Gene Jones <jasin@janus.com> wrote in news:jasin-
4AD99C.16383026102007@mpls-nnrp-04.inet.qwest.net:
> But the display is clearer on the iPhone
>
>
Nope...just smaller. Took my N800 to ATT store this morning to
check that allegation. It just isn't so. Professional
multimegapixel pictures look identical, just bigger and more
beautiful on the bigger N800 screen. The Wikipedia photo is from
the little WEBCAM that pops out the side, VGA webcam, not a
camera. That photo isn't fair at low rez like that. Any good
flickr picture looks the same on both of them, except for the
size.
>Yes, agree... but overall the iPhone has a much longer battery
life.
>Even simple things like when you put it up to your ear to talk,
it
>senses the MASS of your head, then dims the screen to black.
Pull it
>away, it brightens back up. The nokia doesn't do that.
The nokia doesn't have an internal earphone, moot point. It has
speakers. It's not a Sellphone. I bet what the iPhone is
sensing is your face pressing lots of touchscreen simultaneously,
triggering that function until you pull your face away.
Speaking of things iPhone does automatically, when we were
playing with them, 3 of them on a display, this morning, ALL
THREE of them kept switching from Safari to the home screen in
about 3 seconds while we were looking at the webpages. We didn't
touch them...they just did it. We searched and searched for some
control to turn that off so it would STAY in Safari but never
found it. How do you force it to NOT switch away from the
webpage? The ATT salesman was very nice, but unfamiliar with the
product he was selling to a fault. He had no idea how to control
it.
As to my head, I would never put the Nokia to my ear and have the
speakers blow my eardrums! It's flip out stand makes phoning on
Skype a pleasure, but its microphone is TOO sensitive and picks
up background noise if you talk too softly because Skype
automatically adjusts mic gain to meet conditions. Everyone
reports they don't hear any echos when I'm on Skype with the
speakers instead of earphones.
OS2008 for my N800 and the new N810 coming out has expanded
bluetooth capability to include both handsfree BT Sellphone
headset and BT stereo headset/speaker support OS2007 doesn't.
OS2008 will be out "soon"...I'm sure before the Christmas retail
orgy.
There's a slidecontrol to change screen brightness from the
taskbar. You use control panel to set the automatic controls
when it dims itself after the last screen click.
I hope you guys can get Flash 9, RealMedia, WM and Java support
in the near future. I'm sure this is all related to it being a
Carrier-controlled Sellphone, with the company trying to stop the
unpaying streaming they all do quite well. I suppose I can see
their point trying to hobble anything that uses continuous
bandwidth. There's not enough quicktime streams to matter. I
hope the N8xx series gets JAVA support, which it doesn't have,
now, too. Some of my fav NOAA websites use JAVA to render
radar/satellite movies. N800 won't play them, dammit.
Will iPhone stream MP3 audio or is that hobbled, too?
Larry
--
This is a most interesting conversation between us, but the
Verizon people are quite upset. Let's move this thread to
alt.cellular.attws on all future posts to this thread off
Verizon, where they choose not to participate as they can't even
stream anything for $60/month. I'll redirect all the posts I
post but keep the comp.sys.mac.advocacy the same....thanks.
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