I got my iPhone 3G and the memory of Newton

[Sasaki]

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iPhone 3G

I got my iPhone 3G finally !

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It is so much popular and hard to get here.

As an iPod, the SQ of iPhone 3G is better than iPod 5.5G. Sound signature is almost same but with UE-11, the hiss in the iPhone 3G is lower than 5.5G. The background is more blacker and it makes iPhone more crisper than 5.5G.

iPhone reminds me of Newton.
When I walk through the network with a gesture motion like pinch or flick, it reminds me of scrubbing motion on the Newton to delete texts.

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iPhone 3G and Newton MP2100

I was a huge Apple fan and I used to be a user of Newton MP2100 when I live in L.A. I hardly recall where I got the Newton, it probably be a shop near UCLA.
That Newton is still here and it's still alive.

 

[jude]

Sasaki, I was also a Newton MessagePad 2100 user. It remains one of my favorite computers of all time, and certainly the most personal personal computer I've yet used (with the right applications, it really had a way of shape-shifting to fit into your life like nothing else). I also still have my Newton (and a non-functioning MessagePad 130) and still use the Newton MessagePad 2100 as an alarm clock.

If you could, offer up some comments about the iPhone 3G, and how you feel about it relative to the Newton. Whereas the MessagePad had the most intuitive clipboard manager I've yet used (I've searched high and low for something that functions just like it for my PC), I'm reading the iPhone 3G still doesn't do cut/copy-and-paste--true?

 

[Sasaki]

Hi Jude, thank you for the comment.
Yes, iPhone (still) does not support copy&paste. The finger-tip-slide-on-the-screen is already assigned as a drag screen motion, so it needs another idea to implement the copy function, I think.

I wrote that the iPhone reminds of Newton but in my opinion those devices don't share the same idea to implement a fine PDA.
Newton was a true smart PDA, Newton accepts hand writing characters and interprets it into computer data. If I write a text like "Mail to Jude" and tap assist icon, the Newton will find your address from address book and invoke mail application automatically. However, iPhone will not do that.
Instead, iPhone accepts many gestures to surf the web and the combination of gestures surely work. In Fact, I am reading HeadFi website using the iPhone in a commuter train. The HeadFi website design is complex and stuffed with a bunch of information, but accessing to the information is fairly easy with the iPhone even though it has such a tiny screen.

I think the Newton is a data oriented PDA and iPhone is a communication oriented PDA.

 

[shigzeo]

i do indeed hope that the iphone comes to korea as that is where i will be next. i love my touch but would rather have a mobile phone as well as pmp in one