Who CARES whether they have a keyboard? the screen on those devices went the length of the phone... the keyboard was extra.... just look at the droid for example.. full touch screen... with a keyboard slideout...
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Google Nexus One Software Updated to Offer 'Pinch-to-Zoom' Multi-Touch Capabilities
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Who CARES whether they have a keyboard? the screen on those devices went the length of the phone... the keyboard was extra.... just look at the droid for example.. full touch screen... with a keyboard slideout...
Yes....and It worked for Apple because Apple makes Great Software something nokia, google, Palm, and others don't do well AT ALL
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"stellllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" elaine benes off seinfield .... lol couldn't resist
I think you misunderstand the concept of a patent. It doesn't mean that others can't employ the technology outlined within the document, it simply means that one must pay to do so (with the permission of the patent holder).
Why would developing for a full touch device in 2010 be any different than developing for a keyboard device in 2003?? Touch keyboards... use the idea of a real keyboard... Not only that but what does touch have to do with have multitasking, mms, cut and paste, file system etc.???
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Why is this news? The HTC droid eris and Sprint HTC Hero launched in the U.S with multitouch months ago.
Why is this news? The HTC droid eris and Sprint HTC Hero launched in the U.S with multitouch months ago.
You're really good at moving the goalposts. Your initial post (which everyone is reacting to) said nothing at all about full multi-touch devices. Here's what you said:
"Yawn .........
This has been around on the iPhone since its launch.
Nobody cares about Googles old adaptation to "Pinch to Zoom" technology.... "OMGosh we can zoom now yay!! yippieeee"...NOT!! "
Changing your argument as you go along really isn't an intelligent way to debate.
Yep, and still no one uses it after all that complaining. It's a phone, not a word processor.
Your argument is arbitrary if your definition of FULL TOUCH equates to a Keyboard. You simply just are misunderstanding
Droid is a rushed piece of trash. The OS sucks and developers really aren't flocking to the device IMO...... Yet again I do live in a Apple reality field, but I occasionally peak my head out to see what the rest are doing wrong
Android has had the capabilities for multi-touch for a while now - Google just didn't have it in their stock apps (see Dolphin Browser, which has multi-touch capabilities). Rumor floating around the Internet is that Google didn't implement multi-touch as a favor to Apple, whose patents were "paper-thin". But that's just a rumor. But I guess Jobs' comment about Google this past week at the Town Hall made them rethink their position on holding it back (as multi-touch is already available in non-US Android devices [e.g. the Milestone, Droid-equivalent]). All the better for me and my Nexus One.
Is iDisk a new mutant strain of troll and fan-bot? It puts all of this technology chatter into perspective when we can truly see evolution in action.
Nearly all of the major apps that are extremely popular on the iPhone (Facebook, Pandora, Evernote, to name a few) have been ported over to Android. Sure, some of the smaller operations don't have the manpower to do so, but the big-name developers have apps for both.
No, its not just a phone, its a smartphone... a mini computer. People who have previously used smartphone expect Cut and Paste.
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I agree. Apple really did well with their implementation of copy and paste. I used to use it regularly.
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I agree. Apple really did well with their implementation of copy and paste. I used to use it regularly.
yup, how dare they DISOBEY laws that require them to systematically filter information, lie to the populace, and dynamically track any dissidents so the chinese government can disappear them.
we should ALL want to disobey china's evil, you goof. grow a pair.
Yeah... There will be much better devices out there than iPad that's for sure.
But lets wait for a couple of month or so and see what happens
I agree with your assessment, I'm assuming at some point a disgruntled forum member foreseen that an argument on "pinch to zoom" was going to lead to their remise, so they decided to form a new argument thus leading the thread off topic
Censorship there is LAW, therefore all companies working in China must follow it. Besides, what we call "democracy" is simply not a system they prefer to use right now, like it or not.
In fact, many countries supported by good ol' US are not democracies at all...so let's stop with the double standards in this forum, please.
Yeah... There will be much better devices out there than iPad that's for sure.
But lets wait for a couple of month or so and see what happens
And they are all going to be ipad killers
You are lying. Your assumption is American government does not lie. This is a lie.
It's a big difference, you have to change how a user interacts with a full touch device without falling back to the crippled nature of those keyboards.... designing an app for the two are totally different IMO
BIG NAME Devs are okay, but some have lost drive and passion and act solely like pre madonnas now. Just look at the "BIG NAMES" that complained about the App Store... Small developers drive the industry IMO, their creativity and passion builds the communities
Not really, though your comment sounds very puerile
So now that all the major smartphones in the US have basically the same capabilities, what do you guys think is going to be the next "must have" feature?