to answers the question above how the iphone handle memory, when you are in a an application if you press the home button shortly you just quit the application and it's is still running, but when you press it longer it closed completely very nifty! but hard to see if done properly!
So now about it
I started in the vast world of pda with a sony erricson p900i, I was very happy with it, easy to use, good connection, large screen, the wheel was a fantastic idea! then I broke the screen, I was heart broken, but having used the touch screen it's rather difficult to go back to a normal phone,
so I came to the XDA IIi (or alpine) that was great! so much more you could do with it, I still missed the P900i because of the wheel, but other than that I could see the serious advantage of the xda... especially with the 02 hack that gave you free GPRS data on Port 80...
then when the Magician was out, I tried it, I positively loved it, small, compact and almost as powerful as the XDA III, and with a winamp skin, I put to shame other friends brand new IPOD!
then i try the universal, great stuff, but a bit heavy and bulky, very nice keyboard ultra fast, but then 02 patched the port 80 and no more free data, a bad think about the universal is that the screen is vga, and too little software use it, even to skin it it's the pain....
anyway I did go back to France use my magician cause it was the best of all, and I could still put to shame anything else with, then I broke it!
in my sorrow I tried the LG viewty, i so loved it, i missed the full PDA thing, but the IU was correct, and the camera was just the best!
and I lost it! I have to tell you that all this time was laughing about the IPOD and Ipone, cause I knew I could do the same with hack and customisations on my numerous pda!
but then I needed for my work cheap data service, and the only one that does that was orange with the iphone and unlimited data, so I took it,
and MY conclusion is
Iphone beat the crap out of any pda I ever own,
why ? cause of it's Instinctive IU, it's really expensive, it's not the best hardware top notch technologies (well sort of) but it smooth, fast, easy and without bug!
I did try to make my xda's look and perform like the iphone, it's not even close!
and the visual vocal messagery give the last blow,
I just wonder when the iphone 2 will be released...
I still love pda, do not get me wrong, but what apple sell on the iphone is the IU and it's easiness, and in this ...nothing compare.
I will respect opinion based on actual use of the iphone, not because someone read the spec and desided that a pda is better because it have this and this.
what the iphone does, it does it good, very good,
best of all : surfing the web, getting email.
ten sending sms (i never ever used MMS) and a phone! and an ipod. it just a great product, a XDA can do all of it yes!, better maybe?, faster no! easier definetly not!,
and before I get my head chopped off, the only thing I see very bad in the iphone is the battery not removable, and the bluetooth! even the lack of 3G isn't an issue, I use it and edge is really fast! and soon there would be 3G and stereo bluetooth!
and now that the sdk is out even 3rd party apps isn't an issus!
I hope that hdc work on something that beat the crap out of it, I will be the fist to get it,
but at this moment in time there is nothing that even scratch the surface,
and just you know I used the hdc touch, and it is good, but so slow and slugish! and still WM6 (absolutely not user friendly)
well that my view on the iphone, but i will make an exception of the magician, cause I just loved that little bastard!
