How far we've come
By Ryan Block 
posted June 29th 2007 9:55PM
posted June 29th 2007 9:55PM
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The way you guys act is like the thousands of PDAs and PDA phones has never existed between the Iphone and Newton's release.
But I am sure to you guys Steve Jobs created the touchscreen phone so all's fair for you guys.
oh, i didn't know the newton (which i absolutely love btw, no hate on the old guy, been trying to save a box of 20 of them from certain death) was a cell phone too. that's pretty amazing. oh, it also has 8gb of storage for mp3 playback? wow, that's pretty amazing. it can play movies and view photos? it's in color! wow.
etc etc etc... you ihaters are pretty smart and extremely fair and rational when arguing your points. thanks for the comments.
Yeah. One is a PDA - the other isn't.
It would've been great if they used Inkwell as a text input alternative but alas no stylus. During the end of the Newton's run it got much more reliable, but it was still easy to make some Newton Poetry if need be! I think even text-to-speech should be added down the line with Apple's basic expertise in that area.
*speech-to-text
I've been carrying the item on the left for about 10 years.
Please say a prayer for my pants' pockets.
Although the Newt handles both WiFi and gravity very well.
The Newton is so Sexy. What the heck is that disgusting thing next to it?
eat up martha?
Write me a memo about it on the iphone, Oh I can't? Really? Oops, sometimes the old dog can teach the new one new tricks.
security cable at the apple store
If ONLY iPhone were more like Newton! How about the Notes from Newton? I LOVED Apple's insanely great Newton Notes with it's drag-able checklist/outliner feature (see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes)
Please, really, follow that link, see the 1 paragraph description and the screenshot, it's really a terrific bit of software.
iPhone isn't even a PDA
:( Can't even cut & paste. How can you get anything useful done if you can't org/re-org lists & tasks? We need cut & paste...or a drag-able checklist like Newton's Notes.