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<alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710212007300.4932@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>, Mark
Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
> > But which is huge and heavy and expensive.
>
> Have you ever used a Nokia N800? Or are you confusing it with a UMPC?
Used? No. We were talking about features, and those are quantifiable.
> The N800 is available at Amazon for $258. That's $141 cheaper than an
> iPhone. And the N800 can run Skype.
Quite right -- but it can't operate as a cell phone, has something like
128 MB (perhaps more recently 256 MB). Its also not available from
Nokia any more, so if you want to claim EOL products are a bad buy,
that's a point against it.
It's a much better comparison to Touch, at the same prices, but you
were claiming that was expensive, too.
> UMPC prices are coming down, although they are still at least twice as
> costly as iPhones. But for that price you get a full Windows system
Are you trying to make that sound like an advantage? It would be an
advantage to avoid Windows, not include it. That's why people want the
Linux devices, you know.
> with four times the screen solution of iPhone.
Youy can't have that 'four times the resolution' without leaving behind
the entire category we are talking about.
Yes, everyone knows there are larger, heavier, more-expensive devices
that have larger screens. Isn't it pointless to keep mentioning that,
when we all know they aren't what we are talking about at all?
> And you can run Skype.
Only within WiFi networks, which means it's no competition for a cell
phone. Unless you are prepared to say Oxford is right.