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Are you on some mission to be as wrong as possible about everything? Or do you believe that the French annexed Ely?

Gosh, just like you made up your s*it about Microsoft being involved in CP/M.

What is this 'buy' you speak of? ;-)

I currently have a Bold. It has 3g, video (which I seldom use) and is smaller than an iPhone. I previously had an SE880i, it's smaller than almost anything, has 3g, video, IMAP idle and other useful stuff in a tiny pocketable phone. No battery life issues either.

The reality is this: Apple launched the most usable smartphone for the consumer, it does just work and work well, responsive UI, only crashes about once a month in normal use (no more than an ordinary phone) and has all the functions most people wanted - email, phone and organiser. Then they launch the 3g and people upgrade. They will continually evolve the product in order to keep a market, and the hardware will always be as basic as possible to make it profitable.

Same here.

Not always true, but in the case of pop / dance music compression huge compression is the norm.

No idea where the f*ck I got France from.

It's not a phone at all. It's tenuously described as one but its basically a Touch with added phone capabilities. It is basically a PDA.

I'm quite sure that a lot of iPhone users would like to send MMS.

ISBN 0-944601-78-2

Shame the hisory books disagree with you.

You've snipped out the part where I did just that.

In the UK, yes, perhaps although I haven't sent or been sent an MMS for about 2 years so me, and everyone who regularly sends me texts clearly couldn't give a flying f*ck.

I don't hang about with a bunch of iPhone users mind you, so maybe they miss it.

It was their second biggest market?

One of the Tansoft adventure games asked you to answer questions in cod-French?

"CP/M was an operating system for microcomputers developed in 1973 by Dr. Gary Kildall, a brilliant software engineer."

No mention of Microsoft acquiring, developing, contributing or otherwise beign involved in CP/M.

No they don't. Not even "Lexikon's History of Computing"

No I haven't, you have not shown any such thing. You have made an allegation and have failed to support it other than with the hand-wavy "stannsareasondunnit" argument.

Not here it doesn't. Set the preferences appropriately.

Although it's all bollocks since the albums are appropriately organised in iTunes and there's no need to use the Finder/Explorer to go looking for them.

Possibly because, IIRC, Oric ended up being owned by the French after they went bust the first time.

The second time they disappeared off the map completely as I understand it.

No. The first take over was by Edenspring (British). And Oric hadn't gone bust at that point, in fact they seemed to be doing rather well having met the sales targets that Edenspring insisted on before spending close to £6 million.

Their French distributor bought up all the inventory of stock in May

Eventually the French distributor became the sole manufacturer in August

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:31:01 +0100, Steve Firth spouted forth:

Strangely, I've only ever seen one iPhone. I liked it a lot, and it's on the "to get" list. Usuability seemed pretty good to me, my o2 contract is up soon so I might just get one.

Most of the techies I know have Blackberries or iPaqs, but that's simply because it what work gives us. Those that have neither have Nokia N95/6 which are ok, but poor quality and not great to use IMO.

Does anyone use it? I don't even know if mine has it

Me. Occasionally. Usually when I've spotted some weird car and want to send it to my brother.

Never used a HTC. Blackberry classic style (8310, 7920, Bold etc) are ok as a business email device but that's it. The new blackberry storm is

Mike P

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:34:38 +0100, SteveH spouted forth:

One thing I like is the disk management in Vista and the ability to resize partitions.

Mike P

"Chicken s*it tastier than dog s*it."

For what I wanted / needed from mobile devices at that time, it was absolutely fine.

Brilliant for email IME, and in that respect, the battery life vs email efficiency factor was vastly superior to anything with Win CE I've tried since.

Reasonably adept at surfing the net as well, with pretty well thought out key activated browser shortcuts making that side of things quite slick (IME) too, once you got familarised with said shortcuts.

I wasn't fussed about taking pics or listening to / watching media with it.

Had I had a real burning desire to be able to use this kind of thing with it as well, then yes, I can see there are alternatives out there which would do the job better but quite possibly at the expense of some of the other functions which it did well.

To summarise as I have in other threads this week, just because you personally prefer something else, it doesn't necessarily mean that something else 'utter s**te'.

Comparing Blackberry to the appropriately named Wince, you're right, there's not much to choose between them. Compare any of them to the iPhone and you're so far out of the court that you're sitting on the Embankment, not even on The Strand.