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Check this shit:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4629
"Significantly the document shows that the P800 range will be capable of supporting email attachments... Want a new screen saver for your Symbian smartphone? Easy, use MMS then. We don't think so - email is cheaper. If end users can by-pass an operator's MMS portal and download files directly to their smartphones, like the P800, then they won't have to pay the excessive storage and delivery prices network operators seem to want to charge to deliver MMS messages...If, as Sony Ericsson's leaked memo claims ... "attachments may be viewed using the built-in viewers for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat(PDF)," who needs MMS?
Use standard email instead. Better still viewers for over different 20 file formats may be loaded onto the P800 from the CD supplied with the original product."
20 different viewable formats? High levels of development for Symbian OS with apps to come? Sounds to me as though the P800 is going to be able to do almost everything a Pocket PC can do, and then some.
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Posted: 2002-07-26 13:58:00
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viewers it says, not creation software. bit different to a pocket pc!
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Posted: 2002-07-26 14:55:00
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What is this guy talking about? A 'LEAKED technical document' !?! There is nothing in that article that I didn't already now from publicly availably stuff.
As for the P800 vs. IPaq comparison, a P800 might be a very cool gadget when it comes out, but you can't really compare its usefulness with an IPaq. Just look at the amount of software available for Pocket PC. You can even play games like DOOM, Tomb Radier and Ultima Underworld on your IPaq! P800 and its Symbian OS won't have that kind of software availability for at least another year. And by that time, P800 will be completely obsoleted by new 3G phones. With an IPaq, you can just simply replace your T68i (or whatever you are using) with a never 3G bluetooth phone and keep using your old IPaq with it.
[ This Message was edited by: faca on 2002-07-26 14:37 ]
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Posted: 2002-07-26 15:22:00
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Umm faca
You can get Doom for the 9210 already, and as that is Symbian, I'd say you will have doom for the P800 pretty much straight away...
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Posted: 2002-07-26 15:43:00
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Oh, and considering the P800 is expected to cost about half the price of an iPaq because of network subsidies, I'll be pretty happy with a P800.
You are right that 3G will make the P800 out of date, but not for at least 18 months, and probably a lot longer. By that time, the iPaq will be looking a bit tired as well. All products have life cycles.
As far as saying why use MMS not email, I'd say because on receiving an MMS my phone will tell me straight away, where as if I want my phone to receive email, I have to set it up to poll the server, which means I am constantly using (and paying for) data. If I want to send and receive MMS, I want them to be virtually instant.
Also, for the masses, MMS is going to be a lot easier to setup than email, it should work out of the box where as email takes an external provider, and some configuration to get to work.
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Posted: 2002-07-26 15:48:00
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In my country, we don't even know when the operators will launch MMS let alone 3G network.
And if I get a p800, it will be with me for at least another 2 years or so.
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Posted: 2002-07-26 19:53:00
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The whole point of a P800 is that is a smartphone and therefore combining the two into one device...and it is the most advanced and impressive to date!...make your judgement when you have tried one, using one changed my views...i was a 9110 user who moved to two devices...and after going through a few combinations of phone and palm model, the P800 will covert me back to one device...
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Posted: 2002-07-26 19:57:00
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iPAQ is 'tainted brand'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26395.html
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Posted: 2002-07-26 19:59:00
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Hey, so is 3G
Sure the Ipaq and T68i will be outdated, but you expect 3G, UMTS to be more popular than what we have now? heh, maybe in another five or ten years ;-P Only a hand full of people even use a T68i and IPAQ in the first place, even though it's top of the line.
Hell, the majority of mobile users still use old stuff, but who cares? They are happy with it.
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Posted: 2002-07-26 20:17:00
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The P800 comes with a 1st person shooter type game, MIB-II...new from Sony, of course... Sony is porting a lot of it's PS, and PS2 games to the P800 and other upcoming SE phones... You may not get Doom, but Sony is doing everything in it's power to make sure the SE phones will have priority in terms of content from Sony Gaming, Sony Pictures, Sony Records, and Sony Electronics.
Symbian is an open standard, SW may not be as abundant as Palm's or PPC, but it is growing. Most smartphones will be running Symbian, and now that MS has scrapped their Stinger project to support Symbian, SW for UIQ or OS7 will grow. App wise, I think Symbian and PPC are on equal levels...for now.
The P800 is also being given the ability to interact with the PS2, characters and settings can be transported to other PS2 machines using the P800... training your character can also be done on the P800.
the PPC platform is nice...next best thing to a laptop... but it's too power hungry, hangs too often, cannot conform to different form factors, cannot support different screen sizes, and is as inflexible as Windows itself. It's a good choice for a PDA, but not as an OS for smartphones, and other devices other that PDAs for which it was designed for.
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Posted: 2002-07-27 05:12:00
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