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Pocket PC rocket

WHILE CELLPHONE SALES worldwide will decline next year - for the first time in a decade - one segment of the market is still showing double-digit growth. Smartphones are no longer unwieldy bricks with zero battery life, giving super slow web access and even slower performance - with the sales to prove it.
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interesting, i bet battery life still sucks
 
I had an HP HX4700 pocket pc for a long time. The one thing I hated about it was the track pad. I never got used to it (coming from someone who does not use a mouse on a laptop with a trackpad) and it started irritating me when I had to use it.
 
and here I though this was gonna be an overview of different PPC's...
I'd need to get paid to use a Samsung phone :eek:
 
Tns said:
interesting, i bet battery life still sucks
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I think so too, but you have to give them credit for the spin they put on it:

Battery life, another frequent gripe among smartphone users, is also on par with phones that don't deliver half the functionality of the i780. And if you're away from a plug point for an extended time, inside the box is a second battery with its own charger.
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THey are not bricks anymore, but the battery life still suck

Here's wishing for fuel cell batteries.
 
Notice the sales of PPC's only inching up whan HTC and Samsung started making different front-ends for PPC? Had to put lipstick on the pig before it got a date!
 
tjunyat said:
I agree re the Samsung phone, but more because it's running Windows Mobile.
You'd have to pay me one hell of a lot of money to use that screwed up phone OS.
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Nah I love my Windows Mobile HTC.
A lot of people complain but I've honestly never had a problem with it. There's a such wide variety of apps/tools/games for Windows Mobile... I'll never use anything else.

RE Samsung, the only product of there's I'll buy is monitors & TV's - they really good here.
I've had far too many other dodgy Samsung appliances
 
I have an i780 - it has the worst battery life of any smartphone I have ever owner. With mail sync and 2 calls a day, it doesn't make it past 18h00.

Go iPhone, HTC or BlackBerry, not Samsung.
 
That's maybe why they had to bundle a 2nd battery AND desktop charger with the phone! The GF can't sync her i780 at work (IT policies), so it doesn't last at all...
 
Rule of thumb with smartphones

if it's thin, its either slow, lacking in features or has no battery life.

Blackberry seems to get the balance about right for 90% of people. HTC goes overboard with features, where the iphone is seriously lacking in them.

http://www.mobile-t-mobile.com/uimg/iPhon-vs-Rock.jpg

also, your iphone cant be used to drive a tent peg in :) A rock does that fine, even my old nokia 5110 works like a charm.
 
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I don't know hey. Maybe I'm getting old.

I saw this Hauwei phone the otherday somewhere. It reminds me of the Old nokia 5110 phones. It's got thing. You can phone and you can send and receive sms's. I actually then took a look at my phone and thought "I'm carrying this brick arouns and I only use it for calls and sms's with about 1% of total usage might have been a picture or 2 with a few MMS's.

I think I'll be going back to having an old stock phone with nothing else in it but a phonebook :D
 
What upsets me is the amount of wanna-be iPhone clones being made from the Omnia to HTC spin off's.

I doubt there will ever be an iPhone killer. Why companies choose to play the catch up game instead of the innovation game is beyond me.

Battery life is still an issue on PPC's and Smart Phones - along with that bastard Microsoft like to call Windows Mobile.
 
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