Absolutely. Don't google up "itunes alternative".
And didn't you know about apple's other lawsuit of the moment specifically about itunes/ipod combo creating a monopoly..
well, looks like i was wrong. which sucks..
Apple's not going to 'allow' 3rd party applications.... but i'm not really sure how they're going to stop them.. i'd imagine people are going to try really hard to hack them to get the programs to work..
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Well.. is it really impossible to stop someone from hacking? It certainly won't come with any compiling tools and it probably only allows certain media file types and maybe even requires some kind of signatures to run stuff just in case. I doubt they will make any command lines avalaible. Maybe it can be chipped like a console though.
Or things can be done like the earlier PSP hacks; an image file with a buffer overflow that executes a file that you've saved onto it (your application)
Dunno how that works but unlike other phones it looks like it accesses webpages regularly instead of through WAP. Maybe that can somehow be exploited or at least people will be able to make web apps for use with it.
Did anyone else notice that the 499-599$(american) price tag is with a 2 year contract?
If the iPhone is the holy grail of hardware and software design, then Japanese cell phones are the holy grail of convergence devices. In no other part of the world will you find a phone that checks email, trade stocks, watch TV, act as a charge card, plays music, interface with other phones, act as portable computer, book tickets, 3+ megapixel cameras, unlock doors, remotely control other devices, GPS navigation, mobile shopping, bar code and fingerprint scanners, push to talk with multiple people, video chatting and conferencing, and of course . . . cell phone.
Japanese are always advance when it comes to electronic gadgets. I saw on TV, a Japanese Salary man pass his phone over the turnstile of the subway to go through. Paying stuff with your cell phone, imagine.
I never had and most unlikely never will get a cell.
They've got wireless hi-def. TV signal in the metro over there. Phones that are your credit card/bank card, built in GPS, thumbprint scanner.. That right there would massively dent cellphone theft and facilitate recovery of lost phones.. It would be useless without you being the one using it!