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Top 10 Reasons the iPhone is Incomparable - Wait-a-Thon - Phone different

Comparisons to the iPhone just wont stop, despite the fact that the iPhone is pretty much incomparable. Dont believe me? Ive got ten reasons to back me up. And these arent minor feature gripes or personal peccadilloes. In proper Apple fashion, these are just 10 simple little words…

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, April 26th Edition - Phone different

Brian has branched out his excellent Tips column to TreoCentral, with a handy, dandy gem for contact lookups. By accident, however, he seems to have included screenshots from the 1999 vintage Palm V PDA’s app instead of the latest, greatest Treo 2008 version. The 2-bit, non anti-aliased interface is a dead give a–

What? Those are screenshots of the latest, greatest Treo?

Gulp! Moving on…

We lack future-thinking in telecommunications — including internet infrastructure of all types. Telco oligopolies are pretty much allowed to charge amongst the highest prices in the developed world for substandard service and increase profits by failing to re-invest all but the barest minimum back into the infrastructure.

That Canada doesn’t have Scandinavian or Japanese/Korean level networks should be something our government and the telcos feel embarrassed enough to want to change. Absent that, they should feel such overwhelming consumer/electoral pressure that they’re forced to change.

Digg - Oh, Canada: My Home and iPhone-less Land

Gawd! Canada is a great country. Has so many positives. But when it comes to the telco’s, TV providers, ISP’s or anything to do with broadcasting information, it just plain SUCKS.

iPhone News and Reviews - Phone different

Third, the iPhone/iPod halo is clearly helping Apple gain traction in their Mac market, and theres no reason to think the iPhone SDK wont help Apple gain traction for Objective C and Cocoa via Cocoa Touch. Apple has shown time and time again — to the point of frustration on some occasions — that it is a future thinking company. Getting a bunch of convenience-oriented programmers now by putting out a Java or C iPhone SDK pales to insignificance when compared to the mindshare Apple could gain by delivering a powerful, delightful Object C/Cocoa Touch development environment and experience to the uber-keen developers of the next generation, whose newfound skills — and more importantly, tastes — will flow back into the Mac and future Apple products.

Digg - Oh, Canada: My Home and iPhone-less Land

While we Canadians can buy every other bit of gear Apple produces, we get absolutely no iPhone love. Why is that exactly? Rogers GSM Monopoly? Exorbitant data rates? Comcasts trademark dispute? Apples lack of urgency? Read on…