Jul 042007

The whole iPhone thingy!!!

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Amazing launch of the iPhone last friday… 2 days of queuing up… 500, 000 or more units speculated to be sold over the weekend…

Thats about the only thing on the news these days… The Master Magician a.k.a. Steve Jobs has done it yet again… in royal style…

I would definitely agree on the statement: “No phone has ever been given this kind of a super star status and hype in the history of mobile communication!”.

But, under the covers, does the iPhone really stand up to the hype??? I personally feel it doesnt… Lets face it, Quad band, Edge, Safari on Mobile, AJAX, li’l bit of AJAX enabled tracking apps, a sleazy UI, 2MP cam, music, youtube video, iTunes Sync, a MAC OS X build sizing a whopping 700MB of 8GB available memory and that’s it. Yeah, I forgot, you lose data on the phone if you remove the battery!!! This is 2007!!! The iPhone doesnt have non-volatile memory??? Whats with this???

(I was told I was wrong on this point!!!  Apologies on the error!!!)



Lets put that on par with a Nokia N95 here… Quad band, 3G, GPS, AJAX (yeah AJAX here too. The Core engines of the browsers on both the mobiles is the same!!!), music, 5MP camera, Hi-quality video recording, IM, dual camera (I mean Video Conferencing), Internet radio, internet video, Video Out, expandable memory, applications developed by a fervent community, and the list is endless…

The smartphones that people think of being capable of doing a-z of things you want can be brought out only by GODS!!!

However, I do accept the fervour that comes in when The Magician is brought into the scene… nevertheless, hands down, except for the stylish UI and the apple branding, the nokias and sony ericssons still lead the wars on the smartphones segment…

Lets look at this issue with a pinch of salt. When it comes to a smartphone, the phone a.k.a. hardware is still more or less the same. You still have an APP processor, a Baseband processor and maybe a Media accelerator and other peripheral hardware… That exists in similar configurations on all the phones on the planet…

The true potential of this hardware is unleashed when a powerful and a fully capable OS sits on top of it. And, a huge team of Godsend geeks churn out application code to squeeze the living daylights out of the hardware…

The iPhone sincerely needs to come up to this level and then think of taking on giants like NOKIA, SE, Symbian and the like…

I had somewhere down in my previous posts mentioned thus:

“You cant do everything you think you can… You have to be the GOD there… NOKIA is GOD!!! No one is spared!!!”

Vinay had this interesting pic on his blog:

iPhonepic

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Posted by The Cruisemaniac
  • It really sucks that I can not replace my battery. And it run very short! Sometimes it runs out in half day. Firmware 2.1 improved it by like 50% (it's been few days and not sure yet) but still sucks.
  • Whatever gives you the impression the iPhone loses its memory if its battery is removed?

    1. It's flash RAM.
    2. The battery is not removable.

    I've used the Nokia N95. It's a nifty device, but no Apple product. You can bet Apple will make a significant dent in Nokia's high-end market.
  • I disagree on some of the aspects you mentioned above.
    The things that i don't like abt iPhone is
    i) no replaceable battery
    ii) Volatile memory.

    Most of the s/w things can come as upgrades. so i am not worried about that.
  • iPhones are destined to be a smash success worldwide. For those of you that don’t have one, here’s a simple way to keep abreast of the latest buzz on iPhones.

    On ANY wap enabled cell phone browser, simply enter the numeric-domain equivalent of the word ‘iPhone’, which is 474663. Add .com and press ‘send’, ‘call’, ‘go’ etc.

    Enter 474663.com

    Cheers
  • Nicely said,,, and about the hardware, you wont blv what the iphone's Os is running on , watch out i would be blogging about it soon .
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