iPhone

[gumbie]

You wear scarves & fingerless gloves.... and have a very large penis hanging of your forehead..

[Richard]

phew id rather have penis on my head then be a dickhead

[driftke70]

yeah but you need fingerless gloves otherwise you cant use the touch screen, and you need a scarf cause you hang out in the city all the time.

[driftke70]

[kaibeecee]

you can gripe about not being able to wear gloves and that, but the keypads on phones now are so small you need childs fingers to use them. That and the Samsung touch driver is absolutely hopeless .

there is a reason why iphones are popular, not just trendy.

and any phone that relies on UNIX > windows mobile/Nokia/symbian and the like.

[driftke70]

saying an os is bad without logical points and comparisons is worse than me saying iphone owners are trendy douche bags who try hard at things in life that dont matter.

[Juturna]

and yet both are true?

[kaibeecee]

i had an iphone up until recently and have found hard to live without it since. i had it for practicality reasons, i've had HTC/PalmOS, and most other main WinMobile/smartphones but the iphone is by far the best...

but seeing as you asked for reasons...

windows mobile: slow, chunky, installing apps is not easy, unstable at best of times. is still windows. the ONLY good thing is the native exchange support. but we all know exchange sucks and POP still rules.

symbian: old design, hopelessly slow, uses java ME, syncML and MOAP. has only just gotten the UI built into it without relying on crappy 3rd party source.

that being said, win-mobile IS getting better, though iPhoneOS is just that bit more streamlined being darwin based.

it seems to work, is easy enough for idiots to grasp and is a great (UNIX) building block for open source development. has all popular POP/IMAP/exhange support.

microsoft is also developing an iOffice app set at the moment.

apple has their shit together and do really great things, which is why they're selling. the trendy shit is just a shitty side effect.

[hachirusto]

lol like the hipster comments but I think they have all moved on to the next trend of having the IPAd

on that note managed to get tomtom us and canda for my trip to the states , should make it easier

[driftke70]

i tend to agree,

although I run the newest version of symbian os and I cant fault it,
it was a little slow at first, but i removed everything from the internal memory and installed it again on the 32gig hard drive except for the main os and everything runs much faster, in fact in direct comparisons with my friends iphone its faster to open things and do things, scrolls more smoothly etc.

Installing of apps is piss easy with ovi store or 3rd party. You dont even have to sync with your computer and you can scroll through the store on your phone.

That being said I use my apps very little, i feel people change their life to use apps instead of apps making their life easier.

Full qwerty keyboard on n97 is way easier to type with and I can send messages without looking at my phone.

Also the phone has flash and a touch screen with a d pad on the slide out keyboard, so when you get to flash roll over things you can just move a cursor and use it like a normal computer. Runs smooth as with every website and never tries to open the shitty mobile version of web pages.