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Something that definitely does not exist on Windows Mobile. Offline Wikipedia!
The entire Wikipedia, on my phone. Requires no internet connection.

Casual games, my foot! The iPhone is a full fledged gaming handheld.
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https://touchaholics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/second.png

To be fair, though, the touch pro 2 is a pretty wonderful phone, i just prefer my iphone 3GS. I can do all sorts of wonderful things on it. Some things that just aren't in place on Windows Mobile. Example N64iphone, a full N64 featured emulator for the iPhone 3GS!
Imagine Zelda: Ocarina of Time (the best game ever made) in my palm

beejaei:
This is pheckung hilarious! Its funny how conspiracy theorists really believe that they have a deep insight on issues, which "common folks" do not possess. You guys believing this load of balderdash remind me of the birthers in America-folks that say Obama is not American. This is going to inspire me to do some research on the psychological effects of conspiracy theories. Because it seems to me that most of you folks gain something mentally from your warped and distorted postulations. What about this for a conspiracy theory: You guys in support were paid by the Democrats to spin these theories to give Republicans a bad name before the elections.

you hit the nail on the head. It's actually a mild form of mental illness, people do determined to be the few people 'in the know' that they accept extremely spurious data as hard fact.
In the opening post, the article writer states that Alhaji Mutallab's work in banking was merely a front, and DICON is run by Israeli Mossad. Both extremely sketchy allegations and definitely unverified. Yet 2 posts down the likes of LagosBoy are quoting it as fact and using it as empirical evidence in their arguments. That's just daft. And contrary to what LagosBoy thinks, that isn't using your brains at all.

Lagosboy:
9/11 was done by Alqaeda and we condemned it,Madrid bombins was by alqaeda and we condmened it, 7/7 by alqaeda and we condemened and I dont believe any foul play in any of this

But on this occassion the story doesnt add up for me El Razur and you can say whatever but that i chose to use my brain instead of dancing along the popular perception os not a crime.

You are just a selective reader , you choose what you want to read in my post and pick on what you like, otherwise you will have read where i condemend it if indeed it was a terrorist attack, but asking genuine questions where story doesnt add up is what i feel is right.

It is people like you that silences the sane voice in the muslim world, muslims who are not exremist in thinking but vocal in expressing their opinions and vocal in condemning the foreign policy of other countries. By silencing this kind of opinion is to make the youths react back in terror tacticts ans that is how they feel their voice will be heard.

Your posts only depict a right wing thinking and i have a feeling you are one of the modern christian zionist.

you easily call someone a 'christian zionist' yet you take umbrage at being called a Muslim fanatic.

Out of curiousity, what exactly are the holes in the official story you speak of?

platinumnk:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581054&page=4

So, you link to Xda-developers, a site for WinMo enthusiasts and expect a fair and unbiased discussion on the iPhone vs TP2 discussion? lol.

platinumnk:
Do you have custom ROMS Texas, dont let me school u

Hardware wise, the iPhone 3GS is far more powerful than the TP2. It uses a faster, newer gen ARM CPU as well as an OPEN GL 2.0 PowerVR SGX GPU.

No offense meant, but i've been flashing custom Win Mo ROMS since 2006. I've used the HTC Magician, Wizard, TyTN, TyTN II and i've played around with the TP2.
Custom ROMS or not, it's still WinMo at the end of the day. And that's why Microsoft has lost serious ground in the mobile OS space.

The best WIndows mobile smartphone in the world at the moment is the Touch HD2, running WinMo 6.5. And in all the reviews the major sticking point was the OS. Windows Mobile is ancient and creaky.

platinumnk:
First of all I'm severly prejudiced towards the iPhone, I hate the fact that Apple have to lock it down so much and the lack of sd slot and ability to customise.

In my view, an iPhone is an[b] ipod with phone functionality, it is not a PDA and not a productivity tool. [/b]
I would never buy one

Yes, it's locked down by Apple in several ways, but once you jailbreak it ( a ridiculously simple process) you can customize it all you want.
Why exactly do you need an SD slot for a device that comes in 16GB and 32GB capacity?

platinumnk:
I am yet to be convinced by anyone as to the pros of owning an iPhone over a WinMo or Android PDA.

Hardware wise, very few android phones have specs near that of the iPhone 3GS. And the Android OS itself isn't nearly as polished in its current state as the iPhone OS. In fact, only Palm's WebOS has that level of polish, certainly not Windows mobile.

platinumnk:
I've only just been reading up on both phones, so take what I say with a grain of salt:

The Iphone may be a better for multimedia playback, due to the inclusion of 3.5mm jack and notably good sound quality. Also, the casual game selection is fairly good. If you want more functionality/versality, definitely consider jailbreaking the iphone, otherwise it's not really comparable to the TP2. Check out ipodtouchfans.com, they cater to jailbroken iphones/itouches.

If you're looking for something to be truly productive on, particularly in a business environment (kind of reminds me of a mini-netbook), consider the TP2. If you want a multimedia PDA with great sound, consider the iphone. If you want a fair mix of both, the Samsung Omnia II

Even without jailbreaking, with over 100000 apps on the appstore, there's more than enough software on the iPhone to more than hold it's own against Windows Mobile. For business purposes, i hope you're aware that the iPhone has full Exchange support, and there are Office apps on the appstore that allow you edit Word, Powerpoint and Excel on the iPhone with ease. It must be pointed out that these office apps are of even better quality than Microsoft's own Mobile office applications.

Business environments don't go for WIndows mobile handsets, they go for RIM's blackberry handsets. That's why both RIM and Apple have far higher marketshare in the smartphone business in the US than Microsoft's windows mobile.

You ever ask yourself why there are so few windows mobile handsets coming out this year and in 2008/2009? All the loyal manufacturers are switching to Android. People don't want Windows Mobile anymore

Lagosboy:
By the minute things are getting clearer, it is only the blind that will not pick holes in the official story and all major media outfit are complicit in this movie. Otherwise why is there no conflicting view aired on the media at least to give people another side of the coin.

Imagine bloody 3D scanners and some bloke seeing the size of a womans privates and stuff, why not let us all walk unclothed at the airports fo rthe sake of some bloody ambious security. The fact remains no amount of security can stop a person willing to kill himself and others, worse this was all ochestrated. Obama is appearing by the day as a lame duck, all these zionist apologist should be gotten rid of. The US should protect itrs own interest not of a 3rd party state.

Perhaps it's because no reputable news media outlet will give credence to this half-baked, illogical POS conspiracy theory you people are bandying about? It's extremely easy to pick holes in your own version of events.

If your al qaeda buddies had left innocent civillians alone, why would anyone choose to use 3D body scanners? The increased threat from Islamic extremists has brought this upon us, not any sadistic desire to screen everyone who chooses to fly.

Lagosboy:
The fact remains no amount of security can stop a person willing to kill himself and others, worse this was all ochestrated.

But that's a lie, isn't it? There have been no attacks on the mainland US since 9/11, despite no shortage of people desperate to kill themselves to enter paradise. How many terrorist incidents have taken place in Israel in the last 10 years, and to what scale? Is it that there aren't enough people just dying to kill themselves (pun intended  )

You see, the intelligence agencies are doing a decent job of keeping threats to a minimum. Do you know how many terrorist cells have been smashed in the US and the UK in the past 2 years alone?

And ultimately, this is where anyone with brains can see the catch in your conspiracy theory. This whole mutallab saga only leaves the CIA with a lot of egg on their faces. And that's why it's inconceivable for it all to have been orchestrated by the CIA. Plan an attempted bombing that leave the Agency open to embarrassment, ridicule and parliamentary condemnation? Not a chance.


You should look closer at my Tiger Woods idea. It's obvious Tiger Woods planned the entire thing to take attention off his marital problems. It was planned also with Jay Z during his last visit to Kwara State.  

aieromon:
@platinumnk
Incase you haven't noticed,the spambot in here detests long write-ups unlike other NL sections.

Yeah, went through her profile to see her reply. I would have loved to tear it apart here, i guess i'll wait until her post gets approved.
Sadly, she does seem to be comparing the TP2 with the iPhone 3G and not the 3GS, and certainly not with iPhone firmware 3.0 .

Bad!

Hmm, since you guys will believe anything you read, how sure are you that it wasn't Tiger Woods that planned the whole thing to get our minds off his scandal?

paddyboi:
yes al-qaeda. . .anyone can be alqaeda. . .all it takes is to send an email and claim responsibility

also they are alledgedly claiming responsibility for an attack that took place after farouk bought his ticket in ghana
so the dates dont add up. . .
if obama tripped and fell on his face al-qaeda would claim responsibility too. . .

The al-qaeda angle was mentioned first by Mutallab not long after he was taken into custody.
He obviously made contact with radical Imams in Yemen (as he himself has claimed). Not even the CIA has that kind of undercover operatives over there.

Abeem:
The guy known as texazzpete is an Israeli apologist. If you want to confirm this, go back and read most of his post when the discussion centered on Israel.

Because 99% of the time, posts concerning the Israelis brings you conspiracy theorists out of the woodwork. All i do is argue logically with hard facts, and we all know logic and reliance on proven facts is haram as far as you numbskulls are concerned.

Thanks for being a fan, though.

paddyboi:
a lot of u should put on your thinking hats for a minute. . .

u are benjamin netanyahu. . .u belive iran is a mortal enemy that must be stopped
but in your opinion u have the wrong man in washington,a weak president who will not sign off on bombing iran. . .
the iranian threat grows by the day. . .u have a limited time frame to move,else the iranians
who have sworn to wipe your tiny country off the face of the map may get the nuclear bomb
and that changes everything

what do u do?. . .if your intelligience agents presents u with a plan that will solve all your problems at once. . .
it will strengthen the hands of the hawks in the U.S like joe lieberman and the rest
and further weaken obama

u love it and sign off on it,because the U.S has to help u take out those nuclear sites. . .

we are only seeing things one way because those ppl didnt die on christmas day
if that bomb had gone off,and 300+ ppl had died,boy trust me it would be war on iran before long
remember sept 11 terrorists from saudi. . .but the war was on iraq. . .
this time it would have been terror cell in yemen,but they will find a way to link it to iran

and if obama resists they will paint him as weak and capitalize on it in the next election. . . .
this is not over yet. . .just wait and see

the only good thing that may come out of it for nigeria is a spike in oil prices and more revenue for us,
apart from that this israeli iran problem is only going to get worse for everybody

'thinking cap' implies logic, yet your reasoning is in no way logical. Wetin concern Iran with this matter now?
No US president at this particular moment will sign off on a war with Iran. Not with Iraq still remaining an uncertain quagmire, not with the war in Afghanistan raging unceasingly, not with the US Army stretched dangerously thin with the current state of troop deployments, and not with Arab countries eying the US with a palpable sense of distrust.

For your idea to hold water, it would have to be an attack directly traceable to Iran. And in this case there's no tangible link to Iran.
Try again next time.

paddyboi:
nobody said he sent his son to be blown up,on the contrary what we say,is that with all the warnings the CIA got
this was a little too easy to pull off. . .

think about u not being an american citizen,travelling to the U.S with a nigerian passport that has visas to yemen
u are a young muslim,dressed shabilly. . .white t-shirt,no coat,one way ticket
previously denied visa to the u.k. . .
on some kind of CIA/state department watch list
flying in from nigeria,notorious for drugs

think about all that for a minute. . .
then put in the fact that a lawyer in the states and some other witnesses has said that
the dude umar farouk was helped at the gate by someone
there is still no video released of him in amsterdam to prove he was acting alone without help

put all these together with the fact that the CIA is alledgedly doing covert ops in yemen and was warned about  "the nigerian"
they were also warned in abuja. . .
add all of it together and see that something stinks to the high heavens about this story

of course the boy will take the fall as he doesnt know any better
and u will be told he acted alone

Dude, no one ever told you he was 'acting alone'. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility/complicity and the man has confirmed that there are several others being prepped for similar missions.
Please explain what you mean by 'taking the fall'. Is the fact that the fellow almost detonated a bomb in mid-air in an attempt to kill 289 people not enough for you? Why do you insist on calling a 23 year old adult a 'boy'. Is it to pass across a false sense of sympathy for this misguided criminal?

paddyboi:
heres a quote from a website discussing this article. . . .

"Where is the video footage of the underwear bomber at the gate? Anyone who has traveled internationally knows that you must once again show your passport at the gate. There are stories that he did not show a passport. End the discrepency and SHOW THE VIDEO.  Several months ago went to India and had to show my passport 4 times in Delhi to board the plane to the USA.

Having used Schiphol numerous times to exit Europe on route to the USA, I know there are cameras all over the place. (I must also add, I always felt very safe in Schiphol ). How was he not on the no fly list? Something is not adding up here and showing the video footage of the underwear bomber at the gate/ boarding, would be a first step in clearing up some of this confusion."

why is there no video of this dude in amsterdam? both at the gate,and at the main security further down?

This actually proves your shortcomings when it comes to understanding written English. Where was it stated that there was no video of the criminal?

Lagosboy:
@Texapette

The issue here is it appeared he beat the security in amsterdam and did not present his compromised Nigerian passport because of Yemeni visas.

It does not 'appear' anything. All you have on this 'no passport' angle is the alleged statement by one of the passengers on board. And this is yet to be verified!
So let's get this clear. In order not to draw attention to himself due to him having Yemeni visas on his passport, he hid his passport and claimed not to have one at schipol? So to draw less attention you act out a scenario which is likely to draw even more intense scrutiny?
Bullcrap. It's impossible that anyone travels without a passport.
It's worth noting that mutallab visited yemen in 2005, and thus had yemeni visas on his passport even when he applied for and obtained the US visa in 2008.

Lagosboy:
The issue here is not saying the article is 100% right but as an intellectual which i suppose your you should find the missing link in this whole issue interesting. You should try to answer the un answered questions.

The problem is the article is 90% speculation and conjecture. And you people are swallowing it up as hard fact. And that's just sad.

Lagosboy:
Someone says why would the CIA want to bomb a US plane , i say welcome to the world of intelligence.

Welcome to nothing. The CIA had been badly bruised for failing to prevent 9/11.  Why then would they engineer something that ends up showing them up as being incompetent and bureaucratic - charges levelled at them in the aftermath of 9/11?

Lagosboy:
The Mossad could infiltrate the CIA and have double agents in there, what we are saying is this could be a well planned Mossad operation with some complicit elements in the CIA. Farouk i believe could have been a naive pawn.

Or it could not have been the Mossad or CIA but instead green eyed monsters from Mars, aliens from the Z-dimension who engineered the plot so as to one day achieve their aim of anally probing all mankind.

See what idle speculation does?
NAive pawn by butt. Was he naive when he sewed on the explosives and tried to detonate 'em over detroit?

kuramo:
@ poster.

Are you an apologist for the failed terrorist Mutallab or what exactly is your point ?

Naw, just intellectually challenged. These people need to be dragged, kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Thank God we'll all live to see this Mutallab bastard punished for his heinous attempt to kill 289 people.
Knowing these softie americans he'll probably escape the death penalty and get life in jail. At least that'll give the cowardly dog a chance to ruminate over his life.

This is extremely hilarious. Just bamboozle Nigerians with words and they start to believe anything. And when you appeal to people's desperate desires to be let in on a grand conspiracy, then they are willing to reject any warning messages their brains may be sending to them.

The writers story is so full of holes, it's amusing to see all you dolts swallowing it up. So eager are you louts to believe any story that points the finger at the US or Israel that you cannot see that

1. The writer is 100% wrong when he says that Mutallab's name was placed on a no-fly list
2. That Mutallab's dad runs DICON. And with help from the Mossad too!
3. That Mutallab boarded without a passport. Really i cannot understand why this retarded 'testimony' is being bandied about. How does someone travel without a passport? And why would any serious minded bomber want to take that sort of risk?

The whole article is full of conjured 'facts' and distorted truths, with downright laughable assumptions. I laughed hard when the writer was musing openly at the implausibility of AL Qaeda setting up shop in Yemen. And why would the US ambassador meet with Mutallab Snr, just because he's a rich and influential man. Even if that was remotely possible, why would the CIA station chief meet with the fellow?

The Key question is, why would the CIA engineer a plot to blow up an American airliner even though the success or failure of that plot would mean a serious condemnation for the CIA's effectiveness in combating terror?

Conspiracy theorists suffer from a mental illness, that's for sure.

@Kosovo
Also, you do realize that RE 5 uses the same formula laid down in RE 4 - Which, incidentally, was made by the very same Shinji Mikami?

i grew tired of your inane statement about Shinji Mikami's thoughts on RE 5, so i searched for the actual quote

"I probably won't play it. I won't like it, because it's not going to be the game I would have made," said Mikami (who has left Capcom and currently resides at Platinum Games). "It'll just cause me stress if I play it. I think it could be fun for gamers to play it, but not for someone who has developed Resident Evil games." Mikami added that "If I see anything in Resident Evil 5 that isn't done well, I'll be angry,"

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=202814


There you have it. Mikami saying he won't play it simply because it may not have been his vision. He goes on to state that it should be fun for gamers. So where do you get the idea that RE 5 was crap? also stop misquoting Shinji Mikami.

kosovo:
There is no one Direct source to it,
Resident Evil was total crap, and you honestly know why, Even the creator of the series , cant remember his name, said that Resident Evil has lost it way, I remember when i played RE3,- Nemesis, it was as nothing else, i ll pick that as my best survival/horror game ever,

lol
How about you comment on a game you've actually played, not decide based on the fellow's opinion?
Resident Evil 5 got pretty good reviews. It may do you some good to actually read some of those reviews and play the game.
This is 2010, try and rely on hard, empirical data!

Choco5:
So quick to turn on someone we loved. Why?

what the hell do you mean 'quick'? We gave her a chance. And despite what you think, respect is earned.

You should be asking why this woman was so quick to turn her back on the principles we thought she had while we idolized her.

Kosovo
I don't think you're the writer of this piece. In fact, i KNOW you aren't. So why not quote the source? Is it because you know the writer himself is utterly full of crap?

Resident Evil 5, Red FAction 2, Dragon Age and Halo: ODST were among the higher rated games of 2009. So what flavor of crack is this writer on?

You need to stop regurgitating everything you see of any crappy blog here. At least with a title like 'ten surprisingly disappointing games of 2009', it should really be your opinions contained in the article.

ugoegwuh:
@texazzpete

I was not talking about myTouch.
I meant HTC TOUCH PRO (tilt2).

what to know the price and where to get it.

\i was referring to chiogo, not you.

@platinumnk
iphone 3gs >>>> HTC Touch Pro 2.

Besides, it's WinMo 6.5 and a resistive touch screen. What else can i say

For the love of God, do not buy the mytouch at this point in time!

I feel sorry. Not for the guy, but for the fact that I may never get the chance to clasp my meaty hands around this ogre's throat and squeeze the life out of him.

Feel sorry for someone who almost killed 289 people? You guys are nuts!

Kobojunkie:
The dates  Date: December 25, 2009
EXPIRATION: 0200Z on December 30, 2009
sort of give it away. This does not seem authentic.

Actually the dates show that it is an interim measure while they figure out how to deal with the situation properly.

Such rules probably may not last. It's well known that drastically constraining your lifestyle is a victory for the terrorists, so the TSA will be keen to come up with rules that are not as restrictive.
However, they have no idea if the terrorist was acting alone or had similarly equipped buddies, hence the temporary period of extremely heightened security.

omoalare:
I took my time to read this trend and various comments of most NLDRS and this is my opinion (objective). Let me inform you that I am in a financial institution and knows what operates within Nigeria financial industry and the world (I do not claim to know all but I can boldly say I know much).
Now back to the topic, Sanusi's actions and utterancies are far below expectation and I believe he himself does not realised the sensitivity of the position he occupies. Nigeria is not the only country with bad loan problem, it is a global issue. For lack of time I could have given you list of banks in US and Britain that has such problem and has gone under or bailed out by the authorities.
The simple question we should ask ourselves is "if  anyone approach you for a loan and you know that the person will default in servicing or repayment of such loan will you grant the loan"? In another way "if you are to borrow money for an investment and you know that you are going to run at a loss will you take such loan"? This is the scenario of both the lender and borrower of this bad loan. The borrowers either invest in oil or the stock market and got their hands burnt, while that of oil is as a result of global meltdown the case of stock market was as a result of lack of proper supervision of the authorities which result in price manipulations that could not be sustained when foreign investors pulled out their funds.
WHERE SANUSI GOT IT WRONG.
The best Sanusi could have done is to make the bank pursue aggressive loan recovery/ loan rescheduling so that the situation will be a win-win for the bank and the economy (Sanusi knows this) but instead Sanusi engaged in vendettas moves forgetting that the economy and the masses will be the ultimate loser.
Don't forget that whatever we do today is history tomorrow and events of today can be revisited in the future. BE FAIR TO EVENTS SO THAT HISTORY CAN BE FAIR TO YOU.
This is my personal contributions and not that of any interest group.

You mean you work in a bank, and like many of your fellow bankers you cannot see the bigger picture, instead focusing your ire on the 'sanusi tsunami'. Where were you when a new generation bank had to take a full page newspaper advert petitioning the president to help with loan recovery to no avail?
It is shameful that the entire point of your argument is to say that the banks must sympathize with the debtors for unplanned business losses. How is that supposed to work out? Are these not the same banks that mercilessly go on after small scale businesses and enterpreneurs over minor defaults on their loans, yet go soft on their cronies that contribute far less to the NIgerian economy?

We must thank Sanusi for exposing the rot in the banking sector and arresting it in time.

As one commenter said

"Bleep you Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Enjoy your leg wound- hope it falls off so I can beat you to death with it."