iPhone

[nebulight]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

definitely great eye candy, the sliding touch interface seems very intuitive too, but I keep hearing from people who have tried it, that it tries to do and be too many things at once, and the hardware can't keep up, so you get frequent slowdowns and freezes and so on...

I've had all sorts of phones in the past, from the plain and basic nokia 3310 to the monstrous old iPAQs with the phone dock thingie... And the best ones I've owned are the Sony Ericsson's K range, small, light, powerful enough yet not draining batteries, not insanely expensive, awesome built-in camera, just perfect for my needs

I've heard the exact opposite about having the phone keep up, I've heard that the transitions and effects are just as fast as the videos on apple's site

I'm with you on your Sony comments, I really like their bar phones, small with a great camera. If I wasn't' such a sucker for eye candy, I'd own a sony.

[ceres]

If I could get it with my T-mobile prepaid, I would.

[kurokoma-kun]

I too am a long-time Apple addict, and have been drooling over the iPhone for months too! But I have been bitten often enough by being the "early adopter" that I now tend to wait at least until the bugs are shaken out.

But Bailout has a great point: having to accept AT+T for a service provider! OMG, their logo does not look like the Deathstar for nothing. Evil. Empire. They have already taken over my Cingular service. I cannot believe they are going to be allowed to establish ANOTHER telecommunications monopoly. WTF was the point of breaking up Ma Bell at vast public expense about 30 years ago?

[ceres]

Originally Posted by kurokoma-kun

I too am a long-time Apple addict, and have been drooling over the iPhone for months too! But I have been bitten often enough by being the "early adopter" that I now tend to wait at least until the bugs are shaken out.

But Bailout has a great point: having to accept AT+T for a service provider! OMG, their logo does not look like the Deathstar for nothing. Evil. Empire. They have already taken over my Cingular service. I cannot believe they are going to be allowed to establish ANOTHER telecommunications monopoly. WTF was the point of breaking up Ma Bell at vast public expense about 30 years ago?

AT&T didn't buy out jack. They were bought a few years ago.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/17/tech.../cingular_att/

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1476

[kurokoma-kun]

Originally Posted by ceres

AT&T didn't buy out jack. They were bought a few years ago.

Thanks ceres, when I said At+T I actually meant SBC and Bell South, owners of Cingular. My point though, was that telecommunications power is being consolidated in the hands of a few, regardless which corporate identity they are currently sporting.

[Nutzoids]

5.5 Hours to go!

[stuffy]

well i don't even have a cell phone, so i won't be buying this one,

but if i were a cell phone user, i wouldn't buy this product for the simple reason that much like an ipod, this product is over-priced and will be lucky to last for two years.

obviously, for a lot of people, they will be wanting something new in two years anyway, but for me, i want a product that is quality and will last.

apple are the kings of planned obsolescence and it pisses me off.

[slvryaris]

Just seen this article.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/14081

[ChinoCharles]

Apple has come a LOOOOONG way from the 90's when they were the Ford Festiva of computing. Now they make some of the nicer computers around, and easily the most stable short of Linux.

The iPhone looks sweet. Problem is historically phones with touch screens do extremely poorly. Of course, if anyone can make that scheme work, Jobs can!

[stuffy]

i think people are suckers for apple's uber-cool image, i have to admit they have done a great job at keeping their heads above water competing with pc's and a lot of that has to do with niche marketing,

but is this phone worth $500-600?

[kurokoma-kun]

Originally Posted by stuffy

done a great job at keeping their heads above water competing with pc's and a lot of that has to do with niche marketing

You are correct about niche marketing. This is why Apple has become the industry standard platform in digital media production. Not a bad niche to be in.

[jamal1984]

i think we still waiting on Nut review when he got his Iphone, tell us what do you think about it. Since none of us really have a change to play around with it.

[stuffy]

You are correct about niche marketing. This is why Apple has become the industry standard platform in digital media production. Not a bad niche to be in.

very true, if you are in video production you wouldn't want to use a pc, but for anything else a pc works just as well, and is a lot cheaper for a comparable system.

[Nutzoids]

I can't talk about this here... I have been a fan of Apple since the late 80s!

Steve Jobs is my HERO... and as far as Business Practices go... No one can even stand in this man shadow!

Now if you are talking about Apple from 1993-1997 when Steve Jobs was NOT the CEO then your right it was a much different story... You know it took Jobs almost 4 years to correct the problems that Spindler and Amelio caused to Apple...

Either way... Why won't anyone do an Apples-to-Apples (Pun Intended) comparison to the Trio? Scared?

Also the 3G system in my area is only a 25 mile radius... that ends 1 mile away from my house...

So why make it 3G, when 3G will make it more expensive, for something most people will never use... then it will be a WAIST OF MONEY!

The worst part about the iPhone is AT&T... and lets not forget Apple wanted to go with Verizon... But Verizon said no... Most of the worst reviews are from them!

[kurokoma-kun]

Originally Posted by Nutzoids

I can't talk about this here... I have been a fan of Apple since the late 80s!

My first computer = SE 20! (circa 1987)

[stuffy]

my first computer was the commodore 64!

[tk-421]

Originally Posted by stuffy

my first computer was the commodore 64!

+1

Mine still works! I got like 250 titles...

[kurokoma-kun]

Originally Posted by stuffy

my first computer was the commodore 64!

I never used one, but all the geeks I work with go whenever it's mentioned