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To: Melas
Hotspot. It works, and Apple doesn’t have it. I occasionally create one for my non-3g Nook, and I regularly create a hotspot in my car so my children can connect with their Ipod touches. It’s a great irony that I couldn’t do that with my Iphone which is a sister device to theirs.

The iPhone can do it... AT&T won't allow it. That's not a shorfailing of the phone. It's a failing of the carrier.

Apple’s internet experience is crippled with it’s sub-par flash support. Not the case with the high end androids with the latest flash player.

Flash player is still crippled and the choice is to kowtow to a dying format and embrace the new, or to force a change. Apple has always forced the new. Android phones with Flash have abysmal battery life... and you can't change that. You have to remember to turn off the player.

Voice navigation. Can’t be beat My phone sit’s in a dock on my dash and speaks to me (and I to it) just like my previous dedicated navigation system that it replaced. To get the Iphone to do the same, it’s an expensive app as the free and cheap ones aren’t even remotely close.

It is available.

Iphone has a decent keyboard, but it can’t compare to the speed I have with swype. Apple doesn’t have it. My wife uses the Dragon dictation software on hers, and rarely uses a keyboard at all. Again, apple doesn’t have it.

Sorry, I've had Dragon Dictation on my iPhone for two years...

I video chat with the wife more than I call her now. Apple won’t do it unless you’re in a hotspot.

Again, pioneered by Apple... but crippled by AT&T's limitations.

The videos from my iphone looked ok on my television, but not even close to my android. Difference: HTC was considerate enough to realize that it’s the 21st century and component cables are so 1999, so they game me HDMI support.

Why use a cable... I send HD content directly from my iPhone4 and iPad to my AppleTV without a cable... works perfectly. I also have an adaptor for iPhone/iPad to HDMI... also works perfectly.

Your complaints are based more in not knowing that actual facts, Melas.

30 posted on 01/20/2011 4:03:49 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker
The iPhone can do it... AT&T won't allow it. That's not a shorfailing of the phone. It's a failing of the carrier.

Irrelevant. Wifi hotspot is a feature that I use, and as a user it really doesn't matter to me why my Iphone couldn't do it. It only mattered to me that it couldn't do it.

It (voice navigation)is available.

I never said it wasn't. I clearly stated that it was available on the Iphone, but expensive. I get the same level of functionality free on my android.

Again, pioneered by Apple... but crippled by AT&T's limitations.

Again why should I care? The fact that the limitations come from (at the moment) the Iphone's sole carrier doesn't make it any less of a limitation. You don't honestly expect someone to say, "Yeah, it can't do it, but it's AT&T's fault, and not Apples, so it's ok." do you? Why use a cable... I send HD content directly from my iPhone4 and iPad to my AppleTV without a cable... works perfectly. I also have an adaptor for iPhone/iPad to HDMI... also works perfectly.

Ah, Apple TV. So if I got rid of my non-Apple Blu-Ray Player and/or Toshiba LED which are both wireless, I wouldn't need a cable? Sorry, not married to Apple. Bottom line is that I am having a much better user experience with my android that I did with my Iphone. That's a fact, and nothing can change it.

56 posted on 01/21/2011 9:21:20 AM PST by Melas
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