There will be no upgrade for the wizard, as the hermes which is getting the upgrade, is the wizard replacement in HTC's eyes. Also note that although Tmo may be offering an upgrade later on for some of there devices, Cingular never will. Cingular appears to prefer to sell and get new customers, not keep current ones happy, I have never seen an upgrade for anything cingular, only critical updates (DST update). And since XDA is no longer permitted to host images, it will be a pain to find someone who took the EU image, and ported it to a wizard friendly image... which by the way, there are a few out there if you look hard enough
Yep, its windows mobile, I have those exact same icons on 3 of my phones :) imate jam, cing 8125 (current phone) and I forgot the last one heh.. I have had soo many phones in the last 3 years.
Actually, its not DNS related, atleast not in the store I bought my TV from. I bought a Samsung 56 rear projection DLP that was advertised on the web site for 1970, but the instore price was 2200 or something along those lines. When the sales rep looked it up, the browser that comes up defaults to the intranet, however its a frameless page, it does not show the url, I told the sales guy to pull up the extranet site, which he did by opening a browser, and then he honored the price, no questions asked. He was a little surprised about the difference. I do not think its intentional (maybe I am being optomistic), I believe there is a disconnect between the systems that deal with the discounts, which are probably linked to the extranet site, but not to the internal. I could of course be totally wrong and its some upper management scheme heh....
I'd be curious to know if the RF remotes can be coded to individual frames. Mounting a number of these in my wall where I have no access to the built in controls, I may with to configure then individually, rather then all at the same time :(
I-Mate have been around for years, this is not a new company, only a new product, Apple lost their chance to sue many many years ago, which they would have had to have done when I-Mate first came into existance.
As for the frame, I do find it interesting, at 300, a little to pricey, I am in the process of redoing my living room (new drywall/insulation/wiring/everything), and have been debating building into the wall a number of digital frames (only the LCD being visible, not the frame portion). With wifi and RF, this makes things alot easier on me by only needing to provide power, but at $200 to $300 each, thats still a little too high, not spending $3k for a bunch of frames....
It goes further then that, it has nothing to do with * killer products, it has to do with marketing, and Apple has a phenominal marketing machine. For you ipod comment, there are dozens of products with superior features and quality, however they do not have the same brand following and marketing that Apple does. This is what Apple does, and they do it well. The Sansa mp3 players have similair drive sized and form factor, well built, and nice user interaction, technically a superior product to the Ipod, but does not have the marketing. Same goes for the Samsung T9B (soon to be available in the US, the T9 is currently available), superior features, A2DP support, up to 8G, same size as the Nano (maybe a tiny bit larger), solid build.
As for the Iphone, this is the natural progression of the market, company a releases a product, company b - z wants a piece of that market. If the quality is the same as the Iphone, and not all chinese knockoffs are of cheap build quality, then more power to them, although the UI definately looks iPhoneish.... Traditionally the companies that like to copy other products, will take those features, and add or improve upon them, and this is what drives the market. Pitty those knockoffs won't ever make it to US shores since the FCC refuses to certify many of the copy products from the Asian market due to pressure from large corps here. Welcome to America, which company would you like to obey today... :)
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