Smartphones: What does the future hold?

Synaesthesia said:
Yes, it's not as capable as a tablet PC. Then again I've never seen a tablet PC as thin or as light as the iPad, or one with 10 hours battery life, or multitouch, or IPS display, or as cheap.
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My point exactly, a well packaged item. If Microsoft and Apple took you on holiday, Microsoft would tell you the address and the rest you figure out yourself. Apple would provide with a pay point, tour guide appears with tour bus and everything pre-arranged. Apple's package deal can be well executed as it is routine and because of scale, can be cheaper.

Two different target markets in my example however my point is, Apple is providing and end to end ecosystem for their customer which forms part of their product; no roughing it up. If Apple should get a prize, it should be for that and I belive it is a product offering in itself. As a technology house, their inovations are more hyped up than significant. Its how they put it all together that should get credit.

Should I get a chef of the year prize if I deliver your lunch in a gold plate?
 
Well I disagree. Quite simply there is nothing out there like the iPad. There has never been such a light, full featured PC which I can carry around and use wirelessly all day long.

You're overplaying the limitations. You can actually get a lot done with it and it's a very open platform too, to developers and apps.
 
How do you know someone got a Iphone? They tell you. Hahahaha! So bloody true.
 
Actually, what you are saying imo is both right and wrong. The iPad has no flash no access to applications other than Apple approved products. No flash as Jobs sees it as a hang up, no applications of your choice because Apple does not want apps on there that hamper the user experience. The question of whether this is good or bad depends on who you ask. Full featured is a matter of opinion beyond my point so I will not expand on that.

Where I agree is yes, there has never been a tablet PC put together like the iPad. I also agree that, if the Ipad has everything a specific group need, it would seem perfect.

Do not think that I do not see the brilliance in Apple products and there once was an Apple product perfect for me called the iPod and it still is (context and all that). The limitations of the, ipad I feel are significant enough to give it a skip. However the limitation of the iPod was not enough over the benefits I saw at the time. As you can see it all becomes subjective so it comes down to a few things

- is it new ... no
- is it a technological marvel ... no
- is the battery life amazing ... yes
- is the packaging brilliant ... yes
 
Synaesthesia said:
Well I disagree. Quite simply there is nothing out there like the iPad. There has never been such a light, full featured PC which I can carry around and use wirelessly all day long.

You're overplaying the limitations. You can actually get a lot done with it and it's a very open platform too, to developers and apps.
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Thats like saying there currently is no car as fast as an F1 Car .. thats obvious .. but in 5 years time, its very possible that a car would be quicker than a current model F1 car .. the limitation is the Tech .. nothing else .. Tablets were around about 5-10 years ago already .. apple just packaged them with the newest tech and managed to market the crap out of them .. hence the massive uptake. Really there were XP tablets around ages ago .. Apple hardly invented the tablet .. only apple fanboois think that ..cause they still all caught up in mac-land . . and forgot to look out the window at "Real Tech land"
 
Synaesthesia said:
Yeah I used and saw all those gadgets. I agree, Apple didn't invent the modern smartphone. It's about the implementation just as much as the features.
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Synaesthesia said:
Well I disagree. Quite simply there is nothing out there like the iPad. There has never been such a light, full featured PC which I can carry around and use wirelessly all day long.

You're overplaying the limitations. You can actually get a lot done with it and it's a very open platform too, to developers and apps.
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its not a PC, its an iphone with a bigger screen.
 
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The Ipad sucks 1: No Flash! 2: No multitasking! 3: No camera! 4: No USB port! 5:No 16:9!. Pathetic. And it's also not flat so you cannot put it on a table.
 
surfs-up said:
They were quite able to bring out multi tasking from the getgo, but they wanted it perfected first. They didn't want to bring it out and have the multi tasking feature slow the whole OS down to an almost grinding halt, and use up the battery in a few hours - which is what happened with other phones and operating systems :D
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Except for the fact that the iphone has one of thr worst battery life in the market. O and please send me a ringtone via bluetooth with your iphone....o wait, you cant. LOL

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doeppie01 said:
The Ipad sucks 1: No Flash! 2: No multitasking! 3: No camera! 4: No USB port! 5:No 16:9!. Pathetic. And it's also not flat so you cannot put it on a table.
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Please don't go there - its pointless.

Apple devices lack a lot of things and are unable to do many things - but the fact remains that the things it does do, it does very well, and this is why fanbois love them.
You are only going to waste time trying to point out how locked in the devices are, how evil Steve is and how much cooler a Nokia N8 is - they don't care. They love it for what it does and according to them if apple device can't do it then its not worth doing.
 
shaddowdragon said:
WTF, thank Apple for what? Bringing nothing new in a shiny box/tin. iPhone, a step back in time wow, cut and paste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone. iPad, less flexibility than ancient tablet PCs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_personal_computer.

If the author had actualy done some research I would not be posting. Apple does do one thing well, packaging and marketing. They make their product very intuitive (a great thing) so that you only need one brain cell to operate it (so do not want to be in the target market for their products). Credit them for what they have done well, not for a technology marvel.
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Wow, such anger. Now sit down, take a breath, and atleast consider another point of view. (don’t have to agree, just consider).

To create a market, does not imply you created the actual technology. Schweppes is older than Coke, but Coke got people buying soda in the local corner shop.

Although there are many patents belonging to Apple, the whole patent war is based on the fact that Apple stole/acquired/borrowed or whatever, some other companies technology. So 10 points to you for pointing that out.

Having said that, the mainstream market was created by Apple. Yes, I know there was a market for Smartphones, but it was to a large degree limited to technophiles. Think about Apple and Microsoft, and how the computer changed from what a “geek” played with, to something even a hillbilly can run and operate.

Smartphones are, thanks to apple, more accessible, and useable for the average idiot on the street. They did this by bringing together technology, whether theirs or someone else’s, and presenting it in a usable, ‘cool’ design. If anything, Steve sure knows how to market a product.

On the subject of incomplete capabilities (multitasking), consider this.

A geek and an idiot sit down, and their phones are running slightly slow, or the battery is dying out early, and what is their response?

Geek - “Wow, look how great me and my phone are. We managed to have x number of processes running simultaneously, and using Y amount of battery power in Z amount of time”

Idiot - “Ahh, why is this thing running so slow? And the battery on my old Nokia 3210 lasted 5 days” This thing is useless”

If you want to market to the idiot’s, you must bring user experience on par with what they are used to, on old technology. You slowly educate them then, to the additional features available on their upgrade to smartphonedom, while retaining the same or better user experience. Something the old Smartphones did not do. Upgrading to a smartphone was too high a learning curve for many idiots, but not anymore. Thanks to Apple.
 
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for once I agree with you roxy
 
The Nazis pioneered quite a lot of technology in their day, I do not like them either....same with Apple, might be pioneers, but I do not like them one bit...
 
The Nazi had the superior tech of WW2, I always choose them in games, down with anybody no Aryan :twisted:
 
Um.

Article forgot the Palm Treo range that was out the end of 2004 ...
 
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