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By the way - a month of iPhone thoughts: battery life sucks, software bugs are just stupid (why oh why can't you web browse and listen to music without it crashing? Seriously?), "Notes" function is pointless 'cos it's not synchronised, camera isn't very good, lack of Flash support in browser is seriously annoying. I still love it, but it's gonna take them a while to fix the software issues.
Ya, now that I'm using it more for iPod reasons, I do wonder why it like quits to desktop when browsing and listening. This morning I learned that it doesn't always like to snap a picture while listening to music. I've had good luck with the battery, I wonder if you have a bad unit in that regard. Ya, the Notes is wanky. But you can e-mail the note to yourself (over and over and over ...) [sarcasm]. But, I'm with you. I do love it. So much easier than carrying pod, phone, and PDA. I look forward to Jan/Feb and 3rd party apps. Hopefully an OpenOffice kind of word/excel reader/editor. Even if it's Pages/NumbersLE or something. I'd buy that in a HEARTBEAT.
oops, sorry. iPhone babble. I'll stop.
The most irritating part of switching from my Palm is the calendar. Anyone know if a Nokia E70 would normally update one's Outlook schedules?
I don't have Outlook, I think, mostly. But I'd reinstall it so that I'd have somewhere to look at what's happening when on my PC. Does anyone know what my options are, in terms of PC apps? I do miss that part of the Palm platform/desktop, the integration. But it was for ass even just creating an email in Eudora. Cranky.
if you have vista, you can sync with windows calendar (with nokia) instead of only outlook. Lotus Notes can also be synced with nokia phones.
I did like airset.com for syncing palm with an online calendar. Airset is excellent and they do have a mobile version for some phones that's about $5 a month.
I use goosync between palm and google calendars which has always worked great. But when I mixed Plaxo in things got wonky and I have dupes everywhere now.
Google...I'd forgotten about that.
My Razr worked dreamily well with my Mac, but the E70, despite published workarounds, never did. Frustrating.
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Assume there is a hypothetical 42" HDTV costing about $1000.
Plasma vs LCD. Educate me.
The shorthand is typically that Plasmas give richer colors and deeper blacks, but that LCDs have a sharper image.
Also, there have been tests, and usually once people get lost in whatever is on they don't notice minor differences of that sort. Like all averages, this is misleading -- I'll bet professionals like Drew do notice, along with certain types of fans who are well represented among the Buffistas.
