[SATLUG] [OT]Sony personal communicator

[Charles Hogan]

What??? Am I the only person left in the world that thinks a phone 
should be good at being a phone, and to hell with all the rest of the 
fluff and clutter?

:)

Brad Knowles wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Alex Bartonek wrote:
> 
>>  I'm still yawning...  yea your iphone can do this n
>>  that etc.. I had a PPC-6700 phone..loved it, could do
>>  C programming, ssh w/pocketputty, vnc (supposedly they
>>  had it?), browse the web, watch mpeg/avi/other movies
>>  and a whole bunch of other nerdy crap ..but it got to
>>  the point to where if I had to do some typing I would
>>  need a much bigger keyboard to get my work done
>>  quicker and those screens are just too small for me.
> 
> There is no Windows Mobile phone that has ever existed, or could ever 
> possibly exist in the future, which could possibly compare to the 
> iPhone.  Don't trot out an excuse like:
> 
>     Yeah, I had a handheld device twenty years ago that actually
>     had a real physical keyboard with real keys and all, and
>     therefore I'm qualified to judge whether or not your iPhone
>     should be allowed to exist or not.
> 
> That would be like saying that you're qualified to judge whether or not 
> electric shavers or safety razors with more than one blade should be 
> allowed to exist, based on your own personal experience in the previous 
> century with a straight razor, a cup of mix-it-yourself shaving foam, 
> and a strop.
> 
> 
> The thing that makes the iPhone revolutionary is that they throw away a 
> lot of the old paradigms, and they take a fresh look at how a mobile 
> device can actually be useful to someone with just a touch screen 
> interface and one single physical button on the front.
> 
> Forget all that nice third-party software, what really makes the iPhone 
> is the OS and the interface that they've developed, which is unlike 
> anything that has ever come before.  You could put all that same 
> software on a Windows Mobile device, and you might as well be putting 
> lipstick and perfume on a pig, because the resulting outcome would be 
> about the same.
> 
>>  Its nice for what it is, a phone that has some extra
>>  features for the geek in you.  I just got tired of it
>>  and sold it, just like I would if I had a iphone.
> 
> Have you ever heard of the TV show "Eureka"?  Well, the iPhone is the 
> communications device they wish that they had conceived of, because it's 
> already way better than anything they did come up with.  They've got 
> lots of other cool gadgets they've come up with, but in the phone 
> department they're still stuck in the last century.
> 
>>  Now if this was about openmoko & Neo1973 then yea, you
>>  could say I'm "hating" because I havent bought it yet.
> 
> Do your homework on OpenMoko and the company behind the Neo 1973.
> 
> 
> They're a bad Windows Mobile licensee who can't successfully compete 
> against the likes of Samsung or HTC, so they're trying to wring some 
> more money out of their platform by giving some token support to the 
> OpenMoko project.  Any money they get is going back into their Windows 
> Mobile efforts, and virtually nothing is being fed back into the Neo.
> 
> They're being left to twist in the wind on previous generation hardware, 
> meanwhile the Trolltech folks have apparently killed the Greenphone, and 
> made the critical mistake of supporting the OpenMoko project and Neo 
> 1973 without fully understanding what's really going on.
>