[internetworkers] iPhone is useless

Tom Karches tkarches at imapmail.org
Mon Jan 15 11:18:41 EST 2007


tony at tonyspencer.com wrote:
> Thats quite a bit bigger and you can't make a phone call on it.
> 
> On Jan 14, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Tom Karches wrote:
> 
>> zman at shell.neverwhere.org wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jim Allman wrote:
>>>> Finally, if you're frustrated by the iPhone's apparent limitations,
>>>> you might want to look into the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet:
>>>>   http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9981902594.html
>>>
>>> Why? It's huge, it's not a phone, did I mention it's huge...
>>>
>> The N800 measures 5.7 x 3.0 x 0.5 inches
>>
>> The iPhone measures 4.5 x 2.3 x 0.45 inches
>>

You can make VOIP calls, FWIW. Any pocket that would hold the iPhone 
would likely hold the N800. My point is that (in my opinion) it is not 
significantly less portable than the iPhone. It's also much more 
flexible if you are willing to make the size/cost tradeoff. It also does 
not tie you to a single wireless carrier. As long as your phone has 
Bluetooth and a data plan, it doesn't matter who your carrier is.

--Tom






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