4phun <vic.healey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:2f5aaab7-b15a-4350-8cb8-
b47394d14b05@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How does that compare to the $300 16 GB iPhone? Wait, you can not buy
> a 16GB micro sd card so this will never be a 16GB Instinct.
Sorry, fanboi, memory is UNLIMITED because YOU get to hotswap microSDs any
ol' time ya want! Maybe you'll be able to, someday, but not before Apple
wants YOU to have control of the FruitFone.
>
> So compare that to a $200 8 GB iPhone. You pay $130 to Sprint and then
> add an 8 GB sd card for $50 to $80 which takes this gem to $180 to
> $210.
Oops...it's not an SD card, it's a microSD card. Either way you just
GOTTA
quite buying **** from the FruitFone store! Here's the real prices:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=
3799796&Sku=C10-1130
2GB with FREE SD adapter to go in a WINDOWS box - $10
http://www.buy.com/prod/dane-elec-4gb-microsdhc-micro-secure-digital-high-
capacity-card/q/loc/101/207498748.html
4GB Class 4 - $30/free ****pping.
http://www.buy.com/prod/dane-elec-2gb-microsd-secure-digital-sd-
card/q/loc/101/204304890.html
Buy.com also has a 2GB microSD with SD adapter for the PC so you can swap
pictures/movies/music/stuff back and forth to the Instinct for $10 each
with free ****pping.
16GB/2=8 cards x $10 = $80, not $180 to $210 where you shop.
>
> Then you have to worry about the sd card getting ejected and lost so
> you have to buy another one again.
Er, ah, I don't know about the Fruit company, but every SD or microSD
device I own you have to FIGHT to get the tiny cards out of the devices
clutches, locked inside. My stuff even has a door to keep it clean that
seals. I suppose I could lose them, but I have a little carrier card I
made for the back of the N800 Linux tablet for SD cards anyone could make.
I cut two pieces of plastic as wide as the battery compartment door that
goes the full width across the back of the tablet, but not up the curve to
the antenna radome at the top. These pieces simply match the length and
width of the door.
They are glued to a piece of blue (to match my blue LEDs, of course) foam
from a craft shop (Walmart) that's as thick as the SD cards are thick,
which isn't much. A notch in the foam is cut for each card so the card
fits into the notch between the hard plastic sheets so only a tiny sliver
of the SD card, the end opposite the contacts, protrudes when the card is
hard into the slot. A combination of the foam squeezing on the sides of
the card and a little vacuum that forms when the card comes out of the
slot, holds the cards FIRMLY inside my little card carrier. There are 4
slots, side by side, to put cards/microSD-to-SD adapters so I can plug my
MotoROKR Z6m's microSD cards into the tablet's external SD slot, on the
battery compartment door, glued together and glued to the door. There's
just enough sticking out to get your fingernail to hook the card's edge,
keeping them out of the dirt and from being lost.
Storage, using 16GB cards, would be 16GB internal, 16GB external (online
at
a time) plus four more 16GB in the storage slots if I like for a total
storage of 96GB of maps, movies, music, photos, satellite tiles,
aeronautical charts, little used but quickly installable apps, and some
really stupid nonsense....all in one device...
96GB is a LOT of storage...(c;
But, in reality I have two 16GB cards in the little Linux box, 2 8GB cards
I had before the 16GB cards and a 4GB SDHC card. The last slot is the
microSD to SD adapter, which also houses an extra 2GB microSD card to swap
with my ROKR Z6m when I get tired of the music on its other 2GB microSD
card.
It's a regular memory store!
>
> Samsung should have just included the memory to start with like Apple
> does. Now does Sprint email work with Yahoo, HotMail or GMail like the
> plain Jane iPhone does? Do you get true HTML email or plain text?
No, because it takes the CHOICE of what you want online, and the ability
to
CHANGE what's in the memory slot in a couple of seconds the FruitFone
cannot offer...just like most other sellphones.
How long does it take to erase 9GB of movies you're tired of and REPLACE
them with 9GB of NEW movies off alt.binaries.movies.divx....not even
including the conversion time to one of the codecs the FruitFone can play?
Download 9GB off iTunes through your computer and let us know how long
that
takes.
>
> Do they give you a bag to carry all that extra hadware in that is
> needed to keep the instinct running during the day?
microSD cards are much smaller and thinner than my SDHC beasts. You could
make a simple credit card carrier like the one on my battery compartment
but as small as a credit card that would carry a dozen around its
edges...right in your wallet.
>
> Does it even sync with iTunes or does it sync OTA with Sprint or that
> Micorsoft WinMo cludge for Sync to a PC?
If you have a removeable memory card, you don't need to "sync". You can
have your OWN STUFF!.....well, except on Verizon where Verizon blocks
everything in firmware, like makin' your own ringtones out of MP3 files.
>
> What is the end user experience - all promise ending in frustration?
>
We'll see....won't we....(c;
Be honest...you'd kill for freeware apps and a real memory card, would't
you?
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