Hintry | # 141 | 2010-05-07, 13:50 | Report

For your consideration...

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/26...s-this-summer/

Crashdamage | # 142 | 2010-05-07, 13:52 | Report

I hear ya. I wish it was illegal. But the unfortunate fact is that out of 50-75 business emails a day I deal with probably 90-95 percent are in HTML. Business email, not friends and family stuff. So unfortunately the ability to do HTML is a necessity.

tissot | # 143 | 2010-05-07, 13:57 | Report

TG01 is there for Europeans to buy btw.

As far as Japanese phones come. They are truly horrible to use even if it's a feature phone. Sharp being good example where buttons place change in a different menus. It's not a surprise that iphone have taken japanese smartphone market down rather fast.

Hintry | # 144 | 2010-05-07, 14:00 | Report

Sending inline images requires HTML email. So for me its a necessity.

In some cases I'll attach documents but generally I prefer to view the email conversation without opening other files.

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Crashdamage | # 145 | 2010-05-07, 14:24 | Report

I've had a few years experience using many companies cloud-based services. Unfortunately, it's required for my business. Given a choice I'd have nothing to do with any of them. You can't trust 'em, you can't depend on 'em and you don't control 'em. Triple FAIL. And it's not improving with maturity like one would expect it would.

In a nutshell, cloud services have been too slow and unreliable. Our company has begun work on a totally new system that will largely, though not entirely, replace the cloud-based system we now use. It will take a couple of years and a major investment but be well worth it in speed and reliability. I wish the other companies we deal with would do the same.

gerbick | # 146 | 2010-05-07, 14:25 | Report

Ditto. And via my iPhone, I use them too. But... those are also usable via the web. Having an integrated app is friggin' awesome because I don't have to click on a bookmark, login, then go through the procedures of getting my files up. The iPhone apps shorten some of that for me.

No arguments from me. But as it stands, it still is lacking true document change/publishing - not counting that Quick Office app, it's not integrated into the OS, so I cannot open a file that's been e-mailed to me (at least it couldn't early on, not sure about now) - and that's what I lack.

As far as the rest, I'd say we're in agreement.

I'm in agreement here too. Sure, the fact that you could install EasyDebian, then OpenOffice is an option. I don't call it a fast option. It's rather slow from what I've experienced... but it does work. Same for a few other things, but the fact that it's there - via browser or lengthy install - doesn't mean you'd be fully lacking it.

Just might be lacking some convenience of an integrated or somewhat limited functionality (read: function specific just to one service, such as the Box.net app, or Facebook app) might offer.

I liked, but loathed those things. Awesome for me since I was always traveling and during those days laptops were 10lbs. as a norm... just loathed them for personal reasons (never had a damn charge when I needed it the most!)...

Laughing Man | # 147 | 2010-05-07, 14:35 | Report

Can't you email files into Dropbox, Google Docs (not sure about the others)? Though I think with Google Docs at least you can upload stuff via PixelPipe also. As for accessing files from Dropbox I just use their website (or mobile website). The slowest part however is the downloading of the files (usually a specific word document I need). Since I have to click on it, then choose where to save it (although I could just throw everything into Documents if I wanted to be messy). I can imagine that if you were downloading multiple files it would be very cumbersome.

ysss | # 148 | 2010-05-07, 14:39 | Report

I think full blown apps on a mobile device is a novelty. They look cool for the first minute or so, they feel amusing for the next five minutes, and an annoyance for the rest of their installed time on your device.

daperl | # 149 | 2010-05-07, 14:42 | Report

This is sick:




Top 1: Hitachi Mobile Hi-Vision CAM Wooo from KDDI au

(yes, this is a cell phone and it lets you record video in 720p and at 30fps, and also features microSDHC/HDMI Mini interfaces and a 3-inch IPS screen (480×854))

Laughing Man | # 150 | 2010-05-07, 14:51 | Report

Perhaps, I've had several occasions in which I've used OpenOffice (particularly Writer) to edit documents and write documents. But then again my use cases aren't usual (and my situation isn't either, I'm a graduate student that commutes about two hours each way to work and to school). Having the same compatibility with my desktop (at home) and laptop is extremely useful.

Likewise having Xournal (granted the Maemo version of it isn't necessarily "full blown" since there's probably one missing feature or two) is extremely useful. I use it to annotate the PDFs I read. Being able to then read the exact same file with my desktop/laptop, or even any computer when I have my N900 hooked up to it (I also run Xournal off the N900's storage) is extremely useful.

Now granted after I finish graduate school it may not be as useful, since I'm not going be needing that functionality on a weekly or even daily basis. But that's why I bought the N900 the first semester of graduate school. I may not have bought it if I wasn't in an environment where its functionality isn't useful (e.g. my friend who owns a Droid and works in IT/Programming).

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