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Just to point out that the prices are including VAT. The £269 price is including VAT so the US price equivalent would be £228.94 or about $451. £169 is £143 without VAT ($282) That may seem cheap compared to the USA but most other phones are free…
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Quote: Originally Posted by merdhead This is something that would be great and is available on most 3G phones (at least Nokia ones), but Apple seems to pander to AT&T a lot, so it's very doubtful. It's the same in the UK, Germany, France..…
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For comparison sake, Symbian shipped 77million licences last year. 45m iPhones is going some and would need more carriers, countries and models.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I use Gmail.com every day and never have an issue. I just checked to see if contacts will autofill with find-as-you-type in the address bar. Assuming that is what the OP is referring to, It works like a charm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy Geeks do those sort of things, but not the average consumer customer. They do not add disks, and they do not even know what a graphics card is, except that it makes the iMac better than the mini. It's a partic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NOFEER safari messes up with gmail 1 or 2 (old or new version) old version autofill in for addresses doesn't work new version shift key puts text in subject line get with the program SAFARI Sure it's Safari tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It's the smartphone, and other sophisticated phone device market we're discussing. For the sake of this discussion I don't really care what it's doing otherwise. For "other sophisticated phone device", read…
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Oh this is too easy Mel... Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Symbian is a dying OS. It's market share rose from 5% to 7% last year. 77 million phones. Last quarter their licensees shipped 22.4m phones, a 53% increase on last year. Quo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox These types have metastasized into a bigger irritant than the overly enthusiastic Mac user, IMO. Yep. Those are dreary too. The worst sort are the ex-Amiga owners that have taken up Windows as a religion, th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipo158 Gee, is it possible to have a serious discussion on this forum? You're new here. Generally it's possible, more so than most Apple sites even, although any dissent or criticism of Apple is jumped on by at lea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kasper No. I believe it was meant to say 0.10%. In general, this firm put out a pretty sloppy pair of stat releases. It seems they misplaced their decimal points in multiple instances. Kind of frustrating given they ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by johnny0 Well aware of the remote controls available for it, but I disagree that it's simpler -- they fail my basic test, just one more remote to lose. I have enough as it is, I don't need more. A button won't get los…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flounder The logic is that people will think they aren't in an application - so it won't affect the battery life - and then get pissed when it does. Maybe that's true; maybe it's not. Clearly though, that's the gen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flounder That's the rub. In all probability, the user won't understand and instead just think "why does my phone have such crappy battery life?" I can see the complaints filling Apple support lines, forums, and AI …
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According to the AIM iPhone developers, even they don't get to run it as a background task. What they have to do is shut the app down saving the state, then when the user goes back to AIM, it restarts, gets the old state and retrieves IM messages se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Hmm. Last time this was brought up, it was 80+%. Interesting trend. Besides, Symbian is too limited. Even Nokia is moving to Linux for its more sophisticated systems. Actually, I was being optimistic at …
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Quote: Originally Posted by johnny0 Yeah, I hear you. I was really hoping for something simpler. Looking for a remote (or cracking open an old MacBook), while technically feasible, isn't all that practical. I'm looking for less of a remote tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell "Twitterrific on the iPhone could definitely make use of a background process to gather new tweets. In fact, a prototype version of the software did just that. And it was a huge design failure: after doing XML…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Apps running in the background are going to have some impact on battery life as they will use memory and keep the processor working. The argument can be made for what is too much impact and what is enough. I'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell "It takes several months of actual iPhone development before you eventually realize that the iPhone requires a completely different mindset. Until that happens, you?ll make assumptions based on desktop experie…