Hi Curt,
It is nice you like the F505. I still would go for the SH505 so far.
I got my doubts about F505... it would be nice you could convince that
the F505 is really a great phone:
good points:
- small and light form factor
- mega pixel cam
bad points:
- I do not believe so much in biometric security.
The fingerprint works but sometimes you need to press a few times
on it. It is more like a game. Entering a pin is much faster.
- The fonts on the screen are kind of anti-aliased at runtime. This
slows down the rendering a lot. If you read a mail, you can see how
the mail is gradually being drawn on the screen.
- In i-Appli the fonts are not anti-aliased, so sometimes they look
a bit ugly. In Xevious you have no fonts tough but bitmap fonts ;-)
Overall, the SH53 from J-Phone is one of the coolest at the moment for
me, especially the 3D Tennis game on it. Well, you may get bored with
it and then it is just another nice QVGA-Digicam phone.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:45:27 +0900 (JST)
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
>
> > Curt, your new F505i comes out on the 11th!!!
> > http://505i.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/f505i_top.html
>
> And boy, now I'm sold! It reads bar codes, and use can use an i-appli to
> fetch information about them!
>
> It also says that they use an i-appli to register fingerprints that can
> then be linked to a phone book entry and used to quickly make an e-mail
> or a phone call. (I know which finger Jurgen's getting! :-)) This points
> to a pretty high degree of access to phone internals from Java; I wonder if
> any of this will be documented and usable?
>
> And speaking of fingerprint functionality, what on earth is this
> "chibiwan friends" i-Appli?
>
> This really looks like a great phone overall. They even include a clone
> of one of my favourite arcade games from the 80s, Xevious. Although the
> phone actually has slightly better resolution and much better sound than
> the original. :-)
>
> cjs
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