[IP] more on Apple's new phone DOES stack up

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
Date: January 10, 2007 10:33:47 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Apple's new phone DOES stack up

The info on that website may misrepresent Palm; Palm has had 320x320
screens for nearly 2 years now (650, 700p, 680), and does NOT have to
run Windows Mobile (notably, Windows Mobile phones, e.g., 700w, 750,
have poorer screen resolution than PalmOS versions).

And a Palm has a usable keyboard - ask anyone who had a Graffiti-based
one and you'll find out why a tactile keyboard is needed on a phone
(e.g., unless the iPhone also levitates and its screen morphs with
button depressessions, one-handed dialing will require feats of blind
prestidigitation).

I have a Palm 650 and a new iPod video with 80GB. It takes 20GB for my
music collection (not that large), and each video is 1-1.5GB. The new
phone wouldn't hold a small fraction of my music together with a
*single* video.

I wouldn't swap the pair for this integrated gizmo even for free.

Two swings and two misses, IMO.

FWIW, iPhone was a product of InfoGear in 1999 (acquired by Cisco)
http://www.streettech.com/archives_gadget/iPhone.html
and isalso the name of a current voice-over-IP service iphone.com  -
interesting copyright lawsuits are sure to follow.

Joe

David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Tristan Louis <tristan@tnl.net>
> Date: January 9, 2007 5:46:57 PM EST
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Apple's new phone DOES stack up
>
> Dave,
>
> This is a comparison of Apple's new entry against other smart  
> phones in
> the market:
>
> http://tnl.net/blog/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-here/
>
> I think IP readers might be interested in this.
>
> TNL
>
> ----
> Tristan Louis
> http://www.tnl.net


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