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Even the oldest Android phones already have multitasking and a decent notification system.

Android has an excellent notification system, one Apple really ought to have emulated or implemented in some slightly different way.

But Android's multitasking is really pointless IMO; Apple's approach makes more sense on devices where you can't see more than one program at a time (especially with the developer preview iPad gestures).
 
I have GV, but my friend's feel it's a PITA that they have send a text to one number, then if they want to call they have to use my actually cell#. It would be nice if I could get them all on board. Then I could cancel my texting plan altogether.

just tell all your friends that your google voice number is your new number. forward the google voice number to your actual cell phone number. no need to give out 2 different numbers. with the google voice app u can even make calls out that appear to be from the google voice number....
 
Android has an excellent notification system, one Apple really ought to have emulated or implemented in some slightly different way.

Oddly enough, I actually liked WebOS's notification system better, because you could do a side-swipe on any notification item to delete it individually, instead of clearing all. I could quickly get rid of some items I didn't care about, while leaving the others for later.

If I were king for a day, I'd tell Google to make the notification manager replaceable by third parties just like many other Android pieces are... and let the best ideas win.

But Android's multitasking is really pointless IMO; Apple's approach makes more sense on devices where you can't see more than one program at a time (especially with the developer preview iPad gestures).

Not sure what you mean. Details, please? Apple copied Android's primary multitasking scheme: the idea of freezing apps in place and only removing them when memory is needed.
 
Not sure what you mean. Details, please? Apple copied Android's primary multitasking scheme: the idea of freezing apps in place and only removing them when memory is needed.

Well, I'm just primarily referring to the ease of switching between tasks that Apple presents.

Ok, not really. Prior to your post and me looking up how Android handles multitasking, I was under the impression that Android offered "true" multitasking (because everyone bitched about how Apple's multitasking scheme was weak and because my Android phone gets progressively laggier as I use it until I power it off/on or get a task killer and just kill all processes myself).

If would be nice if Android had some scheme for media control in the lock screen (and, why not, the notifications window as well), though. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to navigate to the damn widget to change stuff.
 
There was a class action lawsuit about this. AT&T now has to provide unlock codes for phones sold after March 12, 1999 that had an exclusivity period of under 10 months provided the customer is 90 days into their contract.

So, actually, depending on what the terms beteeen Apple and AT&T are, the iPhone 4 might be sbject to the same SIM unlock terms.

Thanks, that's pretty interesting. I'm surprised no one else has brought that up in a major blog or article.

As you say though, it's possible that AT&T has a rolling 12 month exclusive on "USA bound GSM models" or some other loophole.
 
just tell all your friends that your google voice number is your new number. forward the google voice number to your actual cell phone number. no need to give out 2 different numbers. with the google voice app u can even make calls out that appear to be from the google voice number....

but then they are going to use minutes when calling him. calling someone on the same network is "free"
 
Then you should not live in a Capitalist Society. ;)

Tell Apple that as well. They don't want to compete with anyone (i.e. look at their contract licenses forbidding everything under the sun that might allow hardware or software competition). I guess they shouldn't live in a Capitalist society either. But then the son of perdition was a murderer and a liar from the beginning.


The problem in general is not one of a "society" that is "capitalist" (most people don't make enough money to truly practice the roll of the Capitalist Wolf), but rather that we live in a society of uneducated "sheep" who believe any fear tactics and propaganda fed to them by the media or people buying media ads. Beware of the Bad Wolf for without a Shepard to guide the sheep, they become lost or eaten.

A recent remark by a member of Congress comparing the Republican campaign against the reformed health care laws of the U.S. to Joseph Goebbels (the minister of propaganda for the Nazis back in the WWII era) is a case in point. "Keep it short. Keep it simple. Keep repeating it over and over and people will believe it." (even though it's a lie).

We have people that will mantra on here all day long for Apple (we call them "fanboys"). We have a government in the U.S. that supports large corporation "rights" even at the Supreme Court level saying that a corporation (artificial entity designed to protect individuals from personal legal liability and putting it on the company instead as if it were a person) IS a person. In other words they have justified not only the liability matters, but have given this image of the "beast" the ability to speak as though it were alive. The dragon (ego) gave its authority and power to the beast. The false prophet (those preaching health and wealth as a context for greed) will cause many to worship the multi-headed beast (i.e. 'Money/Mamon' through global corporations and Wall Street). But this beast could not "speak" until the Supreme Court gave it the legal rights of a person and therefore enabled it to speak. And the whole world marveled at the beast that had a head (Russia) that appeared to have died (Communism) but who was made alive again (now Capitalist) and those not receiving the mark of the beast in their head followed the beast and worshiped the beast. But you cannot serve God and Mamon both (being polar opposites, self and self-less). And the dragon (ego) fought the army of heaven (altruism), but ego was not strong enough and so it no longer had a place in heaven and was cast down to earth as mankind. Ego was angry as it knew it only had a short time (mortal life of man) and it stood ready in front of the pregnant woman (wisdom) waiting to give birth to the son that would rule the earth with an iron rod (preaching the concepts of true 'socialism' and brotherhood through loving others as oneself instead of putting oneself above all others as Capitalism teaches and therefore restoring oneself to God in the process). And the dragon chased after the woman and made war on all her other children that did not accept the mark of the beast and refused to worship money and their own egos. Their number was small relative to the multitudes on Earth that worship self, money and the corporate beast that symbolizes and controls that structure worldwide. God is not ego. God is not self. God is the ALL (ALLah) and all are actually one in spirit, though they don't realize it and so separate (through mind and therefore free will) and alienate themselves from God and therefore each other and become children of the "devil" (i.e. Ego/Self driven and ignorant of the All and its light in each of us). While the spirit gives life, the mind gives perception of reality. Unfortunately, Neo, you've been living in a dream world.

No, I don't live in a Capitalist society. Rather, a Capitalist society lives in me. A man named Jesus once said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish."

I say these things not to try and preach a religion (I don't believe in them as they are man-made) but rather to illustrate the points that have been made by those over the years that are enlightened enough to realize the truth. We think we're important as individuals, but the Universe moves on and we're a fleeting spark in what is still a Universe in decay (heading to oblivion as a cold lifeless darkness). If I see a purpose here, it's to grow beyond the petty pursuits of temporary "wealth" (that you cannot take with you) and perhaps grow in a manner of knowledge and wisdom that perhaps you can take with you. My goal in life is not to support constructs/laws that perpetuate greed and self, but ones that benefit everyone. I'd rather live in a Star Trek Universe than a Blade Runner one.
 
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Why do people still crank out these huge piles of textmessages when they can write emails to their smartphone-carrying friends for free?

All my personal friends have iPhones, Crackberrys or HTC Android devices... The rest has Nokias with internet access.

I can understand up to 10 textmessages per month, but 1000??? C'mon...

vSpacken

...You're joking right?
I use nearly 5000 texts a month.

You would actually expect me to send an email everytime?
 
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We have a government in the U.S. that supports large corporation "rights" even at the Supreme Court level ......

I'd like to believe that the Supreme Court just interprets the meaning of the laws, then makes a majority decision.

The true problem is that the laws are written by corporations via their lobbyists.

It's the idiots (Congress) that we vote for (usually trying to pick the lesser of two evils) that vote the bills into law. The only reason we know who these people are, is because of all of their self-promotion paid for by the corporations.

Does anybody really believe that Congress works hard enough to read the 100s or 1000s of pages that become law.

Congress represents the corporations, not We The People.
 
I'd like to believe that the Supreme Court just interprets the meaning of the laws, then makes a majority decision.

I'd like to believe it, but I don't anymore. Supreme Court justices are appointed by Presidents which pick candidates that lean towards their own party in terms of view/interpretation of things and that means bias towards those views. If I'm on a jury, we cannot convict someone without a unanimous decision (in fact we cannot acquit them either without a unanimous decision) and yet the Supreme Court regularly decides major issues that affects everyone's lives with 4 to 5 and 5 to 4 rulings. If the highest judges in the entire country cannot agree better than 60/40 on something, I don't think the ruling should count. There is clearly a problem there. We had rulings on things like abortion (Roe V. Wade) and yet we see candidates constantly promising to appoint judges to eventually overturn that ruling. What does that tell you? The Constitution hasn't changed. Re-interpreting it doesn't change what's written and a judge calling something "freedom of speech" one day and reversing it on another another doesn't mean a darn thing to me. I'm supposed to respect the highest court in the land when they cannot agree better than 5:4 that something I might do is wrong or right? And I'm going to go to prison because one judge happened to be a Republican at that point in time??? :rolleyes:

The true problem is that the laws are written by corporations via their lobbyists.

I would say the true problem is that the people we are electing are corrupt morally and are for sale to the highest bidder. In general, why would someone want to run for public office? Are they doing it out of service for their country or are they doing it as a career? Look how many former members of Congress become lobbyists and how many lobbyists become members of Congress. It's ridiculous. Yet the cost of running for office makes it more or less prohibitive as a "service/duty". You have to either be already very rich or working for someone that is rich. Either way, you are quite probably corrupt or will become corrupt as a matter of course since you are either looking out for your own or under someone's thumb (and I don't mean the people in general). There are a few "good" politicians, but they are far and few between, IMO.

Congress represents the corporations, not We The People.

And "We The People" just put THE party of corporations back in power because everything didn't instantly get better overnight. These are the same people that go us where we are now from our surplus when Clinton left office. I guess we never learn a thing. I think it goes to show how a party representing about 5% of the population of the United States can convince a majority of the other 95% that they aren't wolves if they show themselves in sheep's clothing on TV often enough and repeat that message/lie until people believe it.

"Keep it short, keep it simple, keep [repeating] it over and over and people will believe it." -Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany during WWII).
 
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