IPhone vs N800

Well, here we have a big fight =) . I’ll give my opinion based on things that I read on the Internet and based on my experience. When I first looked at the IPhone I just thought: “It’s amazing!!!”…and it really is… Thinking more carefully and after reading a text called “10 Things to hate about IPhone” and another one called “10 Things to love about IPhone” I realized that there are some big issues with this device. The first issue is about the need to sign for a 2-year service from Cingular. I don’t like the idea of having to be a customer from a company just because someone wants to. That’s terrible =( . Another point is about Apple philosophy: they don’t like to open their SDK for developers and that’s a problem when you are used to work with things that are free software and anyone can contribute with that. It’s not good to be a slave waiting for Apple’s applications for IPhone (for geeks, it’ll not be good to not write code for their own device). On the other hand we have a powerfull device with a lot of graphical features and so on. Ipod also have all these restrictions and is a success (I have an Ipod also). And if Apple really planned to just reach 1% of the cell phone’s market, I think they will get this portion of the market. About the N800 device: it’s amazing also and a lot of people (including me hehe) are working for applications for this platform. It’s a device different from the Apple’s one: it’s not a cell phone, and it doesn’t want to be one. It’s idea is to be a personal computer and regarding this aspect, it’s much better than the IPhone. So, just to reach the end of this post: if you want a cell phone N800 is not the device you’re looking for…but if you want a personal computer, if you want to have a powerfull handheld, N800 is the device you are looking for !

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