For a while i wanted an Iphone but after reading some of its spec's I think I may stick with my good'ol Pocket-Pc phone. I mean the Iphone doesn't even have 3g.... Nor can you use the songs form Itunes as ringtones... thats lame.
-Genjura
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 Jun 27 2007, 6:04 pm
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Jun 28 2007, 4:06 am
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Youtube :(
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Yeah, that's a real selling point... Oh yeah, it isn't all youtube, from what I understand it is just preselected youtube videos.
What bothers me is that it is so locked down. They wont even allow third party developers to make software. | |
I heard different or atleast in another tone. From what articles say there won't be powerful enough applications or any open source thing to really make useful programs.
Of course from what I read they arn't very notable on having accurate information. @first post, Man. I can waste 3 gigs in one day downloading mp3s. | |
Well, they claim you can make AJAX browser based programs(GMail is a good example of a browser based program), but you can't have direct hardware access. I know it is powerful enough for some good stuff. Look at Google Maps. I would say that it would a pretty processor intensive program, and it seems to work quickly and efficiently on the iPhone. Even my phone handles useful programs very well. I just installed the new Opera mini beta and it can do full webpage views like the iPhone, so if a normal cell phone can do that, why can't the iPhone do more?
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Danial.Beta wrote:
Yeah, that's a real selling point... Oh yeah, it isn't all youtube, from what I understand it is just preselected youtube videos. Luckily, we have the FIC Neo 1973 coming out, which runs the completely open source OpenMoko mobile Linux distribution. It is expected to be ready for mass market in October, but developer/early-adopter phones are available already and will soon be ready in mass. Features of the mass-market phone include a huge touchscreen with higher resolution than the iPhones's, two accelerometers, WiFi, 3g, GPS, and a removable battery and MicroSD card (unlike the iPhone - battery and memory are not removable!). Since it costs less than the iPhone (you know you're mostly paying for the name with that bad boy), I'm definitely going to get one. The developer phones, which don't have WiFi or accelerometers, costs $300; the mass-market phone will cost $400, which is $200 less than the iPhone *and* isn't tied to a two-year mandatory contract with AT&T. | |
You can actually access the internet as you would from a Mac. It's not a toned-down version or mobile version, you view websites as you would if you opened them from a PC browser just smaller. You can access the entire Youtube site or any other site for that matter that works properly in Safari.
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Will it be able to process flash, though? That would prevent it from seeing the real YouTube. The Opera Mini beta browser can see the full internet too. It is missing most javascript support(because it is running on a cell phone), but besides that, you do see full pages.
I'll admit, it does reformat the pages so that they better display on a cell phone screen. But it does it in a smart way that allows you to get all the content, in place, just a little compressed. If you have a powerful cell phone(mines an m610, but I think it works on the Katana, Razor, and some equal phones) I suggest trying it out. Of course it doesn't support flash, but I highly doubt the iPhone will either. Flash is very hard on a processor. My AMD X2 4400 struggles with some flash, and my PS3 has problems with a lot of flash(which I think has more to do with it not being well tuned to the PS3's hardware). My old 800mhrz computer can hardly stream videos using it. | |
Looks cool. I'll wait till it is publicly released, and then see how it is doing. Reading the stats, it could easily be a big competitor to the iPhone.
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It does Flash fine from the demos I saw, they navigated NewGrounds, and YouTube pretty well. It even streamed video from things like news sites pretty well too.
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Well, I'll gladly believe it when I see it. Until I'm looking at one in front of me, I have troubles believing that it could do flash worth really even considering. It might work well enough for those sites that try to use flash based navigation bars, but I just can't see the phone having enough power to decode flash videos(they have a horrible codec) or deal with high action flash(like most flash animation).
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Danial.Beta wrote:
Flash is very hard on a processor. My AMD X2 4400 struggles with some flash, and my PS3 has problems with a lot of flash(which I think has more to do with it not being well tuned to the PS3's hardware). My old 800mhrz computer can hardly stream videos using it. I hate Flash for this. This manky old PC can't even view loads of websites because it just goes 'uhhhh Flash I will die now'. I've decided to use VideoDownloader Firefox plugin to download videos to my pen drive and watch them in my room from now on. It makes some Flash games pretty easy though. | |
I would see that Flash couldn't run well on an iPhone. I wonder what kind of proccesor an iPhone runs...
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Rumor says that it has a Tri-core arm ...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ The-iPhone-Will-Have-a-Tri-Core-Processor-46855.shtml To read more. (HikaruYasuda) | |
Flash doesn't run on the iPhone.
Hazman said: I hate Flash for this. I'm so glad that most sites switched to flash to show video. I was well and truly fed up of trying to load movies in quicktime or windows media player applets- half the time they wouldn't load, the other half of the time they'd just crash the browser. And god forbid the site required real player... Flash doesn't make use of the graphics card, so as long as you have a modernish processor, flash'll run fine... | |
I don't really feel that the iPhone's features really justify it's ridiculously high price tag. There is honestly no reason to need to pay this kind of money for something like this. It isn't about the phone it is about owning the phone and saying you have one. Kind of like owning Tommy Jeans.
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Revenant Jesus wrote:
Kind of like owning Tommy Jeans Eww Tommy Jeans thats SOOO 90's. But anyway you basically buying the name "Iphone". Its ture that there are many phones that look nicer (I.e The LG Prada) and do more stuff. But its like buying A Lactose shirt, The polo shirt's cost $75 each!!, But you can go to Wal-mart and but a $12 polo. They both do the same thing and look eeaxtly the same BUT, One has this neat gator on the front that tells the world you a freaking rich prep who wastes money on $75 shirts. -Genjura | |