Why is iPhone not considered a smartphone? - Page 3

**mlin** · #21 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by fozmsu

Or perhaps he knew the fandroids would be trolling to find a chance to bash the iPhone. Umm, score then? But seriously, I think a phone is only as smart as it's owner. Let's face it, there are quite a few people out there that make the jitterbug look like a smartphone with the way they act.

I don't see much iPhone bashing. Thus, fail. I do see decent discussion regarding the available OSes though. I don't really care either way.

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**shaggylive** · #22 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 01:15 AM

the definition of a smart phone is sync capabilities, meaning to a pc. in the winmo world smartphones did not have a touchscreen, but had some type of qwerty kb. A touchscreen was a requirement for a PocketPC (winmo pro). there were other API differences as well between the standard and pro versions.

basically the iphone is a hybrid slightly de-evolved version of m$ had been doing for years. really the main difference between blackberry and iphone is buttons and java.

which reminds me, are we going to start referring to bb's as the Oracle?
what remains to be seen is just how far wm7 leaned to the 'phone' side. (notice the lack of that word in ppc.)

**shaggylive** · #23 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NIKKG

Why do people on this site state the iPhone is not a “real smartphone” but WinMo, Android supposedly are?

To me, this is not only a smartphone, its like a laptop replacement. My laptop just collects dust now, I don’t see what’s the point of turning on a laptop when I can do almost everything right on my iphone with that beautiful hi-def screen.

silly me not reading the entire first post..

can the iphone communicate with any serial port?
the iphone is completely proprietary where the others (mainly only HTC the last few years) are made to work with and quickly adapt to any hardware specs desired, all that's needed is a driver. with apple there are no 'drivers' rather the o/s kernel needs updated or the hardware must conform to the existing instruction sets.

**horndoctor** · #24 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 02:08 AM

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

The iPhone is a Smartphone but it certainly isn't a PocketPC.

**orangekid** · #25 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by shaggylive

can the iphone communicate with any serial port?

you still use a serial port?

fozmsu · #26 (**permalink**) 08-26-2010, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by mlin

I don't see much iPhone bashing. Thus, fail. I do see decent discussion regarding the available OSes though. I don't really care either way.

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It was just a joke, Professor pass/fail