Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D...
by notauser on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @02:13PM
(#253497)
If you can tether your phone then the browser on the device can be of much lower quality before you care.
Any time I'm somewhere for more than 5 minutes (coffee shop, train, meeting ) I tether my Eee 901 to my phone (a 6120c, which comes with 3gb of data for ~$20/mo). That gets me a _good_ keyboard, a large screen, and full blown Firefox + addons. Way, way more usable than an iPhone and cheaper over it's lifetime.
Because of that I only use the browser on the device for flash movies, real player streaming radio (from the BBC), and mobile-friendly data like movie listings or rss news. Two of those the iPhone can't even do, and the other one it offers no real advantage for.
Re:Jailbreak: Get Your Computer Online Using Your iPhone's D...
by silencio on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @10:39PM
(#253954)
Indeed. But I do a lot of those on my phone anyway. Lot simpler than pulling out the laptop, and I like browsing on my phone more than I do on my laptop (egads).
Any time I'm somewhere for more than 5 minutes (coffee shop, train, meeting ) I tether my Eee 901 to my phone (a 6120c, which comes with 3gb of data for ~$20/mo). That gets me a _good_ keyboard, a large screen, and full blown Firefox + addons. Way, way more usable than an iPhone and cheaper over it's lifetime.
Because of that I only use the browser on the device for flash movies, real player streaming radio (from the BBC), and mobile-friendly data like movie listings or rss news. Two of those the iPhone can't even do, and the other one it offers no real advantage for.