IPhone 3G

[tboy]

So far since Friday I have:

- Looked up a restaurant phone #, called to see if it was busy and made a restaurant reservation while we we driving there (we called a few)

Or you could have made plans before you left home.....

- Check to see when a movie was playing (3 times, we kept changing our minds as we stayed longer in the restaurant), then bought the tickets on-line

Or you could have picked up a newspaper......

- Reserverd a rental car on-line, returned it, got the receipt on-line

Could have done that with a pay phone and as for the receipt? You get that when you turn it in....

- Looked up a couple of phone numbers I didn't have

Hmm does 411 come to mind?

- Check my email (work/home) several times, booked a few meetings for next week

You did this while you were out with friends? Talk about workaholic lol

- Chatted on-line with some friends in China, talked about my next trip (which of course, I will book on-line on my IPhone)

Could have done that with a pc or how about...a PHONE????

- Went to a park with my daughter, took several pictures, emailed them to her mother

Ah beautiful 2 mp images to be cherished......*rollseyes*

- Tracked my location, and got driving directions

LOL or you could just look at street signs

- Taunted some n00b about about PDAs

I have never been able to do all that before without being on a computer or very close to a Wifi connection (with my ITouch). I feel I am much closer to Convergence and Synergy than I have ever been!

And I could care less about reading Word documents (I mean really, who the fuck reads Word documents anymore, god!).

Bottom line is: it doesn't do anything that can't be done with simply thinking ahead and planning.

What are you going to do if you can't connect? Stand in one spot mumbling bahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbah over and over because you can't DO anything without your iphone?

Sorry I do everything you do and my phone just makes and receives phone calls.....

Pretty soon a person won't have to think because their technology will do everything for them......

 

[jerbear]

Can't send pictures with text.

 

[Fred Zed]

Bottom line is: it doesn't do anything that can't be done with simply thinking ahead and planning.

What are you going to do if you can't connect? Stand in one spot mumbling bahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbahbah over and over because you can't DO anything without your iphone?

Sorry I do everything you do and my phone just makes and receives phone calls.....

Pretty soon a person won't have to think because their technology will do everything for them......

ahh..so you do use your cell phone then ? why not just dump the cell phone
since everything a cell phone can do can be achieved by simply thinking ahead and planning ? The argument you are making applies to any new or old technology.

 

[mav256]

So the iPhone has surfing capability.

How's TERB look on it?

Pretty good; I'm doing all my posts on TERB from my IPhone now. BTW, I've used 110 Meg of 3G data since Friday.

 

[mav256]

What are you going to do if you can't connect?

I don't know, ask the PDA n00b what he does. Sit around reading useless word documents and wishing I had heard of the INTERNET I guess.

Oh wait, I know what I'll do:

- plan my life in detail before I leave the house (and never let it change until I go back home)
- sit around reading newspapers like those old farts you see in Tim Horton's, gotta love having ink all over your hands, and then finding out some little shit ripped out the movie section
- run round looking for a payphone, then stand in someones piss as I call 411 20 times trying to find restaurants near me
- stand in-line for 20 minutes while I return my car, waiting behind all the other idiots who haven't heard of the internet
- never do work after I leave my company (who needs a career anyway)
- fly back to Toronto everytime I don't want to spend $5/minutes phoning China (I guess I could stand in payphone piss again)
- carry a digital (or wait, much better - film!) camera around so I never miss a picture
- look at street signs (especially handy when you don't know how to get to the street you're looking for, but heh, I guess I could carry a map around with me, or use those lovely piss filled payphones some more)

I guess life was perfect before the computer and phone! Mobility sucks!

 

[tboy]

ahh..so you do use your cell phone then ? why not just dump the cell phone
since everything a cell phone can do can be achieved by simply thinking ahead and planning ? The argument you are making applies to any new or old technology.

Actually, even considering I am self employed and often onsite, I bet I don't use 30 minutes a month on the cell. In fact, I've had people call me on it and when I see who it is, I don't answer because I know they'll just call and leave a message on my home phone too.

As for new technology: my comments are more directed at technology being used to replace the thought process. Why think when you have a piece of technology to do it for you?

Foir eg: you're going somewhere you've never been before. You can look it up online, or via the old paper map. You memorize the directions so you don't have to fumble with any paper or phone while you're driving. This exercises the noodle and without exercise, it will stagnate.

As with high cellphone use. I find that too isn't a good thing. If you're on your way to a party or whatever and you're asked to pick up something that was forgotten, great. But if you're rapping away to someone you're going to see in 10 minutes, wtf?

This goes back to a saying I have: just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should......

 

[tboy]

I don't know, ask the PDA n00b what he does. Sit around reading useless word documents and wishing I had heard of the INTERNET I guess.

Oh wait, I know what I'll do:

- plan my life in detail before I leave the house (and never let it change until I go back home)
- sit around reading newspapers like those old farts you see in Tim Horton's, gotta love having ink all over your hands, and then finding out some little shit ripped out the movie section
- run round looking for a payphone, then stand in someones piss as I call 411 20 times trying to find restaurants near me
- stand in-line for 20 minutes while I return my car, waiting behind all the other idiots who haven't heard of the internet
- never do work after I leave my company (who needs a career anyway)
- fly back to Toronto everytime I don't want to spend $5/minutes phoning China (I guess I could stand in payphone piss again) or you can buy a calling card and actually speak to them live
- carry a digital (or wait, much better - film!) camera around so I never miss a picture

The point wasn't missing a picture, it was more about the quality of said picture.

- look at street signs (especially handy when you don't know how to get to the street you're looking for, but heh, I guess I could carry a map around with me, or use those lovely piss filled payphones some more)

Pay phones have maps in them? Wow where are YOU calling from?

I guess life was perfect before the computer and phone! Mobility sucks!

Everything you said that you need your iphone for can be done with existing technology just as easily. So the absolute need to do everything you described with the iphone as justification for needing one is negligable.

The thing is: no matter WHAT the item is, whenever you try to get one item that does everything, it doesn't do everything well. For eg: editing word documents.

But hey, if you need to have the latest and greatest toy on the market everytime, more power to you. People like you keep companies like Apple floating on cash.......ah isn't marketing grand????

 

[mav256]

Everything you said that you need your iphone for can be done with existing technology just as easily. So the absolute need to do everything you described with the iphone as justification for needing one is negligable.

The thing is: no matter WHAT the item is, whenever you try to get one item that does everything, it doesn't do everything well. For eg: editing word documents.

But hey, if you need to have the latest and greatest toy on the market everytime, more power to you. People like you keep companies like Apple floating on cash.......ah isn't marketing grand????

No one needs an IPhone, everyone is free to stand in urine soaked pay phone stalls. I just choose to take advantage of technology. The fact is no other mobile technology I have tried comes close to the IPhone.

If you disagree with the advantage to being connected everywhere you go, that's your choice, but you might want to consider that 1,000,000 people in the last 3 days alone, disagree with you. Do you really think that's just due to marketting?

 

[crystalpalace]

No one needs an IPhone, everyone is free to stand in urine soaked pay phone stalls. I just choose to take advantage of technology. The fact is no other mobile technology I have tried comes close to the IPhone.

If you disagree with the advantage to being connected everywhere you go, that's your choice, but you might want to consider that 1,000,000 people in the last 3 days alone, disagree with you. Do you really think that's just due to marketting?

I agree,
Coming from the BlackBerry crowd I must say the iPhone gives the berry a nice kick in the butt in many major design aspects and lacks only in some software issues, which by the way are easy to fix with updates, such as Copy/Paste ability. An absolute marvel in terms of engineering that IMO propeled the cellular device technology in to the future.

The fact that this is just the 2nd time Apple has produced a phone ever should tell you about the brilliant engineering minds who work there! Apple single handily has defeated the entire line up of windows mobile phones and the huge companies behind them with probably ten times the R&D resources (think of the behemoth Microsoft, Samsung etc.) because of its simple no-none-sense GUI and simple clean approach to design.

I don't care what anyone says, for me the iPhone has finally brought my many separate devices all together in one simple, easy to use and brilliantly designed package. And this is my first ever Apple product, although technically I've bought iPods as gifts I had never used one.

 

[Cobster]

Wait 'til the 32Gig comes out at half the price of the 16Gig, before you can enjoy the 8Gig fully. It's Moore's Law and the masses have been suckered again by Steve Jobs.

Gyaos Baltar.

I completely agree with that.
I would love to have an iTouch - fur surfing purpose, but the amount (or lack of I should say) space is ridiculous.
I don't NEED it just yet, so I don't mind waiting another year or two for the price to come down and the size of the space to go up.

There are those willing to pay top dollar for the hottest newest thing on the market and then there those who can wait.

I prefer to wait.

 

[Cobster]

Wait for the Blackberry Bold or the Blackberry Thunder.

CP

It was announced a few days ago the Thunder got scrapped because of some major issues.
Bold it is, that's something I'm willing to actually get and give up my POS 2 year old phone. I've been patient long enough and could have got some flashy new phone a year ago, but didn't feel the need or want to.
Sometimes waiting pays off, come on Bold.

 

[Cobster]

I'll get one this summer sometime.... I have a Windows Mobile now and Windows just sucks. I've had crackberries several times over the years, they're great for email but the calendar/address book sucks. Palm is just so 90s.... I guess for me it's iPod's turn to disappoint.

Iv'e had a touch since Xmas, it's a fantastic ipod so we'll see.

OTB

Yikes!
You bought an iTouch and you're going for the iPhone?
You don't feel like you wasted cash on buying something that essentially is the same thing, minus the phone and gps device (which chances are, you won't be using the latter much)?

Jobs thanks you for your donations.