Buzz Out Loud Lounge: 3G iPhone Discussion.
Meh
by Nicholas Buenk - 6/10/08 3:57 PM In reply to: 3G iPhone Discussion. by robstakI don't care about 3G or GPS.
I just wanted 64GB, so I could replace my gen 5 ipod. Maybe I'll buy a second hand gen 1 iPhone while I wait.
I'm using a 160 GB Classic in the meantime
by minimalist - 6/12/08 2:37 PM In reply to: Meh by Nicholas BuenkIts basically a stop gap until iPhones get to 64 or 128 GB ranges.
My iPhone is just for maps, video, photos, web browsing, SMS and email. I doubt I'll be upgrading this round either. I'll get all the cool apps with the firmware update and EDGE and pseudo GPS suit me just fine so I'll just sit back and wait for the large capacity flash ram prices to fall. I figure there might be a bump to 32 GB at Christmas and by next summer there might be a 64 GB one. Then you have real iPod capacities.
voice + data = $$$
by ktreb - 6/10/08 10:25 PM In reply to: 3G iPhone Discussion. by robstakTherefore no iPhone 3G or any smartphone, for me. I haven't changed my voice plan in 10 years. With my employee discount, I pay only $25/month, "taxes" included with plenty of minutes and unlimited in calling. My employer has a deal with Verizon.
I carry my dumbphone, a PDA, two iPods (Touch/5.5Gen), a SanDisk Sansa Clip (for my Rhapsody To Go subscription), and a Canon SD600. Sometimes I throw in my Sony player for sh**s and giggles. My purse would feel empty without them.
But if I HAD to get one, it would be black. White reminds me too much of old school iPods. More colors would be nice.
No iPhone required.
by Fe1d - 6/12/08 1:57 PM In reply to: 3G iPhone Discussion. by robstakI got by last year without one. The June 2009 iPhone will have all the robstak features plus iChat, and I don't want to be stuck in the middle of a 2-year contract when SJ trots iPhone R3 on stage. So, if I get one, I'd prefer to requisition one as a work phone.
All the cool kids may be wearing iFwns these days, but they're really just guinea pigs. The iPwn, like Jordache, Izod, and Members Only, stopped being a status symbol as soon as the 3G sold out for business features and price cuts. Yeah, so the iPhone 3G will be more useful, but it will never be as stylish as G1 was in 2007. The iPhone has become its own "cheap knock-off".
And it will sell like hotcakes.
Even boring Mgr Rob sez he will approve them for my pay grade if they pass IT's Exchange tests. Then HR will offer free iPhone or Crackberry plus service plan as a recruitment gimmick. IT and Ops have already been hacking on them for a year, so the transition will be smooth. They watch the Apple promo, and say, "if it's good enough for the Army and Disney, it's good enough for us."
Then, I'll make my case that it'll be really hard for me to do my job without one, because I'll need to see if we can port our apps to it. And Mgr. Rob will throw in my face that I've turned down a company phone for years claiming they cramp my creativity. And I'll counter that I'd like to try muting the ringer and keep routing calls through my assistant, like he suggested last year. Then maybe I'll get one. I'll never hear the end of it, but maybe I won't care.
Okay, time to stop counting chickens and start hatching the plan... wish me luck...
iPhone can't forward a contact.
by minimalist - 6/12/08 2:32 PM In reply to: 3G iPhone Discussion. by robstakI can't believe I forgot about this one. Why on earth do you have all those contacts on your iPhone yet are unable to do something as simple as attach one to an email and forward someone a V-card?
The new scientific calculator is pretty and all, but I would have gladly given it up if Apple could have spent a week or two fixing some of the basics. Cut and Paste and email attachments would be a good start.
They did, apparently, fix one attachement issue
by Food doc - 6/13/08 4:54 AM In reply to: iPhone can't forward a contact. by minimalistAccording to what they said after the talk and confirmed by the 'geniuses' at the Apple store, they did correct at least one of the 'attachment' issues. With the new firmware upgrade you will be able to take photos e-mailed to the iPod Touch or iPhone and copy them directly into your photo album.
Unfortunately it doesn't appear that they have yet addressed the contacts issues.
Generally I love my iPhone. But evey once in a while
by minimalist - 6/13/08 7:43 AM In reply to: They did, apparently, fix one attachement issue by Food docI run into a wall like this that is just baffling.
Sending a contact to another person is so rudimentary that we just take it for granted. Computers have been able to send v-cards since at least the early nineties. Every other smartphone can do it. Heck even my old Handspring PDA from 1998 could beam a contact to another Palm device via infrared.
Glad you agree that this is baffling
by Food doc - 6/13/08 7:53 AM In reply to: Generally I love my iPhone. But evey once in a while by minimalistNice to see someone else agree with me. I posted the same comment on the "User's opinions" review for the 3G unit and someone called me a "Whiny Old Lady" for wanting the phone to work like every other phone I've had. Best laugh I got was when I told him that I was an "Old Lady" who's been using computers for probably longer than he was alive. (Probably true, I started programming on an old Apple II, anyone else remember programming DBase?)
I was watching the keynote notes
by fbbbb - 6/13/08 12:38 AM In reply to: 3G iPhone Discussion. by robstak...shaking my head in admiration.
He does it again.
Bamboozles a whole bunch of people into believing that "Enterprise" solutions can be delivered from iTunes, which is essentially what you're saying if you roll out iPhone in the enterprise.
Does the iPhone actually accomplish the enterprise-orientated tasks any better than a current WinMo / Blackberry device? If my current experience with V1.0, a range of HTC's, a couple of current Blackberries and conjecture regarding 2.0 is anything to go by, no. It may be shinier, but it's not going to be any more efficient.
So why would you make iTunes the desktop core of an enterprise unified messaging undertaking? If your "enterprise" is in the business of delivering pretty pictures, video or music to other people, maybe it makes sense. Like many Jobs keynotes, once the hype-field goes away (and for some, I know it never does) you're left wondering what the heck he's smoking.
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