Thankfully I didn't get the iphone!

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ReformedWretch

ReformedWretch

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The stuff Gizmodo points out that the iphone doesn't have!

Finally Confirmed: What the iPhone Doesn't Have

• Songs as Ringtones - LAAAAAME, I thought for sure it would have that!

• Games - ok, cell games stink anyways
• Any flash support - WHAT?!
• Instant Messaging - WHAT?! 2
• Picture messages (MMS) - Wow!
• Video recording - Are you kidding?
• Voice recognition or voice dialing - Phones in the 20th century could do this.
• Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP) - Huh? Isn't this a music phone...
• One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones) - Same as above.

Stuff we already knew it didn't have
• 3G (EV-DO/HSDPA)
• GPS - $50 Razr has this...
• A real keyboard
• Removable battery - Annoying.
• Expandable Storage
• Direct iTunes Music Store Access (Over Wi-Fi or EDGE) - Silly.

This proves to me that the iphone is NOT worth it's price tag and I am so glad I found this out before I impulsively bought one.
 
Not to mention the fact that before it was even released, Apple claimed they would make it obsolete within the year with the next version.
 
Yeah, it's right here.


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That's technology for you. It's always advancing at a break-neck speed. I'm building my own PC with the best parts I can get, but I know very shortly it will be out of date. :(
 
The Y-Phone

Apple founder Steve Jobs announced the second generation I-Phone will actually have a new look and a new name. It will be called the Y-Phone. The Y-Phone will have a unique renewable energy source. It will never need to be charged. Calling plans will be affordable since you will be hardwired to your circle of friends. Hate dead spots where there is no cellular coverage? Not a problem with the Y-Phone. Designer models? You will have your choice between Green Giant, Del Monte and Generic. Look for the Y-Phone this fall.

The New Y-Phone

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Get a blackberry pearl or curve for now and hold off for the next version of the iphone. My blackberry literally has almost everything that you said the iphone doesn't.
 
The great thing about the "Y" phone is that when its technology has become rusty, one can simply cut the high-tech connection and share the other headset with a valued friend, kick it around the neighborhood!
 
crhoades said:
Get a blackberry pearl or curve for now and hold off for the next version of the iphone. My blackberry literally has almost everything that you said the iphone doesn't.
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But Chris, the iPhone is so... cool!! Like, it is cool. You know, like an iPod is cool. Like an iBook is cool.

Did I mention that the iPhone is cool? It can't do the basic functions of an cell phone, but it is cool!

Apple is a marketing genius.
 
fredtgreco said:
But Chris, the iPhone is so... cool!! Like, it is cool. You know, like an iPod is cool. Like an iBook is cool.

Did I mention that the iPhone is cool? It can't do the basic functions of an cell phone, but it is cool!

Apple is a marketing genius.
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I didn't want to go there but you have now given me the opening. Apple: booooooo. There. I feel better.:D Oh yeah, the blackberry actually can serve business functions as well. GASP! Businesses actually use blackberries just like they use Windows! Down with corporations!

Apple is the Mitt Romney of computers.


{stomps away to get coffee...}
 
Forgot to mention. My blackberry has a 2GB microSD card in its expandable memory slot behind its replaceable battery that allows me to watch movies and play music via bluetooth headphones when I workout. Of course I can use my mapping program that comes with it via bluetooth gps to get there. In between sets i can play games or surf the highspeed internet to see what new things are popping up on the PB. And yes, I have Pearl Jam playing Little Wing as a ring tone. If you don't believe me, I could take a picture with it and email it to you.

:smug:
 
Chris-with the balckberry, you can use a stored song as a ring tone? I really like that idea and it's the biggest shock to me regrading what's missing in the iphone.

Fred-I don't need a phone to be cool. :)
 
iPhone is getting a lot of good reviews from a lot of quarters.

Amazing iPhone “Matches Most of its Hype”
“The phone is so sleek and thin,” reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that “it makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.” And the software transcends. “It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.” If you need “to answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.” As for email, it’s “fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.” And “the Web browser,” he points out, “is the real dazzler.” No “stripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.” In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, “the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.” [Jun 26, 2007]

iPhone a “Beautiful and Breakthrough Handheld Computer”
After testing the iPhone for two weeks in multiple US cities, Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret consider it “a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface,” they say, “works well.” In addition to combining “intelligent voice calling and a full-blown iPod,” iPhone also “offers the best Web browser we have seen on a smart phone and robust email software.” It offers “the largest and highest-resolution screen of any smart phone we’ve seen, and the most internal memory by far. Yet it is one of the thinnest smart phones available and offers impressive battery life, better than its key competitors claim.” It is, the two conclude, “a pleasure to use.” [Jun 26, 2007]

“The Most Chic Cellphone I’ve Seen”
Writing for USA Today, Edward Baig finds iPhone “indeed worth lusting after.” Apple, he says, “has delivered a prodigy—a slender fashion phone, a slick iPod, and an Internet experience unlike any before it on a mobile handset.” “The most chic cellphone I’ve seen,” iPhone is “a breeze to set up and fun to use, evident from the moment you slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. It’s a wonderful widescreen iPod and fabulous picture viewer.” And he tells us that “making calls was surprisingly simple. You can flick through your list of contacts or favorites … and then tap on a name to make a call or send a text message. The keys of the virtual keypad are large enough so that dialing a number manually — or punching in a code to access voice mail remotely — is easy. I rarely made a mistake.” He awards iPhone 3.5 stars out of 4. [Jun 26, 2007]

“An Excellent Implementation of State-of-the-art Features”
Finding it “a significant leap,” Steven Levy (Newsweek) calls iPhone “a superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, an Internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding. The iPhone is the rare convergence device where things actually converge.” iPhone, he says, “finally fulfills the promise of people-friendly palm-top communication and computing.” [Jun 26, 2007]
 
I do have another CELL Phone related question however. After 2 years, my wife and I will be getting New Cell Phones this Saturday. What do you guys suggest?
 
Scott said:
iPhone is getting a lot of good reviews from a lot of quarters.

Amazing iPhone “Matches Most of its Hype”
“The phone is so sleek and thin,” reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that “it makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.” And the software transcends. “It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.” If you need “to answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.” As for email, it’s “fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.” And “the Web browser,” he points out, “is the real dazzler.” No “stripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.” In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, “the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.” [Jun 26, 2007]

iPhone a “Beautiful and Breakthrough Handheld Computer”
After testing the iPhone for two weeks in multiple US cities, Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret consider it “a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface,” they say, “works well.” In addition to combining “intelligent voice calling and a full-blown iPod,” iPhone also “offers the best Web browser we have seen on a smart phone and robust email software.” It offers “the largest and highest-resolution screen of any smart phone we’ve seen, and the most internal memory by far. Yet it is one of the thinnest smart phones available and offers impressive battery life, better than its key competitors claim.” It is, the two conclude, “a pleasure to use.” [Jun 26, 2007]

“The Most Chic Cellphone I’ve Seen”
Writing for USA Today, Edward Baig finds iPhone “indeed worth lusting after.” Apple, he says, “has delivered a prodigy—a slender fashion phone, a slick iPod, and an Internet experience unlike any before it on a mobile handset.” “The most chic cellphone I’ve seen,” iPhone is “a breeze to set up and fun to use, evident from the moment you slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. It’s a wonderful widescreen iPod and fabulous picture viewer.” And he tells us that “making calls was surprisingly simple. You can flick through your list of contacts or favorites … and then tap on a name to make a call or send a text message. The keys of the virtual keypad are large enough so that dialing a number manually — or punching in a code to access voice mail remotely — is easy. I rarely made a mistake.” He awards iPhone 3.5 stars out of 4. [Jun 26, 2007]

“An Excellent Implementation of State-of-the-art Features”
Finding it “a significant leap,” Steven Levy (Newsweek) calls iPhone “a superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, an Internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding. The iPhone is the rare convergence device where things actually converge.” iPhone, he says, “finally fulfills the promise of people-friendly palm-top communication and computing.” [Jun 26, 2007]
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You see that's just it! All of that may be true, but it's still missing the simple features I listed. That's kind of dumb.
 
crhoades said:
Forgot to mention. My blackberry has a 2GB microSD card in its expandable memory slot behind its replaceable battery that allows me to watch movies and play music via bluetooth headphones when I workout. Of course I can use my mapping program that comes with it via bluetooth gps to get there. In between sets i can play games or surf the highspeed internet to see what new things are popping up on the PB. And yes, I have Pearl Jam playing Little Wing as a ring tone. If you don't believe me, I could take a picture with it and email it to you.

:smug:
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Chris, what bluetooth headphones do you have? Do they double as a headset?

Also, have you seen the new Jawbone bluetooth headset? I have it and it is excellent! Give me a good clear headset over a fancy looking screen anyday.

Scott said:
iPhone is getting a lot of good reviews from a lot of quarters.

Amazing iPhone “Matches Most of its Hype”
“The phone is so sleek and thin,” reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that “it makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.” And the software transcends. “It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.” If you need “to answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.” As for email, it’s “fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.” And “the Web browser,” he points out, “is the real dazzler.” No “stripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.” In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, “the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.” [Jun 26, 2007]

iPhone a “Beautiful and Breakthrough Handheld Computer”
After testing the iPhone for two weeks in multiple US cities, Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret consider it “a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface,” they say, “works well.” In addition to combining “intelligent voice calling and a full-blown iPod,” iPhone also “offers the best Web browser we have seen on a smart phone and robust email software.” It offers “the largest and highest-resolution screen of any smart phone we’ve seen, and the most internal memory by far. Yet it is one of the thinnest smart phones available and offers impressive battery life, better than its key competitors claim.” It is, the two conclude, “a pleasure to use.” [Jun 26, 2007]

“The Most Chic Cellphone I’ve Seen”
Writing for USA Today, Edward Baig finds iPhone “indeed worth lusting after.” Apple, he says, “has delivered a prodigy—a slender fashion phone, a slick iPod, and an Internet experience unlike any before it on a mobile handset.” “The most chic cellphone I’ve seen,” iPhone is “a breeze to set up and fun to use, evident from the moment you slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. It’s a wonderful widescreen iPod and fabulous picture viewer.” And he tells us that “making calls was surprisingly simple. You can flick through your list of contacts or favorites … and then tap on a name to make a call or send a text message. The keys of the virtual keypad are large enough so that dialing a number manually — or punching in a code to access voice mail remotely — is easy. I rarely made a mistake.” He awards iPhone 3.5 stars out of 4. [Jun 26, 2007]

“An Excellent Implementation of State-of-the-art Features”
Finding it “a significant leap,” Steven Levy (Newsweek) calls iPhone “a superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, an Internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding. The iPhone is the rare convergence device where things actually converge.” iPhone, he says, “finally fulfills the promise of people-friendly palm-top communication and computing.” [Jun 26, 2007]
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Notice how nearly ever positive point is about appearance, rather than substance.
 
fredtgreco said:
Chris, what bluetooth headphones do you have? Do they double as a headset?
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I actually have a wired set of stereo earbuds with a mic to talk but I'm working on talking my wife into getting the
Motorola's S9 . If she gets a pearl we can at least share these.

Also, have you seen the new Jawbone bluetooth headset? I have it and it is excellent! Give me a good clear headset over a fancy looking screen anyday.
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I have the Motorola H670 and it works great for me. 3 different earpiece attachments so you can get a good fit. Volume is great on it. Company pays for the Pearl and the earbud so I can't complain too loudly now can I?

If I could design something... I would love a set of Bose, noise-cancelling, bluetooth earbuds that work with the Pearl. Price tag - $5.
 
A timely article from J. Mark Bertrand's site (:up:):

The Nefarious iPhone
Posted by J. Mark Bertrand
on Thursday, June 28, 2007

One of the staples of amateur (and not so amateur) cultural criticism is the trick of showing how an apparently good thing is really Quite Bad Indeed. When it comes to technology, every innovation runs a gauntlet of such nay-saying, reminding me of all the science fiction melodramas in which mankind destroys himself by seeking to improve his lot. You thought you could build a race of androids to do the laundry? Ha! They've taken over your world and now you are the slave! I don't know where the need to demonstrate that everything that's good is really bad comes from. Perhaps it is a sophisticated form of cynicism masquerading as a prophetic voice. The ominous threat du jour, of course, is the iPhone.

This nefarious little device may seem like a nifty way to combine phone, e-mail, web-browsing, music and video into a pocket-sized package, but it is actually a symbol of our decadence. People will be lining up tomorrow to buy iPhones, not because they actually need the features it offers, but because they are mindless consumers whose dollars chase after every new thing, no matter how frivolous. They are buying not a phone but a status symbol, and in doing so they reveal that there's a black hole in their chests where their hearts should be.

At least, that's what I've been reading. It all seems a little surreal, though, to a person who is four weeks into an eight week road trip, cruising furtively through nearby neighborhoods in search of unlocked wireless signals just so he can check his e-mail twice a week. I picked up a copy of Paul Fussell's book Thank God for the Atom Bomb recently. He points out that the soldiers on the front line in the Pacific didn't bemoan the advent of the Enola Gay the way moralists do today -- their lives were on the line, after all, and that horror saved them from a horror of their own. The iPhone isn't an atomic device (though it might as well be, considering some of the bizarre things I've read recently), but hopefully the analogy isn't too far fetched. To people who actually need the features it offers, and who currently juggle a variety of devices to get the job done, this is a welcome development.

The anti-hype is about as ridiculous as the hype -- more so, even, since the hype is largely justified. I won't be standing in any lines waiting for the glorious appearing of the iPhone, but I'll certainly be grateful to have one when and if I have the chance. As far as I can see, it's a good thing.
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Boy, am I glad I can't afford one. I know me well enough to know I might have upgraded. (Not that I want to stick with AT&T now that it isn't Cingular anymore...)
 
I just got off the phone with my cousin ... a certified MacHead ... and he hates it for all the reasons on the OP. He got his Friday and has already returned it. (I told him he needs to quit drinking that Mac coolaid!)
 
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