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Originally Posted by Damien
It hardly just a phone though, I cannot see any device that matchs this. Its a new area almost, a hybrid of Phone, PDA, and iPod. Its got a lot more functionality than a PDA or smartphone.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Its more than a phone, ipod or pda like i said.
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Really?
Like Gavin said, PDA/phones & smartphones have been around for ages.
My old (2003) Sony-Ericsson P900 (running Symbian UIQ) could do all the normal phone things, plus access the internet, plus do PDA stuff, plus play MP3s & other audio formats, plus play various video formats, plus run a whole load of excellent & cheap/free software. It was then succeeded by the P910i (minor improvements), & then recently the much delayed P990i (same features as before, but faster, more memory, support for larger memory cards, wireless, 3G, etc.).
My O2 XDA Mini S (aka HTC Wizard) runs Windows Mobile 5, Pocket PC Phone Edition. Again, it can do all the normal phone things, plus access the net, plus do all the "PDA stuff", plus plays MP3s & other audio formats, plus plays WMVs & divx & xvid & so on, plus runs a whole load of excellent & cheapish/cheap/free software, plus takes nice big mini SD memory cards, plus has wireless G, plus can connect to a satnav, and so on & so on & so on. It's already been replaced by faster better devices with more features.
Symbian & Windows Mobile are the two main OS for smartphones & PDA/phones AFAIK, and they & the devices they run on keep getting better.
The iPhone does look very nice, which isn't surprising as it's an Apple product, but I don't see how - at the moment - its a "new area almost" or "without match".