Hi there all,

I was having a ponder on the thought that does anyone reckon the umd would be anymore smartphone friendly at all? Im probably the only one ( or not) that only has access to the internet only via my mobile phone and not a landline, which i cant upload photos from to this site. So i was just wondering if its just me not knowing how to upload from a mobile or if its not compatable yet?

Kind regards all

We've had this discussion before. Apple products don't have a traditional filesystem so MM would have to do a ton of programming.
The solution is, just get a freaking computer. Trying to function solely off a phone is asinine.

Perhaps Apple mobile products. My iMac loves the site. Have yet to try the iPad...

I think the solution would be to use a smartphone that is designed to be web friendly rather than expect millions of websites all over the world to suddenly start pandering to a "walled garden" device that ignores and breaks decades of ubiquitous technologies and global standards.

Considering this is a thread about smartphones, it's somewhat implied.

Steve Jobs couldn't have done wrong, the internet must be faulty.

F#%% Apple -- iPhone/iPads/ipods are overpriced, and under performers. My evo has let me check UMD all the time, no problems. Maybe it's your service not the phone.

Testing from Android.

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Oh, and he's not talking about "checking" the forum, he's talking about uploading files. Which there is a very valid technical explanation for, but which would be completely wasted on someone like you.

How's your battery life working for you? How's that Sprint UI? How's the build quality? Can you see the lights from the buttons under the screen yet? How do you get on with the crappy flash that bleaches everything else? Have you fixed with a piece of paper instead of the simple software update that could have been made anytime in the last eight months? Has the screen started separating from the cheap crappy plastic yet?

Have you given up and had to root it and put on a new ROM and installed an app to control the CPU so you can get more than eight hours of battery yet because they were so keen to get a 1GHZ processor in it they forgot that people also need to use the bloody thing?

How are the apps you can't delete working out for you? NASCAR and Football fan are you?





Yeah, I own a an EVO. It's a piece of cheaply made ill thought out crap.

Why can't all companies be like Windows, they never try and lock the customers into their walled gardens and always have their best interests at heart!

Stupid HTML5!


Stupid phones that aren't as good as capable as computers and laptops. Phones should be complicated, just like real computers!


Android is not open - they love to say that, but the version you get that has been through your carriers fingers is not open at all.

Damn Apple who got all the DRM off of music, that really is a company that wants to lock in and punish its users...

They really should allow Flash that everyone moans about but Android phones can't actually use unless they don't need battery life, in particular now that Adobe have announced they are not developing Flash anymore as the HTML5 standard Apple are using makes it redundant.





How am I just never not up for this discussion?



If you want to bitch about Apple, then try and find turning the fucking pain in the fucking arse predictive text off in Lion.

I fucking love that word.

Checkmate. :O

And: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/28/turn-off-auto-correct-in-mac-os-x-lion/

;)

5? How about supporting 2 first? You know, the 1995 version where they introduced form elements, including the FILE UPLOAD control. That's what this thread is about. Remember? Until Apple adds a real file system or whips up some kind of abstraction layer to fake one, the iPhone does not even support the bare minimum web standards from 17 years ago.



None of the above has anything to do with this thread, but MY metal-chassis G1 gets about 48 hours of battery life and unlike Apple devices, I can swap out a low battery with a charged spare any time I want. Stuff that in your iPipe and smoke it.

Android early adopters really got fucked over.


I know Android phones inside and out - I have owned them since the G1 and reviewed and written about them for a couple of websites. I went for them because I had high hopes, and have found Android to be nothing but disappointing, with the exception of the navigation which is superb AND free.

I don't want a file system on a phone - it's a phone. It needs to be quick and easy to use on the move. If you need a phone that you can change the battery on after 48 hours of use and file system that you can dig into, a laptop might be a better way to go.

If during a 48 hour period you don't sleep near an electrical socket... wow.


For the record... my EVO runs for two days with reasonable use, but that's because I have it rooted and running software that controls the CPU... because Android sucks ass at that - mainly because there is such fragmentation and so many models it will just bloat the O.S up Windows style.

Why are you so brain-dead about this? It absolutely doesn't matter what YOU think a phone should do. The subject of this thread is essentially the millions of people all over the world who are trying to use a smartphone as a computer, specifically for access to websites. That presents some fairly significant problems, especially for Apple device users.

- As we've already covered, a file system (or a reasonable emulation) is currently REQUIRED in order to support file input form controls.

- Browsers based on Apple's Webkit libraries have big problems handling standard download headers.

- Much to Apple's chagrin, there are still millions of older iPhones in use out there (they're a pretty sturdy phone) and thanks to their idiotic policy of not having removable flash storage, they become more and more obsolete for real-world usage as video file sizes grow ever larger. It doesn't take long to fill up a 4 gig phone when clips are a half a gig.

Additionally, javascript is a little flakey on all phone platforms and like it or not, Flash is a heavily used (even if obsolete) technology, as are Java applications.

The bottom line (on which we both agree) is that phones are not computer replacements and probably won't be for a few more iterations. Why do you insist on turning every tech discussion into some kind of psychotic pro-Apple Jihad? Apple products are every bit as flawed as every other platform and fail miserably in several key areas like web compatibility.

God, I love it when tech nerds fight

It makes the internet a better place.

I have a question... what are the photos? Did you take them from your phone or are they already on the net?