Apple iPhone 3G limitations

Here are some drawbacks / Limitations of the new iPhone launched in India. I think you should go over these before you buy the ridiculously costly iPhone.

1. You can only sync music and video through iTunes. Want to drag-and-drop content from your hard-drive? Would like to sync music from another store -- from Amazon, for example? You are out of luck.

2. You can only install apps through iTunes. Never before has a cellphone maker slammed the door to an open development enviornment and received nothing but praise for doing so.

3. Apple deletes useful applications. Nullriver's modem app went to the grave with no reason stated. Apple's digital business is dependent on the music and movie industry's whims. How long before the industry dictates which applications we can run?

4. Apple might not accept apps which might be detrimental to its own business. We won't hold our breath for competitive products to appear on the iPhone anytime soon.

5. You can only run one third-party application at a time. An instant messenger that runs in the background and collects messages while you are away? Not happening.

6. Apple might not allow app vendors to open up their apps. The terms of the NDA that potential application developers for the iPhone need to sign, effectively restrict redistribution of the source. Apple has created OSX on the back of FreeBSD; Safari on KHTML, SproutCore library used in MobileMe, and now they have built a layer on top that excludes others.

7. Limited Bluetooth use. The iPhone 3G has Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR but can you transfer files over Bluetooth? Does it support A2DP? Stereo Bluetooth? No on all counts. As of now, all you get from Bluetooth are headset voice calls, and that's it.

8. No copy-paste. This might be more of an interface issue that Apple is seeking to solve, than anything else. But it only underlines the drawbacks of a walled garden. If development was as open as say, it is on the Palm platform -- you would have a hundred different solutions by now, and at least one you could actually use. This also underlines how much the innovative spirit is killed by a controlled development environment. The iPhone ecosystem doesn't encourage software tinkering and probably won't spur garage breakthroughs that drive the industry forward.

9. No MMS. While you can e-mail photos, multimedia messaging is absent from the device. And speaking of videos...

10. No video recording. In the world of YouTube, the iPhone 3G does not offer video recording.

11. No voice command. For a touch-screen-only phone, voice controls would have been a huge plus for hands-free or one-handed control. Can we expect this functionality to be added by a third-party app?

12. Hardware locked to carriers. You cannot use any SIM card with this GSM device. How stupid is that?

13. The iPhone 3G might not even enjoy 3G until months afterwards. So why pay for it now?

14. There is no FM Radio.

15. iPhone does not have a removable battery & expected life is 300-400 charges after that you have visit apple store to replace the battery every Year or Two like ipod. Offcource they will charge you for Battery.

16. Modem is missing, so you can not connect to your PC or Laptop to the internet using the iPhone. This feature is common to almost all the rival phones.

17. There are no video calls, No front camera and No flash light in iPhone.

Frankly, this phone is no good for the current price !!
Only a stupid person with lot of money at his disposal would buy this phone.

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Poor show Akhil Kumar !!!

Just saw the boxing match where Akhil Kumar (India) fought with Veaceslay Gojan (Moldova).... and it was a poor show by the over optimistic Akhil Kumar.

In the first two rounds both of them scored 1 points each making it 2-2 tally.
In third round, there was no change in strategy by Akhil Kumar, he went at Veaceslay, all out with both hands down and trying to get an opening....wait a minute, wasnt this the same strategy for the first two rounds ??...
Veaceslay Gojan scored successive 4 points in this round (3rd) and in return Akhil danced around and threw wild punches at him, which was way too easy for Veaceslay Gojan to dodge !
As a typical Indian sports person, Akhil was totally confused and baffled in the 4th round and lost the match 10-3

Akhil fought well in the previous match against the world champion... he had a plan.
But in this match the plan was? ...umm... yeah... I think ... just throw punches at the other guy !! What kind of strategy is this??.... it was really a poor show by a boxer with a lot of potential !

Moral of the story : Never make statements like "I will win a gold", unless you are Michael Phelps !!

Cuil Vs Google

I would like to point out some things why I feel google is still far better.
Type 1 cm =? meters in google and cuil.
Google gives you the answer, where as cuil fails !!

If you type a city name say "Pune" in both the search engines,
google gives you better results.
why?
Here are the links displayed on the 1st page by cuil
www.unipune.ernet.in/
http://www.puneinternationalfilmfestival.com/
http://www.plug.org.in/ ......Irrelevant
http://cab.org.in/ .........Irrelevant
http://www.jobsahead.com/ ......... Irrelevant
http://www.osho.com/ ........... Not so relevant
http://www.puneonlineflorists.com/
http://www.globalflowerdelivery.com/ .........Irrelevant
http://www.puneitpark.com/
http://www.mapsofindia.com/pune/index.html

And here is what google gives us !!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune
www.virtualpune.com/
www.punecity.com
wikitravel.org/en/Pune
www.pune.org.uk/
www.mapsofindia.com/maps/maharashtra/pune.htm
www.punecitymag.com/
www.punediary.com/
www.aroundpune.com/

well.... google Scores 100% ....
Cuil may have the largest indexing count, and it maybe faster... but its not clever !

Cosmic Ghost

A dutch school teacher, a volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project, discovered a mysterious and unique object which is famously being called as "Cosmic ghost" !

Van Arkel came across the image of an object (gaseous) with a hole in the center while using the http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ website to classify images of galaxies



It does look like a ghost from ghost busters ...doesnt it?... lol

Knol : A unit of knowledge

Google has come up with another interesting site, its called Knol.
Its more like Wiki but with some different flavours. There are anonymous posts allowed, it has publishing tools similar to blogs, but unlike blogs Knol wants you to write specific to one topic at a time.

The Knols you write will be ranked by popularity to increase competetion and thereby increasing visits...lols
Unlike Wiki, the content, they claim right now, will not be edited behind the scenes. It relies on users to notify the objectionable content.

Google signed a deal with Conde Nast's New Yorker, giving Knol authors the rights to use one of the magazine's famous cartoons in each Knol posting. Google will allow Knol writers to run ads on their entries and will share income with them.

Product manager of Knol claims that rather than competing with Wikipedia, Knol may end up serving as a primary source of authoritative information for use with Wikipedia articles.

You can start "Knoling" here : http://knol.google.com/