3G iPhone

[quarkx]

BAA! HOOEY!
The I phone is just another fancy fad that will be gone in a years or so. God, I can't believe all the MAC cronies with their look at the shiny rock routine. There are much better phones on the market people, wake up and smell reality!

[quarkx]

Hey, I used the iphone, and I got rid of it within the first week I had it. I have an older Treo 680, that (other than the OS crashes every once and a while) I would recommend any day over the iPhone- besides the palm OS has hundreds of thousands of free apps, it can do everything and more better than the iPhone and its 2 years older. The hype has snowballed so out of control, its too funny. If Steve packaged up his feces in a nice shiny metal acrylic case, and called it the iCrap, it would sell.

[quarkx]

Hey, I NEVER SAID I couldn't figure it out,I just didn't like it at all - so please Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't like the way the texting worked, the layout of the unit, I could go on and on- etc. Face the facts, some people don't think the Iphone is God's gift to humanity. I much preferred my Treo. the Treo was / is a lot simpler if you are use to the Palm OS. For someone that had the Palm since almost day 1 (started with the original Pilot Pro).
But hey, lets have this debate in a year from now, when all the hoopla has faded away and the next big phone will be out.

[quarkx]

Umm, I think you sarcasm is misplaced. The Treo also has touch screen, Icons and a REAL Querty keyboard. The treo has its (long list) of faults also, but Like I said, after a week of using the iphone, I was not impressed enough to keep it. You are misguided to think everyone loves the iphone or will love it once they get their hands on it. But hey! keep up the good blind faith marketing for APPLE. They love you for it.
(now my sarcasm is misplaced :-o )

[quarkx]

Apple is thinking about bring back the Newton! Although, I don't see a reason for it because of the Touch.
Link


But, I am looking at a Blackberry for my next phone, the curve is Identical to the Treo, but without a touch screen, and far less apps.

I don't use my EEEPC at all anymore , now that I have a full size laptop. The unit was nice, and the size and weight, but the 4 gig SSD was the killer for me. ASUS now has models with regular 30-40 gig drives, so I might look at one of those.

[quarkx]

LOL, if you go back and actually read my post, no where did it say I hate linux. But hey keep thinking what you want. I am a Microsoft supporter, but even I hate Vista. oh, well.
I own a computer store, and I can't keep the EEEPC in stock, but everyone I have ever sold (over a 100 just last month alone), the customer has demanded XP installed.I don't hate linux, I just don't use linux and get a huge kick at how the Zelots re-act to anti -linux comments. I do hink 4 gig SSD drive are totaly useless for anything. Even if I did run linux, I would want to put movies and such on my EEEPC for traveling, and defiantly more than one.4 gigs is just not enough to store anything on these days. In order to make it usable, you have to buy extra SD cards.

the_leander wrote:

quarkx wrote:
Apple is thinking about bring back the Newton! Although, I don't see a reason for it because of the Touch.
Link

I don't see the reason for a new newton because of the iPhone or Treo or any number of smart phones - all of them have the functionality the Newton and later Palm devices had *and* have the ability to make phone and data calls. The PDA as I see it is pretty much obsolete at this point.

quarkx wrote:
But, I am looking at a Blackberry for my next phone, the curve is Identical to the Treo, but without a touch screen, and far less apps.

Why not get another treo then?

Unfortunately, Palm is not really updating the PALM OS anymore (not even made or owned by PALM) and is mostly going to Windows Mobile. The Blackberry is quickly becoming the standard, especially in the business world. Eventually, I will be called on to service and support Blackberry products. Windows Mobile has a good head start here in Canada, but it's the Blackberry that will be number 1 in a year or so.

[quarkx]

bloodline wrote:


It might not be the same, but it is equivalent, the Market is not the same as it was in 1985... And Apple have done exactly what the market wanted.

 :laughing: OMG! "Apple have done what the MARKET Wanted?" I think not! If you do a little research, APPLE did not even build or design the I-phone, but subcontracted everything to HTC. Even your so called MAC OSX is nothing more than BSD re-branded. Apple could have re-launched a brick phone from 1990 and it would have sold EXACTLY the same amount to all the MaC Heads out there. Apple do not re-invent the wheel, they did not do ANYTHING really innovate with the Iphone. It simple was a marketing fad that caught on because of its bling factor. simple
It's only the brain-washed people that cant see the forest for the trees.
APPLE to their credit has a incredible marketing department. and if they launch (or re launch) the newton, it will sell just as many units as the I phones because the MAC heads have to have it.
At the end of the day, it is just a regular piece of technology.simple. This argument is starting to sound like a bunch of crack addicts justifying their addictions.

[quarkx]

bloodline wrote:

I avoided quarkx's post because it was so wrong my eyes started to bleed when I read it...

The truth hurts- nothing wrong at all with my post!