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That's in case the battery goes boom. The bend at the bottom is an absolute dealbreaker for me.
The pictures make it look a lot worse than it actually is. I have a G1 and the bend isn't noticable unless you lay it flat on the table and look at it in profile.
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I think the problem there is Apple - they don't want Flash support on the iPhone. They haven't explicitly stated so, but I think they don't want it because it would give people the ability to develop full iPhone applications that don't go through their store and approval process.
That's also why they're never going to support HTML5, client-side storage, or geo-location in Mobile Safari.
Today, development is cheap. Compelling products can be built as side projects with a minimal investment of time and money. If creators don't have to worry about making money with their creations, they're more likely to use whatever technology they feel like using.
If Mobile Safari lags behind other browsers in implementing emerging web standards, many developers will run browsers that stay current, even if they have to buy a new phone to do so. When they come up with nifty ideas that are relatively easy to build, they'll use whatever technologies they want, which will occassionally be HTML5 and friends. After normal iPhone users come across enough neat hacks that their phone can't run because their phone can't support it, they'll switch phones.
I doubt that Apple would let Mobile Safari lag behind other browsers, especially since they'll likely want desktop Safari to support emerging standards, but even if they did, it would be self-defeating.
now you'll just need to find a provider who will actually allow you to use VoiP over 3G.
A better (more future-safe) link would be http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html
Interesting, it says "HTC Magic" on the left navigation frame. HTC forgot to update its template?
Why the little bend at the bottom? It doesn't seem very pocket friendly.
now you'll just need to find a provider who will actually allow you to use VoiP over 3G.
Why the little bend at the bottom? It doesn't seem very pocket friendly.
That's a way to protect the trackball if you lay the phone face down on a flat surface. On the G1, it is not that pocket unfriendly.
While you can configure an unlock touch gesture, I haven't bothered yet because I don't find that the menu button is being pressed accidentally in my pocket.
Does anyone know if this will be available in unlocked/developer version similar to the G1?
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I think the problem there is Apple - they don't want Flash support on the iPhone. They haven't explicitly stated so, but I think they don't want it because it would give people the ability to develop full iPhone applications that don't go through their store and approval process.
That's also why they're never going to support HTML5, client-side storage, or geo-location in Mobile Safari.
- Mobile Safari already supports local storage
- Mobile Safari already supports geolocation: http://geekswithblogs.net/MobileLOB/archive/2009/06/19/getti...
- Mobile Safari also already has other portions of HTML 5 implemented, such as canvas, not to mention really good coverage of css 3.
So as it turns out shipping Mobile Safari already has much better HTML 5 support than many desktop browsers. You may be able to fault iPhone and Mobile Safari a lot of things, but standards support is certainly not one of them.
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I think the problem there is Apple - they don't want Flash support on the iPhone. They haven't explicitly stated so, but I think they don't want it because it would give people the ability to develop full iPhone applications that don't go through their store and approval process.
That's also why they're never going to support HTML5, client-side storage, or geo-location in Mobile Safari.