.... but not any time soon.
Mike Cane's reply to my last Coffee with ThoughtFix video suggested I made a perfect case for buying an iPhone. To be perfectly honest, I actually WANT an iPhone. If they made it better.
I've stated before why the iPhone is too flawed as a phone to make it my primary device. When Apple makes an iPhone with 3G data, picture messaging, Bluetooth A2DP support, a browser with Flash support, and a removable battery, I'd probably buy it. They had to make compromises to make a phone, iPod, and portable web device into a shiny box. For me, they made the wrong ones. My phones must have removable batteries and picture message support. My mobile internet devices must have Flash support and 3G as a connectivity option.
These requirements are mine alone. Some people don't care about 3G, picture messaging, Flash, and the other stuff. It leads one to wonder - how many compromises are TOO many? Which compromises are people doing wrong?
Readers: I'm going to call these WTF for Wanted Tech Feature. Comment with a device and the missing feature. For example:
- Apple WTF: No 3G on the iPhone?
- Asus WTF: No Bluetooth in the Eee?
- HTC WTF: <2 hours of Vista battery life on the HTC Shift?
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I read a comparison of the web-browsing experience with the iphone, and supposedly even over EDGE it loaded (mobile) sites quickly. So, for a phone browser, it was fine. The main need for 3G data would be for tethering purposes. Which, for me, is a high priority. That and I don't like constantly changing cellphones, so why stick with a phone using only older network technology?
Apple: No Exchange support on iPhone
Apple: Charging $20 to update the firmware for iPod Touch
HTC: The SnapVUE on the Shift isn't full Windows Mobile
HTC: The screen resolution on the Shift is too low
OQO: Should have listened to those rumors instead of disavowing them and added the dual touch screen to the OQO 2.
thought: Have you tried the workaround for Flash with your Touch?
Reference: Flash Video On iPhone
I expect you will surrender sooner or later, finding that you can put up with a few compromises.
Mike: I actually need Flash for site navigation as often as I need it for video. It's part of that "whole Web experience" thing. And please - Call me Dan :)
I don't think that Apple are ever going to make a mobile browser with Flash support. Real Steve appears to think that Flash is on the way out, hence the YouTube deal.
I haven't found the absence of Flash on the Touch a major stumbling block. I don't think I've been consciously avoiding sites with Flash but maybe unconsciously.
let me just say that any web designer that base basic navigation of a site on flash, java or any other plugin, should be publically punished.
hell, with w3c chickening out on the ogg big of html5, we are probably going to be locked into plugin media hell for the near future as well...
I am used to calling you ThoughtFix and using your real name would only confused things especially since Fake Steve is a real Dan too!
Did you try that Flash workaround? If you don't want to post about it here, you can at least leave a Comment at my post to give your reaction.
Apple has both the iPhone and iPod Touch - and they are different. You may want one but not the other, so it might help to explain why.
Apple - Can't download music or podcasts (or much of anything not on iTMS) to the Music Player app - you need iTunes on the mothership.
Since I don't have one so haven't tried it, does the current version of iTunes work over bluetooth or wifi to the iPhone/iPT? Or must it be plugged in via USB?
I haven't tried the music player on the touch in detail, but on my n810 (which is rapidly obsoleting the iPod) I can delete things I've already seen or listened to from the player.
We will see if Apple considers the new devices platforms or devices which they will tightly control what you can and can't do with them.
tz wrote:
"Apple - Can't download music or podcasts (or much of anything not on iTMS) to the Music Player app - you need iTunes on the mothership."
This is complicated. There are some podcasts (video and audio) that you can stream to the iPod touch without going via iTunes. I used to subscribe to Cranky Geeks and TFI's Plein Ecran, for example; now I've just bookmarked the feeds on the Touch itself. There are other podcasts that can't be streamed so you have to use iTunes.
Yes, the only way to sync with iTunes is by USB.
"on my n810 (which is rapidly obsoleting the iPod) I can delete things I've already seen or listened to from the player."
You can delete video (including podcasts) on the Touch. Just wiggle your finger from side to side on the entry and a Delete button appears. The same thing works for Mail but it doesn't seem to apply to audio podcasts.
I bought an iPod Touch and returned it after a week. The web experience was very inferior to what the N810 offers IMHO.
David
Never bought or been interested in Apple products. Though the iPhone got my interest purely from the great UI prespective.
But when I read that Apple have baltently disabled the ability to use your mp3 files as ringtones (it is a music focused device) just so they can charge you to download a ringtone version as well.
I don't like buying products from companies that bend over backwards to screw money out of you. I will if there is nothing else equivalent, but only as a last resort...
Apple for me are in the same category as Sony now.
Sony like putting Compact Flash cards in things for hardware they don't offer and then disable them for use with anything else like memory cards so they don't loose out on memory stick sales.
These firms just see you as a cash cow, and milk you for everything they can. I guess others do to, but some have a Conscience I guess.
Zuber
I've been drooling over getting a N800 since the Palm OS emulator...In the same vein the iPhone just moved up a little with the post on engadget about Styletap on the iphone. HOw do we get Styletap to release it into the wild?
Still leaning toward the n800 though...
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