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@poster. either is good. or you can also beam your searchlight on some nigerian brrands like omatek,zinox,cosmos,

@Djcn. don't mind them. because them manage buy refurb iphone person no go hear word. meanwhile na only game them de use the thing play.
apple fan my ass. tomata fan nko? abi na apple airconditioner them be sef

@Ex. your new macbook, is it the aluminium uniboby casing? is the casing scratch resistant? is the aluminium reinforced? the metal dents easily

UNLEASHED:
Norton won't leave my PC after uninstalling! It's a pin in the ass, as it has been slowing down my system, What should i do?

give am small bribe nah

Ex Inferis:
entertained? sir, your "contribution" to this otherwise lively discourse bores seven shades of gray out of us; we are just stoically suffering you lest providence curse us for not attempting to enlighten a dunce.

you ain't no apple fan.

Ex Inferis:
they tend to ape Apple's design philosophy.



please try and be consistent in your jibes, you can afford that much if nothing else; one minute you say Apple products are overpriced "toys", next you call them cheap. you flip-flop worse than john mccain.

YES APPLE IS GETTING MISERABLY CHEAP THESE DAYS, $99 IPHONE, UNDERSTAND YOU GET ONE FOR FREE AT WALMART NOW, JUST BUY HAMBURGER. APPLE IS BEGINNING TO REALISE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE [b]JOB[/b]LESS SOON, NO THANKS TO THE ECONOMIC RECESSION

cabali:
I said the dude should not be taken seriously, y'all wont listen

if you can't join in this interesting discuss, just watch and be entertained or continue your touch touch(^{that's if you truly own an ihpone)}

Ex Inferis:
Mac? Nah! too expensive and sophisticated a machine to dunk in water, thank you very much. perhaps if i had a Sony VAIO. . .

na that cheap thing you call expensive.

@Boss. this tex guy like" touch touch" o!

my thinkpad just survived a 2 minute immersion in water!. try that with a macbook

[quote author=lance_vader link=topic=201995.msg3289283#msg3289283 date=1230718071]Uche that was 2much an insult[/quote]it was a question.

@honsule so de enjoy MTN 3.5G like me

texazzpete:
But the OS is everything in a smartphone, isn't it? With each successive symbian OS being a tired rehash of the previous generation (what's the big change in menu from 2005's 6600 to the N78? What's changed since N93 and N96?) some people needed something new. Apple's slick, innovative UI has earned it the tag of the most user friendly smartphone in recent times.

Strange though, that you do not mention the hardware that won numerous awards for design and reliability. From the classy good looks to the virtually unscratchable glass screen, to the brilliant capacitive touchscreen, to the powerful processor, the iPhone has rightly scooped awards for style.


Inane statements like 'other phones also browse' make me laugh. You may as well compare the video playback on the Nokia N series to the old Sagem My x5.
Both Inferis and I have Nokia N95s, and we've said it many times over; the iPhone still remains the preferred option.


The way to enjoy life is to experience everything as much as possible so you don' t turn your back on cool opportunities. Get an iPhone to use for a short while before slagging it. Most people who rail against the iPhone have either never used it, or have used it for an extremely short period of time.

Don't end up a troll like flyuche who needs the reassurance that the generic Nokia he could afford may be better than the iPhone, hence he spends his time trawling the net fo negative stories about the iPhone. What this troll fails to realise is that

1. It's just a Phone
2. The meager vindication he may feel from reading and posting such negative stories is nothing compared to the mounting suspicion among listeners that his attitude conceals insecurity borne of want.


The iPhone was awarded the best invention of 2007 by TIME Magazine. Since when did TIME hand out those awards to crappy devices?

there is nothing wrong with the symbian OS ofcourse there is need for improvements. what features or apps you make use of in a smartphone the symbian OS can not deliver? what's even the proper definition of a smartphone? going by the posts in the ihpone apps thread, i see you just use of your phone to play games. maybe you didn't get enough toys when you were growing up
your argument is getting more and more asthenic. saying that some folks can't buy the iphone is pointless.so trotting around with an iphone is your idea of a status symbol. if you had mentioned you own a nokia 8800 arte, the kind of phone men use, i would have given you a thumbs up. wal-mart has a new promo: buy hamburger,get an iphone(refurb) free!
if you love games so much get a wii or ps3 or 2.
you don't write any programs or apps for the ihpone or symbian phones, you just a gadget-happy consumer. nokia made the first touchscreen phone, and what do you even know about smart phones.? i was in Japan briefly for a seminar,you need to see what smart people do with their real smartphones, symbian powered. not playing childish games and running useless apps like what you have on your iphone.
touchscreen, now you have this craving to touch and feel touched, hope is not a signal that you desperately need affection

Fadajasi:
this zain fast o

what do you do on the internet(wap) other than to post on nairaland?
?

Ex Inferis:
walmart is NOT selling refurbs, its selling official AT&T iphones for folks who don't shop at AppleStores or At&t shops and who frequent wally.

jesus, where do you get this garbage?

now i have to keep an iphone freak updated too?

i think the poll result is being rigged

apple is now selling tokunbo Iphones(refurbs) at Wal-mart and thru at&t for a miserly $99. frustrated customers returned the phones in droves, so large a quantity it has to get a mart chain to retail them!( to more impulsive customers)

"If Apple does it, it must be right." That's the refrain of lemming-like mobile companies, all desperately trying to follow the iPhone's touch-screen lead. The touch-screen fad isn't just in mobile, of course; as you read here on PCMag.com often, it seems that everyone is thinking of throwing away their keyboards and mice for big glass panels that go bump in the night.

Huge mistake.

The problem isn't touch screens; touch screens have existed for years. It's the pernicious idea that touch-screen-only interfaces will gobble up all other input devices. It's painful to watch folks at Microsoft's mobile division throw away all their non-touch-screen devices and obsessively chase the iPhone, for instance. Because touch screens—at least the way they work today—are actually less tactile than keyboards.

We experience the world with at least six senses. The world of electronic entertainment has played up sight and hearing at the cost of the rest, but smell, touch, taste and proprioception/kinesthesia (the knowledge of body position and motion) still play major roles in what we, as humans, consider reality. This is one reason why "virtual reality" environments like Second Life have never taken off other than with folks who want to escape their own physical bodies. If your physical reality is essentially pleasant, then to walk through a world made only of sight and sound is to cripple yourself by choice. It's also one of the many reasons the Nintendo Wii is so successful—it uses the kinesthetic sense in ways the PS3 doesn't.

The missing senses also play a role in why "live meetings" don't feel alive and "teleconferencing" doesn't feel like attending a conference. Deep in our animal brains, we think of reality as something that engages all the senses. You may not like the way a co-worker smells, but that smell makes her more real to you, whether you consciously think about it or not. I love cell phones, but when a friend of mine signs off phone calls with "thanks for the visit," I wince a little. A phone call isn't a visit. Visits use more senses.

And so we get to touch screens. Touch screens are actually touch-less screens; they're an unintuitive illusion that we accept because computer interfaces are chock full of metaphors and unintuitive illusions. We're tool-using mammals; we interact with physical objects. As I'm typing this, I feel the ridges of the keys, the different smooothnesses of the letters and the wrist rest, and the throw of the scissor hinges below the plastic parts. I hear the click as the buttons go down and sense the motion of my fingers confirming the action.

When you press a button on an iPhone, you feel nothing. Every button feels the same: nothing. Every action feels the same: nothing. There's a certain effortless liberty in that—since the heavy lifting is now all virtual, you feel like you can lift tons. But you've just given up at least one of your senses. You can't dial with your eyes closed any more: the interface is all sight and sound. No touch. A touchless interface.

This is one of the reasons why we don't yet have the famous Minority Report information interface. In that movie, Tom Cruise donned special gloves to interact with an awesome PC interface where you literally grab windows and toss them around the screen. But that interface is impractical without the proper feedback—without actually being able to feel where the edges of the windows are.

Touch screen makers (especially those at Synaptics) aren't stupid, so they're trying to find ways around the problem. Haptics makes things vibrate in response to touches; unfortunately, handheld haptics so far has been pretty crappy. RIM's BlackBerry Storm click-screen actually gives a touch screen a physical aspect, which is brilliant but very much a version-1.0 idea. The technology is just not there yet.

Touch screens can also restrict form factors, making interfaces surprisingly more awkward to use. On mobile devices, you need at least a 9-mm target area to be able to click something with your finger—that dictates a lot of iPhone-like large slabs with big interface elements and fewer small, pocketable devices. On PCs, a touch-oriented interface can create a lot of awkward hand and arm movement from one location to another. I interact with my laptop with a lot of subtle twitches; fingers between keys, thumb reaching down to the trackpad. To have to reach up to the screen to pop down menus would slow me down.

Obviously we can psych ourselves into accepting the minuses of touch-screen interfaces in exchange for the many pluses, such as enabling larger displays and dynamically configured pseudo-keyboards. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking there are no minuses. Adopting touch screens as a religion, right now, throws away one of our senses; to me, that just sounds senseless.
from Sascha Segan, PCmag

maybe it does not understand the chinese writing on the memory card

why not transfer to my account first

@Ex i knew you would finally berth your ship on the os front. linux is good, windows is good, leopard or even lion if apple chooses to call its next operating system that, is good. just stick to the one you find comfortable to use or that  meets your need. and don't tell me apple notebooks are the best because the os comes from the same company. and what gives you the impression microsoft can't go into hardware designing. note ,apple does not manufacture. personally i don't find apple notebook design appealing. windows has been serving the computing needs of  millions of pc users worldwide. and they are getting their JOBS done.

Ex Inferis:
he's just sore because he can't afford an iphone.

i know what i spend my money to buy. not on some girlish toy. alot  of unemployed youths own one. they even had to queue [/b]for [b]hours to get one. see what JOBLESSNESS can cause

here's the website:http://www.galaxy-networks.com/
didn't say the coverage for PH and the dealers. @ poster where did you get yours? and what's the experience?

prof.?

I have always known Steve Jobs is a schizophrenic innovator, so he succeeded in putting an accelerometer in a phone. What should we expect in the next version? Speedometer, clutch, gear level, brake pedal, wiper,radiator, A/C, or headlamps,?