Anyone getting an iPhone?

[Tom Miller]

Heh. I didn't say they don't market their products well. I was really commenting on the runaway hype.

Yeah, I really do agree. In fact, as far as their marketing dept. is concerned, they're probably just trying hard not to screw this up.

I've been wanting an Apple TV for a while now, but I'm holding out for a DVR addition to it.

That could finally be some good competition for TiVo. There are plenty DVRs out there, but it seems like no one has comparable software features.

Regards,
Tom

[tuttlejr]

Imagine drivers playing with their Iphone. Bad enough now with cell phones.
1 hand driving, staring off in to space with just one hand on the wheel. The **** lobbyists are keeping many states from banning them in vehicles. I have a cell phone just for calling 911. No monthly fees.

Trent Lott was wrong, it is the lobbyists that run the government.

[JR]

I'm with Tom and Anna. The iPhone looks really cool to me.

I'm not a gadget freak. I did, though, have to get a Mac 512Ke in 1985. I guess that puts me in the camp that's likely to get the iPhone 2.0.

JR

[scorrpio]

Oh, to add to my previous comment: At present battery life figures, I don't consider integrated devices like iPhone viable. The critical features of the device - communication, information, organizing - tend to have low battery usage most of the time, with only short activity periods. Non-critical entertainment features - multimedia and gaming - hog battery like crazy. With an integrated device, the desire to conserve battery so critical features remain available renders device's entertainment portion useless. If I have a phone and an iPod, I can listen to my iPod till I drain the battery, without having to worry that someone needing to contact me won't be able to do so.

[Anna]

Oh, to add to my previous comment: At present battery life figures, I don't consider integrated devices like iPhone viable.

From Walt Mossberg's review:

Battery life: Like the iPod, but unlike most cellphones, the iPhone lacks a removable battery. So you can't carry a spare. But its battery life is excellent. In our tests, it got seven hours and 18 minutes of continuous talk time, while the Wi-Fi was on and email was constantly being fetched in the background. That's close to Apple's claim of a maximum of eight hours, and far exceeds the talk time claims of other smart phones, which usually top out at five and a half hours.

For continuous music playback, again with Wi-Fi on and email being fetched, we got over 22 hours, shy of Apple's claim of up to 24 hours, but still huge. For video playback, under the same conditions, we got just under Apple's claim of seven hours, enough to watch four average-length movies. And, for Web browsing and other Internet functions, including sending and receiving emails, viewing Google maps and YouTube videos, we got over nine hours, well above Apple's claim of up to six hours.
In real life, of course, you will do a mix of these things, so the best gauge might be that, in our two-week test, the iPhone generally lasted all day with a typical mix of tasks.

[goslin23]

I received an 80GB video ipod as a Christmas gift @ work and it's awesome! I've put all the wood whisperer and woodnet podcasts on it along with season 1 & 2 of the Office, Family Guy and 6 seasons of Scrubs. I also have a few movies on it and a ton of mp3's.

Granted it's a great little media machine but I would have never went out and spent $400 on it though. I have a Samsung cell phone that has a camera, I took a few pics the day I got it and haven't used the camera function again (I have a digital camera for that). If it's free, I'll take one, but there's no way that I'll spend $500 on a cell phone EVER (there's too many power tools that I want)!

For those of you who do manage to pick one up, good for you... enjoy!

-=gos=-

P.S. I did buy a Wii, those things are cool

[radhak]

Just in case anybody gets an idea that it's Anna fighting a lone battle against a horde of heathen disbelievers, I am on her side : Apple is the way to heaven on earth, and Steve is my lord...

You'd be hard pressed to find a more loyal fan of Apple outside of Cupertino than me - I have bought most of their products, either for myself or as gifts to friends/family, sung their paens till my wife shushes me, and nowadays my 8-year-old grips my arm firmly whenever we pass any apple store (not to stop me from entering, but to make sure she does not lose me because of my kid-in-candy-store stupor )

But for all that, I cannot call myself a fanboy. I still have a guilty heart over that non-existent college fund for my kids, and hence cannot freely spend (squander?) money for Steve's whiz-apparatus. I am in the market for a change of cell phone/plan, but when the internet offers me very good choice of instruments for zero money, a $500+ outlay is just wishful thinking.

Particularly when all that cool in the iphone is gonna meet the grime of reality in its first version : slow network with an outdated cellular technology from a not-state-of-art mobile company, various interface limitations that would only irk me, not to mention the screen scratches that are inevitable to wound me deeper because of the $$$ involved . Till the next (or maybe the third ) version rolls out, I'd be happy listening to my ipod or calling on my cell separately while I use that saved money for ... some bf of nice cherry, maybe .

Of course, savvy people would recognize that all my blah-blah is just sour-grapes : if somebody were to gift me that nice must-have tech gizmo, they'd have a slave for life .

[MilDoc]

What is a cell phone?








A device that would allow work to get ahold of me WAY too easy!
I'll stick with a $22 land line.

Agree completely. Or, give a basic phone only with, say 100 minutes a month, for, say $10, and I might be persuaded to get a cell phone.

[SpencerKeysawn]

Will it play child porn?

Popeye is especially keen on the portability of his child porn collection and self shot videos.