ColorBASIC
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Re: Nine Alternatives To Apple's iPhone
Or you're stupid enough to pay that for one on eBay. Meanwhile my Treo 700W was $600 when I got it so I don't see the iPhone as overpriced for its claimed feature set.
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phattieg
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| said by ColorBASIC  :Or you're stupid enough to pay that for one on eBay. Meanwhile my Treo 700W was $600 when I got it so I don't see the iPhone as overpriced for its claimed feature set. Dude, $600 can buy you a damn laptop. At least with that, you can place free calls thru VoIP from a free internet connection at a hotspot. They make mobile broadband cards too. I still can't believe people want to pay that much. It's feature set isn't all THAT spectacular. Quad band, touch screen phone with an iPod tethered into the phones motherboard. No removable storage. Locked to one network, with no firmware made that is certified by Apple to work with another GSM provider. It's stuck on GSM in the first place, making EDGE the only available data service, which sucks. The operating system is proprietary as hell. Leave it in your pocket, and find out that you called 8 of your friends by bumping into the screen thru your clothes. Finger prints all over the screen from pressing it. Slow ass iTunes has to be installed on your PC, also meaning you have to agree to take the Apple Media Player software, including QuickTime, just to activate it. Enough of my rant, but point blank, screw that phone. And people here are actually arguing back that it's worth it? Have fun with that piece of ........ Lord knows you won't be loving it when you cancel with AT&T, or your service gets shut off for non-payment due to the fact the phone costs so much $$$.
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wmcbrine
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Laurel, MD
| said by phattieg :Dude, $600 can buy you a damn laptop. At least with that, you can place free calls thru VoIP from a free internet connection at a hotspot. It's a bit less convenient to carry around, though.
It's feature set isn't all THAT spectacular. If you look at it just as a feature set, maybe not. But you have to see the device as a whole. There is nothing like it.
One feature, the touch screen, shouldn't be sold short. This isn't like what you're used to from Palm or Windows CE devices. It's multitouch -- kinda like the Microsoft Surface, only smaller, cheaper, and here now. See the demos where the guy "grabs" a picture with his fingers, stretches it and turns it? You've never done that before.
The arguments against the iPhone (yours and others') all seem to be from a "pragmatic" viewpoint, which kind of misses the point. No one needs an iPhone. It's purely about technophilia.
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said by ColorBASIC :Or you're stupid enough to pay that for one on eBay. Meanwhile my Treo 700W was $600 when I got it so I don't see the iPhone as overpriced for its claimed feature set. But didn't you get any rebates? |
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