Who’s the smartest?
HTC and Sony Ericsson’s new QWERTY smart phones get ready to rumble.
Blackberries are not the only fruit. These nifty 3G-ers from HTC and Sony Ericsson both offer push email, PDA-style organizational features and QWERTY keyboards. They take very different approaches to styling, but both want a slice of that BlackBerry pie.
Designs of the times
The slim, light M600i is undeniably the better looking of the two handsets, but then Sony Ericsson has always gone for uncluttercd minimalism. HTC’s handset, meanwhile, may have a Motorola- style name, but it sure doesn’t have Motorola style. The TyTN (ouch!) is rotund and anonymous: more a PDA than a mobile.
Neither phone has a traditional number pad. Sony spreads its letters over a quirky pad of 15 keys, each with two characters. It’s smaller than a BlackBerry keyboard, but it’s slower than the TyTN’s sliding keyboard.
Both also offer virtual keyboards and handwriting recognition via bright, crisp touchscreens, and both have jog dials. The TyTN also has a four-way menu pad. The M600i does not, and you’ll miss it.
The TyTN’s Windows Mobile 5.0 interface benefits from being more familiar than the M600i’s Symbian system, but both are swift and straightforward for messaging and push email.
The HTC is groaning with business software, from MS Office Mobile suite to Pocket MSN, while the M600i has the less impressive Quickoffice, RSS feeds, and a PDF reader. Both also have Web browsers that struggle even with simple HTML sites and are crushed like grapes by the Nokia N80’s excellent browser.
Frame it up (or not)
TyTN’s two-megapixel camera is OK for holiday snaps or close-up portraits and there are creative options galore, plus a front-facing camera for video calls. Sony Ericsson has sworn off cameras completely here, which is odd given they’re traditionally one of its strengths.
The TyTN triumphs on connectivity, too, trumping their and Bluetooth on the Sony with power-efficient Wi-Fi access. The M600i has a 64MB MS Micro card, while the TyTN’s TransFlash slot is empty but it does have 60MB internal memory.
The TyTN struggles when it comes to actually making phone calls. Its virtual number-pad is slow and clumsy, and it’s too easy to hang up with your ear. The M600i’s 7.5-hour battery life trounces HTC’s 4.5 hours, although that advantage all but evaporates if you use 3G.
The TyTN knows what it is: an executive toy with bags of extras. The M600i is less sure of itself, but in truth, neither pushes all the right business buttons, and as for consumer use.., forget it. As a result, neither really kicks BlackBerry’s butt.
Man or Elementals: Who is Higher in Evolution?
I do not know exactly what you mean by having a near ethereal body.” Man is composed of several bodies which interpenetrate one another They are just like layers upon layers of skin, like an onion, the only difference being that in the onion they are on the physical plane.
One of these “bodies” of man is called the “etheric” body. I do not know of anybody becoming more ethereal than physical. The physical body will remain physical as long as we are here on earth. There is really no sense, to my mind, in mortifying the body to make it more ethereal or spiritual–that cannot be.
What we have to achieve is balance among all those various “bodies” of man. The problem occurs when we give more importance to one to the exclusion of the others, for example, if we give more importance to our physical body instead of the others, or to the spiritual rather than the rest
All are equally important as long as we are still on the earth plane.
Don’t believe those who say we should not give importance to our physical body because it is temporary and fleeting. We should give it also the same degree of importance as the spirit in us because no matter how much we try we cannot be disembodied angels.
We still need to eat, sleep and eliminate our waste products. That’s why I do not believe there is anyone who has ever achieved a so-called “near ethereal body.”
“Do elementals like dwarfs have finer or more ethereal body than man?”
Yes, they are made of something between matter and spirit, If that’s what you mean by ethereal, then it is.
“Who is higher in the scale of spiritual elevation man or elementals?”
I am not really sure whether we can make a valid comparison between them because they belong to different spheres or dimensions of existence. Each sphere has its own levels or hierarchies.
For example, the elemental kingdom has its gnomes that live underground, elves that live above ground, and fairies that live in the air.
From the elemental kingdom they evolve to become angels of different levels.
Man may have evolved from animals as evolutionists claim, and after having achieved a human form, he evolves to become divine and eventually joining God in his Godhood.
That’s the omega point of evolution according Jesuit Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin in his monumental book, The Phenomenon of Man.
“Why can’t we see elementals and yet they can see us?”
I guess it is a matter of frequency or vibrations.
If the frequency of man is slower and that of the elementals is higher, it is easier for the elementals to slow down their vibrations to come in tune with us rather than having our vibrations go up to their frequency.
The same reasoning applies to angels and other spirits.
Why can they see us but we cannot normally see them? To perceive the spirit world requires that we utilize our spiritual sight not our physical eyes.
