Fake Copy n Paste on IPhone/iTouch

iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich on Vimeo. In my previous post on the iTouch upgrade, I failed to mention the other glaring ommissions Apple left out. Like a nice little Office suite or viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and a little PDF viewer for eBook reading. Come on Steve, this thing is OSX so it can run any Open Source Office app! Another crucial little gem which has been bugging me has been the lack of copy and paste on the iPhone. Why not? Some standard mobile phones have this, why not on this device which essentially a mini MacBook. Apple gets it so right and yet they get it sooooo wrong.

iPod Heaven

Well. Finally gone and done it. Given in and got myself an iPod. A Touch no less. If you browse previous posts you would have read my constant struggle to find the ideal PDA or smartphone lifestyle/productivity solution. Many others no doubt share the same challenge. Do you go for ultimate convergence a la iPhone, LG Viewty or Nokia E90, sacrificing perfomance, or do you ditch convergence for a separates solution of phone, PDA and camera? It's been difficult as my needs have changed over time, but now I've accepted that a highly portable device that goes part way to productivity is important for me, and a camera has to be separate due to quality. Also, as long as the phone is small with a decent battery and connectivity features, then this solution can be split three ways, rather than losing performance by converging all into two or one. So despite dismissing Apple's iPod/Phone products without a thorough trial, I revisited Apple's offerings by recommendation. After all I do own a sexy MacBook.

So I've gone for a web-tablet with the iPod Touch, supplemented by a separate phone and camera. What's great is that the combo works, possibly due to the Touch. Even out of the box, it simply works and does so beautifully. Full blown productivity is yet to come, as I haven't gone down the Jailbreak route unlike many others. Official third party support will arrive in February anyway, so why risk voiding that warranty.

iPod Touch; Samsung E900; Casio Exilim

I'm finally happy. :-)

This blog was written on an iPod Touch.