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The Apple iPhone
Ladybug:
When I first saw it, I thought it looked pretty damn sweet, but I'm a skeptic. Sure, for some people it might be the ideal phone/PDA-thingy, but I don't think it's something for everyone.
Some reasons, I can't be arsed to mention all my skepticism:
- The price is high - maybe not considering what it can do, but for people wanting a phone it's probably too much, unless, you know, you're loaded.
- Seeing as they say it's a phone and an iPod (which can, maaaybe, justify the price if you add into the applications it's running etc), I'm assuming they're meaning that you should be able to use this instead of a regular iPod for music, video and images. But at the same time, it's supposed to have OS X and various programs etc, and I happen to think 4 or 8GB isn't enough storage for this purpose. I'd have to carry around the iPod and the iPhone.
- Writing text messages on a touch screen on a full qwerty-keyboard with ones fingertips sounds like hell, but that might just be a habit thing. Dunno.
- 5 hours sounds like not very much battery time, I think they should tell us how long it'll last in standby-mode as well.
- By the time it comes to Norway, the price will probably be at least 50% higher.
But like I said, for those wanting a smooth PDA, who can afford this thing and who's not planning on filling it with their above average-sized music/video-collection, then it might just be ideal. For me, though, it's not. I'd want an all-in-one-gadget at that prize to actually be a full replacement for whatever it's supposed to replace. This goes for my Sony Ericsson as well, I pretty much never use the walkman-thingy, it's just..not good enough - too little storage (yes, I know I can buy memory cards) and it feels..clumsy.
kokeyjoe:
I still think I'm one of the few people on Earth who just wants a phone to make phone calls.
Hell, I even got rid of my cell phone plan in November when my contract was up. I use... an answering machine now!!!
I have an mp3 player for... playing mp3s. I have a computer for... e-mail and the like. I have a phone for... making calls. I do not need to pay more money for something else to do the stuff I can already do. Especially when it's an Apple.
SpacemanSpiff:
Usually, I'm very careful about Apple products and not exactly excited by them (the iPod for example isn't nearly as good as the hype would want you to believe, if you ask me), but goddamn, the iPhone does look very neat.
I really love the high resolution, the WiFi and especially multitouch. Those are some killer selling points, if you ask me. And on the whole, it seems they pulled the whole thing off rather well.
But I still won't buy one in the foreseeable future (like maybe Q3/4 in 2008 or something, if it's still the best and unique then). I have no money and a working phone and also, there are several things that really bug me about the iPhone. The fact that it runs on OSX but I still can't install applications really sucks. That simply means it's not a smartphone and I use those features on my Nokia. I'm skeptical about battery life and I would love to see how the screen holds up to daily abuse. No 3G is another big minus for me, as is the no removable battery and no expandable memory.
Still, it seems like a very innovative product and I would love to toy around with it a bit.
Aztex:
--- Quote from: mberan42 on 10 Jan 2007, 00:47 ---Steve unveiled it at CES today.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/
I must admit, as an adamant non-Mac user, that thing looks pretty damn sweet. Although it might be a tad too small for my taste.
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correction, macworld, in san francisco, Apple holds their own thing and don't make a presence at CES in Las Vegas.
oh and for those who thought it was too good to be true, that's because this is the real iPhone
Source www.ilounge.com
oh, and ladybug:
Some reasons, I can't be arsed to mention all my skepticism:
- The price is high
Most people who buy this wouldn't buy it just to use as a phone (I hope), so the price in reality, for a top of the line phone, is quite fair, (although the network prices will most likely be added on, *sigh*)
- Writing text messages on a touch screen on a full qwerty-keyboard with ones fingertips sounds like hell, but that might just be a habit thing. Dunno.
if you watch some of the demo's on the apple site, you'll see that if you type "aople" it'll change it to "apple" so it has an on the fly spellcheck which takes into account mashed up buttons.
- 5 hours sounds like not very much battery time, I think they should tell us how long it'll last in standby-mode as well.
- By the time it comes to Norway, the price will probably be at least 50% higher.
we have to take into account this current unveiling is a tech release, not product release, as of yet per se. Coming closer to june prices will be confirmed and fine details like battery life, will this work with this... etc... will be ironed out in reviews and press releases from both apple and Cingular and other worldwide mobile carriers.
Mnementh:
--- Quote from: Jenno on 10 Jan 2007, 13:49 ---
--- Quote from: est on 10 Jan 2007, 08:47 ---Fuckstixx
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The article says it's Quad-band GSM, so it wouldn't surprise me if these started being imported like crazy.
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Yeah, most likely all you'll need to do is unlock the phone and pop a SIM in it.
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