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patrickl:
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--- Quote from: patrickl on December 30, 2008, 06:01:39 pm ---Well proper as in "not shielded from being fully usable". To be honest most people who I know and who had a "proper" smartphone before their iPhone have switched back within a few months. So I guess it's "proper" in another sense too.
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Well . . . because Windows Mobile sucks to use as a phone and hardware built around Windows Mobile tends to be horribly flawed as well.
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Flawed as in "Doesn't match my purse"? :P
Seriously though, I've never heard much complaints about WM smartphones having flawed hardware. Never experienced any myself either. As opposed to the iPhone overwhelming problems with it's poor reception, poor battery life, cracks in the housing and poor water proofing. Not to mention the flawed battery replacement scheme. I'm surprised the iPhone wasn't banned overhere since it's illegal to sell devices where you cannot remove the battery yourself.
Anyway, I'll leave your girls to it ...
shmokes:
Well . . . the iPhone is very nicely designed, which is nice. You don't want an ugly car or ugly clothes or an ugly wife or ugly ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- on your walls. You surround yourself in beauty to the extent possible. So it's not like the nice design is for nothing. But there are plenty of pretty phone (LG's Prada phone, for example). What really sets the iPhone apart is that the good design is far more than skin deep. What makes the iPhone brilliant is it's user interface. It just works . . . how it should (aside from ---smurfing--- copy and paste). Wait till you see somebody zipping through their photo collection to show you a photo. It's ---smurfing--- amazing. And visual voicemail. OMG . . . when you check voicemails on the iPhone it shows you . . . on the screen . . . each message and who it was from, just like email, and you can choose to listen to them (or not) in any order you want, and when you save them they are saved and sorted in the same way. Just like email. For anybody who hates voicemail (read: everyone) this is a godsend.
Simply put, there is a reason that the iPhone is a phenomenal success, and it's not just because Apple is fashionable at the moment (see AppleTV, for example). It is a great device.
And I've got about six years of PocketPC/Windows Mobile phone use under my belt; I know what I'm talking about. Actually, to be fair, I've never had an iPhone. But I know lots of people with them and I've played with them a bit.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 30, 2008, 07:22:12 pm ---Actually, to be fair, I've never had an iPhone.
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Indeed.
polaris:
--- Quote from: patrickl on December 30, 2008, 07:43:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 30, 2008, 07:22:12 pm ---Actually, to be fair, I've never had an iPhone.
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Indeed.
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have you ?
patrickl:
--- Quote from: polaris on December 30, 2008, 07:53:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on December 30, 2008, 07:43:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 30, 2008, 07:22:12 pm ---Actually, to be fair, I've never had an iPhone.
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Indeed.
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have you ?
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Well I didn't really want to respond (I think I have been obnoxious enough), but ...
My point was that people only realize after using it for a while that it's lacking (for professional users). I know many people who need a smartphone for their work. Some were crazy about the iPhone and how you can flick through pictures in a cool new way and that you can zoom on a webpage really cool with two fingers. They get one even after waiting in line for the overly hyped introduction at midnight. A week later they're done with the zippy photo browsing and they find that they don't really watch pictures on their iPhone, that needing to zoom in and out on a webpage is incredibly annoying, that the calendar software is lacking, that the e-mail software doesn't do what they expect of it, that there is no proper GPS navigation software for it and, in short, that they simply want a WM phone or Blackberry again. So they give their iPhone to their wife/gf and switch back.
I'm convinced that people who just want the iPhone as a gadget will be more than happy with it. Or that people who buy the iPhone as their first "smartphone" will be completely happy with it also. Apart from the aforementioned hardware defects of course.
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