Opera Mini vs. iPhone
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This publicity comes with the release of the beta version of Opera Mini 4. From the example videos of it, it seems that they took lots of ideas from Nokia's Mini Map, from which they heard about for the first time at XTech'06. Advantadge goes to Opera, even if they're late, since Opera Mini runs on (almost) every cellphone, while Mini Map only runs on Nokia's S60 phones...
This publicity comes with the release of the beta version of Opera Mini 4. From the example videos of it, it seems that they took lots of ideas from Nokia's Mini Map, from which they heard about for the first time at XTech'06. Advantadge goes to Opera, even if they're late, since Opera Mini runs on (almost) every cellphone, while Mini Map only runs on Nokia's S60 phones...
Yeah, but then again, "(almost) every cellphone" sucks :-)
ReplyDeleteEven the pricy ones! ;-)
Oh, I totally disagree on that :-) If we're up to compare between iPhone and the alternatives...
ReplyDelete1) If you want more software for your iPhone you have to buy it... to Apple; If you want more software on any other phone, you can buy it, get for free or even code it;
2) The way for you to code for iPhone is to... do a Web Application. Thank you, if I have any other phone, I can also use that web application;
3) With any other phone you're free to do whatever you want; with an iPhone you can only do what they let you;
4) iPhone comes bundled with crippled DRM'd software - and DRM sucks;
5) Buying an iPhone is giving money to Apple, which is bad since you're sponsoring DRM advocates - and DRM sucks.
What are the real advantages of the iPhone? People usually tell me stuff like "but with the iPhone you have a _real_computer_ on your pocket!". Well, mind you, my overaged cellphone lets me do things that I can't do with an iPhone: stuff like instaling any software I want (and I do that a lot), or using it with a SSH client to remotely connect to a server, for instance, also something you won't be able to do with an iPhone. With my cellphone the only limit are hardware constraints (like the amount of memory and the size of the screen), with iPhone you're locked up and stuck with their software.
iPhone? I won't.