iPhone Rumour Round-up 37
Coffin Black writes "Apple only has to look askance at a piece of hardware and people are falling over themselves to slap an 'i' all over it and slavering about how cool the theoretical gadgetry is gonna be. So the iPhone may not even exist — beyond a 'just once more thing' gleam in Jobs' eye — but already the column inches are stacking up. Think the iPod is dying? Never fear, says this columnist, it's merely evolving from one form into another (clue: from portable to mobile). This writer, meanwhile, is sticking the boot in early — she says she won't be buying an iPhone, when it of course finally makes it onto the shelves... Though she does add: "If Microsoft created a Phune (a phone and a Zune in one, geddit?), I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole either but that's a different story."" We also covered this story a couple months back.
Battery life is the problem (Score:2, Insightful)
Other than that, I think the sleek styling that Apple applies to their products would be a great relief from all the tiny, too-ill-featured mobile phones on the market today. If the author would just use a little concealer, she could probably stop looking like a raccoon.
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Playing video would sap the juice out of any phone, and there are plenty of those around already too. I don't think Apple could get into it because there would be just too much competition, not because of battery life. Even with iTunes
SIM Cards (Score:2)
I can take the SIM Card of my phone and put it on the new Apple phone and the phone company can't do anything to stop me.
(Except that there is not Apple phone yet.)
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Battery life is just one problem (Score:3, Insightful)
I'd much rather the media player manufacturers concentrate on quality, capacity, battery life, and usability f
Want some thinfoil ? (Score:2)
I read books and listen MP3 in my cell phone and there is no way the cell phone companies know what do I read or listen.
I do however, agree on the batterie life issue.
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As per the battery issue. I know people who have mobile phones "a couple years old" that have to charge up every day as well. Batteries will do that if you don't take care of them. Then there was this little gem:
That little gem right there leads me to believe this is more flame bait than anything else. And I stopped
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've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod.
Funny, I have 50 GB of them and have never had a problem. And I get a hell of a lot more than 2 hours of play time out of a charge, even on my old 15 GB 3G iPod - the one with the recalled battery which I never had to submit to the recall.
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First hand experience with convergence (Score:2, Insightful)
2. Something happens to the camera, you lose the phone, MP3 player and storage device while it's getting fixed.
3. You get the idea.
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That doesn't stop me from having backup nokia, and DSLR camera for more special occasions. If the K750 would wreck (not a glitch so far though), I have replacement.
The ultimate use is - convenience, nothing more. While it works, having a camera and mp3 player in your phone is not bad at all.
and here's mine (Score:3, Insightful)
sans convergence: grab cell phone, mp3 player, walk out door, walk back in door to get organizer, almost walk out door, realize you'll be sitting on the train for 45 minutes, walk back in to look for gameboy or a book, walk back out door.
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I've changed my tune on this topic (Score:4, Informative)
Cut a long story short, I bought a Nokia N80 (bought it because it was a wifi capable smart phone with a great screen, not because of the MP3 playing aspect) and my girlfriend bought a nokia 5300 (because she liked the look of it and it was free).
Neither of us use our ipods anymore. The N80 plays MP3s fine, when you start playing them the player pops up on the active standby so you are always one click away from having control over the player, and the 5300 has dedicated buttons on the case to play music. It's as handy to use as your average MP3 player. There are plenty of hacks to get them recognised by iTunes and auto-synced, and it's one less device in the pocket.
just look at the photos of the 5300, they [mobileguerilla.com] show off the little rubberised buttons for playing music. The price-tag on it was so low that buying it from a carrier means it's free. It made me totally rethink my position on the uselessness of convergent devices.
Women Hater (Score:1, Insightful)
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You are just safer using the gender and racial neutral term of idiot.
Have a nice day.
People want mobile music (Score:1)
It's obvious from the number of people I see regularly with earbud wires hanging down from their ears. Also how many people can claim not to listen to their car audio system, whether it's a CD, an MP3 player linked through it, or terrestrial and satellite radio?
Personally, I think the cell phone companies missed the boat when they skipped audio transmission and aimed for video transmission. From a X-ware point of view, the bandwidth required is much smaller for audio than it is for video. At the risk o
I wouldn't touch a Phune from Microsoft either (Score:1)
Um, she can't be THIS clueless... (Score:4, Insightful)
I've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod.
First off, I've *never* heard anyone complain about DRM problems when playing music they've ripped because... uh, well, iTunes doesn't put DRM on that. And while I really dislike DRM (yes, even Apple's, you thought I was going to say theirs is tolerable weren't you?), Apple's is extremely easy to work with. When you download a track, it works in iTunes on the computer you downloaded it from. It works on the iPod that you transfer that song to. And it works on up to four other machines as well (someone can clear up the details if I got the number wrong) with some brainless simplicity - when you try and play a DRM encumbered file, it asks you for your iTunes Store username/password to authorize playback. What exactly is difficult about any of that??
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That's what we call flame bait. It almost sounds like she heard a few people complaining about DRM and decided she wanted in too. Though she has a wonderful technique. It goes like this:
her: I know you'll hate me, but your band sucks!
band: Why?
her: Well, your xylophone player is horrible. No talent at all!
band: Um, we don't even have a xylophone player. We're a three piece garage band: guitar, bass, drums.
her: Well, I knew you'd hate me. But let me finish! You have a mastery of Nirvana covers.
Someth
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Based on that anecdotal evidence iPods are exponentially more reliable than Creative Zen players.. I only know one person with one of those, and that developed a disk fault
Where would the technonlogy come from? (Score:2)
If so, who would sell to them? Are there any mobile phone manufacturers that licene their chipsets to 3rd parties?
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As one of the likely central features of any iPhone is audio playback (both ITMS DRM music and other music) and given that the big CDMA carriers are notorious for preventing the loading of any music (especially for use as ringtones) that isnt purchased from an approved download site
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Ha-ha, that's a good one! Yeah, I'm sure Apple wouldn't do anything like force people to re-purchase what they already own so that it can be used as a ringtone!
Not satisfied (Score:4, Funny)
The real problem is the data costs (Score:1, Flamebait)