[SATLUG] [OT]Sony personal communicator

[Brian Lewis]

One phone to rule them all!!!

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Charles Hogan <cd_satl at futuretechsolutions.com 
 > wrote:

> 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.
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