Hey. Next time when I post some information about the product that wasn't originally in the article don't ninja edit it and make me look like the retard that didn't RTFA.

Japan says, "Meh. Been there."

Today Apple is proud to announce, Giant Hand+Phone!!

Why use any other cell phone when you can have the hand of God dial your number for you? This is going to be huge...literally!

I don't think I'd call that a full keyboard, but it certainly should be good enough for phone use...
I can't wait to see the first reviews for this thing. I've been using an htc apache for a while, and while it's design and features are basically exactly what I need, being stuck with the pocket PC platform basically sucks (only sync with outlook, what?) and the device is decidedly buggy and requires regular resets.

I'm using the Cingular 8125 with Mobile Windows, and as I said before I have an inventory of Treos, Blackberrys, etc if anyone is looking for discarded technology, to which I will add this piece of shit 8125.

I too want to see the real iPhone. I watched the Jobs' keynote and the painful process of typing out words with a single digit. I "need" to type as fast as I could on my Blackberry, which is nearly as fast as I can type on a full keyboard, maybe 40-45 WPM. This keyboard does not seem to hold that promise.

I bought a T-Mobile MDA (aka HTC Apache, Cingular 8125, Sprint 6700) in April and sold it a month later. It was a decent internet device, but a horrible phone. I now have a Treo 700w, which I was given at work so it's really more of a forced acquisition, and hate that slightly less but still can't stand Windows Mobile.

Honestly, Nokia's Series 60 platform had earned my loyalty for years, from the Nokia 3650 up to the Nokia 6600, and I've been wanting to upgrade my personal phone for a while, preferably sticking with them, but everything just seems a rehash of everything else.

I was not interested in an Apple iPhone and hated the incessant rumor and speculation. I'm still weary about the iPhone as far as third party development, slow EDGE data speeds, and the touch screen, but it is the first time something genuinely new and innovative has come out in years.

A lot of this is eye candy. Nokia's S60 web browser is also based on WebKit (same as Safari), and has very similar functionality complete with full rendering and zooming. There are also a lot of competent solutions out there for messaging, and though horribly implemented you can play media on other devices, and buy an SD card up to 8 GB.

As usual though it's Apple the brings everything together in a stunning package.

I didn't want an iPhone, up until the minute I walked down the Macworld Expo floor and saw it in person revolving in a glass case, like a scene out of Indiana Jones. I know a lot of people that feel the same way.

Just a note, the MDA is not the HTC Apache, it's the HTC Wizard.

My mistake, though they're virtually identical except one is GSM and the other CDMA.

HTC Wizard = T-Mobile MDA, Cingular 8125
HTC Apache = Sprint PPC-6700, Verizon XV-6700

I kind of really wished they didn't suck as a phone, because I really enjoyed the widescreen browsing and slingboxing.

Mine suffers from a poor speaker, which I never notice since I use a bluetooth headset, other than that it's one of the better phones I've had. I get service in areas that other verizon customers don't, and always have crystal clear calls. Could it be poor GSM implementation in the Wizard that makes it a shitty phone?

oooooh whats next an irazor for men...plays songs while you shave or an ivibrator for women...play songs while they you know what....why cant a phone just be a phone!

Probably, because it had shitty reception. Erica has a T-Mobile MDA as well and she claimed the same problems.

But the phone application was pretty piss poor as well. I rather loathe Windows Mobile, and Palm did a decent enough job of cleaning it up a bit and improving the dialing and retrieving of records in the 700w plus the fact that it has actual dedicated number buttons (a phone without number buttons, wtf?) but I'm still only using it because it was given to me.

If you want a phone that's just a phone, go get one.



Criticizing the consumer electronics industry for providing you with too many options is like criticizing SG for providing you with too many pictures of naked women.

No, what?