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Joke.. :)
Does iphone 4 have a swap partition ?
Well that would be a new feature for iphone 6.... the infiniMEM feature

@noipv4: it can be enabled (via a config file) on jailbroken iphones and I've read that it's enabled by default on iOS4.

Thanks for the heads up :)

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Originally Posted by Hotshot (Post 704438)

Same thing I was thinking! Great points. I don't wont a phone screen bigger than 3.8! And I too wondered the lack of compass which was a fail on Nokia part if you ask me. Oh the apps that could have came from having the compass. And finally iphone to iphone video call only strange but even stranger is its WIFI only??? Whats up with that.

they built the phone keeping AT&T in mind and the AT & T cannot handled the Data traffic if they allowed video calling using 3G network

From what I have read there are both good and evil from Apple and Nokia, but as someone mentioned in this forum we cannot match a previous gen phone (7-9mnths before) with a not yet released as of today phone, Yes I phone may have awesome screen other stuff which will be matched off with the N8 (hopefully),

there is one thing that we all must see is that the support driven by Apple to their products compared to Nokia, We all know what happened to N97 N96. The main reason N900 is surviving upto date as is because of the commitment given by the Maemo Community, So we could imagine where N900 be with proper backing of Nokia

So conclusion is that I wz never a geeky or a master of linux to write Qt to N900 but I enjoyed the phone and I belive Iphone 4, 5 ,6 will take its own fans and while the N900, N8 , S4 will have theirs,

But Nokia must change the strategy on launching/Marketing and services to their high end products

I'm not really a fan of any. Things for me are simple, it can or it can't.

So far iPhone 4 is tempting but I need confirmation that it can handle various video formats and that it can BT contact cards.

On a software related note, I installed iBooks yesterday, but I prefer Stanza as a reader, yet the two don't seem to share catalogues. That's what sometimes is most frustrating with iOS: Walled gardens inside of walled gardens.

So did you hack the damn thing? with what?

And regarding my question about video codecs, can you recommend any software?

Bec, were you talking to me? I'll give you a long, droning response regardless.

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Originally Posted by Bec (Post 725014)

So did you hack the damn thing? with what?

As far as accessing other application's private data stores, I have not yet looked into that for a non-jailbroken device. It was once on my list, but I hadn't thought about it for a while since yesterday.

There are actually three types of developers for iOS devices. Those that jailbreak, those that contribute to the App Store, and those that develop for personal use. Of course, someone could wear any combination of those hats, but for the time being, I'm only in the last category. It costs me about $100 a year for the "privilege". Without using the App Store regulators, I'm allowed to share my apps with 100 other devices. But what if everyone paid the extra $100 a year? A whole other ecosystem could develop, and would Apple really care? Uh, probably. But I'm guessing a $100 a year (of which Apple would only get $30) is more than the average iPhone or iPod user spends on apps. The iPad is a different story, but most apps don't have recurring costs like the developer subscription fee.

Anyway, I have my irons in many fires, but because of the relatively tight coupling of hardware and software, I like to keep my Apple products closely compatible with the mother ship. I rely on these products, and I want to give Apple the least opportunity to intentionally or unintentionally break them. Did you listen to Steve Jobs' last keynote? He gave his three reasons why apps get rejected from the App Store. One of them was because of people using private APIs. Well, sometimes I like to dip into those private APIs, and it usually is as easy as circumventing an #ifdef. I could go on, but I hope you get the picture.

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And regarding my question about video codecs, can you recommend any software?

Why not be very specific about the formats that interest you, then someone could possibly give you a more definitive answer. An interesting note that I've mentioned here before, in iOS 4, Apple has opened up general access to the other processors. If someone was so inclined, porting hardware accelerated versions of video and audio codecs should be easier.

Mostly avi -> xvid, divx, mpeg2 and wmv (in that order pf priorities :p)