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ramses01 on 21 December 2010
Jereel Hunter said:
ramses01 said:
kowenicki said:
ramses01 said:
kowenicki said:
ramses01 said:
MikeB said:

I think the iPhone 4 is awesome, it also sports the kind of crystal clear screen like I talked about in 2001 as becoming possible (IMO a very important factor for gaming). As Apple (and smartphones in general) is now eating significantly into the handheld gaming market, do you think it would be a good idea to equip a PSP2 with full cellphone capabilities? Personally I would love Sony to take this approach and rival Apple's awesome iPhone 4.


As an iPhone owner, it is my most hated piece of technology ever.  It is throughly broken piece of crap.  Of course, the wife loves hers so what do we have .... iPhones.   Sigh.  Come on Dell release your WM7 phone on AT&T.

I'm no Apple lover... but that statement is just not true.

I vowed never to get an iphone, but my wife picked up a 3GS... so after a while of playing with that I picked up the iphone4.0 on its release. 

It is very good at what it does.... what is broken about it?

No it is factually correct.  The main function, as a phone, is horrific.  Dropped calls, random hangups, random, mutes, random dialing all plague the phone.  it is the single worst phone I have owned since the early 90s.  Games are good and email is OK.  But i suspect the WM7 phones will be much better.  Of course, those have the ridulous no multi-tasking so that is a big negative for those as well.


Never had a single issue with the phone aspect... not one.  Its a myth... even before the free case program I had no problem.

I am not reporting myths.  I am reporting actual field usage issues that I have personally experienced across multiple phones.  The case actually made the situation worse for the some of the issues.  Wife has the same issues but since phone use is the least important aspect to her, it doesn't bother her.


I am no iPhone fan.... not by a longshot (Android all the way, baby) but I think you should probably blame AT&T's service as opposed to the phone itself.

Connection issues are ATT's fault.  Everything else is a result of design flaws in the phone itself.



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nightsurge on 21 December 2010
Mummelmann said:

PS: Where have you been lately? Haven't seen you in a while.

Banned. Lol



nightsurge on 21 December 2010
MikeB said:

@ disolitude

At OSNews.com, use google, that's how I found it. Actually I remember a posting going into more depth but couldn't find the right keywords to find the posting, I found this one instead and it's OK enough to fit the purpose I think. 

So why don't you just post the link? Seems like the easy, logical thing to do.



sad.man.loves.vgc on 21 December 2010
nightsurge said:
MikeB said:

@ disolitude

At OSNews.com, use google, that's how I found it. Actually I remember a posting going into more depth but couldn't find the right keywords to find the posting, I found this one instead and it's OK enough to fit the purpose I think. 

So why don't you just post the link? Seems like the easy, logical thing to do.


http://www.osnews.com/comments/459?order=o&perpage=10&sort=&threshold=3&view=nested



sad.man.loves.vgc on 21 December 2010
disolitude said:

Is there a link where we can read these psychic postings MikeB made?


http://www.osnews.com/comments/459?order=o&perpage=10&sort=&threshold=3&view=nested

 

I didn't read the OP actually and it took me less than one minute to find it. There is always a nice way to ask people for links instead of calling them psychic  :/



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M.U.G.E.N on 21 December 2010

lol @ people being too lazy to google for something that will take a few seconds yet takes more time to complain about it -_- sometimes the interwebz surprise me

OT: good stuff MikeB, thumbs up ;)



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nightsurge on 21 December 2010
M.U.G.E.N said:

lol @ people being too lazy to google for something that will take a few seconds yet takes more time to complain about it -_- sometimes the interwebz surprise me

OT: good stuff MikeB, thumbs up ;)

And in all fairness, you don't make fun of the OP for quoting information from the post and NOT providing the link?  Surely that is more amusing.

Also, he left out the premise for his entire post which was his belief that the Amiga OS would be a major cell phone platform. It never came to be, so in actuallity it was a failed prediction.  Everything else was kind of common sense things that were bound to happen eventually.



sad.man.loves.vgc on 21 December 2010
nightsurge said:
M.U.G.E.N said:

lol @ people being too lazy to google for something that will take a few seconds yet takes more time to complain about it -_- sometimes the interwebz surprise me

OT: good stuff MikeB, thumbs up ;)

And in all fairness, you don't make fun of the OP for quoting information from the post and NOT providing the link?  Surely that is more amusing.

Also, he left out the premise for his entire post which was his belief that the Amiga OS would be a major cell phone platform, which it never came to be, so in actuallity it was a failed prediction.  Everything else was kind of common sense things that were bound to happen eventually.

If it is common sense, why did you find it so hard to believe without links at first then?



disolitude on 21 December 2010
sad.man.loves.vgc said:
disolitude said:

Is there a link where we can read these psychic postings MikeB made?


http://www.osnews.com/comments/459?order=o&perpage=10&sort=&threshold=3&view=nested

 

I didn't read the OP actually and it took me less than one minute to find it. There is always a nice way to ask people for links instead of calling them psychic  :/

Psychic...really?  That counts as a rude thign to say these days?



nightsurge on 21 December 2010
sad.man.loves.vgc said:
nightsurge said:
M.U.G.E.N said:

lol @ people being too lazy to google for something that will take a few seconds yet takes more time to complain about it -_- sometimes the interwebz surprise me

OT: good stuff MikeB, thumbs up ;)

And in all fairness, you don't make fun of the OP for quoting information from the post and NOT providing the link?  Surely that is more amusing.

Also, he left out the premise for his entire post which was his belief that the Amiga OS would be a major cell phone platform, which it never came to be, so in actuallity it was a failed prediction.  Everything else was kind of common sense things that were bound to happen eventually.

If it is common sense, why did you find it so hard to believe without links at first then?

I didn't find any of it hard to believe.  I just hate it when anyone quotes information without a source.  It's common courtesy.