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Quote: Originally Posted by FastLaneJB You do realise that there is a time to market between announcing a chip and having it available for sale? Yes. The 8878 was shipping then, not just announced. It was announced in Feb 2006. http://www.i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying Apple has an exclusive super secret chip maker that Motorola, Nokia, SE, Samsung are not privy to? The same 3G chips on the market that the big guys use are the same chips o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I'm sure Apple tried 3G chips in the first version and had a good idea of what the battery life would be like with the chips available at the time. Something that we will never know for sure. The wireless chi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Phone battery life cannot be simply compared. All of these phones have different size screens and brightness, different speed processors and graphic accelerators. They all budget their power efficiency differe…
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Wow, a switch to save battery life when you don't want to use 3G. Very innovative. I wonder why the other phone manufacturers who have had 3G phones out for years already didn't think of that?
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Just a quick point but O2's return policy is 14 days, not 30. http://shop.o2.co.uk/FAQ?category=Re...HANGE_MY_PHONE Apple UK's return policy is also 14 days. http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/he...r/returns.html
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Quote: Originally Posted by fpsanders Would there be any chance of an European premiere for the iPhone 3g? That would be fun... (except for us Dutchies who are still standing out there in the cold :-() It's possible. One of the oft cited probl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage The lack of proper proportional fonts and anti-aliasing means the you have to zoom in really close to make text readable. This in turn means you can't view a whole page AND read it. It does have proportio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby Thanks for the info. I have a friend that works for a Swedish company that supplies SVG software to Nokia and the other manufacturers. He was saying that Nokia does use SVG in their browsers. It might now b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by murphyweb All phones sold in the UK (and I presume the rest of Europe?) are locked to the Sim card, you cannot use a different sim card in a handset, even a sim card from the same carrier. No, that's not true. I swi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby @aegis, Apple does have a higher res screen and all. I was mainly talking about the way the images appear on the screen. I have had only one site that does not render properly on my Nokia, so the post fr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Which was my whole point from the beginning. They may attempt to lock, but as long as the consumer can change the sim card you cannot really permanently lock it. What? You really don't understand what a SIM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobaby The web browser on Nokia's use SVG to render. Of course it will scale the fonts and graphos. This is what SVG does. It doesn't. The difference is in the font rendering technology mostly. Apple have be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This is from your perspective of what you want. Most consumers don't use the functions you have listed. Surveys of phone users have found email to be the most used features, generally followed by SMS and in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Apple won't be including VoIP, but according to the SDK rules 3rd-party developers can create them so long as it only works over WiFi. This will probably be altered as soon as Apple no longer has profit-shari…
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Quote: Originally Posted by merdhead Nokia haven't had any real competition for some time, they've produced mediocre products that excite only people who get excited by specifications (what's the point of 7.2Mbps per second if your browser experi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Alright taking this back to the iPhone. Apple intended to lock it to one carrier in four countries. But what we have is the iPhone being used in every industrialized country on the planet on multiple carriers.…
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Teno, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock Almost all GSM phones sold are locked to a carrier's network and usually include the SIM card in the box. You're just totally wrong, again.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism What is misleading about it? It seem to correctly state the two companies functions. It first states that Carphone Warehouse is the high street retailer of UK-based wireless operator and then states that O2 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Carphone Warehouse, the high street retailer of UK-based wireless operator and exclusive iPhone provider O2, has completely run dry of both iPhone models as Apple is reported to have permanently ceased pr…