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    Mobile World Congress 09: The Good, The Bad, the Ugly and the Boring

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    Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?

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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/19/09

    In reply to Mobile World Congress 09: The Good, The Bad, the Ugly and the Boring
    The iPhone was an interesting leap forward.


    Now, everything is catch up to the iPhone.


    I remember reading something about this in the computer industry where after some revolutionary leaps, there were years of incremental improvements that were less awe-inspiring, but just part of the nature of innovation.

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    Image of rcast1986 rcast1986
    02/19/09

    @frigg: Aside from multi-touch, how was the iPhone a "leap forward"?


    Just out of curiosity.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/19/09

    @rcast1986: Because it's the first phone that doesn't feel like a phone. It's more of a conduit into whatever function it happens to offer - communication, web, whatever - and none of it comes with any real learning curve. Instead, it's a blank slab with an interactive window providing effortless access to potentially infinite communication and computer services.


    It's easy to fixate on its flaws and inadequacies. Obviously there's lots of things it doesn't do that it should do, or could do better. And there are also lots of iPhone precursors that offered some or similar functions.


    But when the iPhone came out, offering everything it did in one shiny slab with a fluid interface that the average non-techie person could use without a second thought, it appeared to come from the future. It didn't look or feel like an incremental improvement, it looked and felt revolutionary.


    Since then, even with the app store, it appears less revolutionary because a) we're used to it (or more than that, oversaturated by it), b) other companies now offer similar products, c) it's not for everyone, d) it's easy to miss the forest through the trees of all the things that piss us off about it, e) "revolutionary" is perishable, I guess, by definition - once something changes the game, the game is changed and then it's back to normal f) it's polarizing so anyone who says it was revolutionary is dismissed as a fanboy - but it was.


    Going back to 2007, I pretty much agree with David Pogue's first thoughts:


    [www.nytimes.com]

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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    02/19/09

    @rcast1986: It's the only touchscreen phone, that even after a year and a half, doesn't suck.


    They nailed the touch, they nailed the interface, they nailed the media integration. It syncs and backs up using a desktop platform that is (relatively) reliable across OS platforms. It probably has the best app store out there. Everyone else is playing catch-up.


    Sure there are drawbacks. The bluethooth sucks, no MMS, copy and paste, yadda yadda. But those are minor issues in the grand scheme of things.

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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    02/18/09

    In reply to Verizon LTE Wireless Clocking 60Mbps In US Tests, Confirmed to Launch in 2010
    Cable companies must be shitting their pants right about now.
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    02/18/09

    In reply to Verizon LTE Wireless Clocking 60Mbps In US Tests, Confirmed to Launch in 2010
    I feel there is a positive correlation between wireless speed and danger to my testicles? If it starts humming.. I'm out.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    02/18/09

    In reply to Verizon LTE Wireless Clocking 60Mbps In US Tests, Confirmed to Launch in 2010
    Now if only they could improve my stupid Verizon router to have a larger NAT table than 1k, I'd be really happy.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    It's so G1 owners can hold their 'chin' up and be smug like those iphone people...
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    It has a chin so you have a place to rest your balls as you get a ...


    oh wait..

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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    Loved Leno last night when someone sent him in an ad from unknown origin advertising this "feature" as the "Leno Chin"


    he seemed to get a pretty good kick out of it...unlike some @$$hats that would sue

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    Image of Monty Monty
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    The have chins because they have been eating too many Apple's. [cough]


    The jokes could get worse. Once I figure out how, I will be certain to post them.

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    Image of josephcamp josephcamp
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    Seems like it would be a built in screen protector as well...if dropped on a flat surface with that angle the screen would never actually touch the ground...the impact would be absorbed by the case first.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @Joseph Camp: Congrats on making a reasonably good impression, so I guess not all Facebookers are total asshats.
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    Image of pz pz
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    Uh... doesn't the Iphone have a "chin," too?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @mdmadph: Chin, flamboyant chrome bezel... What's the difference?
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    Image of Ken_Darrow Ken_Darrow
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    If you have a big "ASS" how would HTC design their phones then? I mean we all have asses as part of our personality too right?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @Ken_Darrow: Would probably look like an iPhone.
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    Image of Ken_Darrow Ken_Darrow
    02/17/09

    @bpapa9013: Yep. Nice round firm asses are sexy = iPhone. Big fat chins is weird/mutant = HTC. Yep that sounds about right.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @Ken_Darrow: Nice save.
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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    ...making [protruding nippleballs] easier to use while protecting them with the chin...


    I must have failed anatomy...

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: Wait, so who gave their sac a boob-job?!?!
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    Image of DigitalSciGuy DigitalSciGuy
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    By that merit, do humans have chins to allow us to have nipples?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @DigitalSciGuy: well, BIGGER nipples, yes...
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    Image of Bueller Bueller
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    nippleballs... sounds like a medical condition.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @Bueller: Or when you confuse the KY with the CrazyGlue...
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    Image of Major-n0ob Major-n0ob
    02/17/09

    In reply to Why Do the Android Phones Have Chins?
    nippleballs. lololololololoololololooololololollol...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/17/09

    @Major-n0ob:


    "laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out out out loud out loud out loud loud out loud..."


    That's YOU, that's what YOU sound like!

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