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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Besides us older folks like bigger screens and it really doesn't take much to make a difference. ....... All this talk about chips is inyeresting but I'm very surprised that people who understand these iss…
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Quote: Originally Posted by maccherry Where is the value in the winmo phone? MS doesn't TOUCH hardware so they won't have anything to do with your cell phone. From what I understand MS will just sit on its lazy a** and collect royalties from th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by guch20 As stupid as this is, if I have to choose between Microsoft and Google winning the mobile operating systems war, I'd rather see Microsoft take it. Google has gotten too powerful and is beginning to take over eve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tezgno Quote: Originally Posted by mikemikeb At best, it will have basic 2100 MHz UMTS support, akin to the BlackBerry Tour. Their current multi-band UMTS-CDMA chips are too big for the iPhone, at this time. Tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTel I saw this coming. We might see Apple buy Qualcomm too. Unlikely. Qualcomm is a conglomerate with a very complex corporate hierarchy. Apple's MO is to purchase cheaper, smaller upstarts to both save money,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Peleas Do you really think you're on par with the other established mobile software giants when your OS doesn't even have a Copy & Paste function, multitasking, or an extensive library of apps? Wake up, Microsof…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJinTX I have read articles and post by people who claim to have ditched the cable companies, and I assume they must have figured out how to get the live content. SO how would they be doing this? Are they just pullin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Look, I love my iPhone, MBP, and I particularly love my new 27" quad core i7 iMac, but people have to realize that people (a lot of them probably) knowingly and consciously choose an Android phone, not because t…
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Apple doesn't have any agreements with most of the channels you mention. Also, since the AppleTV has no hard disk, you can't store old Seinfeld episodes. No, you can't stream old episodes of Seinfeld, either. I can't think of any other STB altern…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveGee Wouldn't it be funny that in say 5-10 years time and Google has all but lost it's last appeal in the oracle vs. Google case and google turns around and says... Well, it was fun while it lasted but any Android d…
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The main things to look at here are these: 1. iPhone supply is barely meeting demand. Sure, the US market has reached saturation, but why expand carrier selection if you can't provide the extra supply? Sure, two new plants are going up, one for…
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It's possible that a new iPhone will be needed to fix the antenna issue, but there's no guarantee it's coming. If the new iPhone isn't announced in September (for an October release), then it's likely to be in January for a Feb. release. But if it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid There seem to be several variants of CDMA in use in China, for a total of several hundred million subscribers. As far as I can tell from Wikipedia's "3G" page, China Mobile uses TD-SCDMA, China Unicom uses W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ranum Quote: Originally Posted by mikemikeb 1. Couldn't the same thing be done with Bluetooth? 2. 802.11g and n had been around for at least a year before Apple used it. You'd think they'd fast-track it with a f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "From AAPL's perspective, the debate is whether it makes sense to roll out an interim CDMA iPhone sometime in 2011 or perhaps wait until LTE becomes more available in 2012," Wu wrote. Rumor is that Pega…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody One of the main features of that newfangled thing called the "DVD" that came out a while ago, was the fact that it could have multiple camera angles of the same movie on the same disc so that the viewer c…
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First of all, when I first saw the word "Motally", I read it as "Mortally". I figure they'll use this company to try to keep Symbian/Ovi/Meego/whatchamacallit afloat against the iOS-Android current, by letting Motally create their own form of iAd…
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Quote: Originally Posted by regan Although if I understand correctly, face time on the iPod touch will require a mobile me email account? If this be true, that's a brilliant move on Jobs part to increase Apple's revenue stream. I think any ema…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Funding which will be cut off once Google renders Firefox irrelevant. So, they'd be smart to start weaning themselves now. That and take off their ideological blinders and …
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From all the comments on this forum in favor of a data-only iPod touch 3G, wait a month and see if Steve Jobs presents such a device. That said, I don't know the answer to your question.