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strider_mt2k
04/03/09

In reply to Samsung Omnia HD Hands On Video: Amazing Screen, Still Bad Response
I think the Omnia i910 is a phone that needs a little tweaking, but otherwise is pretty damn cool.

I've been able to do more with it that I originally thought and keeps surprising me in cool ways.
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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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rcast1986
02/19/09

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

Just out of curiosity.
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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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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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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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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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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
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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the_Sleepwalker
02/18/09

In reply to Coolest Cellphone Interface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless
Somewhere, there is a graphic designer touching themselves. What crap. Come on, the audience watching the video in a frame? Form = function? Remember that?
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xint
02/18/09

In reply to Coolest Cellphone Interface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless
...I don't understand how this interface is "useless".

The only thing missing is an Office Software suite.

It's fun to use. Great response.

I think it'd actually make work fun for once!
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/18/09

@xint: Yeah it looks perfectly functional. The only thing is that I'm getting nauseous from all the shaking.
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something_unique_and_descriptive
02/17/09

In reply to Bluetooth Over Wi-Fi Zoomtastic Speed Shocks Our Pants Off
Add wireless charging to something with this and you'd have a completely wireless phone, that would be sick.
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Scazza
02/17/09

In reply to Bluetooth Over Wi-Fi Zoomtastic Speed Shocks Our Pants Off
"It just works" Nothing "just" works with Bluetooth. So many different BT chips, software and versions, phones and devices rarely talk to each other so effectively... Its been around for a good 10 years now, I think its some we either drop bluetooth for a better tech, or someone fix it.
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/17/09

In reply to NTT DoCoMo Snap-Apart Phone Belongs in Museum of WTF
The only way that this would be remotely useful is if you had many phones that combined into a giant robot.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
02/17/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Man, can you imagine 5 Nokias being hit w/ the allspark at once?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
02/17/09

In reply to NTT DoCoMo Snap-Apart Phone Belongs in Museum of WTF
It will be released by Sprint and marketed as the first phone to have a double theft deterrent feature.

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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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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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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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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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