NEWS: Verizon and AT&T May Both Get Apple Tablet

Poll finds for Android, Chrome OS, MeeGo

Microsoft might be "all in" on tablets, but it's Linux that will dominate this new category of device, according to latest research.

ABI Research reckons Linux-powered non-smartphone mobile devices will comprise 62 per cent of operating systems by 2015.

Google's Android and Chrome OS will lead the way, followed by the joint Intel and Nokia MeeGo effort and the now-Hewlett-Packard-owned Palm webOS.

Driving Linux on mobile will be the fact each Linux distro uses the Linux kernel with a unified based of upstream components that developers, ISVs, and hardware providers can tap.

ABI senior analyst Victoria Fodale said in a statement. "The number of Linux-oriented initiatives recently seen in the mobile industry indicates that Linux will be a key technology in the next generation of netbooks, media tablets, and other mobile devices."

If ABI's right, it will translate into an interesting inversion of the current state of play in computing, which favors Windows on the PC and server.

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John Navas
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Whether or not Steve Jobs intentionally deceived, inveigled and obfuscated is irrelevant. Antennagate - in all its embarrassing and over-hyped glory - clearly marks the end of a golden era for Apple.

Yes, unrepentant fanbois will undoubtedly continue to worship at the altar of Saint Steven Jobs and pay homage to Club Cupertino.

But the rest of the world is likely to think twice before purchasing another shiny Apple product before it has been properly tested and reviewed.

Indeed, as analyst Jack E. Gold told TG Daily, Apple "needs to do better" by honestly acknowledging problems, issues and glitches when they are first reported. ?

"While the majority of iPhone 4 users seem to be [pleased] with their devices, that is no excuse for Apple to have obfuscated the antenna problems that created issues for users particularly in weak signal areas," explained Gold.

"Apple claims to be much better than everyone else in the industry and the only one to do it the right way. Sorry, Steve, but you can't have it both ways. Yes, all phones in weak signal areas have issues to a greater or lesser extent. But they don't claim to be perfect and the best phone ever invented."

According to Gold, the use of statistics - when "spun" differently - indicate that the iPhone 4 actually does cause significant degradation in calling and substantially increases dropped calls.

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John Navas

Thusly NavASS slurps up every drop as fast as he can...

Reply to
George Kerby

Speak for yourself, slurpee.

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News

And yet another parasite rises from the foam.

NavASS is waiting for your "Special Purpose", ya know?

Reply to
George Kerby

No, I don't. I have no tolerance for either of you.

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News

Yet, like the "Swallows" of Capistrano, you continue to return.

Much like a moth to a porch light...

Reply to
George Kerby

Which makes you ... what?

Wipe your chin.

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News

The ROW learned long ago the risks of being early adopters of new products, and that caution is not limited to consumer electronics products or to Apple.

Those that must have the latest toy, as soon as it hits the market, buy it with the full knowledge that there will likely be some issues that will have to be addressed with updates, workarounds, or recalls.

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SMS

Panting in ecstasy NavASS?!? You'll have hair in that palm soon...

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George Kerby

I don't know about me. But, *FIVE* minutes before you cannot resist a response? Pavlov would have a field day with you. That's a record. You know, you might just try and find that life that you have so obviously lost.

Gazing in the mirror again?

BTW: You have my permission to have the final response in this thread. Take it, NOW!

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George Kerby

And NavASS will continue to mindlessly babble onward...

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George Kerby

A further delay of the white iPhone 4 suggests it could arrive near Sept. 30, when the bumper giveaway ends and, conceivably, Apple has an improved antenna

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John Navas

Not a problem. You can build your own white iPhone 4.

There are parts kits on eBay, but prices are currently around $160 for the white digitizer and the replacement white back. Ouch.

There may actually be some truth to the official reason for the repeated delays, that Apple is tweaking the color. See Update in above URL. Don't hold your breath for a new antenna as any changes might require FCC recertification.

Personally, I want a geeky clear case so that I can see the insides.

Henry Ford 1913 "You can have any color you want as long as it's black"

Steve Jobs 2010 "You can have any color you want as long as it's black"

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Jeff Liebermann

Be fair- you get your choice of free colored bumper... Colored bumpers are often an extra-cost option on automobiles! ;)

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Todd Allcock

No problem. If you want color, instead of the official iphone 4 rubber bumper, you could just buy one rubber glove, which are available in black, green, purple, yellow, green, and red. If you don't like rubber gloves, something more fashionable, such as a bicycle glove will work. It provides additional padding in the palm area, where it's needed to provide hand to antenna seperation on the iPhone 4.

If you don't like making phone calls wearing a glove, my suggestion of gluing a thumb tack in the sensitive area is guaranteed to discourage improper hand positioning. Note that it's not really necessary to permanently attach the thumb tack. It only needs to be in place long enough for aversion therapy to produce the desired behavior. Once one has learned how to hold the phone correctly, the thumb tack can be removed.

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Jeff Liebermann

Steve Jobs 2010

"You can have any color turtleneck you want as long as it's black."

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danny burstein

Oh wait... you can't dial the phone wearing a glove unless you have the patented Apple iGlove:

Did Apple design this for the iPhone 4?

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Jeff Liebermann

If you jailbreak your iPhone to add third-party software, you can do so with the comfort of knowing you aren't violating copyright laws, after a federal ruling came down on Monday.

The U.S. Librarian of Congress ruled on Monday that consumers who circumvent digital protections on smartphones to install unapproved applications?a practice often colloquially known as ?jailbreaking??for noninfringing reasons should be exempted from prosecution under the anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The proposed exemption on jailbreaking was first put forth in 2008 by the Electronic Freedom Foundation, which argued that users should be allowed to jailbreak their phones to install, for personal use, legally acquired third-party software. Apple, for its part, argued against the exemption in an extensive filing contending that an exemption for jailbreaking would lead to more widespread piracy and additional support costs for the company. Two software developers, the Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications, filed documents in support of the EFF?s argument.

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John Navas

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