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Cut / Copy / Paste are there?
No

The MMS?
Yes with third party application, same as windows mobile where the PDA makers always include arcsoft MMS program because windows mobile doesn't support MMSs natively

The voice recorder?
Yes with third party applications

The movies can not be done?
Yes with third party application, same on windows mobile where each phone has its own custom camera application

The Radio?
Yes through internet with third-party application

The memory can be expanded?
Why would you need more than 16gb?

Bluetooth is? (or just for headphones?)
You can use it with the PC as modem

The battery can replace?
On the 3g you can open the cover with a small screwdriver and change the battery since it's not soldered

THE S.O. is a multitask? (eye exceptions)
The OS is multitasking, but the third-party applications distributed through app store cannot be multitasking (app store policy) but the ones installed outside the app stores (through the famous installer) can

Can I download from the Internet? (not just pictures? ..)
Yes with third party apps (safari plugin)

Can I attach to e-mail?
You can attach photos if you send them through the photo album

The support java exist?
No and according to actual app store policy it can't be implemented

Support Flash now?
Same as flash but most flash applications don't work on windows mobile either because the latest Flash version Adobe released is 7.0 and Flash Lite 3.0 can play only some Flash 8.0 animations.

Can I use my cellphone as a modem for my notebook ?
Yes with 2.0 with itunes + bluetooth or USB cable, but your operator could lock that feature out of the phone

The camera has a flash?
No

The camera has an autofocus?
No but the image quality is better than most other phones

The camera is stabilized?
No but the shot is done almost instantly unlike on other phones where you need a stabilizer just for shutter lag

Can grardare DivX movies / Xvid?
Yes with third party applications like VLC

Advanced search on Heading Contacts?
Yes with the new firmware 2.0 (3g)

Reporting characters on SMS? (careful not to send SMS to 2 mistake ...)
What?

SMS, I can erase 1 or 2? (incredible, if I have to delete all or nothing)
Yes with third party apps

Explorer for the contents of the cell?
Yes with third party apps

Mouse?
Why you need a mouse when you have a touch screen?

Feedback tactile?
With a third app you can have your iphone give force feedback when you push software keys. the omnia too has no hardware keys other than the power and accept/reject calls buttons

Can connect  easily to a PC (without Itunes) ?
No, it needs its own application to sync like all other phones. windows mobile needs activesync or vista sync center and syncing is extremely slow

Can I edit Word, Exel ?
Yes with third party applications

The iPhone has other limitations too like its app store preventing some software like GPS software with turn-by-turn voice directions being released but that doesn't change the fact that the few things the iPhone does are faster, quicker, easier than all the other phones; just look at photo browsing or applications installing. Despite HTC, Samsung and Sony desperately trying to implement sluggish and half-baked me-too alternatives to the iPhone interface none of them can reach the same quality standard the iPhone software has set both because despite 3d-accelerated PDA chips have been available for years no manifacturer provided the drivers with them making reliable hardware-accelerated interfaces hard to develop and because those companies have to rely on an OS far from ready to be used on phones like windows mobile that is designed for businesses and not for consumers: Windows Mobile natively doesn't support cameras, MMS, videocall, t9 applications and a lot of other stuff people expect to find on new phones and has nasty by-design behaviours people don't expect like the X button hiding the applications in the background and not closing them.

If you're Italian and love 15mm thick QVGA resolution phones with WM 6.1, 5 MPx camera, 3g + 7mbit HDSPA, high-capacity 1.5A batteries (but with only 300 hours standby time), Bluetooth 2.2, GPS, FM Radios, Optical mouse cursors, TV Out and pointless animated today screens you really can't miss this offer (Today is the last day to apply, 21th of July and you'll get the phone tomorrow 22th). I too was tempted by the offer but my disgust for the sluggish non-hardware accelerated Windows Mobile interfaces and the fear of bugged ROMs that Samsung could never update (Samsung phones don't even have an official ROM update tool so don't even hope for a Windows Mobile 7 upgrade next year unlike for HTC phones like the Diamond) are keeping me away from it.

Dovella wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  Dovella wrote: were is here developers of Seven?If by that you mean "where are [in this forum] the developers of Seven?", then I'm here All right, I don't do the WHOLE Windows 7 thing, but I do my part PS: benvenuto/a su canale 9. No, non e' Mediaset

Mamma mia Paolo sei Italiano e a lavoro su Seven??e tu dopo la nascita di mio figlio sei la notizia più bella che abbia ricevuto

leeappdalecom wrote:

I got my first blue screen last night while resuming from sleep

I'm happy to announce this beautiful and extremely lame bug is still present in all of its glory on Vista SP1 RC-preview...

I hope they'll fix it before 2012. I would hate to see wrong file sizes even after doomsday.

Chinmay007 wrote:

I'm more curious about the implications then the reasoning for it. Weither it's "anti-piracy", or some kind of under undisclosed purpose, the sheer implications of WGA are frightening. I didn't realize this fully until today.

We have seen is this has big implications. Just a few hours of downtime cause widespread havok. WGA could be a threat to the national security and sovereignty of hundreds of nations. It seems really outlandish but it really isn't. What WGA is doing basically is entrusting remote control of the functionality of all the world's Windows computers to a 3rd party.

I might be crazy, but that is something that worries me a lot. It really really troubles me. I don't want Microsoft, the US government, or whoever, having such control over my computer systems and my nation's computer systems. It's dangerous on a number of levels. Something really needs to be done about this on a political level, because it has political implications.

As far are the reasoning for it, I think it would be naive to think it's just an anti-piracy measure. I've learned long ago that the thing you have to fear most from is the truth. One reason people lie is because the truth is often unbearable for most people to hear. I don't think we are hearing the truth or at least the full truth from Microsoft.

littleguru wrote:

A place without internet... What's that?

blowdart wrote:

A fireman later told 3 News "he believed the man had a mental illness".

Chinmay007 wrote:


Product keys, software we have installed on our machines, and updating information, are proprietary and confidential information.

Bas wrote:

And yes, that also works if the sender actually pirated the song rather than buying it.