Sometimes when I flush my toilet, my TV turns on. Well it only happened once and it was bc I flushed the toilet at the same time someone pushed the power button on the TV. Actually this was not even relevant. Sorry to waste your time.
I have watched folks be able to tell a cell phone is about to ring before it does, and can easily demonstrate a cell phone setting off amplified speakers with a call to one - so, it is no surprise that this could occur. We are holding miniature microwave ovens up to our heads, after all.
What is really funny is I made a pizza last weekend at someone's house, and was using my iPhone within a few feet of the oven the whole time. Despite the oven being set at 400 for 22 minutes exactly like the directions said, the top of the pizza was completely black, and the bottom was still raw. Maybe I suffered from this glitch too.
Edit: And yes, it was a Maytag oven. Just like the on in the picture.
@yankeesrule: When my girlfriend screamed at me for ruining the pizza, we checked, and it was on the dead center rack. Also, the directions said 22-25 minutes, and I only did 22! (I like my pizza slightly doughy)
Oh, nuts. The Centro was the only smartphone that ever appealed to me, and that's precisely because I liked my Visor and my Tungsten E3 so much. I was looking forward to an easy transfer of data.
Well, I'll just keep using the Tungsten and my plain vanilla Samsung phone.
I loved the Palm OS, and I had tons of apps that did virtually everything. It was a very clever, simple and powerful system. Unfortunately, PDAs lost traction with the advent of smartphones. I think it's great that Palm is moving forward with their Web OS on the Pre, and I hope it brings some healthy competition, along with Android.
Y'all continue to ignore the simple detail that before the handhelds from Palm, phones were for making phone calls. If you have a device that holds documents, contacts, calendar, and a host of other aps, and you call it a smartphone, you owe it to the Palm timeline.
@PaddyDugan: Well said. Palm defined the PDA. The applications added to cellphones were practically built on Palm DNA.
Although Apple made an early debut with the Newton, it was an total flop. Too big, not versatile enough and hardly accessible for programmers to develop applications for.
@nchatch: the whole concept for this article is weak, actually, and shows a complete lack of understanding of history and misses the opportunity for meaningful analysis.
Adrian; you forget (or maybe you're just too young to remember) that Palm practically invented the smartphone category. And that was after they defined the PDA category. From the early days of Palm OS the Treo 180, Palm (Handspring) was at the forefront of the development of the smart phone. And in those days, the smart phone pretty much meant the combination of a PDA with phone functionality, since there really wasn't mobile data to speak of. Then the Treo 600 came on the scene and it was pretty much the first smart phone blockbuster. It was the device to have at the time, and it was very good at what it did. Microsoft didn't really catch up until years later. And Blackberry? At the time Blackberry device was just starting to introduce phone features - and you couldn't even hold it up to your head and use it like a phone, you had to use a headset or it wouldn't work.
The Treo 600 was sadly Palm's pinnacle, and it was downhill for the company from there as the company went through a couple of stupid transitions and kept pumping out the same hardware, letting their new OS development languish. And while Palm was distracted other companies were eating Palm's lunch.
Yes, the Palm OS 5 ultimately doesn't stand up to today's standards, especially when it comes to multimedia and internet applications, but as we give it final rights, let's not forget what the OS has done. We shouldn't minimize its contribution to computing, especially to smart phones.
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"When Melnikov ran into the kitchen, he found a piece of plastic cookware left inside the oven on fire"
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Edit: And yes, it was a Maytag oven. Just like the on in the picture.
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Yes, I believe that's the new "Half cooked pizza" app.
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Do you also like your pancakes a little gooey? 'Cuz I definitely do.
02/12/09
Sorry, M130. I should never have given you away....
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Well, I'll just keep using the Tungsten and my plain vanilla Samsung phone.
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I've had my tome.
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Sorry.
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Although Apple made an early debut with the Newton, it was an total flop. Too big, not versatile enough and hardly accessible for programmers to develop applications for.
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Adrian; you forget (or maybe you're just too young to remember) that Palm practically invented the smartphone category. And that was after they defined the PDA category. From the early days of Palm OS the Treo 180, Palm (Handspring) was at the forefront of the development of the smart phone. And in those days, the smart phone pretty much meant the combination of a PDA with phone functionality, since there really wasn't mobile data to speak of. Then the Treo 600 came on the scene and it was pretty much the first smart phone blockbuster. It was the device to have at the time, and it was very good at what it did. Microsoft didn't really catch up until years later. And Blackberry? At the time Blackberry device was just starting to introduce phone features - and you couldn't even hold it up to your head and use it like a phone, you had to use a headset or it wouldn't work.
The Treo 600 was sadly Palm's pinnacle, and it was downhill for the company from there as the company went through a couple of stupid transitions and kept pumping out the same hardware, letting their new OS development languish. And while Palm was distracted other companies were eating Palm's lunch.
Yes, the Palm OS 5 ultimately doesn't stand up to today's standards, especially when it comes to multimedia and internet applications, but as we give it final rights, let's not forget what the OS has done. We shouldn't minimize its contribution to computing, especially to smart phones.
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