June 29th Official iPhone Launch Date
There is just no way
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I bet Lockline wont insure them either.
Plus, its not JUST A PHONE. this is the way you look at it:
The best cellphone on the market-EXCLUSIVE visual voicemail anyone? $200
better than the best selling ipod (nano, which is smaller screen, no video, no coverflow, etc.) $200 (BTW, when the 6th gen ipod comes out expect to pay $300+)
2MP camera, full blown internet browser & built in wifi & A2DP bluetooth (NO LAME WAP pages here), POP-3 & IMAP 4 email with rich text and inline photos, and a killer portable photo album? SMS that tracks like a chat AND the best keyboard you can find on a phone-- a very underrated feature--it might be a tight fit, but it if you hit the wrong key, it correct...
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minus 200
and you kinda proved other points with the nano thing....people dont buy the most expensive ipod...they buy a cheaper one which means people arent going to buy this phone because it will be too much for them
That's just drop in the bucket for how many they'll get worldwide.
Visual voicemail...you're kidding right? you mean i can hit a play button instead of the 1 key (yipee!!) Everyone hates getting voicemail anyway
It's got a music player in it (wow, theres a first)
a 2 mp camera is nice, but for 6bills they could have upped it. oh wait, its on edge, so it'd take half an hour to upload a picture anyway
stereo bluetooth is in a lot of phones, so is full internet, so is pop3 and imap
and you've never used the keyboard, but i won't knock it as neither have i.
so its got all this stuff, but it doesn't have 3g, removable memory, or a removable battery
the ironic t...
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otsego said:...
The best cellphone on the market-EXCLUSIVE visual voicemail anyone? $200
Not exactly sure what "visual voicemail" is, but if there was a comparable model (iPhone or other manufacturer) without visual voicemail, and it was $200 less, I'm sure I could live without it and pocket the extra $200.
2MP camera, full blown internet browser & built in wifi & A2DP bluetooth (NO LAME WAP pages here), POP-3 & IMAP 4 email with rich text and inline photos, and a killer portable photo album? SMS that tracks like a chat AND the best keyboard you can find on a phone-- a very underrated feature--it might be a tight fit, but it if you hit the wrong key, it corrects it for you. i think that device alone is worth a
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My gripe with smartphones (im thinking full blown windows mobile--yuck, or symbian.. none of this crapped down Q, blackjack bs) is that they are HUGE and FUGLY. the keyboards are so lame (AND Take up HALF THE PHONE!), the media players suck(and in NO way can touch the iPhone's iPod), and NOTHING is as intuitive as the iPhone. Now granted i havent used one, but from the dem...
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Btw, there is no insurance coverage for the N75 either. Not that I'd have purchased it if there was. What a waste of money that is IMO. However, that's another story for another thread.
Mostly, I want to touch, feel, use, play w/ the iphone OS before I commit to buying it. Also want to see a few dozen reviews here on Phone Scoop b/c that will often drive which phone I consider buying.
I think this phone will do extremely well - at least in the larger...
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an ipod, WITH a 3.5 inch display, and a video ipod!!!
a 2mp camera
a FULL operating system, and not some "mobile version" like what you get with Windows Mobile instead of the FULL version of Windows.
Apple didn't strip down they're operating system, this is the same OS you get on a desktop PC.
Is that what you really believe??? I've seen the geeks at apple even confirm that it ISN'T OS X, just a mobile java based mobile-OS that has the look and feel of OS X. Just wait till you pay that outrageous price and try to install OS X apps and it doesn’t work. You have to be kidding my to think that Apple would create a device with FULL OS X on it and not price it at over 3 grand with the size that it is.
Apple contemplated making a UNIX based OS but found that they had to either make it open-source or pay royalties to UNIX, and we all know that Apple can be a tight was about money... If you knew anything about the darwin backbone of OS...
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Buy you do have a good point about how much processing power would be required to power the full OS.
Yeah right...
the only people that are going to buy this phone are rich kids just to show them off.
Apple could just turn ipod into a phone and charge $1000 with 2yr activation and the same people would buy it.
ps: I never would say "but like" however that seems to be the kid lingo where I work.
But just like the iPod, which doesn't come standard with features that most of its competitors have (e.g., FM tuner), it's about how. If you look at the ads released yesterday, it works very differently (arguably for better or worse) from just about all the phones on the market. And beauty is on the eye of beholder, but many will agree that it is one of the most beautiful phones out there (especially in person).
Again, you are not paying $499-599 strictly for features (except for missing UMTS/HSDPA, it isn't too shabby in features department), but design and software within.
but how many people are going to do that on an iphone...
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if you do graphic design, great. but is anybody going to accually EDIT anything on the iphone... no.
everything the iphone does a treo, wm5, and blackberries do just as well or better.
At the end of the day you may drop 600 on an iphone, Its your money. However, it may take you 3 months, maybe a year to realise you spent over half a grand on a phone with an mp3 player even with a 2yr agreement.
You will be frustrated when you try to dial a number in the car and have trouble because you cant feel the buttons. when your friends Treo does everything yours iphone does and can s...
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None of us really know how well the iPhone is going to do anything because none of us has actually used one. I personally have no plan whatsoever on getting it. I have an unlocked N95 that I am more than happy with. However, I can see the appeal of Apple's product and might even have considered one were it available the same way.
You may be right, it may sell like hotcakes, but still... I will believe it when I see it.
I am not saying its impossible, just unlikely in my estimation.
The two groups most likely to be interested in this (and have the requisite disposable income) are technogeeks and fashionistas. The geeks will probably be reluctant to plop down that much money for a locked phone that requires a contract. The fashion people may not care that much but I wonder how long they can live off that "cool" factor. The average person uses less than 10% of their phones's capabilities. Four or five months after the launch, how many people will regret plopping down half a grand for a touchscreen and a new way to check their vo...
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But you left out die hard apple fans. which I admit their are quit a few
It's market impact should be known by the end of this year.
Hopefully Apple will get they're act together and release a 3G HSDPA 3.6mbps iPhone!!!!!!!!!
In the not too distant future!!!!!!
And yes, I think Cingulars 3G network is plenty, plenty deployed throughout the nation for there to be market support for a 3G iPhone!!!
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Actually all of the others need a lot of credit too because they don’t really say anything about 2G or 3G technology so they trick the consumer in saying this is the fad now but you would need to purchase something in the future. They obviously do this on purpose. Is it a bad thing? Not for shareholders. It is somewhat annoying though for us on Phone Scoops and the like and some consumers who want that best thing.
They have to wait sometime. I also do not like that whole exclusivity thing. I am a shareholder too of Ap...
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Here are a few ex.
real estate agents use their treo's to open the key box at many houses using the infared port. they simply run the program point it at the box and then it opens.
Many Trucking disbatchers/managers have a program on treo's or wm5 that will track all the trucks and let them know which trucks are closest to what jobs, and plan routes on the fly.
And finally Blackberry just do email better than anything else. PERIOD. So any company that relies heavily will never switch until the iphone does it better for LESS!
How well will this sync up to outlook? And it would have to do all this BETTER in ord...
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Time for American customers to catch up to the high end.
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