Re: [NTLK] iPhone

As a loyal Newton user (who doesn't use any of his Newtons
any more, but carefully keeps 'em in a great shape) I feel
the iPhone is where I wanted my MPs to get the second lease
of life.

Music, photos, video, Internet (a real HTML browsing with Safari),
email, WI-FI, BT 2.0, Address book,
phone... all well integrated and cross-functionalized, all with -
as far as I was able to see it - fantastic multi-touchscreen technology
and a very cool interface. The OS is MacOSX based, which leads
to beleive that, pretty soon, a bunch of cool apps will be
available.

I am definitely getting one (although I am (still) not giving
away my Newtons).

Best, Miro

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Chod Lang wrote:

> As a loyal Newton user (who is weaning himself away from the Newton
> to my Treo smartphone), I always keep my fingers crossed as each new
> MacWorld rolls around, that Steve will bury the hatchet and bring
> back the Newton reborn. But, alas, that didn't happen once again.
>
> Now that I have a smartphone to compare to, I would never consider
> what I saw yesterday. It's an expensive phone with a cool interface
> (as would be expected from Apple) but not much else. My Treo has
> Pocket Tunes which plays MP3s, Documents to Go, Filemaker Mobile,
> Agenda, camera, camcorder, internet, email, all rolled into a very
> comfortable device.
>
> Apple is just riding the wave of iPod popularity and I think their
> days of real innovation have passed. Their product design is second
> to none, but their vision to the future is away from most of us and
> toward Hollywood. Glitz and glamor. Sigh....

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