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Originally Posted by midsommer
Well - although I respect that you show some good points, you will have to face the fact, that in four month a phone without 3G, gps, 32 GB, and front camera will have no selling point. There will be (more expencsive) phones of established brands offering more.
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Maybe...and if it is the case and the price is not too high, I will buy it...I am not as optimistic as you, though. In 4 month, I expect an Iphone 2.0, updating the current iphone only by including 3G and front camera*.....and that's all, no other competition. Imho, the bulk of the competition will come in 2009, not earlier...
It will take at least this amount of time before the new generation of processors trickle down to the small manufaturers (chinese clones), and the big brands will not yet release an open device, they are too happy for now to sell expensive locked-up gadgets via carrier contracts. I expect HTC, Acer/Eten and the likes to be the first to release real competiton for the iPhone, as sexier PDA phones for broadening the current business-oriented market. And I expect things to really heat up once android is available, and microsoft try to react.
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I cannot understand why everybody is so fond of the screen? What is the bigger idea? I cannot see me copying a full DVD (4.2 GB) on it only to fill the screen! I have a iPod Touch 32 GB and I hardly can get 4 - 5 (shrunken to 500 MB) movies on it! Movies soon will be on Blueray, so I will have to shrink them - but due to the small storage (16 GB are not much!), I will shrink them to the ipod size (500 GB) - so the screen of an iPod Touch is fine! Even more: on each Blueray there will be a iPhone shrunken version, and if you buy a movie online, you can buy them formated for the Ipod size.
I my point of you, MEIZU did a big mistake to stay on the screen as it might be the main reason, why they have to shift the release date to a time, noone is interested in the phone anymore.
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You are perfectly right...if you consider using your screen mainly for watching movies.
It is not my main usage, just a nice to have (I do not like to watch movie on such small screens anyway, so it would be restricted to the travels when onboard entertainement system is not up to the task (which is a very rare occurence in modern planes, so only for trains or buses I guess), or on the move to check my own camcoder footages).
For ebook reading, or GPS maps, or web browsing; basically anything that involves reading or looking at static content, a high-DPI screen is a huge advantage, if you have reasonably good eyes. It makes reading much more relaxing, and allows to fit a lot on small screens, being a map or a webpage...
I use my PDA for ebooks, offline wikipedia, dictionaries and GPS navigation. I come from a QVGA (ipaq), saw HVGA screens (palm, iPhone) and now have a VGA (acer).
Given this experience, there is NO WAY I go back to QVGA. HVGA maybe if the device is otherwise outstanding...But a VGA+ screen is almost a must have...
* Maybe, also, an internal GPS, but this would come as quite surprising for me. It would be a good surprise though, maybe I would buy an iPhone 2.0 then, depending on the state of developper community and the GPS application included...But I expect 32 GB to stay the maximum included memory for a looong time, well into 2009...