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Listed below are comments made by armitasp between Tuesday, 10th June 2008 and Monday, 7th July 2008.

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Watching you, watching YouTube 11:37am on 07 Jul 2008 This ruling is worrying because it is a Slippery slope. It seems little by little our privacy is being erroded. However its not all doom and gloom. In the UK we have the Data Protection Act (which saves a lot of people more than they realise). I work in the network provision game and we get regular threats saying.... "blah blah IP Address X.X.X.X download blah movie. We demand you give us this user's name and address..... etc etc" We politely tell the US company where they can stick it as the Data Protection Act makes it illegal for us to hand out such information. Then we temporarily disconnect the user until the promise they won't do it again. :-)

Even so we should be careful. The UK government is quite happy to abuse "terrorism laws" to exridite UK citizens to the US. Ask the Natwest Three.
Too much iPhone? 6:29pm on 12 Jun 2008 @Hooligooner you are spot on.
Too much iPhone? 7:17pm on 10 Jun 2008 @BenjaminBowles

Nokia N95 launched before the iPhone and had 3G HSDPA, GPS, 5 Mega Pixel camera, Real Player, WPA2 Enterprise. All features not on the iPhone.

So in what way are Nokia behind the times?
Hands on with iPhone 3G 2:04pm on 10 Jun 2008 @exnihilo fair point
Hands on with iPhone 3G 1:59pm on 10 Jun 2008 @scran72

"it makes the iPhone look like it's light years ahead of anything resembling a phone."

lol, the iPhone has nothing that other phones don't have. It's only USP is the touch screen and UI. Everything else it does is available in other smartphones, and was available before the iPhone arrived on the scence.
Hands on with iPhone 3G 12:38pm on 10 Jun 2008 @ masonlondon

I'd wait for the N96 if you are thinking about an N95 8GB. Should be out in July.
Hands on with iPhone 3G 11:36am on 10 Jun 2008 @twelveeightyone

"It's the software, stupid."

wheres the revolutionary software that isn't available on other platforms.

Email, Web Browsing, Music Playing, Google Maps, GPS, Calendar, You Tube, Photos, Stocks, Calculator. Facebook. All available on other platforms

So it has an SDK which loads of people have downloaded. So has the S60 platform, in fact on my N95 I have loads of apps written by third parties e.g. rotate me, truphone, you tube, shut up, putty, Sky Anytime, Kaspersky, Location Tagger, sports tracker.
In fact many of the best ones are by a single guy working in his spare time (google for bysamir).

the iPhone 2 looks like a good product and the price will make it hard to beat. However the iPhone 1 was style over substance. We have to break our secruity model just so iPhone 1 users could use the wifi because it can't do Enterprise wireless, something the Nokia and Windows Mobile phones have no problems with.

The BBC do devote too much time to it. Given the relatively low number of owners the BBC used development time to create an iPlayer just for iPhone users.
Hands on with iPhone 3G 10:46am on 10 Jun 2008 twelveightyone, There are far more developers for the S60 and windows mobile platforms.
Hands on with iPhone 3G 10:42am on 10 Jun 2008 Some interesting comments have been made about the publicity given to Apple and I would have to agree. I doubt the BBC will be giving as much coverage to the N96 launch. It is unusual as well that the BBC had a technology story on the day of launch. Tech news has usually been on the register for at least a week before the BBC pick up on it ;-)

As for the iPhone 2, I think Apple have finally caught up (featurewise) with what other phones have been offering for over a year. I've been happily using the GPS, 3G, 5 Mega Pixel camera, Enterprise wireless and a whole host of other things on my N95 8GB for months.
Hands on with iPhone 3G 08:33am on 10 Jun 2008 I was never a fan of the original iPhone I thought the N95 8GB was a much better product. However now it looks like the iPhone 2.0 will be hard to beat. The one feature I am most glad Apple have finally added is WPA2 Enterprise wireless. It was so annoying that the original didn't have WPA2 Enterprise security. In the networks world we are trying to make using wireless more secure but are working with our hands tied behind our back when manufacturers ignore the fact that these devices will be used by large organisations.

It is annoying that O2 are still the only network in the UK selling iPhones. Having a monopoly doesn't make for a very competitive market for contracts.

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