Will you buy an iPhone?
After all this, do you still want an iPhone?
You've read all about the specs, features, and limitations of the iPhone. You've ogled the display, frowned at the price, wondered about the network speeds, and assessed the state of your current relationship with a phone and carrier. If you haven't, check out our iPhone page to get yourself up to speed.
Anybody want to buy an iPhone?
(Credit: Apple)Then, in the comments below, please answer a simple question: Will you buy an iPhone? Maybe you'll be the first in line at your local Apple or AT&T store. Maybe you'll at least wait to read a few reviews, or at least until the dust settles. Or perhaps you'd rather wait for iPhone 2.0 before taking the plunge. But, do you want one? Tell us why--or why not.
We'll compile the answers below and report back later this week. Also, please check out a separate post from my colleague Maggie Reardon on whether or not you'd switch carriers to buy the iPhone.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom.
Rico has been left out of the kickoff event, I'll get one a bit later.
What planet is Apple coming from?
wait for it to come to blightly. It may make G3 a reality-rather
than the badly designed phone that are out there.
Thank God the world's got one company that doesn't do crap.
They even made Intel look great.
Cheers & Beers
Dave...
Cell phones, like video cards or processors, should be considered to fit the tasks you actually need rather than the tasks you think you need. Being able to view web pages in a manner never seen before may be a good thing, so long as the functionality is good. If there are silly bugs involved with the supposed functionality, then you are spending money on a piece of hardware that isn't giving you the results you were expecting.
When I buy a video card, I make sure it can handle games well, as well as give me plenty of options on picture quality and settings. If I were to buy a video card that only gives smooth performance in games and yet lacks in picture quality and picture settings, then I am not a happy gamer. The same goes for cell phone. Make sure that what you are paying for is covering a wider spectrum than just the basics.
In other words, the iPhone may be a jack of all trades but a master of none. The only way to know would be to pick one up, test it out, and see if its price/performance ratio is acceptable.
The IPhone seems as ridiculous as a five foot wide Swiss Army knife.
YES
*expensive (even carrier after subsidy)
*locked to only one expensive carrier (total cost of ownership is ludicrous)
*locked architecture(absolutely NO 3rd party apps(goodbye skype, GPS etc)
*NO word,powerpoint,excel support (MS or Open Office)
*No Instant Messanger (No MSN, NO AIM)
(iPhone iChat is NOT an application)
*Apple imposed copyright protection schemes as always (NO file sharing)
*MP4 video instead of the unquestionable marketshare leader DivX/XVid (what little MP4 content there is transcoded DivX/XVid)
*No qwerty keyboard, touchscreen only (anyone that actually likes this doesn't know better)
*iPod scratched too easily and now we are actually touching the screen WITH OUR HANDS!!!
*Non-expandable memory at 4GB (can ANYONE afford the higher memory model?)
*Battery can't be user replaced
*No G3, WIFI only (G3 kills WIFI for mobile)
And yet it will sell like hotcakes to the ignorant masses
doesn't do business in Montana.
However, once Apple decides on a carrier for non-AT&T served
areas, I will buy one once my current cell phone contract runs
out.
Just the convenience of not having to remember to carry my cell
phone and charger; iPod, iTrip, laptop, et cetera is worth it. My
current iPod Nano is hitting end of life and doesn't have enough
storage space, so I would be buying a video iPod, anyway. The
iPhone just cuts down the clutter and number of machines that I
need to carry....
http://www.buyiphone.co.uk/
Most cell phones are now being used as MP3 players and not having A2DP profile is a big turn off for me about the iPhone. If I'm going to pay that much money for a phone, it better have all the latest features.
http://www.bluetomorrow.com/content/section/375/549
service in my area. Sadly, I'm unable to do that at this time. :-\
beautiful! But in a year this will kick ass more than now.
1) I am a Verizon customer whose contract does not expire for a few more years.
2) I am happy with the service I receive from Verizon.
3) I have an LG VX8600 and love it to pieces.
4) I have no desire to associate with the "elitist Apple techno-hip" crowd. They can take a long walk off a short pier, as far as I'm concerned.
5) Fingerprints and smudges drive me up a wall.
6) Gizmodo's hype machine is disgusting.
functional progeny. I've played with a lot of phones, "smart" and
otherwise, and after watching Apple's "guided tour" of the iPhone,
it's clear to me why Apple is as successful as they are. This is one
of those cases in which it's only after you see something done right
that you realize how wrong the others are.
I am already a Cingular customer so that is not an issue.
The touch display is cool and I like the idea of a fully functional browser; IE is painful on Windows Mobile. But such a thing on EDGE will be painful.
So for now, I'll stick with my Blackjack and wait while not being as "cool" as everyone who goes out and buys an iPhone on day one. Even with Apple's patent arsenal, there are likely to be cheaper clones coming out soon.
switch my network if necessary. I'll replace my Palm Tungsten T5
and SonyEricsson K750i with it now that I've found a solution to
run SSH on it.
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by firestarter
June 25, 2007 1:40 PM PDT
- Why would i spend soo much money for a phone that i can already get for half the price. The only people i see buying this is apple fanboys and people who have nothing to so with their money. As my mom like to say to me a married man wonders what a single man does with his money.
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by tallkell
June 26, 2007 7:43 AM PDT
- Please tell us, what iPhone-like device can you get for half the
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