Congratulations to Apple and at&t !!!

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Nóri — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:01:06 GMT

What kind of phone do you have now?

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Domenico — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:01:04 GMT

Hi Mr Keith

pls see here

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/six-million-ibricks-and-growing/

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Keith Combs — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:42:35 GMT

6,000,000 bricks???? Let's build a house !!!

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Keith Combs — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:44:32 GMT

Nori,

I have the Palm Treo 750 Windows Mobile 6 device for my phone. I use either my Zune 80 or Archos 605 WIFI for my video player when I travel. Depends on my mood. The Archos has the bigger screen and better battery life so I use it for long flights.

Cheers,

Keith

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dovella — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:03:26 GMT

i buy

Samsung Omnia i 900

http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/news/newsIrRead.do?news_ctgry=irnewsrelease&news_seq=8999

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Keith Combs — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:46:45 GMT

Yes, the Samsung SGH-i900 Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro device is a looker. But unfortunately it isn't being sold yet here in the USA.

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dovella — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:00:07 GMT

In these days should be distributed in Italy look forward to this device because I am sure will offer a beautiful user experience.

I saw many tests on you tube and the characteristics are very satisfied

(excuse me my poor English)

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Stan Spotts — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:14:38 GMT

It's funny, but they had the intelligence to add Exchange support (Lotus Notes who?), but didn't give the phone the management capabilities of the Blackberry. Our communications guys won't support the iPhone since they can't manage it. If the CIO loses his Blackberry, they can remotely flatten it, so no sensitive info is left on it.

I figure that the iPhone is geared towards "cool", but management like this would have given it an inroad to the corporate market.

I don't have either, I have a SmartPhone ;).

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Keith Combs — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:07:24 GMT

Dovella, I agree. It looks like a very nice alternative to the iPhone and considering it has Windows Mobile 6.1, it should be a great corporate citizen as well.

Stan, our MSIT department agrees with yours. Our MSIT department is setting Secure User Access (SUA) standards for laptops and mobile devices. Unfortunately the 3G iPhone doesn't meet those standards so although it can be used at the moment, the ban hammer is likely going to fall in the not to distant future.

Some people might consider this a good thng. No access to corporate email. Take back your life.

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beanie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:47:35 GMT

New NVidia Tegra chips claim it can play 26-30 hours of HD video. It has OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics acceleration.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/handheld.html

Media players using it should start coming out late 2008. Smartphones using Tegra should start coming out sometime in 2009. Hope Zune 3.0 uses it.

NVidia is a Microsoft Embedded Partner.

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Keith Combs — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:01:11 GMT

Sounds good to me. I hope Zune 3 uses it, too. They need some help in the battery life department.

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dovella — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:44:09 GMT

Oh no!!

buy samsung or wait nvidia tegra mobile ??

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Stu — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:28:35 GMT

Keith, c'mon man, what device does all this with BT, WI-FI, 3G, and in this form factor at this price and lasts the 5-6 hours that mine does? replaceable batteries are a myth still because what happens when the charge on the replaced unit runs down? so best bet, charge, and use effeciently, like turning off 3g, wifi, bt, etc when not needed; yknow a lil called efficiency?

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Keith Combs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:47 GMT

Stu, I don't disagree. Frankly, what devices on the market match the capabilties? Very few at the moment.

I have not made the plunge yet. Still waiting to touch and feel some of the winmo devices that are coming.

Battery is definitely an issue for me. I'm headed to Hawaii in November and that's a 12 hour flight from Dallas. I have no idea what gadgets I'll take for the flight, but they need to last.

Looks like people are figuring out what to turn off for longer life in the iPhone. I'd turn off GPS, WIFI, BT and Exchange direct push.