Yeah, I too thought of a black market iPhone, but imagined it'd be hard to get hold of a 3GS at this early stage. I hope they ditch these ridiculous exclusivity contracts soon. Am not feeling very Apple fanboyish at the moment, however nice this MBP is to use.
N900 is phone & puter. And isn't tied to any contract or carrier. Funny how Nokia have never taken hold in the US the way they have in the rest of the world. Took them a long time to even release their flagship smartphones for the North American market. Maybe these kind of phones, and them potentially buying Palm, will start to change that. On 28-Sep-09, at 10:57 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I was also surprised to learn that their was no camera and did read > about > the technical issues with the hardware that was intended for the > iTouch > camera so it was pulled and delayed. > I can't see myself using a mobile device that lacks a camera at this > point. > On the other hand, I need it for testing/researching/building mobile > apps. > Suppose a black market iPhone is a better choice (I'm a verizon > customer). > > N900 is an exciting device... can it be used as a phone w/ data plan > or just > a pocket puter? > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Rupert Howe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Ah. That kind of makes sense. > > > > Not sure whether I mentioned it on this list or just on the > artists in > > the cloud list, but I got to play with an N900 a couple of weeks > ago, > > and the image quality looked fantastic... although so far the only > > sample videos posted on Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr etc have been > crappy - > > either shot in darkness or of wide vistas with no colour or detail. > > Was just ranting about this on Twitter. If you're going to bother > > posting a sample video, at least shoot an exterior and interior > close > > up of a person and/or some detail with some speech. So frustrating. > > > > The other good thing about the N900 is that the Maemo OS is open > > source, Linux based. Which will allow some room for fun mobile > toys & > > tools to be built with it. > > > > > > On 28-Sep-09, at 3:08 PM, Julian Seery Gude wrote: > > > > > Rupert, > > > > > > I have had the same reaction. > > > > > > In general I'm happy that there's one more device out there to > help > > > people join the ranks of shooting spontaneous video. Reliable > sources > > > have disassembled the new Touch and shown that there's a spot > for a > > > camera lens which supports the rumor (which Jobs has denied) that > > > Apple had to pull the camera off the Touch due to technical > problems. > > > This sounds like the truth to me because who in their right bloody > > > mind would exclude their top tier product from the latest premium > > > feature? > > > > > > Apple is definitely having some issues right now, the current > iPhone > > > 3.1 software release is VERY bad - truly as bad as any crap ware > that > > > Microsoft has put out there. > > > > > > On a brighter note, I'm really glad to see Nokia finally pulling > their > > > finger out (the Nokia N900 with Maemo - http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) > > > and won't it be grand when there's a photo/video centric Android > > > phone? > > > > > > /jules > > > > > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: > > > > > > > I just went to look at buying an iPod touch, thinking that it > now > > > had > > > > a video camera. Because the iPhone does. > > > > > > > > Turns out it doesn't . Typical Apple WTF BS. > > > > > > > > But... wait for it... the new IPOD NANO *does*. WTF? BS. > > > > > > > > Anyway, the quality of the 640x480 H264 videos it shoots looks > quite > > > > impressive. The colours are quite vibrant and there's a whole > bunch > > > > of live video effects. Effects, I should add, that those stupid > > > > bastards have deleted from iMovie. WTF? BS. > > > > > > > > You can see samples here: > > > > http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features/video-camera.html > > > > > > > > Would certainly be a very discreet little camcorder for > capturing > > > the > > > > world around you. > > > > > > > > But really, though, Apple: WTF? > > > > > > > > BS > > > > > > > > Rupert > > > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Julian Seery Gude > > > [email protected] <julian%40exceler8.com> > > > {561} 584-9088 or {skype} exceler8 > > > LOCALNa8ion.com and exceler8.com > > > On the web: http://www.google.com/profiles/JulianSeeryGude > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
