New TV - Suggestions?

Hi All,
I'm planning to buy a new SMART TV either Samsung or Sony, but little confused which one to go.. Can anyone please suggest me base on your experience?
Thanks
Syed

I will always say this about Samsung. They make great TVs, IF you get a good one. They are extremely hit or miss on Quality Control and if you happen to get a defective product you will be most likely be fighting tooth and nail to get them to honor their warranty.
This years TVs main defect is faulty glass. Many are internally cracking due to sub par glass being used. When you get a Samsung rep to come look at it a majority of the people report that they say it was damaged due to physical abuse and therefore not covered. So you're left with an expensive paperweight.
There are 6 class action lawsuits pending against Samsung's TV division. On top of those 2 have been judged upon in favor of the consumer.
As for Sony, they recently in the past 5ish years have focused themselves on customer Service. There were defects like Samsung in many of their TVs that didn't come to light until much later. Sony denied them for a while. The upset consumers made a Facebook page and started posting all their problems to warn other constomers. Sony pulled a complete 180 and took this on head first. The page was quickly made an avenue for Sony CS to contact upset consumers. At its height I believe they employed 6-7 full time people dedicated to this Facebook page. Many stories of people having 5+ year old TVs upgraded to brand new TVs for free.
Following this good CS story, their products are priced higher than an equally good counterpart. They dominate high end LEDs along with sharp, but their mid teir products are just not the greatest bang for the buck. This is probably due to them having to offset their Customer Service.
Amazing how 2 companies going faced with similar problems go in direct opposite ways.
As for Panasonic, they DID produce defective TVs last year. I got 2 of them. They suffered from Fluctuating Brightness. Each TV varied on how bad it was. I got a decent one and a VERY bad one. Panasonic stood behind their products and 3 months after release (yes it took a while) they addressed the issue properly. It took them some time to properly calibrate coding which reduced their defective products. I was actually an initial beta tester of this firmware and had a Panasonic rep drive over 200 miles (divisional higher up) to install the firmware on my TV. It was proprietary so they needed people with an NDA to install it. It fixed the problem nearly completely. They were concerned with sending out proprietary source coding to techs, so Instead of them sending out techs they agreed that anyone that had this problem would receive a free A-board replacement with the new firmware (this houses the firmware chip).
Just trying to show the Customer Service behind these major brands.

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Hi,
I am new to ADF and looking for Auto-Suggest options. Found Franks code and it was really heplful.
We tried to create a new component based on this but not able to use multiple components of the type on the same page/form.The problem we are thinking of is because of the popup having the same id for all the components we embed in.If we attach 3 components of this type to a form then one of the random ones work as per logic and other 2 not doing any pop ups at all.
Could you please help us to resolve this please?
Thanks
Subha
CODE
suggestComponentModel.java
package com.dstintl.ic.ui.component.suggestbox;
import java.util.List;
public interface SuggestComponentModel{
* Method called to filter data shown in the suggest list. Initial
* request is made with inMemory = false. If in memory sorting is
* enabled then all subsequent calls are made passing trues as the
* value for the inMemory parameter. Implementations may decid to
* ignore the inMemory argument and always query the data source.
public List<String> filteredValues(String filterCriteria,
boolean inMemory);
SuggestBoxTag.java+
package com.dstintl.ic.ui.component.suggestbox;
import javax.el.ValueExpression;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.fragment.RichDeclarativeComponent;
import oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.taglib.region.RichDeclarativeComponentTag;
import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.bean.FacesBean;
* ICDateComponent tag class.
public class SuggestBoxTag extends RichDeclarativeComponentTag {
     /*input text properties*/
private ValueExpression styleClass;
private ValueExpression label;
private ValueExpression required;
private ValueExpression displayWidth;
private ValueExpression maximumLength;
private ValueExpression tooltip;
private ValueExpression disabled;
/*popup properties*/
private ValueExpression itemList;
* {@inheritDoc}
@Override
protected String getViewId() {
return "/component/SuggestBox.jspx";
* {@inheritDoc}
@Override
protected RichDeclarativeComponent createComponent() {
return new SuggestBox();
* {@inheritDoc}
@Override
public void release() {
super.release();
label = null;
* {@inheritDoc}
@Override
protected void setProperties(final FacesBean bean) {
super.setProperties(bean);
/*Input text box properties*/
if (label != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.LABEL_KEY, label);
if (styleClass != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.STYLE_CLASS_KEY, styleClass);
if (required != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.REQUIRED_KEY, required);
if (displayWidth != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.DISPLAY_WIDTH_KEY, displayWidth);
if (maximumLength != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.MAXIMUM_LENGTH_KEY, maximumLength);
if (tooltip != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.TOOLTIP_KEY, tooltip);
if (disabled != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.DISABLED_KEY, disabled);
if (itemList != null) {
bean.setValueExpression(SuggestBox.POPUP_SELECTITEMLIST_KEY, itemList);
* @return label
public ValueExpression getLabel() {
return label;
* @param label
* label
public void setLabel(ValueExpression label) {
this.label = label;
* @return style class.
public ValueExpression getStyleClass() {
return styleClass;
* @param styleClass
* style class.
public void setStyleClass(ValueExpression styleClass) {
this.styleClass = styleClass;
* @param required
* required.
     public void setrequired(ValueExpression required) {
          this.required = required;
* @return required .
     public ValueExpression getrequired() {
          return required;
* @param displayWidth
* displayWidth.
     public void setDisplayWidth(ValueExpression displayWidth) {
          this.displayWidth = displayWidth;
* @return displayWidth .
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          return displayWidth;
* @param maximumLength
* maximumLength.
     public void setmaximumLength(ValueExpression maximumLength) {
          this.maximumLength = maximumLength;
* @return maximumLength .
     public ValueExpression getmaximumLength() {
          return maximumLength;
* @param tooltip
* tooltip.
     public void setTooltip(ValueExpression tooltip) {
          this.tooltip = tooltip;
* @return tooltip .
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          return tooltip;
* @param disabled
* disabled.
     public void setDisabled(ValueExpression disabled) {
          this.disabled = disabled;
* @return disabled .
     public ValueExpression getDisabled() {
          return disabled;
* @param itemList
* itemList.
     public void setItemList(ValueExpression itemList) {
          this.itemList = itemList;
* @return itemList .
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          return itemList;
SuggestBox.java+
package com.dstintl.ic.ui.component.suggestbox;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.fragment.RichDeclarativeComponent;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.input.RichSelectOneListbox;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.context.AdfFacesContext;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.render.ClientEvent;
import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.bean.PropertyKey;
* suggestBox.
public class SuggestBox extends RichDeclarativeComponent {
/** label. **/
public static final PropertyKey LABEL_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("label");
/** styleClass **/
public static final PropertyKey STYLE_CLASS_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("styleClass");
/** required **/
public static final PropertyKey REQUIRED_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("required");
/** displayWidth **/
public static final PropertyKey DISPLAY_WIDTH_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("displayWidth");
/** precision **/
public static final PropertyKey MAXIMUM_LENGTH_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("maximumLength");
/** toolTip **/
public static final PropertyKey TOOLTIP_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("tooltip");
/**disabled **/
public static final PropertyKey DISABLED_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("disabled");
/** itemList **/
public static final PropertyKey POPUP_SELECTITEMLIST_KEY = PropertyKey.createPropertyKey("itemList");
* Constructor.
public SuggestBox() {
* Gets the value set to the <code>label</code> attribute.
* @return String label.
public String getLabel() {
String t = (String) getAttributes().get("label");
return t;
* Gets the value set to the <code>styleClass</code> attribute.
* @return String styleClass.
public String getStyleClass() {
String t = (String) getAttributes().get("styleClass");
return t;
* Gets the value set to the <code>required</code> attribute.
* @return b.
public boolean getrequired() {
Boolean b = (Boolean) getAttributes().get("required");
return b;
* Gets the value set to the <code>displayWidth</code> attribute.
* @return String displayWidth.
public String getDisplayWidth() {
String t = (String) getAttributes().get("displayWidth");
return t;
* Gets the value set to the <code>precision</code> attribute.
* @return String precision.
public String getMaximumLength() {
String t = (String) getAttributes().get("maximumLength");
return t;
* Gets the value set to the <code>toolTip</code> attribute.
* @return String styleClass.
public String getToolTip() {
String t = (String) getAttributes().get("tooltip");
return t;
* Gets the value set to the <code>disabled</code> attribute.
* @return b.
public boolean getDisabled() {
Boolean b = (Boolean) getAttributes().get("disabled");
return b;
* Main popUp functionality.
     /**Get popUpId label */
private String popUpLabel;
public void setPopUpLabel(String popUpLabel) {
          this.popUpLabel = popUpLabel;
     public String getPopUpLabel() {
          this.popUpLabel =(String) getAttributes().get("label");
          return popUpLabel;
/** fullitemList from the binding **/
private List<SelectItem> fullitemList;
/** suggestedList - to populate list of suggestions squeezed from the fullitemList **/
private List<SelectItem> suggestedList = new ArrayList<SelectItem>();
/** suggestListBox - attached to the Main popUp RichSelectOneListbox**/
private RichSelectOneListbox suggestListBox;
* sets suggestListBox
     public void setSuggestListBox(RichSelectOneListbox suggestListBox) {
          this.suggestListBox = suggestListBox;
* gets suggestListBox
* @return suggestListBox
     public RichSelectOneListbox getSuggestListBox() {
          return suggestListBox;
* Sets suggested list on the selectOneListbox component
* @param suggestedList
* suggestedList.
     public void setSuggestedList(List<SelectItem> suggestedList) {
          this.suggestedList = suggestedList;
* Retrieves the list from the bindings and
* initialise suggestedList with the full list(only done during initialisation)
* @return suggestedList.
     public List<SelectItem> getSuggestedList() {
          if(fullitemList == null){
               fullitemList = new ArrayList<SelectItem>();
     List<SelectItem> result = (List<SelectItem>) getAttributes().get("itemList");
     this.fullitemList.addAll(result);
     this.suggestedList.addAll(result);
          return suggestedList;
* doFilterList - On Every user keystroke in the suggest input field, the browser client calls
* the doFilterList method through the af:serverListerner component
* af:selectoneListbox (popup) is refreshed at the end of each call to the doFileterList so that
* new list value is populated.
* @param clientEvent
public void doFilterList(ClientEvent clientEvent) {
     if(suggestListBox == null) {
          UIComponent uic = clientEvent.getComponent();
          suggestListBox = (RichSelectOneListbox) uic.getChildren().get(0);
// set the content for the suggest list
String srchString = (String)clientEvent.getParameters().get("filterString");
this.suggestedList.clear();
for(SelectItem item : fullitemList) {
     if( item.getLabel().contains(srchString)){
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AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(suggestListBox);
SuggestBox.jspx+
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1"
     xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
     xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
     xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">
     <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252" />
     <af:componentDef var="attrs" componentVar="component">
<af:document>
<f:facet name="metaContainer">
<af:group>
<![CDATA[
<script>
function handleKeyUpOnSuggestField(evt){
// start the popup aligned to the component that launched it
suggestPopup = evt.getSource().findComponent("suggestPopup");
inputField = evt.getSource();
//don't open when user "tabs" into field
if (suggestPopup.isShowing() == false &&
evt.getKeyCode()!= AdfKeyStroke.TAB_KEY){
hints = {align:AdfRichPopup.ALIGN_AFTER_START, alignId:evt.getSource().getClientId()+"::content"};
suggestPopup.show(hints);
//disable popup hide to avoid popup to flicker on
//key press
suggestPopup.hide = function(){}
//suppress server access for the following keys
//for better performance
if (evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ARROWLEFT_KEY ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ARROWRIGHT_KEY ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ARROWDOWN_KEY ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.SHIFT_MASK ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.END_KEY ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ALT_KEY ||
evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.HOME_KEY) {
return false;
if (evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ESC_KEY){
hidePopup(evt);
return false;
// get the user typed values
valueStr = inputField.getSubmittedValue();
// query suggest list on the server
AdfCustomEvent.queue(suggestPopup,"suggestServerListener",
// Send single parameter
{filterString:valueStr},true);
// put focus back to the input text field
setTimeout("inputField.focus();",400);
//TAB and ARROW DOWN keys navigate to the suggest popup
//we need to handle this in the key down event as otherwise
//the TAB doesn't work
function handleKeyDownOnSuggestField(evt){
if (evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ARROWDOWN_KEY) {
selectList = evt.getSource().findComponent("suggestListBox");
selectList.focus();
return false;
else{
return false;
//method called when pressing a key or a mouse button
//on the list
function handleListSelection(evt){
if(evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ENTER_KEY ||
evt.getType() == AdfUIInputEvent.CLICK_EVENT_TYPE){
var list = evt.getSource();
evt.cancel();
var listValue = list.getProperty("value");
hidePopup(evt);
inputField = evt.getSource().findComponent("suggestField");
inputField.setValue(listValue);
//cancel dialog
else if (evt.getKeyCode() == AdfKeyStroke.ESC_KEY){
hidePopup(evt);
//function that re-implements the node functionality for the
//popup to then call it
function hidePopup(evt){
var suggestPopup = evt.getSource().findComponent("suggestPopup");
//re-implement close functionality
suggestPopup.hide = AdfRichPopup.prototype.hide;
suggestPopup.hide();
</script>
]]>
</af:group>
</f:facet>
<af:messages/>
</af:document>
     
     <af:inputText id="suggestField"
     clientComponent="true"
     disabled="#{attrs.disabled}"
     label="#{attrs.label}"
     required="#{attrs.required}"
     columns="#{attrs.displayWidth}"
     maximumLength="#{attrs.maximumLength}"
     styleClass="#{attrs.styleClass}"
     shortDesc="#{attrs.tooltip}">
     <af:clientListener method="handleKeyUpOnSuggestField"
                         type="keyUp"/>
     <af:clientListener method="handleKeyDownOnSuggestField"
     type="keyDown"/>
     </af:inputText>
     
     
<af:popup id="suggestPopup" contentDelivery="immediate" animate="false" clientComponent="true" >
     <af:selectOneListbox id="suggestListBox" contentStyle="width: 250px;"
     size="5" valuePassThru="true">
     <f:selectItems value="#{component.suggestedList}"/>
     <af:clientListener method="handleListSelection" type="keyUp"/>
     <af:clientListener method="handleListSelection" type="click"/>
     </af:selectOneListbox>
     <af:serverListener type="suggestServerListener"
     method="#{component.doFilterList}"/>
</af:popup>
     
<af:xmlContent>
               <component xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich/component">
<display-name>suggestBox</display-name>
<attribute>
<attribute-name>id</attribute-name>
</attribute>
                    <attribute>
<attribute-name>label</attribute-name>
</attribute>
<component-extension>
<component-tag-namespace>com.dstintl.ic.ui.component</component-tag-namespace>
<component-taglib-uri>/com/dstintl/ic/ui/component</component-taglib-uri>
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</component>
</af:xmlContent>
</af:componentDef>
</jsp:root>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<taglib xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd" version="2.1" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
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          <attribute>
               <name>required</name>
               <required>false</required>
               <deferred-value>
                    <type>boolean</type>
               </deferred-value>
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          <attribute>
               <name>displayWidth</name>
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               <deferred-value/>
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          <attribute>
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               <deferred-value/>
          </attribute>
          <attribute>
               <name>tooltip</name>
               <required>false</required>
               <deferred-value/>
          </attribute>
          <attribute>
               <name>itemList</name>
               <required>false</required>
               <deferred-value/>
          </attribute>
     </tag>
</taglib>

Hi Subha,
you can distinct the different components using clientAttribute tag with clientListener
<af:inputText id="suggestField" .....>
<af:clientListener method="handleKeyUpOnSuggestField" type="keyUp"/>
<af:clientListener ......"/>
<af:*clientAttribute* name="eventName" value="myCustomEvent"/>
<af:*clientAttribute* name="popupId" value="......"/>
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in javascript you get the eventName or PopuId from the attribute
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var eventName = component.*getProperty* ("eventName");
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AdfCustomEvent.queue(popup, *eventName*, ......);
var popupId = component.*getProperty* ("popuId");
var popup = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponent(popupId);
Hope this help,
Maroun

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Need a new HD -- suggestions?

Hi --
I've got a MBP 4,1 "Early 2008" Macbook Pro and the harddrive is on its last legs. Fortunately, I've backed up most of my data.
Though I'd love to get a new Macbook Pro, I thought I'd have at least another year one went kaput.
At any rate, if anyone has suggestions on where to to get one (I've tried Crucial but they didn't have them) and what specs I need to know to select the compatible HD, I'd appreciate it!
Thanks for your time,

I always shop for hard drives at macsales.com and newegg.com.
You need a 2.5" SATA hard drive that is no more than 9.5mm high. There are scores of models to choose from, and little reason to choose one manufacturer's unit over a similar model from another maker. Choose one on the basis of capacity, rotational speed (faster is better), size of cache (bigger is better), price, and length of warranty.

New GPU; suggestions?

Hi, soon i will be getting a new Graphics Card. Currently i have the NVidia9800 GTX, which i'm pretty sure has been dying slowly for a few months now but that's beside the point
I use Autodesk Maya and Z-Brush as two of my main programs for work as 3D character artist, and of corse Photoshop very closely alongside them both too. I want to make use of Photoshops new 3D capabilities of painting directly onto 3D models, but currently when i try this the preformance isn't so good, so first of all can anyone suggest to me a graphics card that is suitable for this kind of work with Photoshop.
Aprantly i have to use Photoshop CS5 OpenGL settings on lowest quality otherwise for some strange reason i get odd glitches with some painting and masking tools in Photoshop which i have posted here not too long ago to find this to be the reason.... i want to be able to view at highest quality without silly glitches and stuff going on, so the GPU must also be capable of this.
Thanks, Ricky

As a 3 d artest, to avoid the conflicts of changing driver sets on your machine I would definatly stick to the Nvidia line. The GTX 570 is around $350 currently and is double the card of the 9800 gtx and thats saying a lot since the 9800 gtx was and still is a very nice card.. The top of the line is the GTX580, at $550 bucks its sure to put a dent in your pocket.

I have a new ipod nano; it won't sinc after i plug in and connect to itunes; i've done this many times, but this time it doesn't work (with the new one); suggestions?

any help is appreicated in helping me figure out how to sinc my new ipod nano; i'm trying to do it the way i've done it many times in the past, but this timeit won't sinc. Suggestions?

Because the Nano was previous synced to another comuter/iTunes library.
See the following:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

NI Icon Library -- post new icon suggestions here

The NI Icon Library is available here:
http://www.ni.com/iconlibrary
If you have suggestions for new icons that should be included, or just
want to share interesting glyphs with other users, post them to this
discussion topic. Please only post icons that are clear of any
copyright issues so that other users do not have to worry about using
them in their own VIs.
You may wish to review the Guidelines For Creating Icons if you want to submit your own artwork.
Message Edited by Aristos Queue on 08-10-2007 03:40 PM

I noticed that the icon PNG files include tranparacy. That's indeed very important when adding glyphs to an icon.   However, the Labview icon editor doesn't support transparacy. That makes the glyphs very difficult to use in the icon editor !   You always destroy too much of the underlying icon.
I think the usability of the icon editor would dramatically increase when it supported transparacy.   Doesn't have to be true transparacy. It simpy shouldn't write a pixel when it's the background color.   (Something similar to what MS-Paint does with it's 'transparant paste'.)
Another usefull feature would be anti-aliased text.   I now do that manually, and it can help a lot in some cases.
Finally, maybe the icon editor could have a scrapbook added...   Some extra part, where one can 'store' often used parts of icons, and play with them, putting them together.   I now generally do that in MS-Paint, so that I can more easily try out some ideas on how to create the icon.   Maybe couple this scrapbook to the project or lv library...
To keep on-topic I'll also include an icon.
I didn't see any 'Front Panel' icon. I have had a couple of vi's controlling acces to the front panel. I used the following icon, together with a lock/unlock glyph at the bottom:
All hand-painted, so no copyrights.
Message Edited by Anthony de Vries on 10-08-2007 05:37 PM
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New subforum suggestion: JDev for Fusion Apps

Right now, we have a main JDeveloper/ADF Forum: {forum:id=83}
We also have an OA Framework Forum for people working with Apps < Fusion Apps {forum:id=210}
We don't, however (to my searching) have a Fusion Apps Development forum - I think one would make sense, given that the topic is apps-specific and requires a specific setup of JDeveloper. OTOH, there is lots of commonality between JDev/ADF + Fusion Apps Development, much more so than for JDe/ADF and OA Framework - not exactly sure how to separate those out. Maybe the new forum could cover:
Fusion Apps Dev Environment Setup + Fusion Apps-specific dev questions
John

John
I used http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15586_01/fusionapps.1111/e15524/gs_install_e.htm#CACHADJG link to setting up development environment for fusion application on windows7 . can you suggest me any more efficient document for this purpose.
Rohit
Edited by: 918705 on Mar 6, 2012 10:08 PM

New Function Suggestion

I think Ipod, ipod mini, nano etc. should have a new function.
I think they shoud have like they have a contacts updater they should have a e-mail updater to outlook express mozilla thunderbird etc. i would like a answer from Apple INC.

"i would like a answer from Apple INC."
This is a user to user forum. The only Apple employees here are the forum's moderators.
You can make the suggestion to Apple here;
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html

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