What PDAs have you tried?
Jonathan Blum fell in love with HTC's Mogul in "After the iPhone." Do you agree with his assessment?
From Dave Lucas, Bellingham, WA Sorry Jon,
I imagine you are also a Windows user. When are you going to get it? Apple rules. Just like the iPod, the iPhone will rule in the handheld market. When their contract is up with AT&T it will go to the faster network. And, if you had been paying attention, you would know that Apple has already announced it will allow third party applications. Also, the prices will come down further (like the iPod) and there will be a number of different models available. Of course there will be iPhone copy-cats, just like there are iPod copy cats. No matter, Mac is where it is at and Apple is now a juggernaut with a huge, expanding base of faithful users. Windows computer users are switching to Mac computers in unprecedented numbers. Windows Vista pales in comparison to the new Leopard operating system. Macs are faster, easier to use and more dependable than any other computer. Perhaps you are simply sore that you didn't buy Apple stock three years ago at $28 a share (split adjusted).
Time to get on board Jon, the train is leaving the station. Maybe you will remember my post when Apple stock hits $300 next year and the iPhone has sold ten million units.
Apple forever,
Dave Lucas
From Dave Hi,
Interesting iPhone article, but your comment about Apple refusing to open the iPhone to 3rd party applications is incorrect. Apple announced a few weeks ago that they will allow 3rd party developers to write applications for the iPhone. Apple is finishing the development kit now and it will be available in February.
In the meantime, many great apps have been written that can be accessed via the web. I know many business users that love their iPhones…including myself!
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
From Anonymous RE: "ignore the one-million-sold hype"
RESPONSE: One million sold is FACT! Hype is something that is a "promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind," as is defined by Merriam-Webster's Third International dictionary, unabridged.
RE: "This unit [HTC Mogul] is almost an anti-iPhone: clunky, not much to look at and oh-so-hard to figure out. The screen is smallish and rather dim, particularly when you're outside. While the slide-away keyboard is among the largest for a handheld, the on-screen type is tiny."
RESPONSE: Yet, you spent an entire article promoting the HTC Mogul for business use, recommending it over the iPhone's "iPhone-like integrated messaging, improved design and better productivity." Your kind of thought processes are the reason why Apple is so successful: It takes over-featured, under-performing, difficult-to-use products and does the reverse. THIS is what business needs, productivity and fun to use on the job. Mankind has spent its entire history trying to make things EASY. You, on the other hand, relish in recommending difficult and productivity-killing products for business.
Your magazine should change its name to MIS-Fortune!
From Ralph "But at least for now, business users would be smart to ignore the one-million-sold hype: Apple (Charts, Fortune 500)'s refusal to accommodate third party applications and AT&T (Charts, Fortune 500)'s sluggish EDGE network keep this gadget strictly in the realm of fun."
You are partly correct about Apple allowing 3rd party software. Currently only web application support is provided by Apple for the iPhone, but Apple is making a SDK developer kit avaible in Feburary. Since the iPhone runs on UNIX/OSX it should be easy for a developer to go from apps for standard OSX to the iPhone. Steve states that reliability and security are the reason for the delay.
Since the iPhone supports https and VPN I would trust it to be MUCH more secure than anything running from an outlook mail server. My experience with outlook is all bad.
"On Wednesday, Chief Executive Steve Jobs posted a note on the company's Web site saying that a software developer's kit, or SDK, would be available in February. "Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February," wrote Jobs in his post."
From Brian This article doesn't even make sense.
"Apple's hot gadget inspires the competition"
How did the iPhone "inspire" these phones? They were all released/in pre-production before the iPhone was even released. I am positive the Q and Pearl were out in 2006 compared to the iPhone in mid-2007. Also, not only is the Q over a year old, at least review the latest model. There is already a second generation Q on the market.
Also, if you want to look at more comparable phones. What about the LG Voyager coming out soon for Verizon. Full QWERTY, touch screen, real HTML
web browsing.
It just doesn't make sense. The whole article is based on Apple really
raising the bar and then proceeds to compare it to phones that predate it.
From Marc Davis In your atricle you are implying that these cell phone makers have come out with the phones you reviewed as a result of the iPhone.
Both the Motorola Q and the Blackberry Pearl (not even their best offering) have both been around long before the Apple iPhone. I am not sure about the HTC, but I think it has been out a while too.
So I am really not sure the point of the comparison. I am a self confessed gadget freak and like reading atricles about new gadgets. Yours dissappointed me.
From russell are you kidding
Since owning an iPhone my laptop stays in its bag while I'm on the road, as a tool for work I have never owned a better phone/pda
Such broad comments should not be made .. Do you own one? Have you tried using one for a month ?
From Mike Rogers I was pleased to see you gave the Mogul a good review because that is the phone I use. Maybe you forgot to mention this, but the Mogul can run Skype Mobil, which on Sprint’s data network is amazingly useful and lets you use the internet and talk at the same time, which is not possible using Sprint’s regular voice channel over Evdo.
I did find it odd that Money chose to review three very cheap phones and compared to Apple’s more expensive phone. Surely it behooves you to mention some of the other phones with more bling that people could drop $400 on?
Nokia N95, pricier even than the iphone but what a device.
The Toshiba G900 – an 800×400 display that’s even crisper and more detailed than Apple’s. Also has biometric sensor for security.
HTC’s Mogul sequel, the TyTnII (Kaiser). GPS and HSUPA, 3MP camera.
Samsung SCH-W559. First phone with haptic (force feedback) touchscreen. This sonic simulation of dynamic, on-screen buttons is so cool you know Apple is going to put this in iphone2 and claim it as its own.
Regarding the Mogul, I wouldn't want it Jonathan.
Why would anyone want a piece of crap that supports Microsoft's crappy software.
Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are all bloatware. They all suck. I haven't used them for several years.
Get an iPhone. Get a Mac. Get iLife and iWork. Get into this century.