Let me take you by the hand and lead you into cell phone land. Dell - of all companies - has "leaked" its line-up of upcoming Android and Windows Phone 7 phones, and contrary to any common sense, they're stunning. On top of that, Android has been ported to the iPhone (dual-boot capable, baby), and a clever tool has been released that completely automates overclocking your Palm Pre (Plus).
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I will never again buy a phone without a physical keyboard for several reasons:
1) you cannot rest your hands on top of the (v)keyboard otherwise it registers presses.
2) You lose the tactile feedback (physical feedback) which is several magnitudes faster than the visual to physical feedback loop.
3) It is unpleasant to tap against a surface that does not shock absorb. It isn't going hurt you but it is much more comfortable to type against a spring.
4) you loose a lot screen real estate. And text input is usually modal as a result (you enter a text input mode which is another delay).
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looks huge and bulky. It reminds me of american cars.
Talking of personal taste, I like devices and especially cars with charismatic looks. Modern stuff lacks looks, charism, and especially personality!
http://cutmesomeflack.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/hummer1.jpg *drool* <3_<3
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If Dell want to test its capability in selling mobile devices, they ought to develop one or two different models at a time.
So many models (Aero, Lightning, Thunder, flash, smoke, streak, look glass) altogether, they must be out of their mind. And good luck with your strike back, DELL.
Edited 2010-04-22 17:33 UTC
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You got two typos in there... It's spelled 'lightning', not 'lightening'.
Thunder looks good. Wondering if the two big ones also have handwriting recognition or if just their little brother can read. Hopefully Dell went all the way with a real recognition engine (something like the Newton had, but maybe something that works) and not something like Palm's Graffiti. It's one thing I'm sorely missing on modern smartphones.
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So let me get this right. They don't prohibit you from doing it (like some other companies apparently would) but it will break your warranty, yet somehow that isn't a way of prohibiting you from doing it? I see. Some of those dirty controlling mongrel car companies put speed and / or rev limiters on their cars to keep them within operational limits in an attempt to prevent injury to their customers too.
Virtual vs physical keyboards are very much personal preference. Personally as someone with big fingers I find physical keyboards on these devices abominable, as does my wife who is vision impaired. Both of us have no problems with speed or accuracy on the iPhone's virtual keyboard. Who knows, maybe virtual keyboards just need a little more dexterity.
Physical keyboards also have more moving parts, so more to break, and are just another orifice on the device to get filled up with crap, and the last thing many people need is another orifice overflowing with crap.
As for the phones themselves, they look good. Good options, good specs, powerful OS choices so they should do well. Of course it's only the beginning - every PC company on the planet will have stuff out before the end of the year and it would be foolish to think Apple won't have a new iPhone too. But competition is good. It means that some companies have to keep innovating to stay ahead.
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The difference between voiding warranty, and actively lobbying to keep it a criminal offence: you don't get it.
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Seconded. The iphone Hardware isn't the best right now: Slower processor, less pixels, non changeable battery. That might change with the new iphone, but not for long.
Apple's history is to launch with competitive ( if not the best) hardware, but can't keep ahead of the competition hardware wise for long.
Edited 2010-04-23 00:47 UTC
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That may be, but work gave me one of these blasted iPhones so it would be great to get away from the Appleness. Choice is good. The more users of Android the better. More developers get on board etc. It's a great thing. If this sort of thing never happened we would all be using Microsoft software on our computers instead of all the choices there are today (namely Linux).
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A larger-than 4" screen and physical QWERTY keyboard make the Thunder a behemoth, incredibly uncomfortable and unsightly to carry in all but the slackest slacks. And unusable with one hand only.
The Flash looks tremendously attractive, though. And it will be much cheaper! I know which one would I choose.
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