Originally Posted by infiniteloop:
“My niece has a viewty. They're not even in the same ballpark. You have to accept a couple of things, mainly that the manufacturer is not getting involved with the megapixel wars like Nokia and the others...the camera is a decent mobile phone camera but no more. It is not pretending to be a professional camera. You might have an 8 megapixel camera on your phone but it won't stop the lens being a bit poor or your memory not big enough to store more than 10 shots. The iPhone takes very decent mobile phone shots.
What you will appreciate is the amazing web browser and the usable email, the great Google Maps. Can your Viewty's web browser dial a cal for you from a restaurant's homepage? That's apart from it being a really good video iPod. I could tell a story about how I was listening to a podcast and got a call, lisened to voicemail, booked some work after checking my diary and sent an email to my diary service, then seamlessy went back to my podcast in about 10 keypresses, but I won't. Suffice it to say that the iPhone is the world's most popular mobile browser after only 9 months of availability in 5 countries. It changes everything.”
I take your points and don't want my reply to end up sounding like those two presenters on the Gadget Show but I don't need my mobile to turn into a multi functional consumer version of a blackberry with extra gadgets, just because they are gadgets but don't get me wrong, it seems a great device.
You clearly use your phone for accessing all of these services that I would have no intention of using. Do you lead a very busy life by any chance? Accessing email, using google maps and calling a restaurant whilst sending an email and such like sounds like you need a PA as well as your iPhone
Just proves how different lives we all lead and have differing requirements/wants/needs/desires, hence why I thought that the OP might be better off posting his questions in the mobile forum.
Did you get the chance/have the time to use your nieces Viewty - we keep finding little gems of functions (yes I didn't read the manual cover to cover, actually didn't read it at all) and features that keep surprising us and you here moments of "oh, look at this!" or "I didn't know it did this!"
Last edited by Captain W : 01-03-2008 at 03:19