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The iNewton is Here

I’ve a lot of thoughts on the iPhone, but let’s see a final product before I (a) rip it technically to shreds and (b) realise that it all means nothing and Apple could sell a Motorola Brick Phone to their fans for $2,000 and it would be hailed as revolutionary. Why don’t you just head over to All About Symbian for my current thoughts?

…We now have current smartphones sporting 8GB of internal memory and external cards of comparable size. We have phones using GPS, rather than relying on GSM tower signals. We have devices capable of DVD resolution video recording at 30 fps that can output the signal out to any television through standard connectors. We can roam at near broadband speeds on 3G UTMS networks, pulling video podcasts out of the air, we can have our personal photos taken and uploaded in seconds, and then viewed from anywhere in the world a few seconds later. Anyone with knowledge of C++, Java, Python or Flash can write code for these devices and anyone can run them on their own devices.

So while I’m more than happy to award Steve Jobs points for being a really good showman and getting everyone talking about his new Newton, they’re all going to be taken away again because the functions that he’s proudly boasting are ‘five years ahead of everyone else’ were, in fact, mainly with us five years ago.

January 13, 2007; Mobile Computing, Multimedia;

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