Wednesday, January 10, 2007
It's once again Macworld time of the year, and .. Arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has onyone seen
THIS yet?
It's probably going to be released here only in 2008, but that's good - allows time for all the debugging to go on in the UK and states first before we receive a seamless product (hopefully). Even after using Windows Mobile for only several days, I'm already so looking forward to having Mac OS on a PDA phone. They seriously should release the OS separately as well, so that other unfortunate phone manufacturers can at least have the option of using alternative OSes. But I doubt it - they're selling the iPhone as-is, together with the 4GB or 8GB hardware. Love it that they're using Safari though - it's definitely no Firefox, but at least Safari in this phone claims to display NORMAL webpages properly. Currently on the Win Mobile IE, only PDA-enabled webpages load properly - the normal stuff end up all warped and dis-formatted.
Some features I wished the iPhone would have though:
1) A mini-SD card slot (yes, not a micro SD) - would be nice to be able to expand the capacity from 8GB onwards, especially when the iPhone is supposed to store stuff like hundreds of photos and songs too. 8GB is seriously a tad too little.
2) New programs that can be installed, and newly-formatted for the iPhone format. Stuff like Office for Mac, for example. And I'm still tapping my feet waiting for Firefox for mobile devices to appear. =
3) Haha .. this is asking for too much. A slide-out QWERTY keyboard is seriously a boon for me, guys are awfully clumsy at using a stylus (iPhone uses fingers, BTW .. odd). It'd go against the phone's 1-button design though, so once again, I doubt this feature would appear.
4) Voice-to-text software. Oh, utopia! Turn it on for lectures, and you get instant notes, lol! But knowing the efficacy of these software and the amount of medical jargon.. hmmm. Probably end up with the strangest sentences like, "The risk factors for gas strict car cinema include previous gas-wrecked tummy" (instead of "the risk factors for gastric carcinoma include previous gastrectomy) Bleargh. We've still a long way to go before this happens.
5) The one thing I really, really like about Win Mobile is that on the display page (called "Today") the next upcoming appointments are listed, and disappear as the scheduled event ends. I'm not sure if iCal on the iPhone will do this, but that's one great feature they should have.
6) Remote peripherals (this applies to all handphones). A small camera that masquerades as a plug-in handphone earphone, clips onto the front of your shirt, and there! No need to fish out the gigantic phone and announce to the world that you're just about to take candid shots, or take photo of really nice furniture at the mall without feeling embarassed. I'm sure this, if implemented, will incite vigorous flaming about misuse. =( Stupid idiots who spoil everything.
OK, shall stop here and start studying a little before school. Happy drooling, everone!
Wenky
6:57 AM
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