There's no 3G because that would make the device considerably larger, both because of the chipset and the additional power requirements (bigger battery). 3G coverage in the US isn't that great either, whereas 2/2.5G is.
I found it interesting it's running OS X. That's not a smartphone OS, that's a desktop OS. Did they mention what kind of processor it's got on board? I missed that. Must be some kind of low power IBM/Intel thing surely. 4 hours of talk time isn't that sh1t hot either imho. You'll have to charge this device every night, or every second night at least. Be interesting to see how the battery life actually pans out in the field particularly with that great big backlight screen.
The use of a full screen interface has been coming for a while, all cell phones will do this soon I believe. However it does raise some concerns about how easy these new devices will be to damage (remember the iPod Nano screen issues) considering you take your cellphone everywhere and it's usually exposed to quite a bit of physical abuse.
Even so. It's a fucking sexy looking phone (pardon my french). I'd buy one in a snap, although I'll have to become a Free BSD developer to write mobile apps for it - which is a good thing I guess :).
Ben
· 2 years ago
Yeah I was wondering about the touchscreen too. I found the touchscreen dialler on my HTC Apache/Sprint 6700 pretty appalling. Zero tactile feedback, fat fingers, and laggy response all added up to a real PITA to dial a call.
Gizmodo has some interesting videos of the interface (I'll add links), but I'm not believing the smoothness and lack of lag until I see a real live demo.
Stu
· 2 years ago
I'd love to know what the CPU is. Surely it's an ARM, surely 'running OS X' is a bit of marketing hype. For starters it's got to be a tweaked version of OS X for the mobile and the UI is totally different (touch screen instead of a mouse) so most people are going to have to re-work their UI's at least.
And yeah, UI responsiveness will be very interesting to see...
Michael
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the great article. Keep up the good work.
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I found it interesting it's running OS X. That's not a smartphone OS, that's a desktop OS. Did they mention what kind of processor it's got on board? I missed that. Must be some kind of low power IBM/Intel thing surely. 4 hours of talk time isn't that sh1t hot either imho. You'll have to charge this device every night, or every second night at least. Be interesting to see how the battery life actually pans out in the field particularly with that great big backlight screen.
The use of a full screen interface has been coming for a while, all cell phones will do this soon I believe. However it does raise some concerns about how easy these new devices will be to damage (remember the iPod Nano screen issues) considering you take your cellphone everywhere and it's usually exposed to quite a bit of physical abuse.
Even so. It's a fucking sexy looking phone (pardon my french). I'd buy one in a snap, although I'll have to become a Free BSD developer to write mobile apps for it - which is a good thing I guess :).
Gizmodo has some interesting videos of the interface (I'll add links), but I'm not believing the smoothness and lack of lag until I see a real live demo.
And yeah, UI responsiveness will be very interesting to see...