Paranoid?!!!

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote in news:u-
2dnVxTJu21Pz7VnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@comcast.com:

He simply WON'T stop trolling the Verizon newsgroup.  I've asked him
nicely.

Well, I was just given an iPod Touch (free with Mac computer purchase
with educational discount) and I must say it is quite cool. Being a
Verizon customer, I cannot use an iPhone but I wish I could.

In alt.cellular.verizon Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

Why wouldn't you have an iPhone?

techwiz <McPherson.truck.2349@gmail.com> wrote in news:f63e231f-53a4-
41fe-84d5-f5730cb00e18@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

How so?  It has a very low resolution touchscreen with no stylus for
accuracy and fine input.  It has no character recognition that I know
of.  It has a poor finger keyboard for text input.  It has no Bluetooth
HID profile so one can add an external useful keyboard.  It has no port
to plug devices into and its Bluetooth prevents any use except headsets.

It has no cut and paste, a basic feature on any computing device.  
Hence, there is only one way to get:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP
from some app to Safari to bring up the map.
Because it only supports ONE app at a time, you cannot run the app this
URL came from and click and drag it into Safari to see the map, either.  
One of the most important common computer features is simply omitted for
some stupid reason.

It has no word processing capability as it has no usable keyboard for
word processing.

It has no spreadsheet capability so cannot be used as a number cruncher
other than the simplest of basic hand calculator calculations any $3
calculator from Dollar General does better with its real keyboard.

It cannot do complex calculations as it has no scientific calculator,
with or without a programming function.  It's not a science device with
no complex calculations.

It cannot display common video/audio formats used widely in business
such as Flash or most non-Apple video/audio formats.  It can't play the
Realvideo board meeting on a train because it has no Realplayer, plugin
or stand alone player.  It's media player is hobbled to sell iTunes
crap, hardly Business friendly.

It has no useful external memory, whatsoever.  You cannot load your
office files onto a memory card, USB plug, portable media or portable
hard drive so you are forced to expose the company to internet access
many business users simply cannot permit.  Webpage access to sensitive
company files, passwords and all, is just STUPID.

You cannot run specialized software written by your company IT
professionals on it because you are not allowed to install any useful
programs on it without exposing the company to some kind of security
breach at Apple Computers.  Even if you could get "permission" to
install the software, the software would be exposed to hacking in iTunes
or some kind of hidden app store Apple would have to setup for your
corporation.  Why take the risk?  It's insane just to have a girl
magnet.  Businessmen don't need a girl magnet.  They have money!

The Cisco users do report the VPN support seems to work and is easy to
configure, but what will you do with that unsupported file format once
you download it to the iPhone?  The document was created in Word,
contains 3 Excel spreadsheets full of numbers and the presentation that
goes with it is a Powerpoint presentation.  So, once you get it to the
iPhone, what can you do with it?  You can't review it, edit it, even
display it!  Worthless?

Check off the file formats BUSINESS, not Electronic Arts, uses every day
that the iPhone supports:
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
Which App Store apps will read/edit/store your changes so you can VPN
them back to the system?

The XYZ Corp uses a lot of video presentations to go with its
Powerpoints.  I'd almost guarantee NONE of them are in H.264 or MP4
format, the only two formats iPhone plays.  What do you expect XYZ to
do, convert the whole 96TB library of videos JUST so the grunts in the
field can show them on an iPhone?  BUSINESS isn't going to BEND to the
iPhone.  BUSINESS buys hardware and software that plays what that
business uses on all other formats.  They have no time for "conversion".

Of course, with no removable media to store the video on in the first
place from the company PC on your desktop, all this is moot.  Try
sending a 3GB video file over iTunes.  What a joke!  Business has no
time for this crap.

It has no capability for any kind of video output that can be connected
to a large TV or monitor display so we can't use it at the meeting with
the clients, anyways.  If we're going to haul the big laptop, why do we
need an iPhone?  

Iphones play:
The Apple iPhone supports the following audio formats:
AAC (16 to 320 Kbps)
AIFF
AAC Protected (MP4 from iTunes Store)
MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps)
MP3 VBR
Audible (formats 2-4)
Apple Lossless
WAV

Which format did the CEO's little sales booster meeting get sent to you
in?  It will play basic MP3 files.  That might work if the company
doesn't use Realvideo/audio, as many of them do.  Noone gives a sh.t if
it plays WAV, Audible 2 or 4, AIFF or Apple Lossless.  

Cut and paste this URL into your Safari:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Motorola+S9&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8
&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&cid=
862264849236915779&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=1
&ct=result&scoring=p
Motorola S9 is the finest headset I ever owned.  It's certainly the best
sellphone headset, too.  Why can't this Superplayer play audio through
the standard A2DP Bluetooth Stereo headphones?  Business will want
STEREO headphones so they can LISTEN to presentations DOWNLOADED from
parters as well as COMPETITORS.  Iphone won't download them and does a
piss poor job of playing them without A2DP support.  It IS fortunate you
don't need some proprietary Apple "adapter" so you can plug in a simple
stereo headphone.

These are valid points for business use.  N800 isn't a business machine,
either, but is much closer with its many ported Linux apps like Abiword,
Open Office, Gnumeric Spreasheet, Xournal for annotating PDF files,
plays any format business uses, including Realvideo and Realaudio files
and streaming.  N800 has no JAVA support....but the new Firefox 3 on it
will....(c;

Arrogance is fine with teenagers....but never with businessmen.

"Ness-Net" <richard.nodamn@nessnet.spam.com> wrote in news:5q-
dnX34FIFt_jvVnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@giganews.com:

It would also be prudent to look at where the ANTENNAS are placed in
this box.  The antenna connectors suggest the antennas are in the
plastic back, which would have the phone radiating in a very directive
way through your RF-absorbing hand.  Many phones suffer from this pretty
girly nonsense, rather than have a proper antenna that gets the RF away
from the resistive human sucking up the signals...both ways.

You guys with iPhones in areas with less than full scale signal try
something for us......

place the iphone on a desk in an upright position keeping your hands
away from the back.  Hold it by the edges.  Note the signal strength on
the bar meter.

Ok, now, WITHOUT MOVING THE PHONE AT ALL, wrap your hand around the back
of it in the normal holding position you'd use to make a call.  Watch
the signal bars.  Try different positions of your hand while holding the
phone steady on the desk without turning or moving it and see if you can
find a position where the signal is minimal, as low as it will go.  

Your hand is at the antenna, absorbing the signal.

When you get in a position where the phone starts to balk talking with
someone, take your hand away from this antenna location and hold the
phone in your fingertips by only its edges, leaving the back panel
plastic unobstructed.  TURN yourself, and the phone, on your vertical
axis because I cannot imagine the antennas in this phone not being very
directional.  Out the back of the phone, the antennas must be pointed
that way.  Through the PC board, battery, display electronics and front
radiation will be poor to nearly non-existant.

iPhone looks to have a virtual panel antenna, which is very directional
off the surface of the panel.
http://www.criterioncellular.com/antennas/planarpanelantennas.html
Here's a panel antenna by Andrew, one of the best antenna companies on
the planet.  Look at the specs of its vertical and horizontal beamwidth.  
That's where it's 7db gain comes from....a reflective surface behind the
piece of PC board the antennas are etched upon.  Your iPhone doesn't
have this directional phased array over a planar surface, just one
element.  The radiation towards your ear, as you use the phone, is
absorbed by all the electronics on the PC board, not reflected back out
to make a directional array as this.

Here's the radiation patterns of a proper panel antenna array of many
phased dipoles:
http://www.pow.za.net/panel.html
Notice the deep nulls where no signal goes off in that direction.  This
antenna is on the 2400 Mhz wifi band.

Dipole antennas working against a metal groundplane make good
directional antennas.  Here's a homebrew wifi antenna in a dish:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~elepal/antenna1.html
Now, compare that antenna with the dipole antenna buried in the plastic
back of the iPhone.  In this type of antenna, L/4, the quarter
wavelength distance from the element to the reflector disk is very
critical at making a good pattern.  As you move the plane in towards the
element, the single lobe of the antenna splits into 2, 4, 8, 16 smaller
lobes, which is, probably, more reality in the very thin iPhone's
reflective PC board/battery nearly pressed against the dipole element
inside the plastic back.

In any event, pretty isn't functional for good RF radiation between you
and the cell.  Sellphone companies, a couple of phone generations ago,
got rid of the usable external antenna connectors attempting to make the
phones have less and less effective radiated power to jam the dense
cells in the cities, at the expense of RANGE when the cells are far
apart.  Call dropping is normal with such phones, including iPhone.

I've seen no specification as to iPhones maximum RF power output.  The
new generation seems hell bent on limiting power to 120-150 milliwatt,
almost no power output at all.  At these power levels, none of them has
any decent range as there's almost no power to begin with.

Good advertising and Steve Jobs are no match for PHYSICS and common
sense.

"Ness-Net" <richard.nodamn@nessnet.spam.com> wrote in news:5q-
dnX34FIFt_jvVnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@giganews.com:

Along the lines of this antenna problem in iPhone......

If the antenna in iPhone IS, in fact, directional perpendicular to the
plane of the plastic back, take a look at it in this perspective while you
are using it as a handheld computer.  Where is the antenna pointing?

If you are holding it so you can see its screen, any RF coming out the back
of the iphone is POINTED AT THE GROUND...not at the towers.  If it's laying
on a desk, it's pointed into the stuff in the drawer under the desktop and
at the floor, not at the towers.

Can we see a problem here if the towers aren't 500 yards from the desk?

RF isn't magic.  It also isn't digital.....