Who's Getting An iPhone?

[Bebop]

Anyone???

[LowSignal]

Im thinking about it but I don't really want to wait in line or anything silly. If I can get one I'll sell my Q and dump sprint, If they make it hard to get ala Wii then they can shove it.

[kevbeck122]

I'm sticking with my Treo 700wx.  It can do mostly everything the iphone can.. just doesn't have the bubbly OS X interface like the iphone.  Plus AT&T's plans are more expensive.  I'm paying $30 a month for 500 minutes and unlimited data through Sprint.  The same plan through AT&T is at least $60 a month.  I guess I'd just want the ipod portion of the iphone.  Hopefully they release the 6g ipod soon with the same interface.

[gparris]

Although I have AT&T wireless service, the difference between 3G and lessor networks is clear with my company's usage.
The Cingular 8525 is excellent using 3G and internet access is relatively good, but the KRZR/RAZRs with lesser speeds for other employees is insanely slow in comparison.
Stupid on AT&T's part to offer the iPhone with a slower access interface as they push it as the all-in-one cellphone with faster loading and it won't be.
Its all show and little tell, IMO.

[kevbeck122]

I can't believe it doesn't support 3G.  Apple's reasoning behind this is because "GSM is a worldwide standard" (3G isn't?) and since it has WiFi built in, that makes everything better :rolleyes:.

[LowSignal]

Meh I spent my Iphone money on a PS3, Some guy gave me his PS3 60 gig and the blue-ray remote for $440 mint in the box.  I'll just pick me up a Gen 6 Ipod if they are similar.

[gparris]

Yes, everybody likes new toys, er, equipment, that is the "latest and greatest" and I am the champion at getting new electronics.
But not all things are what they seem, including some cell phones that are better than others and worse than others... just like any other electronic device.

Maybe the next generations of the iPhone will be the best (or better) with maybe more product/better software/more storage/different carrier and far less...hype.

The iPhone is like a Pronto remote control and almost everything you need to do with it uses that flat touch panel which, by the way, gets very fingermarked in no time.

I like Prontos, but using it as my cell phone...I don't think so.:rolleyes:

[kjnorman]

No I haven't got the money, but I did walk over to Bayshore yesterday evening and there were already about 10 people camping out in front of the new Apple store.

By 6:50am this morning that number had increased to about 20. ...

Are these people nuts?  There is no way I would ever camp out for something.....

Guess I am an old fart! {fart}

[kjnorman]

I'm at the bayshore store typing this on the new iPhone.
  it's pretty sweet.

[gb4fan92]

I'm at the bayshore store typing this on the new iPhone.
  it's pretty sweet.

Yea but did you buy it?

[kjnorman]

Yea but did you buy it?

Buy it?  Of course not!  I don't even own a phone (but work gives me one) and I'm phone-phobic - I hate cell phones.

But I have to admit the iPhone is pretty cool.  Its the interface that wows you.  I had no instruction and within 15 minutes I was flying around on the thing.  There was still some stuff I hadn't worked out and the Apple staff were more than willing to show me how to use it all but as I hogged one of the phones for long enough and I had no intention to buy one (and I can easily walk over anytime I want to play with one) I didn't push it.

If I had $500 to spend on the phone would I get one?  No.  it can not take video, and it has some other limitations that one would expect these days.  It does not have 3G (it was noticeable when the phone was accidentally switched to Edge how much slower it was than Wi-Fi - though still workable) and its locked to AT&T which frankly is not very good around here (my work cell is AT&T and its pretty bad).  

Now if a 2nd gen phone comes along for $399 with 3G, video and the other missing features you expect to see on a "phone" these days and the ability to use other carriers then yes I would want one.

Until then I'll wait for the new iMacs and Leopard.


Tom, so do I get the honor of having the first iPhone ident in your browser logs?

[Tom Snyder]

Hmmm... what browser is in that thing? Here are the browser hits for June: Besides the IE, Netscape/Mozilla stuff:

   Safari   No   15543   2.6 %   
   Opera   No   7254   1.2 %   
   Unknown   ?   4484   0.7 %   
   Mozilla   No   3391   0.5 %   
   OmniWeb   No   2220   0.3 %   
   Camino   No   986   0.1 %   
   Konqueror   No   191   0 %   
   Firebird (Old Firefox)   No   47   0 %   
   Phoenix   No   38   0 %   
   MultiZilla   No   34   0 %   
   Epiphany   No   29   0 %   
   WebTV browser   No   28   0 %   
   K-Meleon   No   27   0 %   
   Galeon   No   18   0 %   
   Lynx   No   3   0 %   
   LibWWW   No   3   0 %

[kevbeck122]

It uses Safari.

[Bebop]

It's under Mozilla. The tag might have changed in the final version.

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/05/25/iphone-used-to-browse-macrumors-com/

[Doug Mohr]

Although I have AT&T wireless service, the difference between 3G and lessor networks is clear with my company's usage.
The Cingular 8525 is excellent using 3G and internet access is relatively good, but the KRZR/RAZRs with lesser speeds for other employees is insanely slow in comparison.
Stupid on AT&T's part to offer the iPhone with a slower access interface as they push it as the all-in-one cellphone with faster loading and it won't be.
Its all show and little tell, IMO.

I've had the Cingular 8525 since it came out. It is way better than the iPhone. For starters, there is no way possible to one-hand dial on that touch screen unless you are 14 years old with skinny fingers. The 8525 has buttons that can be programmed to do anything, a scroll wheel with select, voice tag dial, full outlook integration, a large slide out keyboard, and a ton of other features.

As for the network, it uses the 3G network, fast internet access. Supports citrix, VPN, has built in wireless, bluetooth, etc. I can use it through Bluetooth as an internet connection for my laptop. I've bursted (with compression) to 400kb/s on some downloads. It also runs winamp and all the skins, holds 2GB (hot-swap micro-SD cards) of music, photos, videos, has a flash and a 1.9MP still camera/VGA video recorder.

The iPhone is cute and sleek, but useless for anything other than vanity. I'd much rather play 320kB/44.1kHz/2 channel through Winamp than that overcompressed 128kB blended channel stereo that iTunes has.

Oh, it also plays 320x240 30fps movies with 2 channel audio without a single hiccup on almost the same size screen as the iPhone has.