Matt
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Re: Another limitation
said by theeinstein  :Very few phones on the market WILL do the things you talk about without some kind of manipulation. So try rephrasing your comment to include a slightly more believable argument. My last 3 phones would do tons more than the iPhone, including tethering. Moto V9M, Moto Q9c, and XV6700. Tethering, like MMS/SMS, is a staple of a cell phone. It baffles me why the iPhone can't do these simple things.
I guess if surfing the (limited, non-flash) web is important to you, then the iPhone is the way to go. That's its only real claim to fame. |
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FLengineer
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Re: Another limitation
MattE you forgot the best phrase of the instructions.
"it will do some internal magic" |
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Dogfather
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| said by FLengineer :MattE you forgot the best phrase of the instructions. "it will do some internal magic" Or turn the phone into a pretty bricked paperweight. |
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thevorpal
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I just gave up on my XV6700 for an iPhone. I find that the iPhone is worth much more than the xv6700 in terms of making the most features with the most usable format.
Now, with my xv6700 I could do many things, including remotely controlling my computer over the interface, I still haven't found an equivalent option for the iphone (if someone knows of one I'd appreciate it).
But for use as a phone, and not some sort of bulky modem with a screen, the iphone IS the better option. I barely used the xv6700 as a phone. It was so bad that I took to simply not carrying it as a phone anymore and borrowing my wife's cell when I needed to make a call. It was a PDA that could access the cellular networks.
I am a tinkerer. I love messing with the UI, and nuts and bolts of a computing product. The xv6700 was great for that... but like I said, when it comes to actually getting things done and doing it well, the iphone is a better option.
I still own my xv6700, I might sell it if I decide to jailbreak my iphone and develop my own apps for it. Or I might turn it into a touch panel controller for a car. It isn't bad hardware, just that the implementation of it doesn't even come close to what the iphone offers. |
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Dogfather
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July 22nd, @12:15PM
| said by thevorpal :Now, with my xv6700 I could do many things, including remotely controlling my computer over the interface, I still haven't found an equivalent option for the iphone (if someone knows of one I'd appreciate it). Mocha VNC Lite is available free in the iPhone app store and there is a full version that adds some feature for $6.
»www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm
Works awesome and OS X supports VNC serving out of the box. I run RealVNC Enterprise on my Vista machine and it was well worth the $50. The only problem is it doesn't support resolutions over 1680x1200 at this time because of a scroll window limitation of OS X Mobile (or whatever you want to call OS X on the iPhone). You can do larger resolutions, but parts of the desktop don't show up on the iPhone so some portions of windows appear outside the scroll range of the phone. For me it's not a big deal at 1920x1200 but it can be a PITA on my Mac Pro running 2560x1600. |
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