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I hate the fact that Apple deems the iPhone as a gaming machine. It can run games and it has some good ones on there but do people buy an iPhone so they can play games? I don't think so. The primary function of an iPhone is to transmit/receive calls/texts. Everything else is just a marketing scheme to get people to buy their product instead of someone else's. Companies started bundling other functions with their phones so that they could separate themselves from the pack. Humans can do arithmetic in their head, does that mean we are calculators too? No, of course not.]]>Nov 7th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 7th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 7th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/
+iPhone
+iPod Touch
+Wii
+PS3
+PC
+Nikon brand Digital SLR w/HD video capability
+a car with a built-in navigation system, and
+fly on fancy airlines

You're poo-pooing of a multi-faceted device that MEETS THE NEEDS of many, many, MANY people shows you not to be discriminating, but rather aloof!]]>Nov 8th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/It should also have solar panel to recharge the battery.
The only feature I need is the call list (for incoming, outgoing and missed calls).

Didn't we old timers were quite OK with the rotary phone and the touch-tone phone was such a novelty until the phone companies started adding it as a separate service that we couldn't live without? I remember paying around $12 a month for my phone line 35 years ago. It is $66 just for basic service now.

]]>Nov 7th 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/It blows.]]>Nov 8th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Consider the Emergency cardiac monitor/defib/cardioverter/12 lead ECG/Capnography device I routinely use as a paramedic...there are better unitaskers for each of those functions, but if I had all that, I'd be a in a ER not carrying it into your living room. ]]>Nov 8th 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/
and then there's the gaming part. what a waste. if access to all that info is so important; who has time to play games?]]>Nov 8th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/
My wife, who is a film and video producer got a full featured smart phone because the documentation clearly stated that it can play video attachments or stream videos in a wide variety of formats including 3g, wmv, mpg and avi. This would be very useful as she often has to approve clips while in production and doing it "on the run" would be time-saving. The catch? It doesn't play anything she needs to view. After two devices and dozens of calls to tech support we discovered that all videos to be watched on a mobile device must be saved by the sender or creator in a "for mobile device" format, which simply means a low resolution or frame size. What? they're supposed to take the time to separately make lo-res clips of HD video just for approval? That's is never going to happen in her industry. It's too time consuming. So for the time being, she's carrying her MAC to hotspots everywhere she goes.

As for me, I also still have my RazR and use it only to make calls or send texts. My camera takes 12 megapixel photos, which phones cannot do and I am, quite frankly, glad to be away from the world wide web and email when I'm out and about. So for now, I agree with Martin and have A LOT of friends who feel the same.]]>Nov 8th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/ I have a Sanyo phone with Sprint as a carrier. It does have internet capability and text. I don't have either one enabled though. I can make and receive calls and messages. I also have a wireless receiver on my visor for hands free while driving, no plug in MY ear
Tom]]>Nov 8th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/07/cell-phone-inventor-says-mobile-devices-are-too-complex/Nov 8th 2009 10:28AM