Comments on: Samsung I300 Smartphone Available Now?
However, it can't answer the most important question, when the I300 will be available. It was originally scheduled to be released in August, and later bumped back to September. Late yesterday, the company's web site began listing the smartphone as being available now. However, it doesn't yet appear on the Sprint PCS webstore that Samsung lists as the place to buy it.
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RE: I-300 Samsung = OCTOBER 1
Thanks for throwing me under the bus. You left out my mobile number. Could you post that as well?
Sincerely,
Fred McIntire
Nation Acount Manager,
Wireless Terminals Division
Samsung
Of course Terminating Nations using wireless is quite fun. Acount?
or did you mean, "National Account"?
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Person 2: Your followup was a waste of everyone's time.
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retail availability not the first week of October
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Good GOD!
-bob
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It's true that it won't cause compatibility problems because it's just a 160x160 screen with a virtual graffiti area, but that's not what the original poster was saying. That complaint was that there are too many different sizes of hi-res screens for developers to keep up with, and in that case it is probably the Clie that causes the least problems.
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This looks like a solid enough product to stand on it's (possesive apostrophe) own. In this market, I think the battle is not between the Clie and the Samsung, but betwen the Kyocera 6035a, Samsung I-300, and Handspring Treo units (honourable mention to VisorPhone).
From a cellphone perspective, developers have always had to contend with different screen resolutions, and in the PC world there are a multitude of resolutions that developers need to cope with - so how is this different?
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The resolution has NOT changed.
The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.
DPI is a measure of resolution. In this case, the resolution has NOT changed; the screen has been made larger in the vertical. There are more pixels, but they are over a larger area. Resolution changes when you have more pixels over the same size area, which is not the case here.
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It's incorrect to use a possessive apostrophe in your use of the word "its." I was not an English major but am gratified to see that some people still care about these things even if they don't understand them well.
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It's is only used for the contraction of "it is". If you can't replace the word you are using with "it is", then you should use its.
English is a language constantly in transition. It is actually defined by the people using it, not by the dictionary. A search of handheld-related sites will find that many people commonly refer to the Palm m505's screen as having a 160 x 160 screen resolution or the Sony CLIE having a 320 x 320 resolution. They aren't all wrong. If the dictionary disagrees with the common usage, then the dictionary is incorrect.
I'm willing to listen to the other side of the argument though. If resolution isn't correct, what is?
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But you know what ... I don't particularly care. I put the comment in as a subtle dig at the grammer police message further up the list.
As for the resolution vs DPI debate ... what we are really referring to is screen area - the number of pixels across a screen. Is this resolution? Only by coincidence, since (until Clie's 320x320 display) Palms only displayed pixels in a one for one fashion. DPI is another story - varying the DPI on a Palm has only had the effect of allowing screens to be smaller (III series vs m1xx series), but the pixels across the screen has remained the same.
As the previous poster said, it is common usage that drives language, not a dictionary, and this is especially true in the technology sector. I guess that's why English is a living language.
But do grammer discussion REALLY belong in this type of forum? I don't think so --- if poster tooks some care in their posting, and the readers were focused on content rather than nitpicking the grammatical errors, these forums (fora??) would have a better signalto noise ratio. (sorry for the extra noise).
Spelling police
It should be grammar, not grammer.
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This is not nit-picking. It is misleading to express the new screen size as a change in resolution. No amount of descriptive linguistics changes that.
Wasted energy
I love these tangent arguments (especially when they spin off into grammar attacks). Awesome stuff.
2c
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Writing police say:
GRAMMAR
POSTERS
SIGNAL TO NOISE
Capitalize SORRY
(AND THAT'S ONLY FUR STARTERZ!)
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1. But. Never start a sentence with “but”.
2. Do. Should be “does”.
3. Grammar. Spelling error. Picked up by many, and a word I commonly mispell.
4. REALLY. Capitalisation used for emphasis. Common technique utilised in electronic forms of communication. Other old school techniques include _underscores_ and *asterisks*. These predate the web and were common on teletype displays.
5. ---. Incorrect punctuation, but again while not correct for formal/business communications, along with the ellipse (…) it is accepted in electronic communications as a pause.
6. poster tooks. Poor typing and edit checking.
7. Forums. Technically, this should be fora, as the plural of forums, but equally acceptable.
8. signalto. Missing space.
9. sorry. Sorry should be capitalized.
10. (). The sentence should not have been enclosed in parentheses anyway.
And what does this have to do with the PalmOS platform? Absolutely nothing. Get over it. Talk about the devices, not the editting of the posts.
Oh, and register before commenting - "I.M. Anonymous" is proving to be a complete PITA.
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RE: Good GOD! More Grammar!
I hope by giving that lecture that you all will hate your English teachers whenever you see them or look back. Don't shoot me; I'm just the messenger! =)
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"Incorrect punctuation, but again while not correct for formal/business communications, along with the ellipse (…) it is accepted in electronic communications as a pause."
I would suggest adding a comma (",") after the right parenthesis (")"), as you have apparently written a transient phrase.
I would further advise you to add quotation marks for your reference to ellipse, or "ellipsis" if accuracy were to be a priority. You could use an inverted comma for single-character references (e.g., ')') as long as you are a C/C++/Java programmer.
I must say I am enjoying this illuminating discussion on the pocket-pc whatsit with the funky thingamajig.
Kyocera vs. Samsung
I wonder if MSFT is going to follow suit with Palm and delay release of Stinger phones because of the expected weak holiday season. Also, when companies throw in the towel like that, doesn't that pretty much guarantee the economic slowdown will continue, and be worse that expected?
David in Pflugerville, TX
Phone Ergonomics
Speakerphone, Conference Calls, Hands Free
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* Palm prints instead of cheek prints
* Inadvertently pressing of buttons on Palm screen (if you hold the phone like I do with an index finger extended)
* In speakerphone mode (which amplifies the regular ear speaker), you could not work on the Palm screen at the same time (unless you wanted to hear your party muffled, talking into the desk).
OS3.5
It says 8bit 256 color screen.
Go through the demo program to see its features.
sync compatibility with upcoming Mac OS X Palm Desktop
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The Manual
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Who cares Samsung i300 sucks and so does Sprint
Second the phone: The phone is hard to dial. The placement of the clr, talk and end buttons on the LCD panel is bad UI. Without the carrying case it is very easy to inadvertently dial a speed dial number. You could be bad talking your boss while he is listening. Battery life is poor. The Web enabled SW still sucks dung and is not much different than my 8500. While listening to a voice message it is easy to accidentally depress the 7 button and delet the msg in the middle. You can not scroll backwards through the address list. ie start at Asim and then scroll to the bottom of the list Zorba using the up and down arrows. You have to go through the whole list or do a search.
Hopefully, Motorola will come out with a real phone that uses MS windows CE or pocket pc. That way you don't have to do flips to use apps such as word or excel. Outlook will work like outlook and syncing won't be an all day chore. Bottom line the proper design for a PDA phone is a long phallic like flip phone. The phone and it buttons on the outer flip with a view to the LCD for pertinent phone functions. Flip the phone open and it exposes the full LCD and a keyboard that uses pure PDA OS functionality. This LCD looks cool in a club (just don’t let the ladies see the face smudge on the LCD) or while you are driving at night in your Benz gleaming. Other than that it is $500 bad PDA and worse phone.
Where the F do you get to see it browsing a web page?
Can anyone help? Please post a photo of what the i300 looks like when browsing a non-wap site, perhaps http://thebarpage.com/southern_california_bars.html or text-only at http://thebarpage.com/california/southern_california_bars.php3
RE: Where the F do you get to see it browsing a web page?
http://www.handspring.com/software/blazer_overview.jhtml
RE: Where the F do you get to see it browsing a web page?
I decided to get the much cheaper, no color Kyocera instead. one step at a time.
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