i mostly meant text in anything other than texting or fields in which you type. idk it was just a thought. yeah ive seen the videos it looks pretty crisp and its a pretty sweet technology
i mostly meant text in anything other than texting or fields in which you type. idk it was just a thought. yeah ive seen the videos it looks pretty crisp and its a pretty sweet technology
I will give you a few reasons why I will stick with my EVO and not jump ship over to at&t:
1) Cheaper bill with everything I need and more- w/ at&t doing away with unlimited data I am not to keen about going to a carrier that will bill you for an "overage" of data usage.
2) Reliable coverage in my area- this is and should be the deal breaker for most. In my area at&t is not horrible but it isn't great either. With Sprint I can get service in my basement and all that jazz
3) Don't want to be labeled a fanboy- I pride myself on being different from the rest. I have quite a few friends who all have iPhones and listening to them gawk and talk and drool over this here for the better part of the day was nerve wrecking and I can only imagine the hell that is going to ensue the day it comes out. When I broke down and bought a MacBook my friends all did the corniest $#!* ever saying "welcome to family" (personal rant here sorry)
1) Cheaper bill with everything I need and more- w/ at&t doing away with unlimited data I am not to keen about going to a carrier that will bill you for an "overage" of data usage.
2) Reliable coverage in my area- this is and should be the deal breaker for most. In my area at&t is not horrible but it isn't great either. With Sprint I can get service in my basement and all that jazz
3) Don't want to be labeled a fanboy- I pride myself on being different from the rest. I have quite a few friends who all have iPhones and listening to them gawk and talk and drool over this here for the better part of the day was nerve wrecking and I can only imagine the hell that is going to ensue the day it comes out. When I broke down and bought a MacBook my friends all did the corniest $#!* ever saying "welcome to family" (personal rant here sorry)
ok here is my input on this iphone 4 thing ok yes apple makes realllllllly good products no matter what there products have improved alot over the years BUTT beyond the hardware of the phone the software is not the best i think android wins even tho iOS is safer it is not reliable i want to do everything on my phone with amazing specs even tho my evo is not made with stainless steal or cool screen it does everything i want it to do and the software is better.
Stevie Jobs & iPhone 4 fall for the Android "Okie dok"
After reading all day about Stevie Jobs' lame attempt to stop the bleeding that Android Nation is inflicting on his beloved iPhone. And after giving him credit that the iPhone 4 does have a great screen (for a 60" hdtv), and great (one hour longer than EVO) battery life, and chrome-bodied antenna... blah, blah, blah... I must say that Jobby fell for the "Okie dok" hook, line, and sinker.
If that is all he could come up with versus the EVO, then he may as well just go ahead and bring both the crown and the belt on over to the new Champ: EVO.
No 4G, no HDMI output, a VGA, front camera, a 5MP back camera, no micro SD, no Flash support, and multi-tasking(finally)... Huh!?
What in the world will you do when EVO meets Froyo? I mean, my EVO is blazing right now on Elcair... I can only imagine what Froyo will do to my EVO. But don't worry Stevie boy, I will still let your fanboys tether thier iToys to a real masterpiece.
sorry, just had to jet that off my chest.
After reading all day about Stevie Jobs' lame attempt to stop the bleeding that Android Nation is inflicting on his beloved iPhone. And after giving him credit that the iPhone 4 does have a great screen (for a 60" hdtv), and great (one hour longer than EVO) battery life, and chrome-bodied antenna... blah, blah, blah... I must say that Jobby fell for the "Okie dok" hook, line, and sinker.
If that is all he could come up with versus the EVO, then he may as well just go ahead and bring both the crown and the belt on over to the new Champ: EVO.
No 4G, no HDMI output, a VGA, front camera, a 5MP back camera, no micro SD, no Flash support, and multi-tasking(finally)... Huh!?
What in the world will you do when EVO meets Froyo? I mean, my EVO is blazing right now on Elcair... I can only imagine what Froyo will do to my EVO. But don't worry Stevie boy, I will still let your fanboys tether thier iToys to a real masterpiece.
sorry, just had to jet that off my chest.
No doubt the new iPhone is a very solid device. That's why I have an EVO and a iPhone. Best of both worlds.
See we all can get along, right?
OMG, an admin at AndroidCentral owns and uses an iPhone. BLASPHEMY!
OMG, an admin at AndroidCentral owns and uses an iPhone. BLASPHEMY!
This one doesn't and never will. Ever.
As you said it, still no way to expand memory without paying another $100 for the next version up. 16gb more is not worth $100. No way to replace the battery on your own. You still have to send it in, pay about $100 to get it done for you. Pretty much stuck with the Apple Store. (yes there are ways around it), cannot modify even the background. I have done this on all my SmartPhones since I got my first one about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I feel old now.
+1 .. It will be impressive!
This is my first smartphone. my trusty Katana served me well for 4 years.
Day 1 - Frustration
Day 2 - I can do that, and that, and that too ... Pretty Cool!
Day 3 - (to quote a fellow Forum poster) HOLY CRAP!
Someone at the same time started a bigger thread about the iPhone, minus the poll.
I just wanted to keep things neat and tidy for ya Cory!
You, my friend, have fallen victim to Apple's brilliant marketing (as most consumers have). Better marketing does not a equal better product. Did you watch the video for the iPad? Amazing advertising, useless product.
I mean, they're explaining a simple concept such as anti-aliasing to the masses and to them is all new, wow! To anyone slightly tech-savvy, that is common sense and given with higher-resolution. However, when taking into consideration the bottom line, the final yield is almost insignificant to the naked eye due to the small display. Download Aldiko on your EVO and load a book. That's as sharp as it's going to get. No matter how high the resolution is.
I loved when Jobs said that IPS is better than OLED. Not only is that absurd, but that is false in every component of comparison. Color accuracy and vibrancy, contrast (OLED yields the highest contrast possible on a display as black pixels are actually turned off), viewing angle, clarity, and power consumption are all better on OLED displays. The single component that OLED loses out on is manufacturing costs, which is most likely the reason most manufacturers haven't adopted it.
Folders, wow. Once again, something as ancient as the pyramids in the smartphone world. And I'll tell you one thing, it's going to get really annoying having the OS determine the name of the folder for you. What if you have 3 games and 1 eBook reader in that folder. The OS will assume to call it Games (most likely) and maybe, I don't know, you want to call it Favorites. You're out of luck! Give power to the people!
Multi-tasking. Not much to say there but... yawn! Windows Mobile has it, Android has it, WebOS has it, iOS 4 is only getting it now. Personally, I'd rather hold a button to get it than having to double-tap it. Only difference I see there between that an my Android. (Have to say this, WebOS has perfected multi-tasking and not even Apple can compete).
Carrier. Sure, Sprint is as ginormous as AT&T is. But what most people don't understand is that, especially in this case, that is a good thing. Sprint has no competition in the newest data technology at the moment (and that is huge for the market's momentum) and has the best value for the price out there bar none. And I'm not even going to get into the ridiculous new data plans that AT&T adopted.
And finally, video conferencing, or, "OPEN" video conferencing as Apple called it. So "OPEN" that you are limited to iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 conferencing only and Wi-Fi only. And BTW, that front-facing camera is only VGA (640x489) compared to our 1.3MP. Anyone using Skype on their desktop has the ability to see me as I talk to them, that's something they don't have and that's huge!
All in all, mediocre features, encased in glass that is 30x stronger than plastic. Ooohhh...
im glad to see that no one would even have the slightest thought to swtich over...well maybe one did.
Because of the way they did it (the OS scales easily to the new resolution), they were able to avoid problems like they would have had going from say, the Desire to the Evo. (Evo elements are MUCH larger than the Desire's) It isn't just stretching things or shrinking them, because the OS handles it very differently than that.
You can always let em connect to ur EVO's wifi.
And don't forget the video chat....that you can only use when connected to Wifi
My honest unbiased about the new iphone is this...well background first, I used to hate Apple product but recently did a hackintosh on my PC and it worked great. Now I'm using Snow Leopard as my main desktop and loving it. So there I'm an Apple consumer as well and I don't hate Apple.
About iphone 4. I completely agree with akarol on his/her assessment about Apple marketing is doing a great job to suck people into their campaign. I give them credit for the very first iphone about multitouch. But the latter releases are disappointment including iphone 4. I mean if you look at the past releases, their so-called "features" are old as heck such as "Copy-Paste", "multitask", etc. I mean now Sprint came out with Qik video chatting and apple to follow. So if you really sit down and analyze the product of iphone, it is very not much different from its predecessors just a revamping of the cosmetic but the core is still very lacking. Oh, btw, Android Open Source Development is killing Apple closed source.
I am a huge fan of open-source at that.
About iphone 4. I completely agree with akarol on his/her assessment about Apple marketing is doing a great job to suck people into their campaign. I give them credit for the very first iphone about multitouch. But the latter releases are disappointment including iphone 4. I mean if you look at the past releases, their so-called "features" are old as heck such as "Copy-Paste", "multitask", etc. I mean now Sprint came out with Qik video chatting and apple to follow. So if you really sit down and analyze the product of iphone, it is very not much different from its predecessors just a revamping of the cosmetic but the core is still very lacking. Oh, btw, Android Open Source Development is killing Apple closed source.
I am a huge fan of open-source at that.
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Be part of a giant herd of mindless followers, each of whom believes they are unique and special and more highly evolved because their gadget has a picture of a nibbled piece of fruit on the back.
Sure, it's a slick bit of kit, but at it's core it's a locked-down, one-size-better-fit-you, single carrier device that now more than ever relies on hype and inertia to coast along. AT&T's savage ETFs and ridiculously low data limits are designed to shackle users to them and not do much with their phones.
The most amusing thing about Jobs' keynote wasn't the network fail but his desperate attempt to make wi-fi only video chatting inferior to what Nokia phones did 4 years ago sound like something Apple invented a week ago and has gifted to us mortals. Double irony points for talking about open standards and then dropping that FaceTime can only talk between iPhone 4s. Real open there, Steve. Pffft.
BTW, I'm posting this from my MacBook Pro, so it's not like I don't own any Apple products beyond my three iPods. (It's totally overrated, but it's light. Should've bought a netbook for a third of the price.)
I get called an Apple fanboy, but I know what I'm buying. I know the i4 isn't the most advanced phone out there. I know the OS doesn't do everything that Android does. When Apple came out with the 3GS I rolled my eyes since it was 90% of my 3G.
But for me, it does what I NEED it to better than Android, and I find it more intuitive. I'm choosing to go back to the iPhone because it fits MY needs better.
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