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Windows Mobile: Here comes the iPhone

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If you are in any way interested in Mobile Phone techology, the announcement by Apple of their "iPhone" was probably something you watched with great interest. It's definitely a gorgeous piece of design, and I love their  user interface: being able to zoom into an image by simply widening the gap between your fingers pressed against the touch-screen - that's brilliant, that's what that is.

I read an interesting topic on Pocket PC Thoughts that discussed how while Apple is moving completely to touch screen, Microsoft seems to be moving more towards non-touch screen devices and more support for keyboards, with products like the Dash and Q.

My own view is that I don't care if the UI is controlled by a keyboard or a touch-screen, I just want it simple and intuitive.

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  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2007
    I am disappointed that at this time Apple are saying sorry you cannot develop for the iphone. Maybe they will at least allow widget development for the device. That said it is possible for widgets to access core OSX functionality such as Quartz etc so maybe having only widget support would not be such a bad thing. However the important thing to keep in mind is that this is a version 1.0 device. Once again Apple shocks the world with a V1 device that has people literally frothing at the mouth for the device. Who knows that V2 etc will bring. I personally wish Apple would release a quad gsm phone that was not tied to any provider. Maybe this will happen at some point. Either way I too will be watching with interest. Since I have probably purchased at least 8 mobile devices ever since my first - an HP320LX, its only right that I spend yet more dollars on yet another device :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2007
    Some of the iPhone features - the voicemail for example - seem tied to the mobile operator. This is something that Windows Mobile devices don't do - most Windows Mobile devices are available to work with any network. I can see completely why the iPhone is closed to developers. Supporting developers and creating a security model that protects users and networks is not a trivial thing. It's something that Microsoft works very hard at. There is space for many approaches in the mobile phone market :-)

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2007
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