I bought an iPhone!

Just wanted to tell this great community that I'm a proud owner of iPhone now. It's really cool, almost feels like a mac in my pocket.

-Typed on iPhone.

 

Good stuff; I'm just waiting for my contract with Verizon to end so I can make the switch (come on March '09!!)

 

I'm just waiting for $1000 to fall out of the sky so that I can terminate my contract and get an iphone.

 

I'm with Masterchef

that and I'm waiting to see if/when they release a 32 GB version so I can just give my ipod touch to my girlfriend and use the iPhone instead

 

i'm waiting for some unlocked versions and 500 dollars

 

Congrats. I bought my 16GB white on launch day and love it. Lots of awesome free apps for it already.

 

i'm so sorry for the loss of your sanity.

 

Im waiting for another GSM carrier in Canada, the iPhone plan given by the one and only monopolistic GSM carrier Rogers, has all kinds of hidden and additional charges added on to totaly ruin my pallet for the iPhone.

 

I'm waiting for Rogers to drop its outrageous pricing and Canada in general to drop its outrageous data pricing . I really want an iPhone, but those prices are far too much for me.

I am waiting for the winners of the recent Canadian wireless auction to start up and hopefully compete in pricing to make the "Big Three" drop their prices. Globalive, you can do it!

 

I'm contemplating on getting a PDA sometime in the next year or so. So far, the rumored Blackberry Thunder is #1 on my list, followed by the IPhone. The Thunder is supposed to come to Verizon's service which I'm already a member of so there's less hassle there. If the IPhone eventually breaks it's shackles with AT&T and comes to Verizon, I'll be picking that up immediately! Too bad that's just a pipe dream.

 

Sam, I hear you loud and clear, come on Globealive, were all waiting.

 

i don't see the appeal of the iphone. every1 i know who has one is an (expletive) and they are so uncomfortable. i like BUTTONS, not just touch screens.

 

Okay! We get it, you're not a fan. I happen to love mine, and I'm not an (expletive). But I'll play the stereotype game:

All BlackBerry users are self-important asshats! Ha ha!

 

why wait just switch your address to an area that is not covered by your provider and you can terminate the contract without paying termination fees. I had Sprint and I called them and told I moved to a town in West Virginia..Sprint does not cover most of that state and they close my contract same day.

 

^ Heh, that's a good one.

Congrats on the iPhone, it's an amazing device!

 

I have a 2G iPhone. I am a complete expletive and happy about it. But you can't say it or I'll sue . Some people prefer buttons but I guess I am accustomed to touch-screens. I had an XDA, TH-55, Compaq 3970, Palm Tungsten T2 amongst others and I reckon the iPhone is the best PDA out of all of them.

I don't have it on contract but instead have it unlocked and jailbroken and wouldn't have it any other way at the moment. Running 1.1.4 as 2.0 is too unstable.

To the OP, are you gonna jailbreak it? You do know that Apple have a tonne of restrictions on what apps can make it to the Appstore. Anything that enhances the iPod functions or allows voip amongst others is barred under the EULA so if you want the really cool stuff you should look into the current limitations placed on it by Apple.

You also might wanna get a cover like so your new shiny stays shiny until your contract runs out. I'm looking at getting one of these for my little aluminium football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmpFOUZoUX0

Congrats on the purchase, now mod the damn thing

 

I love my iPhone. I got a friend to pick one of the original versions up for me in Detroit last October and mail it out to me. Within 5 minutes I had it unlocked and running on Rogers.

When the iPhone 3G was announced, I knew right away that I'd be upgrading and thankfully Rogers gave in a little on their price plans. I'm actually paying less per month now after getting the 3G version, than I was before!!

 

Self important asshats? Somehow, that seems curiously similar to the Apple user stereotype......

Most iPhone users seem to be self important asshats, and all of the ones I know actually ARE self important asshats. This includes myself, yes.

 

The iPhone is, to me, like any other Apple product: it's got an allure certainly but there's no practical reason whatsoever to own one; like the MacBook Pro vs. the XPS M1530, it's just a lot more money for a product that is, frankly, equal or even inferior and there's no way to argue around it. Just as the MacBook uses the same Intel chipsets, Core 2 processors, Seagate hard drives, and off-brand RAM as the Dell in a case manufactured by the same ODM, the iPhone uses the same antennas and voice synths and Bluetooth/WiFi radios and whatnot as any other smart phone. You're paying for the (frankly, restrictive-and-little-else) OS, and you're paying a lot for it. If that's your thing and you have the money for it then more power to you. If I were going to pay $400+ for a smart phone, though, I'd want expandable storage, the ability to send MMS messages, or at the very least, the ability to copy-and-paste text for crying out loud. I can do all of that on my free-with-rebate Samsung SYNC!

 

I had all of those things with some of my other smartphones and pdas/pda-phones and I honestly would expect a device like the iPhone to include them as well. Not having MMS doesn't really bother me as at least in Ireland it was a complete flop with all the networks overcharging for it. Expandable storage would be great but 8gb is not killing me at the moment. As for copy/paste well Apple should get their arrogant finger out of their well healed collective ass and just go and do it already. Looks like firmware 2.1 may finally have it, only a year late.

As or justifying paying for one I'm about to start using it as my primary e-book reader for legal documents and although the screen can't match something like a Sony PRS-505 reader its still better than printing out 3,000 articles which costs alot of money, killing a rainforest and breaking my back at the same time to read them on a bus. Its not a restrictive device if you remove Apples restrictions from it and use installer and cydia to access great apps. Otherwise your just playing Apple's discriminatory corporate games and enriching them for that attitude. No thanks. I was gonna end up getting something like a Sony Vaio UX or a Fujitsu U810 for my mobile needs before I got the iPhone. At about €1500 and €1000 respectively I have actually saved money getting the iPhone without contract. I don't look at it as a smartphone anymore, more a little computer I can work and play on. I feel safer reading something on an iPhone in public than a laptop.

 

I had the first-gen iPhone, and upgraded to the 3G version, and couldn't be happier.

I've used phones from Motorolo, Nokia, Samsung, and LG, and they all pale in comparison.

Would you like some cheese with your whiiiiiiine?

 

Roughly $250 is the price difference I'm finding for the MBP vs the M1530, or if you really want to be picky, exactly $255. What does this get you? It gets you a .7lbs lighter enclosure and a full 1lb lighter traveling weight (including AC adapter), better build quality (ever used an MBP and an M1530 back to back? night and day difference - the M1530 is decent, but nothing compared to the MBP), better styling, a backlit keyboard, the ability to run 2 useful operating systems (sorry Linux users), and more.

However, thats all offtopic. The iPhone isn't really a smartphone, unlike what Apple would have you believe. What it is, is the ultimate media phone on the market, or very close to it, along with an excellent internet browser. Try to get more out of it, and you'll start to find problems. "the keyboard isn't as good as my blackberry", "the camera isn't as good as my N95", etc, etc.

Besides, c/p is coming with the 2.1 firmware update

 

You can argue about features all day long but the fact is most phones out there can't even do the most basic functions properly and are not very user friendly, period. There is no point in the latest features if most people can't use them or don't need them.

The iPhone I think started out getting the fundamentals right and keeps improving on the solid foundation. Thats a great approach in my opinion, thats why i have one. It makes my life much easier to have it than lug my laptop around.

One of my buddies showed me his HTC phone running WM. 3 things stood out the most.

1. He had access to a bunch of nice features.
2. His phone lagged like crazy when switching from landscape to portrait.
3. Mobile IE and Opera are POSs compared to safari. WTF is the point of a data plan if you have to surf the web on those browsers?

 

I'd love to get an iPhone but I'm just not ready to increase my monthly cell bill by 300%; thanks Rogers!

 

You thought those were bad, you should have looked at the BlackBerry browser - horrible in every sense of the word. However, the data plans are there for push email (on the BBs at least) on the go.

 

I've got a Windows Mobile 6 phone. The data plan comes in handy because I like to get my news on my cell phone from various sites (Google, DailyTech), and even though it sucks, the included version of IE can handle those sites fine.

The best part about my WM6 Treo is that I can boot into Vista on my Macbook Pro, click a couple buttons, turn on bluetooth, and BAM, free mobile broadband. Plus, because the dataplan has to be the jacked up unlimited version, I can surf as long as I want! Heck, I might as well run a few torrents while on a cross country road trip.

There is something cool about using your laptop on the net where WIFI isn't available. No wires, just an invisible connection between my phone and my computer, feeding me the nets.

Otherwise, congrats on your new iPhone! If I hadn't already purchased this phone, I probably would've gotten one.

Did someone here say they were from Boston? (BU student, here)

 

How do you judge a car? Do you only look at raw numbers? Horsepower, how many lbs of torque? What about the design of the car, the way the doors look, the included features like moonroofs and navigation and Bluetooth, the feel when you drive it, the way the interior is designed, the seats, the trunk space, the lights?

Its the same theory, in my opinion, for computers. It is wrong to compare computers only by raw specifications of Core 2 Duo and 2 GB of RAM. You have to consider the design and the thoughtfulness of the design, the operating system and its integration with the hardware and all the applications that run on it. The XPS M1530 is a nicely designed notebook, I agree, but I still think the MacBook Pro is a better design despite being around for over three years.

Mac OS X may seem restrictive, but it provides the best computing experience I've ever experienced. I don't have to worry about driver issues or compatibility issues like I did with Windows Vista. I can just get on with my tasks: the OS looks great too. Everything in Mac OS X looks and feels and works a lot more logically in my opinion than the experience I get in Windows.

If you only judge by raw numbers, you are missing out of the experience, just as you will if you only choose your cars by raw numbers.

 

I agree. The iPhone isn't the best in every way. If all you do is talk, text, and email, then Blackberry (or something else with a physical keyboard) is probably better. But as a media player and real web browser, it's the best.

What's c/p?

I agree.

I don't know... to me, the main point of a data plan is to be able to access information on the internet while mobile. Having the pages look like they do on a regular computer is secondary... if even desirable. Sometimes, it's just a nuisance, having to move around and zoom and all. Other times it's cool though... depends what you're using it for. That said, I'm not really very familiar with Mobile IE and mobile Opera.

Anyway, the thing that bugs me about the HTC phones, and probably the reason I don't own one, is its 4 gb limit on its memory cards. A lot of phones are like that. I think that's just ridiculous.

 

Unfortunately there are No 3G's left in France. I have a $100 rebate waiting for me on one when I upgrade from my 1gen... can't wait.
On the other points, its the software that makes the iphone great. I have hated every phone I have owned. Never been able to "figure out" how to use half the features, and who has the time to read a 100+ page manual in broken english? The iphone doesn't need a manual, its easy enough to figure out, and things just work. Thats what makes it great. I glad it doesn't have everything and the kitchen sink included, cause you know that those that do that ain't going to send out any patches for problems. HTC and the video driver issues anyone ! That's a great example of on spec's a super product, but the software was #$%#$^, thus the phone was also @#$%@#.
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The iPhone was released here in Australia about a month ago. Many are reporting hair line cracks in the casing already. Many have also documented this on another forum site. I'd be weary about purchasing an iPhone.

 

Reported here

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=525177

and here

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1616295&tstart=135

I'd get to the Apple forum one 1st before they decide to take down the posts the way they do with Mobileme issues. Heil Steve Jobs.

As one poster on Engadget put it so well, I guess the iPhone 3G really is cheaper than the 2G. I'll stick with aluminium thanks.

 

Copy/Paste...one much lamented feature that the iPhone, for the moment, lacks. However, its supposed to come in the firmware 2.1 update.

 

I think that and some other problems were part of the first batch. As usual, any time a new product comes out the first numbers tend to have problems like that.

 

But its not a new product in terms of design and technology. Its a modification to an existing product released as a new product by Apple. They have had ample opportunity to QA these changes over the course of over a years feedback from engineers, media and customers. Is it usual that such a minor modification to an existing product should exhibit such defects? Its time to stop patting Apple on the back and trying to soften the blow when they, the so-called design geniuses, make a screw-up which had they paid enough attention to quality control and testing instead of advertising and hype could have been noticed and averted. Maybe Steve was sent an email about the problems but he was using Mobileme and didn't get it. He should probably call tech support.

If Apple produce over a million iPhone 3G's before launch do you call those the 'first numbers'. I call that a substantial mass production run easily capable of significant testing before leaving the factory. It wasn't a case of Steve Jobs as Santa Clause and his little Californian elves desperately rushing to load iPhones onto Rudolph's slay the night before launch. BTW, to all the Apple fanboys out there, Santa doesn't exist and Steve Jobs is not god. I know it sounds like lies but grab a tissue and deal with it.

It must really suck for many people who ended up getting a white 16gb at the higher price if they wanted but couldn't get an 8gb black only to notice these manufacturing defects more than their lower capacity counterparts. I'd be lobbing grenades at tech support by now.

 

Well its still too early to say that this is a wide spread problem. So far its just a few reports, and not every white iphone has it... It will be a few more days/weeks until the full extent of the problem is known. Was it just a small batch that slipped thru? or is it a more serious design flaw?
only time will tell, but damming apple or defending them is premature either way.
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It doesn't matter if its a just a modification, its still a change in hardware. Going from aluminum to plastic or whatever it is they are using now is a big change from a durability stand point. So yes, they will have problems until the company that makes that part gets it right.

What Apple is going through is not different from any other company that sells consumer products.