Markii

Given the vast vitriol you've opined upon the iPhone/iPod, I'd have thought you would eschew any type of consort with a personage owning one.

Yeah, whatever. You're sixteen and getting caught up in silly arguments that really have no importance. The iPhone doesn't meet your needs/desires. No problem. Obviously for many people it does, good for them.

Put another way, "Lighten up Francis"

Back to the matter at hand. ViPR could be quite handy, depending on how far they can take it. I sometimes find myself using the camera on my phone to "take notes" about something I see. Sometimes that's a product I want to check reviews/prices on, which could also use the barcode.

It would be extremely cool though to do something like take a picture of a building you find interesting, and get back information on it's history (architect, usage etc.) while you're still standing in front of it. Beats the heck out of trying to finding and entering enough base information to do a text based search and then digging through the returns to find an actual match.

Just think, you could be rummaging through stuff with friends and find something where everyone wonders "what is that thing". Ah, to be the alpha geek, one quick snap, a few seconds, and spewing hopefully correct answers.

kenyonk

josephlah

Sam_Zebian

Ever heard of SSH? By the way, I have yet to hear about someone breaking their dock connector. You are grasping at straws.

DaffyDuck

Leonard Nimrod

craig_16

B

B

The who Sony Experia X1 bit, like it's superior and better than the iPhone, man, Seinfeld could use you when he does a comeback tour. That was just, I mean, you sir should be up there with Carlin, Murphey, et. al.

But you didn't just stop there with your hysterical Sony bit, no, you wry devil, you said Zune, I could hardly get air I was laughing, I mean, there's no person alive who actually could say that with a straight face and be serious, that was brilliantly funny. Zune! Great! My sides were splitting.

Then your piece de resistance showing you are in the pantheon of humorists, to mention that this software should come to Windows Mobile, THE most laughable platform out there since, maybe Windows ME. Please tell me when you hit the circuit with your standup material like this, you're so funny, it hurts.

Or you really are that stupid, but that simply can't be, NOBODY is that stupid.

imagemangler

@thesonofkrypton- I was not reading this article to look for a reason to flame the iphone, but when I read the comment I originally had read, I agreed with it. I was interested in this article because I think that this software is actually quite cool, so I was hopeing it would come out on other platforms, such as windows mobile. I don't waste my time with Apple worshipers like you guys.

Sam_Zebian

It's funny, I thought the same exact thing. I mean, for as much as I hate Windows Mobile phones (I've played with a Touch my friend has....Jesus Christ), you'll never find me in a Windows Mobile oriented story disparaging it. Ha, I've got better things to do. But you'd really have to question the true feeling of one who does? Is it really hate? Or is it envy (for a device that ANYONE could have and which you are in no way barred from) that is the true source?

TheSonOfKrypton

metalgear08

Opera Mobile on 3G is faster then Safari is on Edge. Congratulations. To nullify my "standard packed in web browser performance" argument, you went an brought up a web browser that sells for 24$ that many will not end up buying. Instead, they'd just rather not surf the web on their phones.....Am I lying? Go look at the highest web browsing mobile device charts.....Go on. Who's on top? Truly though, as a PC user turned Mac switcher, coming this June, I feel sorry for those of you who's ego and pride is so caught up in the device you're using that you refuse to accept a competitors superiority. Remember the iPod dominance coming of age in 2002-2005 and beyond? Well....it's about to happen again. And being well aware of what this little device in my hand can do, I can see why.

Oh, and about the dock connector dude, come on. In all my years of reading blogs like this and forums and owning like 3 iPods and an iPhone, I've never once ever heard of that shit. You obviously (once again) are reaching desperately in an attempt to nullify my argument. But for the sake of argument, if you "happen to break your iPhones dock connector" that also happens to be jailbroken, you find one of the many iPhone disassembly guides on the internet, you crack that bitch open, you sever the cord carrying current from the battery, you seal it back, and you take it to the nearest Apple store, acting confused and perplexed as their best efforts to "fix" your phone fail and they just give you another one because Apple stores are just that God damn pimp.

TheSonOfKrypton

It's great. You made an informed choice, and you're happy with it.

Now STFU and stop interjecting your hate every time there's an article about the iPhone, lest we'll start suspecting you have second doubts about your choice.

@tokiwartooth:

Well, for example, there might be a painting (a photo reproduction, for example) and you're like "Damn, I know this, but I don't know who drew it!". Use this tech, boom 1 minute later, you find out it's a Monét, the title of the painting, and exactly which museum has it on display.

I think this tech has very high potential.

Dearhaw

Sam_Zebian

Oh, and just because I HAVE a stylus, doesn't mean my screen isn't being used by my FINGERS! Dumbass.

Sam_Zebian

TheSonOfKrypton

+ Watch video

Let me be the first to say that to assume as you do is not wrong, but to continue to assume when you have a source of information as vast as the internet is downright dimwitted. 3G IS NOT THE ONLY FACTOR TO HOW FAST WEB PAGES COME UP ON YOUR PHONE. Believe it or not, Safari is FAR superior to that web browser you have on your Windows Mobile OS. The coding on your phones OS is haphazard at best and is therefore not able to render webpages as quickly OR accurately as an iPhone. And THIS is just EDGE!? What happens when Apple drops the 3G iPhone this summer with an even MORE optimized Safari? I mean, think about it. If Safari destroys Win Mo 3G now on Edge, how much MORE will it destroy Win Mo 3G when IT is on 3G. I understand your plight though. Afterall, you have a phone that runs on Windows Mobile: An OS that was originally a PDA OS and still today is not that far away from it (as in crappy indeed). Try not to fester so much hate within yourself for a phone that runs on a Linux based OS: OS X. After all, it's just a phone man. And as much as you may hate my iPhone, my iPhone does not hate you, as evidenced by its response to your finger....A part of your body you haven't used on that HTC touch screen of yours because you have a [sarcasm] far superior device; a stylus [/sarcasm].

TheSonOfKrypton

Sam_Zebian

samcal

Ungenious

All of this fanboyism for and against the iPhone in every post about iPhone is getting pretty pointless. If you can't live without the features the iPhone lacks, get something else. If you're willing to sacrifice them for the benefits of an iPhone (and you can afford it), get one. Simple as that.

Personally, I bought my iPhone 2 days ago when the price in the UK dropped to £169 and I couldn't be happier with it. But then again I unlocked it and installed a bunch of apps, including one that enables MMS - not everyone would be willing/know how to do that. I've already had a few of my friends and my brother ask if I will unlock theirs when they buy one - something they decided to do after playing with it for about 5 minutes.

Basically what I mean is, on paper there are many phone superior to the iPhone, but when I first got my hands on one, I stopped caring.

craig_16

heroineworshipper

heroineworshipper

samcal

Sam_Zebian

TheSonOfKrypton

GStyle

Sam_Zebian

Sam_Zebian

uberfu

Poltras

frigg

vote Obama

bandit

rsquared

I think it sounds like a great little piece of technology. It could help bargain shoppers and people who research their purchases a lot (which I'm sure is most of us Giz gadget-heads...).

richard8a

This just seems to be consolidating a Google search for people who can't do it themselves. Neat, but ultimately frivolous... unless someone can layout obvious practical uses that I can't imagine?

tokiwartooth

delithic

sumocat

vote Obama