New 2010 iphone?

[Garp]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

There's a good reason for that, and the reason is sales.
All Archos customers buy it because it's the best device in it's class, whereas a HUGE number of iPhone customers buy one simply because it's an iPhone.

But see, if you have class changing, smoothly polished, and put a serious advertising campaign behind it things might change. Instead its a superb device that stays more amongst the hardcore geeks

[LeperousDust]

As has been hit on here, its advertising that rules all, we all know how MASSIVE apples advertising department is, they know exactly how to target their audience and convince them that no matter what THIS is what you need. On the flip side i'd estimate android has received a few measly % of the advertising budget compared to iPhone which is why its where it is, which is a terrible shame...

[divine]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Definitely no need in a question mark after reading the first paragraph! Someone is clearly getting the chop for that

Can imagine jobs the next day:

"Roll call, and everyone bring their assigned prototype units, anyone unable to produce said unit is hereby fired, anyone who doesn't turn up is hereby fired. Have a nice day.

Sent from my iPhone 3GSX*"





*I Made this up

Why would they fire anyone? This is creating huge amounts of hype and advertising and it's cost Apple nothing more than the physical cost of a prototype phone

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Garp

But see, if you have class changing, smoothly polished, and put a serious advertising campaign behind it things might change. Instead its a superb device that stays more amongst the hardcore geeks

A pal of mine bought one last year and absolutely loves it.
He has nothing but good things to say about it.

[Will]

Originally Posted by Garp

That's never been Apple's approach. They stick with tried and tested, and then spend a lot of time working on the user experience to give it as much polish as they could.
I do wish other companies would learn that from them

Indeed, which is why Apple is just so good IMO. And I'm not even an Apple fanboy!!

[petemc]

If this was a publicity stunt then shouldn't Apple be calling the police off?

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/26...e-gizmodo.html

Can't say I thought it was for a second. Its not like Apple need to hype a product these days.

[Kitten]

I had a HTC Touch HD a year ago and the OS (WinMob) and the Touch Screen were dire. The CoverFlow thing was crap too. Looked pretty but was just a front end then the crappy slow crashing WinMob came in again when you actually tried to do anything. Really bad. I'm sure they've improved massively but it's really put me off trying one again as it was impossible to surf the web/send messages, just drove me mad. I swapped over to the iphone when it went 3GS, flogged the HDT and it's the best decision I made.

[LeperousDust]

Originally Posted by Kitten

I had a HTC Touch HD a year ago and the OS (WinMob) and the Touch Screen were dire. The CoverFlow thing was crap too. Looked pretty but was just a front end then the crappy slow crashing WinMob came in again when you actually tried to do anything. Really bad. I'm sure they've improved massively but it's really put me off trying one again as it was impossible to surf the web/send messages, just drove me mad. I swapped over to the iphone when it went 3GS, flogged the HDT and it's the best decision I made.

I ditched winmob in 2005 and called it for all sorts then. Even the HTC universal couldn't make it any good. I said if i ever owned a winmob phone again it would be because of winmob7 (which doesn't look too bad 5 years later ). But i've been a big fan of symbian, which has evolved a lot over 5 years, and android which is just generally very very high class.

[Will]

Winmob and Nokias are dire - I miss my old 3210 - that's when Nokias had good interfaces!

[Belmit]

It's a bit pre-emptive, but if I were to buy the new iPhone (PAYG) and wanted to keep my current number is it as simple as just swapping the SIM? Can't remember if the number is tied to the phone in some way...