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bigviking · 07-13-2007, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by TrippalHealicks

That's because (like I said in another post) your average consumer values aesthetics more than functionality. They'll "oow" and "aah" over all the pretty stuff it does, we're just lucky enough to know (and experience) that it not only looks good while doing it, it does it very well, too.

I agree completely. Because the web and email look "pretty", this is actually the first phone that presents things so nicely that I actually want to browse the web and read my email on it.

Now I'm not the kind of person that will send 30+ emails a day from my iphone. Honestly, I don't even send 30 a month from my laptop. I believe that email is overly used, and is actually a fairly poor form of communication. It's really only good for distributing specific information to a wide audience, it's really not a substitute for good communication. These days it seams that for many of the professionals that I know, basically managing their email has become their job. This is an indicator of a much bigger problem, and smartphones really will never address this issue. However, the iPhone has the best email reader of any device on the market.

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bigviking Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 60 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	True, because for web and email, "pretty" also means functional Originally Posted by TrippalHealicks That's because (like I said in another post) your average consumer values aesthetics more than functionality. They'll "oow" and "aah" over all the pretty stuff it does, we're just lucky enough to know (and experience) that it not only looks good while doing it, it does it very well, too. I agree completely. Because the web and email look "pretty", this is actually the first phone that presents things so nicely that I actually want to browse the web and read my email on it. Now I'm not the kind of person that will send 30+ emails a day from my iphone. Honestly, I don't even send 30 a month from my laptop. I believe that email is overly used, and is actually a fairly poor form of communication. It's really only good for distributing specific information to a wide audience, it's really not a substitute for good communication. These days it seams that for many of the professionals that I know, basically managing their email has become their job. This is an indicator of a much bigger problem, and smartphones really will never address this issue. However, the iPhone has the best email reader of any device on the market.