Originally Posted by rc46:
Rubinstein is on record saying how much he despises the thin slab form factor and argued with Jobs for months saying the iphone needed a keyboard. I completely agree with him. It feels terrible in your pocket, terrible in your hand and is very uncomfortable to hold next to your face. Palm would be fools to make a iphone clone. They need to keep thinking out of the box and not copying sub-par devices. BTW, not having a removable battery would be complete suicide. Instead of 64mb they should stay with 8 and add micro SD expansion. This would be very popular.
If you go to the sprint store today you will see that more the half the phones there are already the iphone form factor so if "many" are still waiting, I'm not sure why?
Name one smartphone with this form factor at Sprint that has a capacitive touch screen.. The Hero is the only one but its half baked.
Ruby doesn't seem too bright then... What his priority should be is designing webOS devices that people want and will have a good profit margin.