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A device from the future without any compelling new features? (touch screen keyboarding is not a very compelling feature IMO) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif As with the ipod, it looks like another clone device that does just what everything else does, but has some overhyped "simple" interface (big TFT screen only in this case) of dubious value... I'm sure that as with the ipod, its an adequate device, but it probably isn't worth all the hype.

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There's a good reason to not get one.

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A touch screen keyboarding is certainly not a compelling feature (though I didn't try this one, maybe it's not so bad). But a bigger screen and multi-touch certainly are.

About the intellectual property problem, the question is: what can you do? I think refusing it will just make you extinct, you have to try to change the thing from the inside...

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At least this should force competitors into trying to match/beat it, which should push the tech along.

I'll get one eventually I'm sure, maybe not iPhone though.

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Samsung (IIRC) has a similar large touch screen phone/device, but I forget if its coming out now or soon. They started working on it around the same time that Apple started the iPhone dev, so its definitely not a "copycat."

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I'm pretty sure that's more of a legal liability thing from the carrier. If you look into your ISP agreement, it probably has similar language. Same with email providers, forums, etc. Basically it covers them when they "reproduce" your messages, etc. so you can't sue for copyright infringement. The language is purposefully vague to cover many possible transmission modes; so for cell phones, it's transmission from the phone to the tower, and then down normal phone lines to its destination, or converted to digital and sent via IP down a fiber-optic cable, or relayed wirelessly to another tower, or some technology that hasn't been thought up yet, etc.

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I really don't like Steve Job's. And I laugh that Bill Gates is now number 2. HA HA HA

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Yea, him and his billions are a lot to laugh at http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I still don't want any kind of portable phone nor PDA.

At most, I'd like a lightweight laptop computer with a low pricetag, a long battery life, a good keyboard and a screen that's easily readable outside.

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I stayed away from a portable phone for as long as I could, but with my job, I need accessibility. I also need a Palm so I don't have to lug textbooks around to peruse at 2 AM. I finally got a Palm Treo, which serves a ton of my needs and puts two devices into one. Now, if I could bundle my pager into that...