The voice synthesis and voice recognition will be an important part of GPS functionality.
Excellent idea. Having an API for that would really bring a lot of competition to that app type.
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It would make "texting" someone as easy as speaking.
Is this really viable at this time? Text-to-speech on Mac OS X isn't great and it slow. I can't imagine that it would be remotely useable on an iPhone.
in itunes you synchronize that ringtone to your iphone
I think you can just change the AAC file ending in m4a to m4r to denote a ringtone file and when you frag it into iTunes it will put itself in the right location which you can sync to your iPhone.
In all fairness, the original $20 update was made long before the app store got going and we had an idea of the intrinsic value or the market-based worth of iPhone applications.
Utter BS- we knew that mail and the other 4 measly Apps were not worth $20 back then. Who are you trying to fool?
Well I never did suggest it for one thing - that is your own warped interpretation. Why would I even state that it they sell Blackberries?
"Then WHY DON'T they? Simple- because their Blackberrys are usually corporate tools and their corporate owners a.) need a reliable carrier, b) want their phones easily serviced and 3) don't want clogware Apps on a corporate phone."
"Then WHY DON'T they? Simple- because their Blackberrys are usually corporate tools and their corporate owners a.) need a reliable carrier, b) want their phones easily serviced and 3) don't want clogware Apps on a corporate phone."
Don't get a coronary please. See you're proven wrong- I said corporate Blackberry owners not everybody as you have been saying I said.
Anyway, whatever- at least I agree with you on the $20 App charge for the Touch way back when. So you think for $10 this time Touch owners will get cut & paste, blue tooth- but what else?
the problem with using any kind of loud ring-tone is that when you have a headset on and the phone rings it's like driving spikes into your eardrums. Even the "classic" phone ring offered by Apple as one of the choices is way too loud on a headset.
Really? When I have my earbuds in the iPhone, I simply hear a soft double beep sound when someone calls, not the standard ringtone you hear when no earbuds are connected.
That doesn't mean companies will let them use any APP they want? What's your point exactly?
The point is that Blackberry is doing their damnedest to emulate Apple's iPhone and Apps Store, which was to answer your point that Blackberry users don't want or need Apps.
[QUOTE=teckstud;1405863... RIM's hardware is more expensive than iPhone's? Where is that documented?[/QUOTE]
teckstud - are you a lawyer? You crack me up, you're aggressive even when you're out of your element ! I mean, the way you write has an aggressive tone. Or is that only with Solipsism ?
teckstud - are you a lawyer? You crack me up, you're aggressive even when you're out of your element ! I mean, the way you write has an aggressive tone. Or is that only with Solipsism ?
Ever since the iPhone was released, there has been a certain contingent that loves to talk about all the features the iPhone lacks, how the phones that they have "had for years" can do all these things the iPhone can't.
Then, of course, as the iPhone steadily adds functionality, they LOL and all over the internets because the pathetic toy of an iPhone is "finally" getting that feature that they have been enjoying for years, us Mac users must be so proud, 1998 called and wants its "innovation" back, etc.
But, consider this: if the problem has been that the iPhone is somehow "behind" in the "features" race, wouldn't we expect all those phones that have been doing all these great things for years to be steadily advancing, as well?
That is, while the iPhone has spent the last 2 years "catching up", wouldn't we expect the competition to have moved on, with even more great new "features" that the iPhone can't match?
Except they haven't. The bullet list of ways the iPhone is "crippled" keeps getting shorter, not longer. Pretty soon the "my phone has done that for years" crowed will have to circle their wagons around "multitasking" and just sit there, chanting.
Why is that, do you think? Why is it that stupid Apple was able to make a smartphone that changed the way every other manufacturer approached smartphones, and do it in such a way that they can keep adding real, useful functionality in ways that work well and integrate with what has come before, while everybody else is left to try variants on copying Apple's touch UI, or adding pixels to their camera, or resolution to their screen, or MHz to their processor?
Where's the fundamental innovation that keeps making that check list of missing iPhone must have features ever longer, so that Apple can never catch up?
What happens when the iPhone can do every goddamn thing any phone on the market can do, and then just keeps going?
Because that's how a well defined platform works. You build the structure that allows the new hotness, and while everybody is LOLing and ing about whatever hotness they think is lacking, you just keep on building. And a firm foundation means you can add that third, fourth and fifth story, no worries, while the other guys have been sticking flags and sails and mirrors and horns all over that rickety, single story, and users have been chortling about how they've had flags and sails and mirrors and horns for years.
Because, believe it or not, it's really hard work to get that foundation right. It requires extraordinary focus, and a willingness to be ruthless. Android doesn't seem to be taking over the market like some imagined it would, why do you think that is? Could it be that Google doesn't really have the focus required, and neither do the vaguely enthusiastic open source folk?
Pre looks promising, but I think they've traded long term viability for some slickness right now-- they've built a lightweight first floor that leverages some modern tech to do some stuff, but can it hold up a building?
The point is that Blackberry is doing their damnedest to emulate Apple's iPhone and Apps Store, which was to answer your point that Blackberry users don't want or need Apps.
Again I never said that- I said corps wouldn't. Can anybody on here read???
Ever since the iPhone was released, there has been a certain contingent that loves to talk about all the features the iPhone lacks, how the phones that they have "had for years" can do all these things the iPhone can't.
Then, of course, as the iPhone steadily adds functionality, they LOL and all over the internets because the pathetic toy of an iPhone is "finally" getting that feature that they have been enjoying for years, us Mac users must be so proud, 1998 called and wants its "innovation" back, etc.
But, consider this: if the problem has been that the iPhone is somehow "behind" in the "features" race, wouldn't we expect all those phones that have been doing all these great things for years to be steadily advancing, as well?
That is, while the iPhone has spent the last 2 years "catching up", wouldn't we expect the competition to have moved on, with even more great new "features" that the iPhone can't match?
Except they haven't. The bullet list of ways the iPhone is "crippled" keeps getting shorter, not longer. Pretty soon the "my phone has done that for years" crowed will have to circle their wagons around "multitasking" and just sit there, chanting.
Why is that, do you think? Why is it that stupid Apple was able to make a smartphone that changed the way every other manufacturer approached smartphones, and do it in such a way that they can keep adding real, useful functionality in ways that work well and integrate with what has come before, while everybody else is left to try variants on copying Apple's touch UI, or adding pixels to their camera, or resolution to their screen, or MHz to their processor?
Where's the fundamental innovation that keeps making that check list of missing iPhone must have features ever longer, so that Apple can never catch up?
What happens when the iPhone can do every goddamn thing any phone on the market can do, and then just keeps going?
Because that's how a well defined platform works. You build the structure that allows the new hotness, and while everybody is LOLing and ing about whatever hotness they think is lacking, you just keep on building. And a firm foundation means you can add that third, fourth and fifth story, no worries, while the other guys have been sticking flags and sails and mirrors and horns all over that rickety, single story, and their fans have been chortling about how they've had flags and sails and mirrors and horns for years.
Excatly how do you advance on the simplistic sending of pics and text directly to a phone number? FIll us in.
Excatly how do you advance on the simplistic sending of pics and text directly to a phone number? FIll us in.
How do you advance on what many have told us were the perfectly serviceable smartphones on the market when the iPhone showed up? How do you advance on the much more accurate, far more "business like" use a stylus? How do you advance on the really great functionality of a WinMob phone and it's slavish attempt to replicate a desktop UI, with lots and lots of lists of tiny text? How do you advance on the "works fine if you're not too stupid to figure it out" system of pushing software updates through the carrier, or putting them on obscure web sites? How do you advance on the immutable and inevitable practice of letting the carrier dictate aspects of your UI?
How do make a better phone? Obviously, you can't, since by the time the iPhone was introduced there were phones on the market that did everything anyone could possibly want, as well as could be expected.
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T It would make "texting" someone as easy as speaking.
Now, that would be useful! Isn't there something like that on other phones? Record a message and send an MMS? If there isn't there should be.
The voice synthesis and voice recognition will be an important part of GPS functionality.
Excellent idea. Having an API for that would really bring a lot of competition to that app type.
It would make "texting" someone as easy as speaking.
Is this really viable at this time? Text-to-speech on Mac OS X isn't great and it slow. I can't imagine that it would be remotely useable on an iPhone.
I have a ring tone which I made but exactly how do you install it on the phone?
you go to share and say send ringtones to itunes
in itunes you synchronize that ringtone to your iphone
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you go to share and say send ringtones to itunes
in itunes you synchronize that ringtone to your iphone
I think you can just change the AAC file ending in m4a to m4r to denote a ringtone file and when you frag it into iTunes it will put itself in the right location which you can sync to your iPhone.
The bad news: if they have yet to reveal these features in the beta, and they're still adding features, then they're pretty far off from release.
And as to the new hardware, I have a feeling I'm going to be spending the night on the street again waiting in line for the next iPhone.
The bad news: if they have yet to reveal these features in the beta, and they're still adding features, then they're pretty far off from release.
I think the big new OS features that haven't revealed are dependent on the new HW, which wiill be revealed at WWDC in June.
. Or People that want to use Verizon's network won't be able to use the iPhone, but to suggest that people don't use Blackberries on AT&T isn't true.
Well I never did suggest it for one thing - that is your own warped interpretation. Why would I even state that it they sell Blackberries?
In all fairness, the original $20 update was made long before the app store got going and we had an idea of the intrinsic value or the market-based worth of iPhone applications.
Utter BS- we knew that mail and the other 4 measly Apps were not worth $20 back then. Who are you trying to fool?
Have you seen the Blackberry site lately?
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/
I can't quite put my finger on it but something seems rather familiar.
Hmmm!
That doesn't mean companies will let them use any APP they want? What's your point exactly?
Well I never did suggest it for one thing - that is your own warped interpretation. Why would I even state that it they sell Blackberries?
"Then WHY DON'T they? Simple- because their Blackberrys are usually corporate tools and their corporate owners a.) need a reliable carrier, b) want their phones easily serviced and 3) don't want clogware Apps on a corporate phone."
"Then WHY DON'T they? Simple- because their Blackberrys are usually corporate tools and their corporate owners a.) need a reliable carrier, b) want their phones easily serviced and 3) don't want clogware Apps on a corporate phone."
Anyway, whatever- at least I agree with you on the $20 App charge for the Touch way back when. So you think for $10 this time Touch owners will get cut & paste, blue tooth- but what else?
Utter BS- we knew that mail and the other 4 measly Apps were not worth $20 back then. Who are you trying to fool?
Historical revisionism again? Trolling still?
And here I thought that solipsism was slowly and gently moulding you into a decent human being. I was *almost* going to take you off ignore again.
Oh well one step forward, two steps back I guess.
the problem with using any kind of loud ring-tone is that when you have a headset on and the phone rings it's like driving spikes into your eardrums. Even the "classic" phone ring offered by Apple as one of the choices is way too loud on a headset.
Really? When I have my earbuds in the iPhone, I simply hear a soft double beep sound when someone calls, not the standard ringtone you hear when no earbuds are connected.
That doesn't mean companies will let them use any APP they want? What's your point exactly?
The point is that Blackberry is doing their damnedest to emulate Apple's iPhone and Apps Store, which was to answer your point that Blackberry users don't want or need Apps.
teckstud - are you a lawyer? You crack me up, you're aggressive even when you're out of your element ! I mean, the way you write has an aggressive tone. Or is that only with Solipsism ?
In my experience most managers would be happier without the complication of running a Blackberry server. You can read more about BB Server here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBe...erprise_Server
I wouldn't want to deal with all that if I didn't have to ! Unless I was an empire builder...
teckstud - are you a lawyer? You crack me up, you're aggressive even when you're out of your element ! I mean, the way you write has an aggressive tone. Or is that only with Solipsism ?
In my experience most managers would be happier without the complication of running a Blackberry server. You can read more about BB Server here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBe...erprise_Server
I wouldn't want to deal with all that if I didn't have to ! Unless I was an empire builder...
Not at all - sloppy and I go way back.
Now I would infer he meant the phone it$elf, not the server- but why would I be so presumptious?
Then, of course, as the iPhone steadily adds functionality, they LOL and
But, consider this: if the problem has been that the iPhone is somehow "behind" in the "features" race, wouldn't we expect all those phones that have been doing all these great things for years to be steadily advancing, as well?
That is, while the iPhone has spent the last 2 years "catching up", wouldn't we expect the competition to have moved on, with even more great new "features" that the iPhone can't match?
Except they haven't. The bullet list of ways the iPhone is "crippled" keeps getting shorter, not longer. Pretty soon the "my phone has done that for years" crowed will have to circle their wagons around "multitasking" and just sit there, chanting.
Why is that, do you think? Why is it that stupid Apple was able to make a smartphone that changed the way every other manufacturer approached smartphones, and do it in such a way that they can keep adding real, useful functionality in ways that work well and integrate with what has come before, while everybody else is left to try variants on copying Apple's touch UI, or adding pixels to their camera, or resolution to their screen, or MHz to their processor?
Where's the fundamental innovation that keeps making that check list of missing iPhone must have features ever longer, so that Apple can never catch up?
What happens when the iPhone can do every goddamn thing any phone on the market can do, and then just keeps going?
Because that's how a well defined platform works. You build the structure that allows the new hotness, and while everybody is LOLing and
Because, believe it or not, it's really hard work to get that foundation right. It requires extraordinary focus, and a willingness to be ruthless. Android doesn't seem to be taking over the market like some imagined it would, why do you think that is? Could it be that Google doesn't really have the focus required, and neither do the vaguely enthusiastic open source folk?
Pre looks promising, but I think they've traded long term viability for some slickness right now-- they've built a lightweight first floor that leverages some modern tech to do some stuff, but can it hold up a building?
We'll see.
The point is that Blackberry is doing their damnedest to emulate Apple's iPhone and Apps Store, which was to answer your point that Blackberry users don't want or need Apps.
Again I never said that- I said corps wouldn't. Can anybody on here read???
Ever since the iPhone was released, there has been a certain contingent that loves to talk about all the features the iPhone lacks, how the phones that they have "had for years" can do all these things the iPhone can't.
Then, of course, as the iPhone steadily adds functionality, they LOL and
But, consider this: if the problem has been that the iPhone is somehow "behind" in the "features" race, wouldn't we expect all those phones that have been doing all these great things for years to be steadily advancing, as well?
That is, while the iPhone has spent the last 2 years "catching up", wouldn't we expect the competition to have moved on, with even more great new "features" that the iPhone can't match?
Except they haven't. The bullet list of ways the iPhone is "crippled" keeps getting shorter, not longer. Pretty soon the "my phone has done that for years" crowed will have to circle their wagons around "multitasking" and just sit there, chanting.
Why is that, do you think? Why is it that stupid Apple was able to make a smartphone that changed the way every other manufacturer approached smartphones, and do it in such a way that they can keep adding real, useful functionality in ways that work well and integrate with what has come before, while everybody else is left to try variants on copying Apple's touch UI, or adding pixels to their camera, or resolution to their screen, or MHz to their processor?
Where's the fundamental innovation that keeps making that check list of missing iPhone must have features ever longer, so that Apple can never catch up?
What happens when the iPhone can do every goddamn thing any phone on the market can do, and then just keeps going?
Because that's how a well defined platform works. You build the structure that allows the new hotness, and while everybody is LOLing and
Excatly how do you advance on the simplistic sending of pics and text directly to a phone number? FIll us in.
Excatly how do you advance on the simplistic sending of pics and text directly to a phone number? FIll us in.
How do you advance on what many have told us were the perfectly serviceable smartphones on the market when the iPhone showed up? How do you advance on the much more accurate, far more "business like" use a stylus? How do you advance on the really great functionality of a WinMob phone and it's slavish attempt to replicate a desktop UI, with lots and lots of lists of tiny text? How do you advance on the "works fine if you're not too stupid to figure it out" system of pushing software updates through the carrier, or putting them on obscure web sites? How do you advance on the immutable and inevitable practice of letting the carrier dictate aspects of your UI?
How do make a better phone? Obviously, you can't, since by the time the iPhone was introduced there were phones on the market that did everything anyone could possibly want, as well as could be expected.