 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Fashion Accessory The iPhone is nothing but a fashion accessory and contrary to popular belief, is not even the second coming of the Razr, much less Jesus H. Christ.
I shake my head in bewilderment at the few people I've seen walking around with them ... of course, paying $200 for a pair of Jordan sneakers is borderline insanity too ...
My XV6700 with WM6 isn't as "pretty" as the iPhone, but it's a hell of a lot more functional and it's like 4 years old. |
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| Really? you shake your head? With your current phone, can you change your flight from the taxi on the way to the airport? Transfer money on the AMEX site? Order groceries? Not to mention, watch movies (in basically HD), have photo's of my kids with me all the time, and 30 other things. I stopped traveling with my laptop because of my iphone, something I thought I could do with my tilt and blackjack but could not.
Yes it has it's limitations, but the iphone is worth way more to me then 499..even in it's current form. |
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Really? you shake your head? With your current phone, can you change your flight from the taxi on the way to the airport? Transfer money on the AMEX site? Order groceries? Not to mention, watch movies (in basically HD), have photo's of my kids with me all the time, and 30 other things. I stopped traveling with my laptop because of my iphone, something I thought I could do with my tilt and blackjack but could not.
Yes it has it's limitations, but the iphone is worth way more to me then 499..even in it's current form.
yes, with 3.5G hsdpa too! ever heard of Opera Mobile? Netfront 3.5 beta. yeah, it must be lovely doing all those stuffs u mention on EDGE.. waiting.. waiting.. waiting.. loading.. loading.. loading. |
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said by Matt:My XV6700 with WM6 isn't as "pretty" as the iPhone, but it's a hell of a lot more functional and it's like 4 years old. Perhaps you missed the following note:
"iPhone users are consuming “well over” 100 MB per month (compared to Blackberry around 10 MB)"
And that's not including WiFi usage. I suspect most of the iPhone data use is done over WiFi. So a 10x consumption rate over a major rival such as the Blackberry on the pokey EDGE network is quite impressive.
Even Google noted:
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
»www.appleinsider.com/articles/08···ant.html
If usage is any indicator I would say the iPhone is pretty functional. Show me another mobile handset that is used that much? Is the iPhone perfect, no. Is it functional? I would say yes, very much. |
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Yeah, I tried Opera Mobile. It sucked almost as badly as Pocket IE. I can't just flick my finger and pan around a "full size" page like I can on the iPhone.
The iPhone's fast, intuitive UI more than makes up for the lack of speed on EDGE. It's overall a much better browsing experience than my 3G Blackjack.
The statistics say it all though. iPhone users are using 10x more data than Blackberry users. Why? Because Apple finally made a mobile browser that's actually enjoyable to use.
For data tethering, I insert my sim into my old blackjack. Would be nice if the iPhone could do that, but the iPhone is really THAT good - I don't have the desire to tether that much in the first place.
-- Rob |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to iphoneuseful
said by iphoneuseful :
Really? you shake your head? With your current phone, can you change your flight from the taxi on the way to the airport? Transfer money on the AMEX site? Order groceries? Not to mention, watch movies (in basically HD), have photo's of my kids with me all the time, and 30 other things. I stopped traveling with my laptop because of my iphone, something I thought I could do with my tilt and blackjack but could not.
Yes it has it's limitations, but the iphone is worth way more to me then 499..even in it's current form.
Yes, I can do all that actually. Are you seriously that obtuse that you didn't realize any other smart phone with a browser can do all that?
I can't listen to my iTunes music, the protected stuff anyway, but that's what my shuffle is for. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to Pictor Guy
said by Pictor Guy:said by Matt:My XV6700 with WM6 isn't as "pretty" as the iPhone, but it's a hell of a lot more functional and it's like 4 years old. Perhaps you missed the following note: "iPhone users are consuming “well over” 100 MB per month (compared to Blackberry around 10 MB)" And that's not including WiFi usage. I suspect most of the iPhone data use is done over WiFi. So a 10x consumption rate over a major rival such as the Blackberry on the pokey EDGE network is quite impressive. Even Google noted: Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data. » www.appleinsider.com/articles/08···ant.htmlIf usage is any indicator I would say the iPhone is pretty functional. Show me another mobile handset that is used that much? Is the iPhone perfect, no. Is it functional? I would say yes, very much. So people browse more with it? It's a new toy that has great browsing functionality but can it even send SMS pictures yet? |
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djrobx
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I dunno, I tried to do a lot of things on my blackjack's browser. I even had Opera Mobile installed. Anything but the most basic pages were useless or too frustrating to navigate.
The situation is much better on a Windows Mobile device with a touch screen/PDA screen (my roomie has a Cingular 8525), but things are still way more broken than they should be. He grabs my iPhone to browse the web more often than he would like to admit. He carries around an iPod Touch and uses that where there's wifi.
I refused to buy an iPhone for months, thinking that EDGE would be way too slow. I held onto my 3G blackjack figuring I'd wait it out. But after playing with an iPhone ... I had to get one. I have no regrets. I love it. I have no doubts that newer smartphones will catch up and surpass the iPhone. But the iPhone is far more than a fashion accessory. It really does work well. |
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I picked up an iPhone a few months back. Not for "fashion" (you're kidding, right?), not for the "omg you have an iphone" factor, but because it is REALLY a good device.
I have used my fair share of "smart" phones, and found them lacking in the smart department. The fact is, the iPhone just WORKS as it is designed. I can deal with the lack of MMS, because I hate texting and find it to be a huge waste of money. Browsing on this device doesn't have me yanking my hair out because it doesn't scale, doesn't load pages properly, etc.
Oh, and anyone who can point and click can jailbreak the phone and install 3rd party apps. I don't care to wait for apple, nor would I buy any of the apps they are going to sell.
I'm not an Apple fanboy either, this is the only Apple product I own, besides the iPod touch I got for free as a company gift. |
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| Its no use. Some of the "need something to hate" crowd will never ever accept logic. They judge the usefulness of a device by the thickness of the manual and not in anyway how useful it really is. On my iPhone I can do anything I need to do and do it quicker and more fluid then crap like "press left, press down 5 times, press select, press 4, press select, press down 8 times, press select (set ringtone), press exit 5 times. |
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said by Matt:So people browse more with it? It's a new toy that has great browsing functionality but can it even send SMS pictures yet? Wow... the snide aside, not only can it send SMS, but it can send SMS for free.
you do know that you can SMS via email with telephone#@carrier.com don't you?
texting might be a hassle since some people use it like IM thus emailing isn't convenient, but paying for your SMS sending is such a rip off when you have a full fledge mail client to do it free.
how's that edge now? |
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