iPhone post

[Omniblast]

Well here 1st my first iPhone post. I think that I should leave all the typing glitches in it. Not too bad with all the typing. I wonder if everyone is @ Anime expo.

[DanteTheArbitrator]

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The iPhone is cool but I don't want to switch to "New" AT&T and also shell out $600 dollars for the actual phone...

[Murphie]

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I can't afford to spend that kind of money on a phone right now, but I'll get one after this generation, I think.

Everything I've been reading from people that I know and trust has been overwhelmingly positive.

[Mhurron]

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AT&T has a huge coverage hole where I live, another where I work and generally coverage sucks around here. And I'd never pay $600 for a phone, or $41/month for a plan.

[Murphie]

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I use AT&T, but the coverage in my area is really good. I wouldn't use them in other parts of the country though.

For a two-year plan (what you have to sign up for if you buy the iPhone), that's only 84 cents a day for the phone. I can deal with that. I just can't afford to pay that up front right now.

Plus, I have a 60g iPod, so I really have all the music storage I need right now. I'm sure the next releases of the iPhone will have more storage, and more features. I can wait.

[Omniblast]

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it is quite expensive to pay for the iPhone right now that's true. It took me several hours to decide whether or not to sell it on ebay or to keep it for myself. There is supposedly no insurance coverage for the iPhone as well, and the Apple Care program doesn't come out until later on July, but that still doesn't cover if the iPhone is stolen or not.

[Omniblast]

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Oh & the EDGE network is still relatively slow as fuck. I'm on my god damn WIFI @ home when I'm browsing on the forums. I need to find more mobile sites to browse when I'm not home.

[Sabaron]

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While the iPhone is a nifty device, it's the first version of the device. I'll wait and see on the following (and subsequent revisions from Apple):

1. The battery is integrated into the device so it's not replaceable. If the battery sucks, the phone sucks too.

2. How durable is the surface? What about people that text 8000 messages/month?

Other than that it's a bang-up device.

Competition has a list of stuff why it's not so good:

1. No Picture/Video messaging. Response: So? It can send/receive email and view photo albums on the Internet. Why do you need a special picture message?

2. No Video/Music store services. Response: So? It can visit websites that contain podcasts and download them or visit iTunes and get music that way.

IF (and that's a big if) it cannot download the aforementioned items from websites, the video features of the device suck. It's fine to have it sync music, but pc syncing video is not generally worth the bother except when uploading movies and such when going on a trip. One of the nicest thing about video on a phone is that you can pop in and do news and crap whenever you want. It'd be pointless to sync up such things.

If you have an iPhone, tell me about the video and internet download stuff I mentioned. I can't afford the device and I'm not an "early adopter" that likes to shell out wads of cash for products with limited commercial testing. Can it download from iTunes from the phone? Can it stream/download a podcast from a website? It runs MacOS, so it's basically a little computer so I don't see why it couldn't do this with the exception of network limitations/restrictions from AT&T.

I can't really trust competition information because it's biased, and I can't trust Apple/AT&T because they're oppositely biased. I'm sure it's been written up in some techie mags, but I haven't had enough interest to peruse them as yet.

[Feba]

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Personally, I'd rather have an 80$ cell phone and a Nokia N800

[ItazuraNhomango]

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There's a report that iPhone gets very hot with extended use; I don't think I'd want a phone to burn my ears. =/

[Feba]

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ugh, what DOESN'T overheat nowadays?

Not that you wouldn't notice it getting hot...

[DieselBoy09]

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I don't have a cell phone to begin with. X_x

[Murphie]

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I'll probably pick one up in the 2nd or 3rd gen as well. I really like the idea, and I'll admit, that if someone offered me one, I'd take one right now (man, if only I'd taken that job in the apple store a few years ago I could have gotten one for free). But I can wait. My Razr is still kind of badass. Or at least, I like it.

[Sabaron]

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ugh, what DOESN'T overheat nowadays?

Not that you wouldn't notice it getting hot...

A good percentage of cell phones, camcorders, digital cameras, and laptops get hot with prolonged usage. In fact, laptops get so hot retailers have stopped using the moniker "laptop" in favor of "notebook" so that people don't think it's a good idea to put them on their laps (and subsequently sue the company). It's like the "boiling frog" trick where you put a frog in cold water and then slowly raise the temperature... People don't notice that the battery is too hot because it gets hot so gradually and then it burns them and they don't even know.

[Sabaron]

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ugh, what DOESN'T overheat nowadays?

Not that you wouldn't notice it getting hot...

A good percentage of cell phones, camcorders, digital cameras, and laptops get hot with prolonged usage. In fact, laptops get so hot retailers have stopped using the moniker "laptop" in favor of "notebook" so that people don't think it's a good idea to put them on their laps (and subsequently sue the company). It's like the "boiling frog" trick where you put a frog in cold water and then slowly raise the temperature... People don't notice that the battery is too hot because it gets hot so gradually and then it burns them and they don't even know.