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Samsung Galaxy Note. At 5.3 inches, some folks think it’s too big for a phone. My DroidX is 5 inches so I don’t think another .3 would matter much.
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September 1st, 2011 at 11:49 am
Looks like we’re finally reverting back to larger cell phones..
We started out with that giant Motorola box ala Zack Morris (Saved by the Bell) style, then made our way to smaller, RAZR-thin flip phones. Now we’ve come full circle.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:50 am
That’s not a phone. It’s a tablet.
September 1st, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I use an HTC Aria, I like my phones small.
I also use a 15 inch laptop, because I like my laptops fairly large.
Andddd my desktop is kinda massive.
Really it’s just all what works for the individual, if there is a market it will do well.
September 1st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I’m sure some women would be quick to point out that sometimes an extra 0.3″ makes all the difference in the world.
September 1st, 2011 at 12:55 pm
So, basically, it’s a less capable version of my Droid X2 with a slightly faster CPU? I don’t think 5.3″ is too large for a phone, I do think it is WAAAAY too small for tablet. I don’t even understand the utility of the 7″ tablets over my phone.
September 1st, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Apple really sucks…which is why all the other guys are basically copying them.
Phones, tablets…yup, Apple sucks. Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwn.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:19 pm
And Apple stole the iphone from LG. And stole the mouse from xerox. Yawn.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Steve Jobs might be a dick, but he’s a dick who holds 300 patents (not all in IT) to Gates seven.
If you reaaaaaaaaaaaally wanna get in that dick measuring contest, knock yourself out.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:30 pm
No idea what gates and his patents has to do with who steals from who but thanks, I guess.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:31 pm
(And those are both pretty contentious at best and commonly debated assertions. I rather doubt ole Stevey claimed to have invented the touch screen…but putting into a package with an iPod and an app store and putting all that functionality in the package? Not sure how you figure you can make the case that LG was doing the same thing).
September 1st, 2011 at 2:32 pm
The point being that the guy, for all his flaws, is in point of fact a pretty creative guy, a guy who has made the market that others are chasing.
I think you’re letting your dislike of his business practices make you kinda miss all that.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
It’s not the phone, peepuls, it’s the data planz. What good are these super-capable tab-phones when all that data that they stream runs up against a 2-gig monthly limit, and even if you pay for a 5-gig “unlimited” plan, that plan is used up before the calendar passes 20 days and you pay the huge kilobyte fees?
The “smartness” of these comm devices is simply a ruse to separate you from your moolah, nothing more. I carry an LG Env-3 dumb-phone, which WILL get my email, sort of (shortens it all and no attachments), and a 3G netbook running XP when I will be gone for more than a few hours or miles.
I looked into upgrading the VZW Env-3 to a Droid Global, which would have given me wi-fi “hotspot” capability, so I could then ditch the $45/mo, 5-gb 3G plan for the netbook, but the max data plan for the Droid Global needed to make that idea fly would have saved me just a few shekels a month, so I’m staying where I am.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
We’re getting Bigger Phones because the Grandma Baby Boomers need bigger screens to show you their Pictures of their GrandKids while you’re sitting next to them on the Bus. ; )
September 1st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I was unaware that Apple made a 5.3″ phone that is capable of using a stylus.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:36 pm
His business practices are why I don’t buy their stuff. His and gates creativity end at stealing from others, generally.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Looks like a nice phone-tablet. I think I would like using it, since I browse the web, most of the time, from my iPhone. Having a larger screen to read e-books would also rock.
I thought the droidx was only a 4.3″ screen?
September 1st, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I rather doubt he “stole” from people to get to 300 patents, but if you care to think that I rather doubt anything anyone can say will dissuade you from doing so.
Improving on someone else’s idea or taking elements of it and incorporating it into something much larger and complex isn’t stealing.
I don’t wanna have the guy over for dinner either, but the haterade is just stupid.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:54 pm
It’s like saying Henry Ford was stealing from Mercedes Benz when he started making cars on an assembly line, or Whittle and Ohain were stealing from the Wright Brothers.
September 1st, 2011 at 3:23 pm
no, it’s like henry ford suing mercedes benz because he patented “a method of traveling across solid surfaces using four circular points of contact driven by a rotating mechanism.”
People think that Apple is a great company because of it’s innovation, but really it just uses existing technology and puts it in a pretty case. During the original iPhone announcement, Jobs kept listing these awesome things that had never been done before, and I kept looking at my three year old Windows phone that did all of it and more.
September 1st, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Your Windows phone had an iPod and an app store with hundreds of thousands of apps and a touch screen?
Which model?
September 1st, 2011 at 3:58 pm
In 2004?
September 1st, 2011 at 4:29 pm
HP iPAQ h6315
My windows phone could play music and there were thousands of programs I could install. And it had a real GPS not that fake triangulation crap the iPhone had. Oh, and a replaceable battery and removeable storage.
PocketPC 2002 was the first year you could do it with a windows phone, and before that there were two little companies you might have heard of doing nearly the same thing: Palm and Blackberry.
So please, tell me again how the iPhone was revolutionary.
September 1st, 2011 at 4:35 pm
wizard: “Capable” of using a stylus? Like… every touchscreen device on the market, including the iPhone?
But more importantly, Styluses are the god-damn devil.
(Jobs: “if you see a stylus, they blew it.”, and he’s completely correct.
I had a Palm III. I had several PocketPCs. Styluses are crap.
The only place I’ll tolerate a stylus is on a Nintendo.
[This does not apply to actual pressure-and-motion-sensitive dedicated art pens like Wacom uses, but that’s a different animal for a different market, not a “stylus”.])
And a “pretty case”? Uh huh.
Now, you have one correct point there, which is that Apple’s industrial design is first rate, and that they make very pretty things that feel good in the hand and have excellent build quality.
But, sorry, I used Windows Mobile, and it couldn’t remotely compete with even the initial release iPhone.
UI/UX matters, a lot. Apple knows that. Microsoft actually also knows it, but somehow never bothered to apply those lessons to Widows Mobile until Windows Phone 7. Probably because putting good UI on top of CE would have broken all their existing application base…
For actual inventions, how about random-access voicemail? Who had that in 2007, other than Apple?
But I don’t really give a damn about “inventions”. I care about usability and attention to detail, which is what Apple consistently gets right, more than any other company in the market.
(I also disagree with the idea that Jobs claimed to have “invented” a lot of things he/Apple didn’t in 2007 – if you read the transcripts, it sure seems like more “brought to market” than “invented”, which is… true.
I’d love to see pointers to where all those features were in Windows Mobile 5, because I sure don’t remember ’em… and what things there were, sucked.
Windows Mobile 5 media playing and multitasking? Worthless from the UX perspective, which is the only one that ever mattered.
And the killer was Visual Voicemail, which nobody else had.)
Sorry, but no. The iPhone was revolutionary, even if you demand that nothing was “invented” for it. There’s a reason everyone copied it immediately*.
(* Except Microsoft, probably to their detriment. But it’s interesting how Nokias immediately started looking like iPhones, and how Android stopped copying BlackBerry design and started copying iPhone design…)
September 1st, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Must hurt now that Job’s and his 300 patents have stepped down. Oh, wait… those weren’t JOBS patents, were they. But, ok, I’ll bite. 2007, Microsoft held 1649 patents. AT&T owned 705. Siemens AG 1305. Sprint ffs held 193. (IEEE numbers)
300 huh? That’s… yeah, not impressive if you’re gonna have a DSW about it.
September 1st, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Thank God the ATF doesn’t regulate phones too, or .3 inches would matter…
September 1st, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Sigivald- Sorry, it wasn’t revolutionary. All of those features were available in other places, even all together. Apple was lucky, in the right place, at the right time, with the right product. RIM was there before. Palm was there before that. And, like those two, Apple is losing to Android.
Considering the things Android is doing, to the market and to the venders, I’d nominate it for revolutionary but it’s not either. The word you want is “evolutionary.” It’s the next step.
(Btw- random access voicemail was available in 1999-2000, if you were willing to pay for it. And the company I worked for wasn’t the first to do it.)
Now. I will give, that apple has done usability very well. For a limited market. But they’re losing because usability is only a small part of the game, and the business practices they use are, long term, niche market practices, not market owning practices. And it’s why Android is kicking their ass bloody. Why iphone usage isn’t growing, even with their usability, but Android adoption is consistantly growing every quarter, and doing so roughshod over Apple.
I’m not a fanboi, but I do prefer dealing with reality, not dream and fantasy.
September 1st, 2011 at 5:11 pm
If it runs like my current Samsung “smart” phone, you’ll spend more time wondering about it’s terminal velocity after leaving your hand and flying 15 feet across the room and bouncing off the wall.
Although that is a little unfair, it usually runs fine until you actually try to use the phone app. Then it crashes for a half hour.
September 1st, 2011 at 5:33 pm
My first cell phone was a brick af about 6″x2.75″x0.5″ and I loved it because it fit quite exactly into the inner, front pocket of my khaki pants. I think that hidden pocket was designed for a checkbook, but it held the phone perfectly.
So sure, functionality counts. But so does pocket fit.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:00 pm
*sigh*
I hope you have better luck than me. I have a 100% failure rate with Samsung products including 2 android phones that suck a big black hole.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:22 am
Looks like this one won’t be coming to america:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/09/01/samsung-no-plans-to-launch-galaxy-tab-7-7-and-galaxy-tab-in-the-u-s/
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 am
Apple does usability very well – if you use it the way they think you should use it. They do not do flexibility well, at all, which is why Android is expanding so quickly.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
I had a Windows phone before my iPhone too. There’s just no comparison.
You keep suggesting the iPhone wasn’t revolutionary because this object or that one did some feature similarly before hand.
Nonsensical strawman.
The iPhone was revolutionary in the way it combined all of those things it did. The competitive product from Windows I ditched at the time was like jumping out of a Bobcat and into a Ferrari Enzo.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:34 pm
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=iPAQ+h6315&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=mSa&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&resnum=2&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1600&bih=796&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=3123032228932680052&sa=X&ei=ci9hTs2LGIbX0QHTzKEO&ved=0CIYBEPICMAA
From the reviews, sounds like that phone was just as good as an iPhone.
Not.