Reading your Bluetooth DUN comment... I was on the train home tonight tapping madly on my bluetooth keyboard and N800 wondering whether I'd be able to that with the iPhone. Other than headset,we have no info - at least for another 1.5 days. On 6/27/07, Gopi Flaherty <gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Acadia Secure Networks wrote: > > (which are in fact quite user extensible, witness the software product > > portfolio available at handago) by dis-allowing the user from > > installing > > arbitrary software "apps" on it. > > I don't like that aspect of it. We'll see how long it remains closed. > There isn't an API for it, though, and it does clearly have > significant differences compared to standard OS X, so opening it up > isn't straightforward. > > > I would be interested to know how long ATT is going to have > > exclusivity > > on the Iphone. If it is more than say 6 months, then that will give > > iphone competitors time to sell/design/build competing solutions to > > the > > other mobile service providers, which they, are probably already > > doing. > > What will the iPhone competitors do that they aren't already trying > to do? > > A browser that's desktop-class? Everybody else is updating their > browsers all the time. They want good browsers. > > Email with attachments? My Nokia E70's email client requires about 5 > button presses to view a photo, and then when I close the photo it > prompts me if I want to save the photo or not. No, I was just > _viewing_ it in my email. > > I don't think that the iPhone does anything that the competition > hasn't been trying to do for years. I just think that it does the > things it does better than anybody else. The UI is very innovative. > We'll see what the performance is like, and what sort of issues > people find, but given the terrible state of so many smart phones on > the market today, I don't see them doing a great job improving things > even if they have good inspiration. > > Personally, my two top priorities on my iPhone will be: > 1. Command-line python apps so I can attach AJAX to the innards. > 2. Bluetooth DUN so I can use my N800 with it. > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com
