iPhone

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I'm in love. And its with a piece of electronics you can slip in your pocket. Apple, thank you for making the world a better place.

www.apple.com/iphone

What do you think?

[Joel J]

Its nice to look at. I like looking at it. I will keep on looking at it, and also my $599.00. $599.00 is nice to look at. I like looking at it. I will keep looking at it..

[Rafi Ahmed]

It's amazing!!! Everything that you could need and they way that everything works. It runs OSX on it too. browsing multiple web pages, iPod, PHONE, and the voicemail is so cool!!

[Cody Carey]

Oooohhh, Purty...

For a fully featured Video Ipod with palm-pilot functionality, $599 isn't that bad at all. When you add in all of the excellent phone capabilities, That number doesn't look so big any more.
Not that I have $599 to spend on a Phone/Ipod/Palm-pilot , I just think it is a pretty good value

Cingular is the only downpoint. I'm going to wait until a rival version is offered on a better carrier.

[Rafi Ahmed]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Cingular is the only downpoint. I'm going to wait until a rival version is offered on a better carrier.

Nothing would come close to it for a while. Plus what's wrong with Cingular. (Apple signed a multi-year contract with them)

[DCA Fan]

It's nice to look at, but I'm not planning on dishing out $600 for a phone any time soon. My worry is with the touchscreen, it will get incredibly greasy from hand oil and it seems like it'd be amazingly easy to scratch up.

[texasranger]

Originally Posted by DCA Fan

It's nice to look at, but I'm not planning on dishing out $600 for a phone any time soon. My worry is with the touchscreen, it will get incredibly greasy from hand oil and it seems like it'd be amazingly easy to scratch up.

Not true. I have an iPhone and I just wipe the screen with my shirt and it's clean. I also do keep my hands clean.

and i've been scratching the screen with my fingernails and i don't see any scratches.

To that part about dishing out the money, you're definitely not willing to dish out $2,420 on a Motorola Q or a blackberry pearl, or $2,720 on a Palm Treo.

Where am I getting all these numbers from?

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM...B41E0D305.html

the iphone is actually cheaper than other smartphones when you compare price of the phone AND service plan.

[MattD]

I was just watching the keynote, and all I can say is wow. I was recently considering purchasing a new phone and a new iPod because the phone I have is four years old, and I accidentally lost my iPod .. but I think I can wait until June now.

[Gabe]

This is just my own opinion (because everyone in this thread likes the phone so much) but I think it looks ugly. And that's from looking at the Apple product page. I wouldn't buy it just because of the way it looks. I rather spend my money on a 18V DeWalt cordless tool set.

[Protronie]

Originally Posted by Gabe

This is just my own opinion (because everyone in this thread likes the phone so much) but I think it looks ugly. And that's from looking at the Apple product page. I wouldn't buy it just because of the way it looks. I rather spend my money on a 18V DeWalt cordless tool set.

I hear ya! Spoken like a true gearhead!
Just wait till the morons start I-phoning from their cars going down the road!

My phone rings,and records messages... thats all you really need anyway!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Protronie

I hear ya! Spoken like a true gearhead!
Just wait till the morons start I-phoning from their cars going down the road!

My phone rings,and records messages... thats all you really need anyway!

I've kept my mouth shut, I've seen people troll, and say flat out lies. But for the love of god, it's iPhone, not I-phone, IPhone, or any other combination of ways. iPhone. It's not hard.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I'm not even hard on my 4th Gen iPod, I guess listening to it everyday is just too much for it to handle. One day it randomly has an incredibly difficult time reading from the hard drive, and this is about the 3rd time this has happened to me...

:sigh: I'm waiting for the Zune v.2

Whether you get the Zune or a Video iPod, the problem between the two is the same: hard drives in portable objects. Hard drives by nature are not very fond of shocks, justles, sudden movements, etc., and to use them in a portable music player ensures that the device won't last forever.

(Which was one of the biggest reasons why I originally held off purchasing an iPod until they came out with a decent-sized Flash based one.)

Originally Posted by John Gutmann

Wow. I Have put my ipod nano throught the washing machine, droped it in a pool, thrown it. droped it countless times. And yet it still works!

What is a bigger scam? The iPhone or PS3!?

And this is what makes Flash-based media players so much better. Without the moving parts of the mini hard drives in Video iPods or Zunes, they are nearly indestructable. The original iPod Nano survived extreme stunts and still worked. The iPod Shuffle can survive almost anything and still rock on.

This is why I'd consider purchasing an iPhone, but not at least until my current Verizon contract is up in a year and a half. Plus by then, the iPhones will most definitely have more features, more memory storage, hopefully a 3G data connection, and will probably be cheaper. (Anyone remember that the original first-gen iPods were $400 and $500? Now five years later, they're half that price.)

[Tureyhall]

"More RAM for comp" beats "phone i'd use maybe once a month" everytime.

[zander_108]

I was looking at that thing last night! Its just about the coolest thing i could have ever expected them to dish out! It is a little big but i think the features make up... however $599...