Here’s a ‘poser’ for you for the middle of the week: what do all the following items have in common?
- Bluetooth keyboard support
- Support for Flash in the Web browser
- 5Mp still photos
- Carl Zeiss lens/optics
- Video editor, with the capability to add captions and render movies at full VGA resolution
Guessed it yet? Yup, they’re the features which (to the best of my knowledge) the iPhone 3GS doesn’t have, which my two-year-old Nokia N95 does have (and which I actually use), and which Apple are going to have to add to the next iPhone before I will even consider switching.
Now, believe it or not, I’m not trying to be deliberately provocative here. I love my gadgets as much as anyone (if not more), and as a Mac owner, I really would love to like everything about the iPhone. I’m happy to admit, the above list is gradually getting smaller than it used to be—the 3GS now supports cut/copy/paste (as the N95 always did); it now supports Bluetooth headsets (ditto); and you can now use the live video-streaming service Qik with the 3GS (thus joining my N95, which I’ve been using with Qik for the last eighteen months).
It’s hard to believe one still can’t use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone without ‘jailbreaking’ the latter—ironically, it doesn’t even support Apple’s own wireless keyboard (which, to further ladle on the irony, I use perfectly well with my N95). It seems to me that an iPhone or iPod Touch paired with a BT keyboard, would make a brilliant laptop replacement, so I wonder if Apple has deliberately withheld this support so as to avoid cannibalising sales of MacBooks (which wouldn’t make much sense, given the disparity in price between the products).
To top all this off, comes the continuing speculation that Apple is readying an “iTablet”—that is, basically a larger iPod Touch with a bigger screen (and presumably a few more bells and whistles). Sounds interesting, except I’d place a bet that it’ll have an eye-watering price tag, and probably still won’t have Bluetooth keyboard support (again, not to cannibalise sales from the MacBooks).
Anyway, it looks like I’ll be sticking with my trusty N95 at least a bit longer, even if it doesn’t look as cool as a laser-engraved Apple product…
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Web...
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I am really, seriously, thinking of resurrecting my Tumblr presence, for those times when Twitter is too short, and my blog too long. [tawalker]
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Actually, I just read some of the "pages from Google" in that last clip. If I'd had a mouthful of coffee beforehand, I wouldn't afterwards. [tawalker]
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As @robertpopper said, it would be cool if YouTube closed down every night, old UK TV-style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsixMZ1hqw [tawalker]
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When I hear Paolo Nutini's "Pencil Full Of Lead", it says to me: "Please use me in a Persil ad with a cute kid getting muddy in the garden." [tawalker]
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My Twitter book LaTeX document is now up-to-date... except for this post, which is about to go in as well. This is getting self-referential. [tawalker]
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Adding the last seven days' Twitter posts to my Twitter diary (a LaTeX document). Wish there was an easy way to automate the job. [tawalker]
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RT @GlennGouldFndn: Would be a great dinner [inviting Glenn Gould]! - yes, especially as he'd be there with Alexander Pope and others... :) [tawalker]
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Good news: the courier turned up with my guitar rack today (ordered with 3-to-5-day delivery, yesterday! :)). Bad news: no-one at home. :( [tawalker]
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Actually, this is the kind of week I wanted for ages, so I'm content :-) [tawalker]
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The event I'm most looking forward to in the next few days, is the arrival of my new 7-space guitar rack. That's how quiet this week is. [tawalker]
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