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Hmmm... Can someone explain to me why it's running so slow? The iPhone has specs which are far superior to what computers had in the mid 90s. Heck, the specs of the iPhone 3GS and modern WM devices like the TouchPro are similar to those of mid-range computers of the early 2000s: 256MB RAM, 600MHz CPU, 16GB of storage, fast enough graphics for a basic Windows interface, a sufficient resolution especially with WM devices now which have VGA or WVGA - PCs with those specs were running XP 7-8 years ago, so why is Windows 95 running so slow? I never understood why XP for instance can't be ported for modern PocketPCs or the iPhone (obviously there'd be less use porting Windows for the iPhone but you could port an older MacOS for it couldn't you?)...??

If I didn't have an HTC TouchPro with a 16GB MicroSD, I would so rather buy this than an iPod...

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Haha, that's pretty awesome. I've been meaning to buy a vintage original Walkman from eBay, as those things will soon disappear from the face of the Earth and it'll be pretty cool to have one to show people in 2040... :D (plus it'll probably be worth a lot more then)

I haven't bought a sound card since the 90s when they obviously started integrating them into mobos. They got 7.1 HD onboard audio now, so unless you're an audiophile what's the point...

You know now they have prescription glasses that also have a polarized layer that you can put on when watching 3D movies or just wear all the time if you don't mind the tint. I mean at this point it's probably not worth it for watching 2-3 3D movies a year, but as 3D gets more popular so will these glasses I think.

3D TV without glasses is only possible with a radically different technology like holograms or some insane thing that only exists in science fiction at this point which would actually allow you to see different sides of an object as you look at it from different angles, or real 3D, but that's probably generations away, the 3D that we have now is "flat" 3D, but still quite awesome.

Anyways, what I meant to say is that the only way we can have the 3D effect coming from a flat surface like a screen is by having your eyes see different images and that can only be accomplished with glasses...

What I don't understand, again, is why we don't have 3D Blu-Ray or DVDs yet that can play on our currently existing 120+Hz TVs and monitors that we can watch with our Real D glasses, all the technology is there, the TVs and/or DVD/Blu-Ray players will need a firmware upgrade and the DVD/Blu-Rays will have a halved video capacity due to the double frame rate but you can still fit a movie on it...

I'm a little confused about the 3D TV technology right now... Is this the 3D TV that uses the same technology as Real D - you wear "passive" oppositely polarized glasses and the screen has a 144Hz refresh rate half of which you can only see with one eye and the other half with the other one, and if that's the technology why arent all 144Hz TVs 3D, is it really that hard to make them, there are a ton of 240Hz TVs out there too, so obviously it doesn't work with TVs the same way as it does with DLP projectors so if anyone knows why and what the difference is there, please tell me, what makes a TV 3D? Obviously there's probably more to 3D TV technology than just a 144Hz+ refresh rate, otherwise there'd be a ton of 3D-capable TVs out there.

Then there's nVidia's 3D technology which requires a 120Hz monitor (I guess 60Hz is still pretty smooth, though Real D uses 72), but they also use shutter glasses which I don't understand why they can't just use the regular Real D glasses - I have a feeling that 3D TV is more like this technology...

Can someone please enlighten me...?

Here's why I have no respect for the iPhone -

* Apple launched a data-oriented device in the middle of 200-friggin-SEVEN which didn't have 3G and relied on the EDGE network of the 1990s... That one still cracks me up.

* An OS which didn't allow for tethering; MMS which free phones have been able to use since the early 2000s and most shockingly Copy and Paste which the very first WM PDAs have had since... pretty much since there have been PDAs...

* A 3.5" screen which STILL is only 320x480 while 640x800 WVGA is becoming the norm with Windows Mobile devices and an even higher resolution is in the works...

* A processor that barely just now reached 600MHz, while a 1.3GHz Snapdragon is now a reality and HTC has used 528MHz processesors since early 2008...

* A NON-removeable battery, which is completely absurd, why would you willingly not allow users to be able to carry around a spare battery or have the option to replace a battery after a few years of use (ill-advised to use a device for that long, but it is their right)

* 128MB RAM until 2009

* Stereo bluetooth for the first time in mid-2009 on this media-oriented high-end phone with tons of storage most of which generally used for music... My original BlackJack had stereo bluetooth in 2006.

* A Camera which didn't have autofocus and was kept at 2MP until 2009... Still no flash in 2009, phones that cost less than $100 over a year ago had/have that.

* In 2009 still no physical keyboard... and for the FIRST time in 2009 a landscape keyboard option... *SIGH*... have they seen a human hand?

* STILL no multitasking when WM devices had that since WM has been in existence. This is almost as ridiculous as the copy and paste...

* NO removeable storage - why FORCE the customer to get 16GB or 32GB when you can give them the option to get the device for much less with just a basic 512MB or 1GB integrated storage and THEN decide how much space they need and get the MicroSD card they need, have the freeom to get more than one card and swap them whenver they want, have the option to get bigger cards as those become available... All these freedoms at no cost for the manufacturer, why... That's your typical Apple style - RESTRICTING you into using their software, their design, their everything... Windows Mobile devices and the OS itself offers you SO MUCH MORE...


And the reason why those are SO ABSURD is that the phone had a state-of-the art capacitive screen when it came out that no other device had for over a year, had Wi-Fi in 2007 when it wasn't the norm, had a very innovative OS, a 3.5mm jack, now it has an integrated compass which is more or less revolutionary... which means that they did all those things on purpose, they could have fixed half the things I mentioned at NO additional cost back in 2007 or even earler, they're complete no-brainers that would have taken a week to add/fix. The new 3GS is not an innovation of any kind... To 3/4th of the "new features" of this device, I have to say - welcome to the 2000s Apple... Wow...

What is ridiculous is that they JUST released a NEW version of this device which STILL does not feature many of the standard features that not only smartphones but phones across the board have had for over a year now... The iPhone has been and continues to be an oxymoron... It's like getting a car that has a $5000 windshield and a $50,000 engine but it only lets you go up to 2nd gear...

And that's why I don't like them. They're doing all these things while lowring the nation's IQ...