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To: Above My Pay Grade
Sure, tiny screens, slower processors and photos that can barely be used for anything larger than thumbnails are ADVANTAGES, when the iPhone is saddled with them. /sarc Oh yeah, and Flash is bad too.

Thought so... Thank you for confirming you DON'T know what you are talking about in photography. . . or in quality of screens or resolution either. LOL, thumbnails. A 1.5 megapixel camera can display a HD VIDEO at 60" diagonal and you'd be very impressed with the resolution! At 5 megapixels, it would be capable of that size in a near retina display!

41 posted on 05/24/2011 4:34:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker

Of course the iPhone photos can be enlarged to sizes larger than thumbnails, but will become distorted on much smaller enlargements than photos taken with an 8 megapixel camera. There is a reason nobody is making dedicated 5 mp cameras anymore. I have had 5 MP cameras and distortion is sometimes noticable on 4 x 6 inch prints. Anything much larger than that and it gets very bad.

Also, I notice you mentioned video, not still shots. I don’t know the mechanics of it, but I do know that relatively low resolution cameras can take HD video. That won’t help you when your snap shots get fuzzy, though.

I realize Apple is probably paying you to shill for them here, but at least try to come up with some valid propaganda points. Claiming larger, better screens, faster processors, real web browsing (Flash) and superior cameras are actually DISADVANTAGES is ridiculous. The latest high end Android phones blow away the iPhone 4.

I have never bought the idea of “iPhone killers”, but if the Galaxy S2 battery life is as good as early reports from overseas users indicate, I’d short Apple stock. That phone is vastly superior to the iPhone in every way. And, within 6 months, I’m sure Motorola and/or HTC will put out something even better and Samsung will repsond with something still better and so on and so on.

If Apple wants to compete, it needs to get its act together and once again start producing phones with specs that are at or above those of the competition. If not, in 2 or 3 years, the iPhone will be what Blackberry has become today, a once dominant brand that is now mainly owned by dwindling number of diehard fans.

Your attitude seems to mirror Apple’s. It basically says, “If the competition is doing some things better (nearly all things, in fact) than us, then those things don’t matter.” I think the market will beg to differ on that.


43 posted on 05/25/2011 7:09:33 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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