Cell phones forum: Poll: Are you planning on buying an iPhone?

Yes 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

This was a great point! Thanks for waking me up to it! Jeff

You 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.

I 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

You'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.

i 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.

From 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!

1. It's not yet available in Europe, although I read Apple and Vodaphone are near a deal like Apple has with Cingular.
2. The monthly package of $60 is way too much for me. On the average, I'm using less than $2 a month prepaid. So my communication needs would have to multilply by a factor 60 at least (considering that prepaid is more expensive per minute than a package) and I don't expect that to happen soon. So this lovely smartphone just isn't targeted at me.

Kees

yup, im gonna wait for it to be debugged and probs wait for v2

All T-Mobile phones use SIM cards, and the I-Phone doesn't have one. I can't see T-Mobile sponsoring a non-SIM card phone just to have the I-Phone. So unless a later I-Phone model is created that will use a SIM card, I won't look for it on T-Mobile.

Besides the inevitable 1st generation of a product glitches I wouldn't by this b/c of various other issues: firmware compatibility, cost (I can think of infinitely better ways ways to spend $600 than a phone!), cost of service ($60/month will get you voice service but data service charges will kill you).

For what I would spend on iPhone and services for a year I would rather get a nice HDTV or dSLR. Either of these would provide me with better value for my money than an overhyped phone that will likely underwhelm and definitely underdeliver on promises.

Give me value and functionality. I could care less about having it because it's the new "must have" product.

I won't purchase an iPhone at this time for the following reasons:

1. First generation.
2. Cost
3. Service Provider
4. Security (need to weed out the capability of getting hijacked on a phone such as this one which runs an OS...don't want to lose any personal information)
5. Size (I have a Pearl and the size is perfect although there are trade-offs)
6. Additional features (missing SD/Micro-card slot for additional storage)
7. Keyboard (no feel keys is going to be an issue for those who have big fingers/thumbs)

While some of these issues may not be major for others, these are factors for me not to through $500-600 down on one of these. While Apple builds solid products for the most part, I'll give it some time before making the plunge.

Good things come to those who wait.

8) No seemless integration with Corporate email (Exchange anyone)
9) No industry standard support for corporate level productivity applications (read Office)
10) Phone cannot be used as a WiFi access point for a laptop
11) Phone cannot act as a wireless modem for your laptop

In short, this phone is not a good fit in the corporate environment...and to make matters worse, if you, as an employee try and bring this phone to the office and connect it to your corporate computer to synch, you will need to install iTunes on the computer. Most companies lock down this functionality...but if they do, and you have illegal music on your phone, it will then synch to a corporate owned computer which opens up a legal liability to the company about storing illegal music on corporate equipment (and don't think the RIAA won't chase this down in a heartbeat! Corporations with Millions...no, BILLIONS in revenue? What a cash cow for the RIAA!)
And with people synching their iPhone to their company computers, now the IT folk will have to deal with a sudden increase in backup space to handle the synched content on the iPhone...
Sheesh! I can see the corporate headache now! The only solution I can see is that companies formulate a policy to bar the iPhone for use in the corporate environment....this would be the death-knell of the iPhone!
Ed
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