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Will You Buy an Apple iPad?
Post 302391432 by Neo on Monday 1st of February 2010 10:02:50 AM
02-01-2010
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I read (somewhere on the net) that LCD displays do not make good eBook readers and are nearly unreadable in sunlight. This was confirmed by reborg and his discussion earlier. Then, I read more about this and how inferior LCD displays (like in the iPad) are for ebook reading.
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
Of course that does not matter to those who love Apple products. They prefer an inferior Apple product to a superior product by another company. For me, since I don't need an ebook reader in the sunlight, I'm OK with an LCD ebook reader, as I read in cars, planes, "that special library where the bathtub is" and my bed.
What bothers me the most is the lack of USB support and the fact that I will be locked into certain telco companies and cannot use just any SIM card for GPRS if I need it.
Apples needs to open up, IMHO.
At least the iMac has a unix/darwin BSD core, that is great.
It is time for Apple to do the same thing with the iPad and make it more interoperable and with a replaceable battery.
Also, I agree the price is too high. $499 is only bare bones entry.
On the other hand, I still might buy an "unlocked" version
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xgnokii
xgnokii(1x) gnokii xgnokii(1x) NAME
xgnokii - graphical interface of the gnokii telephone toolkit SYNOPSIS
xgnokii DESCRIPTION
xgnokii is a fancy graphical interface for libgnokii. It uses the settings in the [global] section of the configuration file of gnokii(1). You can assume that your phone is supported, however there are rare cases that you will get very limited functionality with xgnokii. xgnokii can save contacts in vCard format (thanks to Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw dot cz>) if you add .vcard or .gcrd extension (case sensi- tive) to the file name in the export contacts dialog. gnokii is a multiple systems tool suite and (eventually) modem/fax driver for the mobile phones. gnokii at the beginning was designed to support Nokia phones. At the moment it supports most of the Nokia mobiles and also supports other phones that understand AT commands. DIAGNOSTICS
Various error messages are printed to STDERR when xdebug = on is set in gnokii config file BUGS
This man page is too short. See more details in gnokii man page. AUTHOR
Jan Derfinak is the author of the xgnokii. Hugh Blemings <hugh at blemings dot org> and Pavel Janik ml. <Pavel.Janik at suse dot cz> and Pawel Kot <gnokii at gmail dot com> are the authors of the gnokii tool suite. This manual page was written by Daniele Forsi <daniele at forsi dot it> changing the manual page written by Erik Rossen <rossen at freesurf dot ch>. See also Docs/CREDITS from the gnokii sources. COPYING
This program is distributed under the GNU Public License Version 2, or (at your option) any later version. SEE ALSO
gnokii(1), gnokiid(1) Erik Rossen, Daniele Forsi May 10, 2010 xgnokii(1x)