Le Jacquelope
Loves Spam
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2003
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The sucker has a really sensitive touch screen with only one physical button that I can see. You go near it and you'll start pushing buttons by accident. "Eh, I never even WONDERED what that button does. Sorry, I didn't mean to make that call! Darn!" And the virtual keyboard can kiss my ass. Then you can't install user-made programs. Fuuuuck that. No voice dialing. No voice recording. No support for mp3 files to use as ring tones. NO removable battery or memory. Jeez. What an iPhuckup.
Those are dead critical things to me. I have an experimental 8gb SD memory card that I use with my Treo 700p, and like the battery, it can be swapped out. On a long trip away from a power source, I could feasibly have several higher capacity batteries with me. You're kinda fucked with the iPhone, except the iPhone does have enough power for 250 idle time hours.
Pity. The iPhone could have been a much more ultimate phone. Too bad the corporations are so hell bent upon controlling the customer.
My design for a cell phone would be aimed at customer FREEDOM.
* 320x200 color multi touch screen (with pull-out wings; for extra power consumption you can open the wings to double your screen width)
* pull-out keyboard
* swappable battery
* SDHC card slot
* USB data and power cable
* bluetooth & A2DP
* Multimedia message system (a super advanced version of SMS)
* Linux based operating system with no restrictions on use - anyone can make a program for said phone
* Linux based firewall to govern not only ports, but also individual software
* 2 or 5 megapixel camera with full video and voice record capability and a mini flash bulb
* Wi fi, GSM and 3G capability
* Plugin support for the web browser so as to add in things like Java, Flash, etc.
* Seamless, built-in file transfer capability
* Networking with other phones of its class, or network-compatible phones
* Capability to take phone call & contact information and migrate the data to any 3rd party contact manager app that you want
Those are dead critical things to me. I have an experimental 8gb SD memory card that I use with my Treo 700p, and like the battery, it can be swapped out. On a long trip away from a power source, I could feasibly have several higher capacity batteries with me. You're kinda fucked with the iPhone, except the iPhone does have enough power for 250 idle time hours.
Pity. The iPhone could have been a much more ultimate phone. Too bad the corporations are so hell bent upon controlling the customer.
My design for a cell phone would be aimed at customer FREEDOM.
* 320x200 color multi touch screen (with pull-out wings; for extra power consumption you can open the wings to double your screen width)
* pull-out keyboard
* swappable battery
* SDHC card slot
* USB data and power cable
* bluetooth & A2DP
* Multimedia message system (a super advanced version of SMS)
* Linux based operating system with no restrictions on use - anyone can make a program for said phone
* Linux based firewall to govern not only ports, but also individual software
* 2 or 5 megapixel camera with full video and voice record capability and a mini flash bulb
* Wi fi, GSM and 3G capability
* Plugin support for the web browser so as to add in things like Java, Flash, etc.
* Seamless, built-in file transfer capability
* Networking with other phones of its class, or network-compatible phones
* Capability to take phone call & contact information and migrate the data to any 3rd party contact manager app that you want
