Re: [NTLK] iPhone/Newton Checklist?

>     Newton      iPhone
>                
>    --------    --------
> EMAIL             
>   Yes         Yes

Mail on the Newton... no. Not on ANY Newton. You need one of the big, ugly ones.

> Nothing beats the Newton and eMate, in my
> opinion, for handwriting your emails while sitting on the
> couch.

Handwriting on the Newton... no. Not ANY language on ANY Newton. You need one of the big, ugly ones.

> EDITING TEXT     
>    YES!     (uh... no)
> SPELL CHECK          Yes 
>        Yes
> THESAURUS           
> Yes         Yes

Editing on the Newton... no. Not ANY Newton. You need one of the big, ugly ones.

> WIFI             
>    Yes       YES!
> ETHERNET         
>    YES       Yes(*)
> WEB BROWSING     
>    Yes       YES!
> WAR DRIVING          no 
>       YES!
> IP/DNS DIAGS         no 
>       YES!

Once again, only on the big, ugly ones.

> The iPhone is the hands down winner here. It has nearly
> replaced my desktop for websurfing with Safari.

> FTP, SFTP, Google Docs, Network Shares(*), Doc Viewers
> (PDF, Word, Text, JPGs, etc... etc...) Yeah... try any of
> that on the Newt and you're liable to understand why the
> iPhone is so impressive.

You CAN view PDF, Word, text, JPGs, Excel spreadsheets, comma-separated databases, HTML, etc. on your Newton with the right software and by doing a bit of conversion. At least on 1.x. In Word, text, Excel spreadsheets, and comma-separated databases formats, you can also edit them. But yeah, it's not that easy.

-Matej Horvat

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Received on Sun Oct 4 08:31:42 2009