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Cell phones: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone?
- 6/27/07 3:14 AM
Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 6/27/07 3:14 AM
-- Yes, the day it is released! (Are you in line already?)
-- Yes, but I'll wait until the price drops. (At what price point?)
-- Yes, but only after the bugs have been worked out.(How do you know there will be bugs?)
-- Yes, but only if it is made available to other carriers besides AT&T. (Which carrier?)
-- Maybe. (Why the hesitation?)
-- No. (Any particular reasons?)
-- Never. (Why are you so sure?)
Yes....but a lot has to change
by myth90045 - 6/27/07 9:27 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
From what I have read, the iphone can take pictures but no video? Cant send MMS messages. 300-400 battery charges until you see a diminish in battery capacity. The price (not to worried about it)
So if they do a firmware upgrade to change these items, but adding a user-replacable battery that would be great. Sure most cell phones do need to have the battery replace, but I want the option of having to replace the battery on my own, instead of sending it in to get it replaced.
Also, Verizon should have moved on the iphone. I think they dropped the ball. With all the capabilities of the iphone but no 3G is a waste of time. Maybe I am just spoiled since the majority of all verizon phones have EVDO.
So I would get the iPhone if the items above were fixed and Apple allowed The Network to carry this phone. But I guess we have to wait until the 5 years is up.
YES...Im ordering online
by hellogoodbyehello - 6/27/07 11:14 AM In reply to: Yes....but a lot has to change by myth90045Yes I plan to order it online at friday 6 pm ...because.......its my birthday!! Its meant to be.....lol. it better be awesome. I hear its only 2.5 g....but who really cares because if you are bored enough to go on the internet on your phone...are you really in a rush??? if u are at home u will go online at home! plus i have dial up at home......so im used to the slowness
not if you have 3g
by tek-ed - 6/27/07 2:17 PM In reply to: YES...Im ordering online by hellogoodbyehelloUh...if you're 3G you don't need to be bored using a cellphone as a web browser
I use my Cingular 8500 not only as a browser (which it does quite well, thank you) but also as a wireless connection for my laptop!
At a recent seminar, I plugged my 8500 into my USB and it was recognized as a network interface and popped me onto the internet with no problems...In fact, it was faster than the person next to me connected to WiFi (the T-mobile hotspots are notoriosly slow)
So, no...if you hae 3G, data flows fast.
Ed
web/gadget guru
Great reason Not to get the iPhone
by jeffkinder - 6/28/07 2:21 AM In reply to: not if you have 3g by tek-edThis was a great point! Thanks for waking me up to it! Jeff
Stay at home!!
by HorizonDataSys - 6/28/07 9:41 AM In reply to: not if you have 3g by tek-edWhy bother to go toa conference, if all you are ging to do is cruise the Internet (for what?). First, you will not annoy the speaker; nothing is worse than seeing a bunch of know-nothings, uninterested in improving their knowledge, but sitting obsessing over something on the 'net. Second. you are wasting bith your time and your money. Stay at home!
Get a life, not a phone! And an overpriced, clunky beast to boot;Just like the Mac.
You have issues.....
by sakurakiku02 - 12/23/07 10:24 AM In reply to: Stay at home!! by HorizonDataSysYou need to chill....or get a newer phone. usually people who are as upset as you are, either cannot afford the new fangled thing people are ranting about OR you have a phone and have been disappointed by it.
So just understand where people are coming from when they say that they like phones. O well, that's their thing. Leave them alone.
ISSUES
by iphoneguy22 - 4/1/08 12:47 PM In reply to: Stay at home!! by HorizonDataSysu need 2 get a life...... MACS R BETTER THAN PCs!!! Deal wit it!!!
Cell phones of tomorrow
by H.Norman - 6/30/07 12:51 AM In reply to: YES...Im ordering online by hellogoodbyehelloI am a short term insurance broker and probably from a differant generation to most of your readers.
When purchasing a cell phone, all I look for is:
Can I receive calls and SMS messages - Can I make calls and send SMS messages. Any other options are of no interest to me and does not add value to my business.
Norman
I refuse to be restricted
by rqs_007 - 6/27/07 3:01 PM In reply to: Yes....but a lot has to change by myth90045As a Blackjack user, I have so many freedoms that I would lose with the iPhone. Now, a lot of the iPhone is still a mystery (which is what Apple/AT&T wants so you'll buy it without knowing the downfalls). Having said that, why in the world would I wait in line for something that I don't even know what it does?
Think about it: we saw such much of the PS3, Wii, 360, etc. to the point that we knew if we wanted one or not.
But this phone is "so great" that they're not going to tell you 100% about it?
Give me a break! Some people call it "marketing hype", but I call it "fear".
The iPhone looks great, which is why I've dubbed it iCandy", but let's think about all of the things I WON't (allegedly) be able to do if I bought one: my videos are limited to Youtube, I can't use my music library for ring tones (which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard), no wireless downloads, no Third Generation speeds for data, no camcorder, built-in battery and SIM, no equipement insurance offered...
Do I need to go on? Now, who knows how much of this is true and how much is garbage, but since Apple/AT&T won't confirm, what am I to assume?
I'm going to err on the side of caution and pass on that $500 paper weight.
Wait, that's not fair. Let me retract that last statement. The iPhone is indeed a good phone. Revolutionary? Hardly, but still a good phone. I don't want to sound like it's not worth anything. I just doubt it's worth $500, a plan starting at $60, and a two year contract.
I'll just put it this way: if you have a non-smartphone, then this could be a step up. But leaving a Motorola Q or a Samsung Blackjack to go to an iPhone is like trading in a BMW convertible for a Buick Park Avenue. The Buick is still a nice car, but...
What an iPhone is
by ikofig - 4/19/08 2:18 PM In reply to: I refuse to be restricted by rqs_007You're right -- nobody really tells you what it is, they just rave about the way it does it. I bought an iPhone and I'm both impressed and underwhelmed. After using it for about a week, I'm going to get rid of it.
I'm impressed by the look of it, by the slick interface - the way those application screens slither smoothly into each other. Great eye candy! But it is really a multi-media player with a telphone tacked on and some web surfing ability. All I really need is a good telephone and the iPhone is not it.
It's really kind of lousy at the things that are most important for a communications device. The keyboard is lousy - even the 12-buttons on a standard phone are better. It autofills even when I don't want it to (I was getting nowhere with a website I was trying to access several times before I realized the address was being incorrectly autofilled). The user manual is deficient in the basics. E.G. I only learned about the thing of spreading and pinching your fingers to read and move around a web page by watching someone else. Yeah, it's neat how it does it, but after a couple of times, so what? You still can't do any serious surfing on that little thing. The screen is pretty but you end up spending too much effort rubbing it on your jeans or what-not to keep it clean. So it has a direct connection into YouTube? Big deal, big deal! I suppose if you're sitting around and trying to kill time, watching music videos can be OK, but you get tired of all that other crap on there after a couple of views. Besides, it will kill your battery life for making the phone calls that you intended this thing to do. And why only YouTube format?
I could enter and EDIT contacts into my 4-year old Sony phone more easily than on the iPhone. The sound quality is worse on the iPhone as well. There's no speaker phone capability (or if there is, it's not obvious and I should not have to look around for it). It's also really kind of big and not so great to hold. There's more like this, but I'm tired and going to bed. If you want a multimedia player, buy something that's intended to be just that. I'll be happier with a regular telephone. Luckily, I currently live in a country that does not have iPhones yet so I can sell this one at a nice profit and get my regular cell phone for free!
Thanks to ZiPhone for unlocking this thing. It was so simple and free, too! BTW, if you do unlock it, don't throw away the AT&T SIM card that comes with it in case you ever need to restore it to its original factory condition.
Maybe.. generation 2 or 3
by ThunderBirdsMaldives - 6/27/07 4:35 PM In reply to: Yes....but a lot has to change by myth90045The iphone looks great but I won't be getting it for a few reasons.
1) I am in Australia and Mr Jobs will not be releasing it until 2008 (maybe).
2)It is not 3G or 3.5G we have a number of networks expanding their HSPDA coverage and I'd like to be able to surf or watch mobile tv.
3)There is no GPS built in which I think would be very handy.
If these are addressed then I'll be interested. At present I am waiting for the HTC Kaiser that has HSUPA also aswell as GPS etc
Cheers
Jason
HEAR, HEAR!!
by FRANKIEMOUSE - 6/27/07 5:36 PM In reply to: Maybe.. generation 2 or 3 by ThunderBirdsMaldivesi totally agree (except i don't live in Austraila). if it was 3g i'd order the first chance i get. since it's not i'm going to hold out for a nokia. if i'm lucky the next version of the n95 will be compatiable with at&t's 3g.
maybe plus
by itasara - 6/27/07 10:34 PM In reply to: Maybe.. generation 2 or 3 by ThunderBirdsMaldivesThis was the only answer I found closest to my decision on whether or not to buy an iphone by apple. I and my husband are entranced by the commercials. But we are still in a contract with Verizon and I'm not going to give that up especially with two children on our contract as well. However, I am a little dissappointed that apple chose just one provider. I would have thought a more global approach would have been nice. I switched from cingular, now att because most everyone I know including three of my chidlren are on verizon. Unless there is a family plan, I don't know that it will be easy to afford this service; however by then maybe the kids will be independent enough to come off our contract. Also I think the Verizon phone service is more reliable at least where I am located, although like others maybe more than others Verizon is more of a control freak on what services I can and cannot have. I think it is good that we have another year on our contract. By then I'll see what people are saying about the iphone and maybe the phone/service will cost less. I like the idea that the price includes all the extras that I have to pay for now. I want to support Apple which is one reason we would like to buy the phone. I think Apple will have a lot of competition in the future. Had apple made the phone available to all the carriers, it would have made more sense to me. Maybe eventually they will. My husband loves the idea of no push buttons on the phone. He has a lot of trouble with his big fingers pushing those tiny little buttons. So I am pretty sure we will get the iphone, but not yet.
Probably not.
by Ginga_gurl-58 - 6/28/07 2:01 AM In reply to: Yes....but a lot has to change by myth90045From what I heave heard you can't do alot on them and personally I think that if you wanna make a phone call or whatever, use your phone. Plus imagine how confusing it would be.
Yeah that sounded pretty immature but hey, what does a 14 year old know. Plus They're expensive, maybe at a garage sale because I am absolutely poor. Plus I hear the I-pod was pretty average too, but I guess you should keep it in your back pocket aye?
All up I think it's for computer geeks who want to look cool (me included), and If you've got the money to blow on it, go for it and tell us what you think!
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