Posted on 01/19/2007 11:06:08 AM PST by TC Rider
Both phones feature touch screens, use the slow Edge wireless data network, play music and videos, have digital cameras, and can check e-mail and access the Internet.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
Jan 19, 2007 12:46 PM
Barely a week old, Apple's iPhone already has a knock-off -- a slim, buttonless, touch-screen cell phone from LG Electronics and fashion house Prada Group. Or, is the iPhone a knock-off of the LG Prada Phone?
Announced Thursday for delivery in Europe next month, the $780 Prada Phone features touch-screen technology that is similar to the $500 iPhone, which is scheduled for delivery in the U.S. in June.
The two phones have other things in common: both operate on the slow Edge wireless data network, both play music and videos, both have digital cameras, and users of both can check e-mail and access the Internet. The iPhone will have Wi-Fi capability, which the Prada Phone lacks.
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We former electronics industry employees always said LG = Little Guys (aka "The 38th parallel boys")
Pros prefer Prada
If the iPod hits a niche market, it's one hell of a niche.
Yea, Goldstar sucks. I always hated their monitors back in the early days on PC's.
Same guy sold me a bunch of "Couch" leather bags.
"Apple has a history of lifting technology from other's efforts, witness the mouse and GUI interface that Apple borrowed from Xerox PARC, OSX borrrows heavily from Unix."
Sounds like you're confusing Microsoft with Apple. And, OSX actually IS BSD Unix.
I guess that I can't see having either one
life is too short to be 'hooked up' to something 12/7, let alone 24/7
Actually, not only is OS X BSD-based, but it is based on the old NeXTSTEP OS from the NeXT computer, which was a BSD derivative built on top of the Mach microkernel.
"BSD is the most secure *nix based on the DARPA contract for internet security."
I don't know if this is accurate. If you are referring to DARPA's Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems project, that was canceled back in 2003:
If you look at the back of the iPhone, notice the removable battery enclosure.
Yup. It'll be interesting to see how the touchscreen keyboard flys.
"Bought it from my good friend Bob Sacamento."
Pictures of the back of the iPhone do not seem to be widely available. Perhaps you could post one.
I was going on published reports that the battery was not a user installed option, ala iPod.
Sounds like you're confusing Microsoft with Apple. And, OSX actually IS BSD Unix.
No confusion at all, it was Apple that visited the PARC lab on that fateful day.
Like millions of others, I could be easily confused by all the permutations of Unix, which I consider a difference without a distinction.
Touchscreen pros:
1. Doesn't require a hardwired set of extremely small buttons. Instead, you just present the buttons that are needed for the current task, at the most appropriate size, configuration and position for that task.
2. The multi-touch concept is pretty powerful. Design the UI so I can use my fingers as if they were fingers, not just a mouse attached to my hand.
Touchscreen cons:
3. You have to look & aim carefully. You can't let your fingers just feel your way to a specific letter of button.
4. Touchscreens are prone to damage and to physical degradation from dirty fingers.
#4 is prob the biggest problem. Spend $500 on a phone that won't last as long?
The first mouse to be shipped as a part of a computer and was intendedDouglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1964
for personal computer navigation was Apple's Macintosh I Mouse.
Actually, not only is OS X BSD-based, but it is based on the old NeXTSTEP OS from the NeXT computer, which was a BSD derivative built on top of the Mach microkernel.
XS> "BSD is the most secure *nix based on the DARPA contract for internet security."
I don't know if this is accurate. If you are referring to DARPA's Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems project, that was canceled back in 2003:
DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says
28 posted on 01/19/2007 12:53:55 PM MST by magellan
A *nix geek would know 4.3 > V BSD v4.3 *nix is greater then ATT System V Unix(R) The DARPA funding for computer security with BSD started in the late 1970s.
Your citation is wrong, the first mouse shipped as part of a personal computer system would have been the Lisa.
TC
The Lisa was first introduced in January 1983 (announced on January 19) at a cost of $9,995 US ($20,600 in Nov. 2006 dollars). One would be hardpressed to call $20,000 computer a personal computer.
In 1945 Vanaver Bush conceived and published a paper describing
a time when users would interact with a machine with a GUI.
If anybody was the father of the GUI
it was Bush but then Bush never did anything with it. Engelbart did.
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