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[Cander]

iPhone.

[Atheist]

omg no.

[RobDog888]

$600+ down the toilet.

[Cander]

$600+ down the toilet.

jealous!

[mendhak]

Slave to the machine!

[RobDog888]

jealous!

Not at all. My $69 cell phone works great and does what I need. So no reason to "upgrade" to a $600 toy

[Cander]

Not at all. My $69 cell phone works great and does what I need. So no reason to "upgrade" to a $600 toy

May be a toy to you, but it is my toy. Hate it all you want but, doesnt change it that it really is the best phone I have ever used.

[RobDog888]

Your the only one saying that I hate it when I dont. I just cant see justifying the expense for a phone/ipod.

Go play with your toy

[penagate]

Can you make phone calls on it?

[RobDog888]

Yes, but it costs $1 per minute as it uses a terrible phone service - AT & T I believe it is.

I fI was going to drop big $ on a topy like that I would have waited for the next version so all the bugs and issues can be patched and improved.

[Cander]

Can you make phone calls on it?

only to Steve Jobs.

[timeshifter]

Sprint PPC6700. Windows Mobile 5 (mine is... haven't upgraded), built in media player, storage cards, nice big touch screen, great phone reception, EVO internet service... $500, I believe... less than that with rebates and the like.

[Cander]

Good for you. Want a cookie?

- Better media player
- no need for storage cards with 8 gigs of storage
- great phone reception
- EDGE internet at much faster than people claim and a REAL web browser.

you sound almost verbatim as the guy that actually drove to the AT&T store to tell us about the 'downside' of the iPhone. After telling us how much he saved on his Blackberry I asked him how much he spent on gas to drive here and give us his little speech. That shut him up. He left....

reminds me of a saying I heard. The leaders of technology are the ones with the arrows in their backs.

[Lord Orwell]

If i was paying attention to the release date i would have bought one just to resell on ebay for $2000 (or maybe bought 12 with financial backing)

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[wossname]

I installed Linux on an iPhone last week.

[kregg]

What's a iPhone?

Let me load up iQuery and iFindout.

[timeshifter]

iDon't care.

[kregg]

I'm not buvvered!

[Lord Orwell]

i am going to take an iDump now...

[mendhak]

This man is very happy because he just got an iPhone! I really wish to be associated with such a technology that makes people so happy!

[Lord Orwell]

this lady didn't get one (Robdog's Relative)

[RobDog888]

Ahem! Its Gangsta Grandma!


* Shes laughing at all the people buying iPhones for $600+ when they have counterfeit ones available for $99 *

[Atheist]

I understand if people want hi-tech phones (got one myself), but i do NOT understand why someone would stand hours in line to get one. And I am yet to see something new in iPhone that hasnt already been around for like..a year or two.

[Lord Orwell]

The neat way it switches orientation when you turn it.

And don't forget the "I". That doubles the value!

[I_Love_My_Vans]

People queued for ages to get one, and they remained instock for the next few days

I wonder when its coming to the UK

[timeshifter]

I just watched a show covering the release of it... they ran through a few "key" features of it, and I was absolutely unimpressed. The only advantage i saw that it has over other smart phones is that it has a bigger hard drive. Other than that, the network it uses sucks (from Steve Jobs himself), there's no stylus so it's all finger-based... and it's also Apple, which means no compatibility with anything. I thought they would have learned from Microsoft... apparently not.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Last time I went looking for a phone (last spring), I considered all the phones that could use Verizon (bout the only one with good reception out here), and had Windows Mobile OS, so that I could use my PDA programs on it. They all lacked one key feature: battery life!!! There may be a way around this, but all the phones talked about useable life in hours. What wasn't quite clear was how long the phone lasted if you weren't using the PDA features all the time (or the web), but it sounded like they all lacked something. The one with the best battery life had a reduced screen that would have meant re-writing all my programs, while the others had battery issues.

I ended up just getting a cheap replacement for my cheap phone. Of course, the iphone was out of the running right from the start with the service provider, but if it wasn't limitted in that way, what is the battery life like in real use?

[Lord Orwell]

Web browsing eats the crap out of a battery. And if for some reason i am charging my battery and using bluetooth at the same time, it overheats the phone and it locks up. Other than this my samsung a640 is nearly indestructable. My wife slammed hers into the wall today (on purpose) and the battery popped out, no harm done.
But back to battery life: I can go nearly 2 days in between charges, unless i am on data services. Then i get about 3 hours use and have to recharge. Kind of sucks since this is how i get on line. If my phone is already 1/2 dead from general use, that is cut way down.

[timeshifter]

My PPC6700 doesn't last that long if I'm doing web stuff or using the bluetooth for connection to my computer... but I usually don't. if it's talking to my computer, it's over USB, which also charges it. With little use, I can get almost a day...

[Lord Orwell]

i use the usb cable myself. But my phone doesn't (yet) offer a cable that both connects and charges. My wife connects hers with bluetooth.

[wossname]

Poor battery performance on web pages probably indicates a crap signal. Stop browsing in your car or in your nuclear bunker.

[Lord Orwell]

You can't even get ISDN where i live. It's my fastest option. (and i in fact do live underground)

[Shaggy Hiker]

Not interested in web surfing on a phone of any sort. Can't imagine trying to go to CC on a phone. Couldn't type worth a darn. Two days of phone only use would be kind of poor (I get about a week now), but that might be all we can do with the energy density of current batteries.

[GaryMazzone]

I must be in the Stone Age. I don't even have a cheap cell phone? I can't think of a must have reason to get one.

[Lord Orwell]

i pay $15.00 a month extra on my cell bill for the privelage of connecting my computer at a speed of approximately 15-16 kb a second, or 4x dial-up. And high-speed isn't available where i live. Note that they don't actually know i am hooking my computer. You're supposed to pay ANOTHER $40 on top of the $15 but i know a way around that.

[schoolbusdriver]

I must be in the Stone Age. I don't even have a cheap cell phone? I can't think of a must have reason to get one.

I once thought about it - till the wife said she could phone me at work.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was late getting into the cell world, but now I love it. It's not that I couldn't live without it, it's just so doggone convenient.