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By giizii, November 17, 2007 4:51 pm

Yes, I’m talking iPhone. With lack of some basic futures, that will make life much better for Pro on the Go, I would say.

Features I would like to see immediately are:

• Copy/Paste text – all apps with shared Clipboard
• Upload files – Safari
• Send message to more then one contact – SMS
• Video recording – Camera
• Google Apps enabled – Safari
• Flash support – Safari

I don’t believe they excluded this features. But since it’s all software based, I guess with the next upgrades this will be implemented. I hope.

Otherwise, this is the most awesome device I ever had in my hands. Love it.

Almost year ago I wrote about the Zaurus and iPhone. I know OS X inside iPhone will soon offer me apache, mysql, php, python, xsltproc – all this software already installed on my Zaurus, with very neat Code Editor. But the lack of instant WiFI, phone and camera features made it a bit pain in the arse device. Not to mention hard disk space and small memory. You had to buy separate blue-tooth, WiFi and memory flash cards or SD. Configuring my Sony Ericsson W800i at the time to use GPRS with it was also very painful, but with lots of hacks and community help I finally get the Zaurus working well, with all features I needed. I could develop sites on the train, which I did – www.ikorcagin.org (2003) and www.sunsblog.net (2004) are developed entirely on the Zaurus in my spare time.

You could watch decent MPEG2 encoded videos on Zaurus and listen MP3 of course, but not even close with the quality of what we have today on the iPhone. And because of the small memory storage, you could only have one full movie at a time. Now I can have all 28 episodes of Scrubs, plus Kill BIll, plus Akira, plus tones of music, photos and BBC podcasts. And hey, I can talk with it

That’s it. I finally have one device in my pocket for all things on the go, looking sweet, working perfectly and teaching the market what device/platform tailored User Interface and Interaction should be – with lack of some temporarily locked/hidden, but soon to be available features I believe.

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By giizii, November 3, 2007 9:12 pm

Sharing photos is great. Publishing photos on social networking sites is cool. But, the question is – How far it can go?

For instance, someone captured you on a leaving do party without warning or request. There is always someone with the company’s or personal digital/phone camera documenting the event. Before your hangover is gone and finally you feel better, you get notification that you’ve been tagged in a photo on one of your social networks. You log-in and see yourself in poses and situations that were enjoyable at the moment, but are not for a public display.

You were there to enjoy your night out and have a good time, and suddenly a flash of the camera (from people you know or don’t know) reminds you that you’ve been captured, and immediately you know that this photo might be published somewhere without your knowlage and approval. Your night out is destroyed. You can’t relax without being disturbed by this social networking addicts.

Some networks notify you when you are tagged, but what I want to see is an approval process, where I want to approve the photos of me. Same way the network asks me to approve or confirm friendship or ‘How do you know this person?’ request, I wan’t to approve my photos, because it is ME on the photos, and only I can decide if I want thease to be displayed or not.

Yeah, social networking addicts - get a life. There is a limit how far disturbing my privacy can go, and I should be in control of that. Up to this point, I’m not. Social network development teams, please put this User Requirement in your backlogs.