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Underwhelmed. It has a keyboard, which is nice, however, $35 a month for a data plan? Why is this a better thing than the $20 a month TMo charges when you buy
by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Underwhelmed. It has a keyboard, which is nice, however, $35 a month for a data plan? Why is this a better thing than the $20 a month TMo charges when you buy a SideKick?
All Apple has to do to shoot this thing in the head, is to release a Bluetooth keyboard capability for the iPhone. Then it will be DOA.
- dpapathanasiou 18y agoWhen the Android was first announced, I wondered which providers would support it, because sooner or later someone was going to develop VOIP capability (like the siphon project for the iPhone), and no one would be paying the provider network access charges.
- ajross 18y agoI have a hard time believing that Apple will ever put their name on a clunky external keyboard for a phone. The whole idea just screams "ugly" to my sense of aesthetics. Keep an extra gadget in your pocket just so you can type on your phone? (even worse: it'd have to clip on to the phone or something for access to the display). Ick.
- jrockway 18y agoAll it has to be is a silent driver update. Then it would be an undocumented hack for someone with Google and a Bluetooth keyboard.
- ajross 18y agoAn undocumented hack is going to shoot the G1 in the head and make it DOA? I wasn't saying that this couldn't be done. I was saying that Apple would never do it, because it's an aesthetic disaster.
- jrockway 18y agoI won't comment on whether or not it's a disaster (MobileMe, anyone), but it's really just not that useful. There is not that much to do on your phone that would require a real keyboard. If you want a real keyboard, get an Eeepc instead of an iPhone.