The Courier was framed as a sort of smart design notebook with sketching, browsing, text annotation and all kinds of productive and creative functions.
It was the first to offer a $99 plan that includes unlimited voice, data, Web browsing, text messaging and video.
But few of the apps built using its tools have been games, in part because games have such low tolerance for performance issues (you can afford to have a slowdown when you're browsing text-based lists or static images, but jittery graphics in games can be deal-breakers).
In the future, the Cooliris designers plan to make it possible to browse text and video as well.
While the other search engines produce as results a list of MEDLINE abstracts, MedEvi directly browses text fragments that may eventually show semantic relations between given terms.
It is different from other text mining tools that also browse text fragments, mostly sentences [e.g. iHOP (http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/), MEDIE (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/medie/)].
But even if an iPhone or Pre or BlackBerry isn't as good at GPS, it trounces the Nuvifone in virtually every other category: e-mail, Web browsing, text-message handling, games, music, video, photos, camera, typing, and on and on and on.
For example, AT&T has its Smart Limits option which, among other things, allows parents to block numbers and Web sites, limit purchases like ring tones, games and graphics to a certain dollar amount, and establish times of day that the phone can be used for mobile Web browsing, texting and outbound calls.
You can solo instruments, and browse text, video and audio to find out more about the piece and its composer.
He wrote, with Swiftian tongue in cheek:I propose that one day a month say from midnight on the first Sunday of each month to midnight Monday, Greenwich Mean Time everybody using the Web should agree to turn off graphics and limit their serving and browsing to text-only.
For what it's worth, it seems much less nosy than its Android cousin: chpwn seems fairly convinced that the iPhone variant isn't able to access "typed text, web history, passwords, browsing history, or text messages," and therefore isn't able to send that data along.
