Re: iPhone Killer for the CDMA crowd - well at least Sprint

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> and i'm suggesting that it's silly to make the iphone do things that
> it's not well suited to do.  if word processing is im****tant, then
> there are better devices to use.  but if one really wants to install
> unix freeware, there's nothing stopping them from doing so. 

On the other hand, it's hard to understand why the iPhone isn't suited 
to do useful things that its hardware is easily capable of accompli****ng.

If it permitted connection to a bluetooth keyboard and contained, or let 
me install, a standard office suite--the equivalent of what I have on my 
Nokia 9300--I would probably have one already, and would almost 
certainly buy the 3G version when available. As both a customer and a 
stockholder, I think it reasonable to complain when a firm fails to 
include in a product features that I and many other customers would 
want, and that would cost almost nothing to include.

The third feature I would like is the ability to use it as a WiFi modem 
to connect laptops to the web via the cell network. I can see at least 
one good reason for Apple not to provide that--it might substantially 
increase the amount of bandwidth used, which would be a cost for the 
cell provider. But even there, I would think it would make sense to 
provide it as a higher cost option--what AT&T currently does for people 
who want the ability to connect their laptops to the net via the AT&T 
cellular system.

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