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Cell phones: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone?
- 6/27/07 3:14 AM
Iphone needs to support...
by lookingsmall - 6/27/07 2:02 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
-Third party applications
-An Expansion memory card
-Carriers other than AT&T
Some of us techies do not like iTunes and prefer open standards.
ihone
by hunbarb - 6/27/07 2:02 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I barely have time to use my conventional cell. Just seems like too many bells and whistles. Must be for the techie that has to have the latest in toys.
No - not until Carterfone for cellular
by ke4roh - 6/27/07 2:03 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Until the FCC grants Carterfone for cellular, your device is locked on a particular network and the network can grant or revoke permissions on that device at their whim. Until we can have a network-agnostic phone, my phone will be strictly for talking.
http://westofhtml.blogspot.com/2007/03/up-sell-on-your-cell-phone.html
Not unless the price drops about 80% ..
by RonnieT24 - 6/27/07 2:03 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Look.. I'm sure the i-phone is great.. just like the i-pod is great.. at least I hear it is.. but I've never bought one of those either.. Fact is, there is other technology out there to do what the i-pod does and for a whole lot less money and the same will be true of the i-phone. My Palm Treo 650 with an 4Gb card does everything a similarly appointed i-pod does for a fraction of the cost. Oh and did I mention it makes phone calls too? Which brings us to the i-phone.. Are there really people out there who want to watch videos on 3 inch screens? Clearly they have better eyes than I. Again, my Treo can play movies too.. but ..um.. why? I can watch a bigscreen at home, my laptop on the plane.. I can't think of any scenario where I am just dying to watch a video on a phone. Wi-Fi capable.. okay cool.. but other phones have had this for years.. I guess I'm a scrooge about shameless hype and this thing has been about as overhyped as any product I can think of. Truth be told I'm probably a backlash non-buyer because I so resent the immense effort expended trying to program people into "needing" these things.
Naw!
by meatyb0y - 6/27/07 2:05 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Let me count the reasons...
1. Don't want to extend my contract for 2 more years.
2. I'll wait for 3G and 20-30 GB.
I travel a lot, and I need to have lots of lossless music (Ultimate Ears - worth their weight in gold, baby!). Watching movies on the widescreen on a plane sounds great too. But 8 GB just isn't enough. I'll just wait for the widescreen 6G iPod you just know will be forthcoming, and keep my Blackberry around. If I do the math, that makes exactly 602 reasons not to buy one right now.
Still, I'd like not to have to carry 2 devices around, and it's really shiny. Hmmmm....
My top four reasons
by earthgiant - 6/27/07 2:07 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I like to the way it looks and I think I would enjoy it's many features.
But these four reasons stop me from buying one.
1. AT&T Requires a two year contract
2. Only one service provider
3. Cost
4. Needs a SD/Micro-card slot for additional storage
I'll wait for next generation
by veggiedude--2008 - 6/27/07 2:09 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The price of iPhone will never come down. How Apple products work is that they get upgraded and stay the same price. So I will wait until the $500 model comes with 8GB (or higher) memory.
That choice was not an option in c|nets little survey.
No to the iPhone
by catkenobi - 6/27/07 2:10 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As if people don't have enough distractions to get them in trouble. Now one more. As I said to my husband after first seeing the commercial, If my tv with a nice 27" screen has nothing on it to watch, how could the phone? And with that screen, I'd definately go blind.
I wish I could find a mobile phone that I can just make telephone calls and the ever so often text messages.
I don't need to take pictures, videos, listen to music or watch TV. Especially while I am driving.
Pretty Significant
by brett.wooldridge - 6/27/07 2:13 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
At the time I'm looking at this poll, 13% are saying various forms of "yes". If Apple gets anywhere near 13% penetration in the cellphone market (which looking at the iPod is conceivable) that will result in absolutely HUGE profits.
Hadn't thought about it that way.
by jgvillan - 6/27/07 2:19 PM In reply to: Pretty Significant by brett.wooldridgeIf iPhone gets 13% of all the cell phone market, that is pretty significant. Beware...HELL has indeed frozen over!!...hehe
In all seriousness, if it works out...great, if it doesn't...oh well. I got my ATT 8125, and it does what I need for it to do. Mainly make phone calls, copy my contacts and appointments and lightly surf the web.
No.
by BeastiesFan - 6/27/07 2:14 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No.
The more you consume, the more those commodities consume you.
Buying something this expensive comes with a lot of anxiety if you lose it, or if it doesn't work--was it worth the money?
Once you have this much technology that you rely on, the technology controls you. "So what's up? How does Friday look?" ...pause..."Wait, let me check my iPhone memo/email/calendar/sketchpad/voicemail for that answer."
What happened to socializing with PEOPLE: face-to-face?!
And about losing or misplacing it:
There was actually an article in the Washington Post today about "bad samaritan" Got me thinking about if I really did lose my phone --which I bought 2 years ago for about $50--it would still upset me because of all the numbers I had in there. However, if I had an iPhone, I would be 10 times angrier for losing something I paid over $500.
I think the pricing is ridiculous.
Bottom line: no.
Nope, uh uh.
by jamesf3i - 6/27/07 2:15 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As a card carrying misanthrope, my opinion is anything of which the general public, specially the media, is enamored is probably crap. I admit I have been proven wrong a couple of times -- I recently bought an 8-gig iPod Nano and it is nice -- but I've saved myself a lot of money and time over the years abiding by the above rule.
The toy will be overpriced, I understand there is a monthly fee for the honor of owning said toy and it probably won't work well out here in flyover country. (Cingular lies about their great coverage out here in West Texas and eastern New Mexico.)
As things now stand, I will not buy one.
a subtle difference
by jonkehote - 6/27/07 2:15 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I would love to be able to make phone calls from my ipod but I have no real interest in playing/storing music/video on my phone. It's a subtle but real difference. When the hard drive gets big enough for it to serve as my primary ipod then I'm in...
NO
by belrefai - 6/27/07 2:15 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Not with AT&T.
Not without 4G or 3G service.
Not for $600.
NEVER! I'd RATHER DIE!
by youngdirector - 6/27/07 2:17 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I HATE APPLE! I have hated them since I was 3! I will never buy any of their products into my grave! I am proud to say I have never spent a dime on their crap! I even renamed their products!
iScams (iTunes)
iSuck (iPod)
iMaster...(iMac)
iPe... (iPhone)
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