[geeks] Looking for a Mobile Phone

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:15:17PM -0500, Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> iPhone seems an obvious choice: cool OS, can be tethered (if you upload a
> new carrier config file), GSM, and a plethora of third-party software.
> However, I despise Apple's nanny attitude towards the app store, and the
> hoops I'd have to jump through to load any software I'd want to write
> for my sole personal use are, IMO, unreasonable.

It depends. I have only seen an iPhone for the first time last week. They are
not sold here, but many people have them. It was impressive and it was
described to me by the owner as the "best PDA he had ever owned, but not a very
good phone".

As for aps, I assume that the day after they appear here from the regular
carriers, around the end of September, there will be 10,000 startups 
founded to make "iPhone Aps". I'd be surprised if there are 500 of them left
by then first of the year. :-(

Geoff.

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