mm what do you mean by “drunk on the Spirit” what is an example?

Something that has always been troublesome to me is that phones are focusing too much on features as selling points, but don’t mention the quality of the features. The specific feature you bring up is interesting. I have for now a very long time been wanting cell phones that could transfer files as if they were a media player. I always wondered why this never happened, whether it was an internal architecture issue, or if it was just pure negligence to appease to the user.

RIM seems to break the mold, in that they care about the user experience and want the most out of every feature. I am curious how they managed to get their speeds that fast. Usually Apple/Microsoft are at the tip of the technology curve when it comes to speeds, in specific downloading speeds.

Bily since you were doing these tests did you have any analysis or insight as to why the Blackberries are so good?

do you think this moment encompasses “being alive” ?

even so, we are careful when we are “drunk on the Spirit”. Why is that ?

[i'm feeling a Rohinton Mistry title coming up here.]

thoughts&questions …

What do you think about the second portion of my post, on the sideloading speeds? 3G adoption is increasing and with the wave of 4G in the next 5 years the entire mobile world will change. The yet-to-be-conceived innovations and shifts in application/service ecosystems available, the increased storage capacities, the growth of ultra high quality media will make viable a consumer usage model is still more data intensive. All this will demand sideloading performance to be far far improved upon. The way things are now it seems pretty pitiful.

As a current Symbian UIQ3 user, I really feel the slowness, and it is quite frustrating sometimes. It is not that I find the menu structure too slow, it’s merely the software design of the devices these days. With Symbian 9 functioning more like a computer (all programs must be loaded from solid-state ROM into RAM before running), the hit of speed in this regard is very noticeable, and is painful on devices constrained with limited RAM.

With respect to solid-state flash read/write speed, I’ve typically found that the best solution is to use an external card reader, where possible. Granted, with the numerous devices coming out with integrated flash memory, I can see where this fails to be a viable solution.

Convergence is definitely the future, but the current offerings are a bit weak… It seems however that Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone are causing some positive market pressure. I don’t know what’s happening in the Windows Mobile world, but in the Symbian world, Nokia has bought out Symbian and is partnering with key Symbian licensees such as Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT Docomo to create a new unified front-end to Symbian, effectively doing away with the UIQ, S60, etc segregation.

Now it will be up to the hardware manufacturers to match up with viable hardware platforms.

it’s cool to see that this is an increasing burden that you have

I would have to disagree partially about social work being a band aid solution. A lot of the work is tending to the consequences of so many social problems, but there are things that are prevention oriented. But I guess you are talking abt these things in a eternal life perspective, then just meeting physical needs is certainly not enough. Although social work can encompass meeting people’s spiritual needs as needed, but that is quite missing in western social work practice quite a lot.
great thoughts!

I’ve been doing that almost every day, making this world a happier place one person at a time… what about you?