A dumb phone would give user-access to the file-system.
A smart phone would give the user no reason to access the file-system.
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Apple Reportedly Retakes U.S. Smartphone Sales Lead from Android on iPhone 5 Strength
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A dumb phone would give user-access to the file-system.
A smart phone would give the user no reason to access the file-system.
Market share and percent of sales does not translate to one being better than the other. That would be like saying Kia cars are better than Mercedes cars since Kia sells more cars. Apple and some Android phone makers (Samsung, not HTC) are making a ton of money regardless of percentage of sales.
The whole back and forth arguments about which is better is stupid. Buy the phone you like and be secure enough with it that you don't feel the need to talk trash about another phone to feel better about yours. Why do you even care what someone else thinks if you like your phone?
The whole back and forth arguments about which is better is stupid. Buy the phone you like and be secure enough with it that you don't feel the need to talk trash about another phone to feel better about yours. Why do you even care what someone else thinks if you like your phone?
LOL. I owned a Motorola KRZR. You weren't expecting that were you? No, it did not have "real" email, "real" calendaring or "real" web browsing.
Stop lying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_KRZR Are you referring to the K3 model? That came out in 2007 which is around the same time that the iPhone was announced. It still was a feature phone and only had a crappy browser.
Most people would think of the K1 as a typical KRZR.
Sorry, but those phones did not have the features you would expect for a smartphone for email, calendaring or web browsing.
No, by 'fighting over the same people', he he means just that. If you look at the way the iOS and Android lines on that chart track one another, you see that when one goes up, the other goes down by pretty much exactly the same amount. (There's a bit of discrepancy because the continuing decline of RIM, Windows Phone, etc. provides a small 'buffer' where the increases for iOS or Android don't directly impact the market share of the other.)
Contrary to your position, it does appear (at least for the moment) that among the general population, smart phone buyers *are* choosing iOS more often than Android. This appears to be a cyclical thing, where the first quarter or two after the release of a new iPhone, it outsells Androids, and then for the last quarter when people are expecting a new iPhone to be released soon, the top selling Android model starts outselling iPhones. It's been a pretty stable pattern for a while now.
Not really. One supposition does not actually follow from the other.
If you could look at the market share numbers for the progressive high-end Android phones, you'll find that only recently has any of them outsold any single model of the iPhone. And even then, it was only in the last few weeks before the release of the next iPhone model. The vast bulk of Android phones seems to be made up of the free/cheap low-end models. Therefore, it is entirely possible for the free/cheap low-end models to be solely responsible for the high market share attributed to the Android group, while high-end Android phones (the nice ones) still sell, but not in numbers high enough to give them notable market share.
It's the same reason why Nokia used to have such an overwhelming market share before smartphones really took off.
It was a popular phone, I did expect other people to have own one...
Calendar
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/motor...setting_up_email_on_the_motorola_krzr_k1.html
And not to mention apps like Gmail Mobile
Browser
If you go back to my post, I never said it was ''real'' browsing. It could ne with Opera Mini for full browsing but I didn't include that because it was not that great.
As for calendar and email, try again...
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I'm a business user - I use my iPhone 5 several hours every single day - calendar, corporate e-mail and a lot of calls and quick look ups on the web and such - the iPhone 5 i simply a perfect size - some might like them bigger, but as some others have said - I usually use it one hand, which is very hard on a larger device...
One of the reasons I don't even want to consider a Android top device is the sizes - they are way way too big... Have loved my iPhone 4/4S size for years and now the 5 - actually loved the 4S so much I sometimes miss it's size...
It'd be interesting to see, but I honestly doubt it. Microsoft has *repeatedly* over-promised and *vastly* under-delivered with their cell-phone OSs over the years. It'll take something *spectacular*, not just 'almost as good as the other guys' to convince most people to take a chance with them *again*. They've flubbed it twice since the original release of the iPhone, and that's still recent-enough history for people to remember.
Well, if someone thinks the iPhone 5 is "perfect" than the phone behind it (GS3?) is "too big" even if just barely.
Some would say the Galaxy S3 is "perfect" and any iPhone is "too small." Who can say what is "correct"?
Yeah, sorry but that is unusable crap. It was a pain in the arse to use and some functionality was disabled on some carriers.
The big feature that the original iPhone had was that it could not be screwed up by the carriers. That was a really huge deal for a lot of people. When the App store did arrive, that was also welcome and it too was not controlled by the carriers.
I think you are looking at the past with rose coloured glasses. Those phones were crap.
How many lines of text fit in your email client? How many columns? Now compare that with even the original iPhone. It had HTML formatted email. Those screenshots remind me of a pre-windows dos machine.
Phones back then were pretty good, i still have a sony ericsson with a pretty badass camera and xenon flash 
Ok now you're just going into details. Columns or lines does not make a email/calendar function ''real''. You said the features were not present in the KRZR and I proved you wrong. Just admit that you were wrong and move on.
And I never said the iPhone was not a great phone, you're just going off subject with your carrier control crap.
Excuses... iPhone is a history of excuses:
Here is a copy/paste iPhone conversation in 2007:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/320256/
- I guess they got so caught up... that they forgot about two little, seldom-used features called...COPYING and PASTING?!?!
- I'm going to guess that that will get patched quickly...my TI-89 calculator has copy and paste.
- Why in hell would you need copy and paste on a phone!!! apple probably thought about it.. they said no
- I'm quite surprised by this. I use copy/paste on my Blackberry often.
- I have used various smartphones over the past 3.5 years and i have NEVER used copy and paste. So i really don't see the point.
- I use copy/paste ALL THE TIME on my Treo. It's a computing fundamental - Hard to imagine that it's truly not in there at all...
- Who cares.
- I can't say there has been a time when I've need to use copy/cut & paste
Really, why would you need copy/paste, LTE, wireless updates, large screens, removable batteries, files system, AMOLED, stylus, NFC?
"apple probably thought about it.. they said no"
That is not what I'm saying at all. You aren't talking to an Apple fanboy here. I am open to any brand that puts out a solid product. My life doesn't revolve around Apple.So (if I get this straight) what you are in effect saying is the current size of the new iPhone5 is perfect.
The size of the iPhone 1 to 4 (I'm guessing) was in your mind perfect too, and any future larger phone Apple makes, will also be the perfect size.
Well, that clears that up then
Any larger than the current size is too big for my liking. But if the only high end options from Apple and any competitors are larger I will be forced to adjust. That's just the way things work.
I am basing this solely on comfort. Any larger than 4" is too big for my hand/thumb size. Heck, even reaching the top of the screen on the iPhone 5 is uncomfortable compared to the older models. And I owned an HTC Rezound for a bit. Only a 4.3" screen yet it felt cumbersome. I never drop phones, but I came pretty close a few times with the Rezound.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I follow your statement. Are you saying that because phones are subsidized in the US - that's why there's more iPhone sales in the US?
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I see this post as a bit hypocritical. First - no one said the iPhone was bad. I personally said it was a slick feature phone. But what's hypocritical is this whole "looking at the past with rose coloured glasses" because too many people on this forum don't remember the iOS 1.0 and the actual usability of the first gen iPhone. Was it fun/cool to use. Sure - but EXTREMELY limiting compared to what you could do on other phones. Lots of spit and polish with minimal functionality.
I'd take a fully functioning phone with a limited sized screen over one that didn't let me do what I needed to but had a slick UI and big screen. But for me it's about function not "style." Your mileage may vary.
And the App Store was welcome - not because it wasn't carrier controlled - but because the original iPhone barely did anything because it was tied to the core apps only Apple provided. The app store was a huge blessing to iPhone users because FINALLY their expensive device could do REAL stuff.
