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AirTimeManager

2) Many Pocket PC and Windows Mobile users can tell you all about touch keyboards, especially if you have bought the nice SPB full screen version, as seen here:

www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/screenshots.html?en

Even if the soft keyboard tries to guess what you're typing, it's still an enormous pain!

kdarling

www.spbsoftwarehouse.com

chrisaroz

guesserit

its got to do a LOT to beat the PEARL - out of the box....

Wilson Wrothman

M e d i a d d i c t

First of all any smart phone without an actual qwerty keyboard is a piece of crap. It makes no sense to me whatsoever to market a device such as the iphone as fully functioning messaging and internet browsing device, and then have it not have a keyboard. And what I find even more amazing is that people some how look past this major handicap and say that the iphone will be the jesus phone. Especially since the iphone is being marketed as not needing a stylus for some reason. The stylus was made so that you would smudge the crap out of your screen, and more practically to allow the user to have a more precise input, also allowing them to see what they are clicking on. I just cant wait till the iphone comes out and people see how nice and easy using your their fingers really is.

blankmind13

zaron3d

robman84

Assuming of course "Hey, that iPhone sure is cool. Let's make a fifth-rate copy, I'm sure someone will buy it" qualifies as innovation.

Pass.

cr0ft

ScottMcCoskery

Illrigger

I am on both sides.. I do realized how bad WM series can get, because even newest version 6, still acts just like old version. Not much improvement on it. Sure! You can make buttons larger, so it acts with your thumb instead of a stylus. Other than that, that's pretty much all you can do with WM OS compare to iphone's new interactive interface idea.

One thing people always get it wrong. iphone isn't out yet. However, what has been demo on expo, is just not a "REGULAR" touch screen with larger buttons or larger pointer "sensor area". In fact, there is no multi-touch or anything similar to what iphone is going to be. Only thing comes close, is the TABLE microsoft trying to invent. Basically that won't be on smartphone for a long while.

Yes, I do know many engineer friends told me about same thing over and over. Iphone isn't new, idea is not completely new, and technology was there already. But get this damn thing straight people! Apple's innovation, isn't just "creating" some new technology. On the contrast, Apple is trying to make "somewhat new, but stable" feature on their products.

An user interface doesn't just include what's on the screen. It's the ENTIRE user experiences that counts. That's not going to be just finger action on the screen that matters. It's the look, the feel, the smoothness of the transaction between animation, the stability of main features, and even when you use specific feature on this phone, it works like it should be.

The biggest complain to many mp3 player out there compare to Ipod, is that most of them don't care much about user interface. Iriver/iAudio uses more bottons for action. You need to remember how to activate them. I own a H320 series of iriver. even till today, I still have to press and see if that's the button I want to activate the feature I want. (I simple can't remember if I press once, twice, or press down longer than 2 sec. to get the thing I want).

How about MP3 on cellphone? Before Razer, SONY walkman series coming along, there is no such thing as MP3 on a phone that allows "good quality of music playback" with "long playback time". Anything older than SONY W750 or W800i, the battery life allows you playback no longer than 3 hours of music, then it will take your phone with it. (You just won't have enough battery for the phone even it's on standby).

What about Internet browsing? Don't joke with me please! Blackberry only browse "baby website" instead of full size. Nothing until N80,N95 (nokia) or iphone can promise. And wait! The zoom effect wasn't even offered till iphone came out on the demo. YES! WE KNOW THAT CPU onboard is powerful enough to do the zoom, but is there any company doing it? NOPE!!!!!

Apple's iphone isn't just combine everything that people need. It's simply saying.. we want all those features, but we want to do it "RIGHT". that's all there is to it.

In case people are still arguing.. why don't you think Apple want multi-touch on their iphone instead of "larger buttons"? Because larger buttons still suffer from the typing issue if you don't have a keypad. Secondly, multi-touch is exact the answer for "faster" typing on a touch pad. Which was the current limitation for all the touch pannels. You don't believe me? Let's see how you can type fast on a touch pannel notebook, you will be surprised! (Extremely slow, due to it accepts a stylus input on particular x, y value each time).

Iphone isn't out yet.. but I am sure if multi-touch works like Jobs said.. then it will speed up the typing. (In theory).

photodesignch

digidandy

1) doesn't make/receive calls well
2) only has an 8-10 hour battery life (treo 700w)
3) loses ram somehow
4) doesn't actually CLOSE programs when you click on the 'X' (without 3rd party apps)
5) needs a soft reset every day
6) pocket IE sucks

so nevermind. although some of those are due to my POS phone (3rd one, btw), i hate windows mobile. just went to the verizon store to see about an upgrade to bb 8830, and i was informed it will cost $699.99 because I'm not eligable for a upgrade discount until 22 mths into my contract, which is next July. i guess they'd rather have my $175 cancellation fee than my $120 bill payments.

at this point, i'd take ANYTHING that make calls, access my email, handle IM, be teathered for a wireless broadband connection, and not cost 7 bills- "iPhone killer" or not.

omfgitsdon - RUN

burnblue

maevro

mobileT83

Just because it has a large screen that's touch friendly doesn't mean it's after the same market as the iPhone.

IF the iPhone's released and everybody loves it and IF it becomes an industry leader and IF it's a phone that's targetting similar people as the iPhone (people that want what I'm deeming a "moderately-smart-phone").... then "iPhone killer" is a fine and dandy term.

But till then, let's wait and see if it lives up to the hype.

Keebler

rcarydon

What is an iPhone killer? (besides a hammer)

Is it a phone that looks better, works better, sells better or all three?

If the iPhone winds up with 30% of the touch phone market and 14 other phones average around 5% for a total of 70% is the iPhone still the top phone? The other phones will probably be using Windows Mobile for thier OS. So, the touch phone market would look more like: Apple 30%, Microsoft 70%. Is Microsoft the iPhone killer without ever even making a phone? Kind of reminds me of something that happened back around 1984.

baltwade

DepDawg

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge