Anyone get their I phone yet?

I just got this while I was in the Philippines the last 3 weeks and it does what i need it to do just fine :)

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I'll wait for one of my friends to get the iPhone :wink:
 
I'll be getting one when hell freezes over! Or I win the lotto! Both of those are about equal. :biggrin:
 
$600 + 2 year contract required and it does EDGE only. what a joke.

I dont know why people complain about EDGE. You dont have 3G coverage everywhere. I'm sure we'll see a 3G iPhone soon enough anyways.
 
I dont know why people complain about EDGE. You dont have 3G coverage everywhere. I'm sure we'll see a 3G iPhone soon enough anyways.

All I'm saying is for $600, it better do everything including clean my ear wax while I talk on it. that's all. I personally don't care cuz I'm not a gadget guy.
 
I dont know why people complain about EDGE. You dont have 3G coverage everywhere. I'm sure we'll see a 3G iPhone soon enough anyways.

I don't think most of us use a phone 'everywhere'. Around here we do have 3G coverage (UMTS and HSDPA) and the area I live in is well on the way toward nowhere-land. I stayed overnight in bumf**k, CT last week and even they had 3G coverage (Gaylordsville, CT). In new england anyway, 3G (and 3.5G) appears to be pretty common.
 
Local review in the Chicago Tribune:

Steve Johnson
Hypertext
A Chicago Tribune blog

Originally posted: June 29, 2007

iPhone? Fine, but the Net still wants a big screen
I'll take my Internet sitting down, thank you.


The iPhone is being released Friday, you may have heard. It's Apple's alleged breakthrough cell phone/iPod/Web browser/e-mail combination device -- hand-held technology that melds as many themes as a Tom Stoppard play.It's being treated as if it were the second coming of Pong or something, more cultural touchstone than uber-gadget. I have no way, yet, of assessing Apple's claims for the phone. The company released iPhones for advance reviews only to a handful of favored journalists (and tell me how that doesn't incline them toward liking it?).

But I do know that every experience I've had with the Internet on a smaller screen leads me to believe it is, fundamentally, a big-screen medium. And if you take the Internet out of the iPhone, what have you got? A keypadless telephone and an iPod mashed together like peanut butter and chocolate. It's a nice combination, but how much is a peanut butter cup really worth to you?

Yes, you can get things done on a mobile-device Web screen. My Black- Berry phone/e-mail/Web device will render some version of most pages, enough to find the 800 number or store locater you're looking for, for instance. Example: I was in Hyde Park not long ago, and I used the BlackBerry to visit the Court Theatre's Web site and, after much scrolling down, call up a map that showed me how to get from the restaurant to the theater.

Ditto for the various hand-held-device screens I've messed around with at the Nokia store on Michigan Avenue. The iPhone, the early reviews suggest, is better than those or the BlackBerry at displaying and navigating the Net.

But still, ultimately, the Web wants real estate. It is a medium of connections. Link A leads you to B, B reminds you of C, and C lands you at the completely unexpected delight of D.

The iPhone has a 3½-inch screen, and I don't even like using my 12-inch laptop screen for an extended Web session. It's just so much better with a proper mouse and keyboard and a 19- inch monitor to let you see the full flow of information, the full gamut of linkability.

The next great improvement, incidentally, will come when Web video quality is good enough that you can actually watch it in fullscreen mode without wondering if somebody draped cheesecloth over your monitor.

Then there is the question of speed. The other thing the Internet requires, beyond size, is that when you click on a link, it loads in less time than it would take you to design the Web page on your own.

The iPhone, unfortunately, uses AT&T's Edge data network for its Internet service, when it can't find a WiFi connection. I have Edge on my BlackBerry (the 8700g model, via T-Mobile) and as it loads pages, you are forgiven for imagining that you hear a modem dialing in a telephone number.

One iPhone reviewer said it took 100 seconds for Amazon's home page to appear. It took only seven to show up on my device, but that's the stripped-down, BlackBerry-optimized Amazon home page.

The iPhone does some very cool things with the Net. Instead of streamlined pages, it offers the real deal for better (information) and worse (speed). Tap on the screen to zoom in. Open your thumb and forefinger on the screen to expand the view. There's fingertip scrolling and a screen that recognizes whether you?re holding the phone vertically or horizontally. And it gets good reviews for its e-mail handling, although not for its touch pad-based text-entry function to respond to e-mails.

But it's hard to imagine the iPhone fundamentally changing the mobile Internet game when the Internet, except for the most utilitarian of functions, does not want to be mobile.
 
Guess I'm just not a big enough apple fan or a technophile. The need to have the latest and greatest does nothing for me. To me its just a phone with more features than I will ever need or use. Hence I see no reason to plunk down $600 bucks for one when my free cel phone works just fine for me.
 
Somebody has to be on the east coast with one of these by now.....

come out, come out wherever you are...
 
I just got back from my local at&t store, there was a line formed up already. The family at the front said they had been waiting 22 hrs already. I'd say there was a good 25-30 people in line.

As I was pulling in the parking lot a FedEx truck was leaving. My guess was it was iPhones being delivered. Well I walk in the store, and come to find that a friend is a manager at the store. Tells me the shipment they just received was actually iphone accessories, not phones. the iPhones were already in the safe.

We talked and told me not to wait in line, that they would have enough, specially for the small crowd they had waiting. If they sold out , they would have more coming in tomorrow.
 
Anyone buy the iPhone?

At the macstore typing on one right now and it really is quite impressive. $600 is a lot for a phone but seems acceptable for a video ipod and computer. I can say that while it is not perfect I would buy it, if it worked on different carriers.
 
I got one at around 6pm. I had wait in line for 2 hours though. It's a great little device, however, I really do not like touchscreen typing. I suppose it takes some time to get used to.
 
I would not compare the iPhone to a $600+ PPC. The iPhone is from my understanding a closed architecture, 3rd party programs can't be installed on it, no SD type of card, no MS Exchange Activesync support, no HSDPA or UMTS. You can't even download music from iTunes directly to it.

IMO, this is definitely NOT a phone for the power user or business executive. The people that buy this phone will be the the Apple fan-boys or the ones who see it as a status symbol... look, I have a $600 phone.

Yeah thats my thoughts too. My phone(blackberry 8830) has 2 Gigs of memory, it plays movies, it plays mp3s, it is a blackberry so I get email from my companies BES server in real time, I have a few 3rd party apps like a terminal server client, opera, etc on it. None of this you can do with a I-Phone. Oh, and I paid $200.

To me, if I can't get corporate email on it, it's a toy.



Imagine walking around NYC talking on one of these things. Bet you wouldn't make it 10 blocks before someone snatches it and runs. :rolleyes:
I didn't think about that! My old phone I would leave in plain site in my car. My new phone I make sure to hide. The IPone though could get you mugged. lol



That's good news with Exchange at least. I see that was announced just a couple of days ago (6/26)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=534
Ehhh. Active sync is crap. Palms do it, and I wouldn't want it. You have 2 options. Leave your work computer on 24x7 or have your network engineers turn on a bunch of crap, knock holes in the corporate firewall, etc. It's a poor solution. IMO
 
Got mine this morning... no waiting in lines, no drama. Took exactly 16 minutes from me getting inside the store (10:00am) until I pulled in my driveway with it (10:16am). I bought the last one the ATT store had in stock.

It's a very cool piece.
 
This phone reminds me of what we used to call cars that looked good but didn't have anything under the hood:

"All Show and No Go!"

I think when the novelty wears off this phone is going to be a dud! I am actually glad that the phone doesn't have any features that I can't live without because with only AT&T selling the phone I wouldn't take one if they were giving them away. I used to have more dropped calls in one week with Cingular than I have had in two years with Verizon.:eek:
 
There's alot of Apple haters out there it seems. Talking down the iPhone without having used one. Kinda like people talking down on the NSX without ever having driven one.
 
Here's a day after, mini review...

Not crazy about the keyboard. My hands (or fingers) are about average size, yet 25% of the time I can't accurately type on the keyboard. The letters are simply too close together. Apple could remedy this with a software app that allows you to turn the iPhone horizontal for typing, thus spreading out the keyboard. (included in Safari, but not for messaging)

Net surfing speed is slightly faster than dial-up, but nowhere near hi-speed service. My biggest complaint may not be related to the phone, but I'm having trouble hearing callers even with the phone pressed so hard against my ear it cuts off circulation (yes, the volume is turned all the way up).

So much for a slim, pocket size cell to carry about, because you HAVE to use the earbuds to hear anything. On the other hand, the problem could be the rock concerts I attended in the 80's! That said, the included earphones instantly remedy the situation. The volume is great AND... it's stereo. Kind of like having a conversation in your head. (did I mention I see dead people too?)

In the end, the phone is WAY cool. IMO, the touch screen leaves previous PDA based screens obsolete. The stylus is literally history! Marketing hype has become the norm these days and few products live up to expectation. I think the iPhone is the exception to that rule.

For me, the single most important factor in buying the iPhone was to stay connected to my website full time (I’m a forum admin). With my previous PDA, I could barely see the screen, scrolling was a pain and there was no zoom capability. Quite simply, it was difficult to move around a website. The iPhone changed all that.

Is it perfect? No. But it's a big leap.
 
There's alot of Apple haters out there it seems. Talking down the iPhone without having used one. Kinda like people talking down on the NSX without ever having driven one.

I have used a first generation phone and it was slow, the keys were hard to press accurately, it didn't have a lot of features that I have on a year old phone, etc...

I have two Ipods and I feel the technology on these are great, so I am not an Apple hater. I wish the phone would of been great and available with multiple carriers, the truth is the phone lacks important features and is only available with an inferior cellular company.

Time will tell if it will be sucessful or not, I am betting on not.
 
I have used a first generation phone and it was slow, the keys were hard to press accurately, it didn't have a lot of features that I have on a year old phone, etc...

I have two Ipods and I feel the technology on these are great, so I am not an Apple hater. I wish the phone would of been great and available with multiple carriers, the truth is the phone lacks important features and is only available with an inferior cellular company.

Time will tell if it will be sucessful or not, I am betting on not.

But you have not used an iPhone, and neither have most of those naysayers. Sure , 1st Gen stuff is not the best or greatest, that goes for anything. Otherwise, you'd be using MS-DOS or some other old OS.

Just because it doesnt have all the features you want/have already, doesnt mean it wont be a success. It may not satisfy your needs, but i'm sure it'll satisfy other people's.

I haven't used a phone with 3G, so I cannot speak on its speed. I have used a Sidekick 2 & 3 thru Tmobile. SK2 wasn't the greatest, but it was good enough for me. SK3 was alot better, came with more features, and browsing was a tad bit faster.

If I can browse on an iPhone at the same speeds as I did with the Sidekick 3, i'll be happy. Its not like i'll be trying to download movies with the iPhone.
 
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