[Swordmaker]

Walt Mossberg's Wall Street Journal review of the new iPhone 3G—PING!

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[politicket]

I've been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks, and have found that it mostly keeps its promises. In particular, I found that doing email and surfing the Internet typically was between three and five times as fast using AT&T's 3G network as it was with the older AT&T network to which the first iPhone was limited.

Now isn't that interesting....it wasn't so long ago that I made that exact claim about the limitations of the old iPhone and was met by posts that I didn't know what I was talking about.

The iPhone (when taken in context of the total package pricing) is actually more expensive than the old iPhone. Jobites sure don't know how to do basic business math.

Last point - when will the Jobites finally get tired of not being able to replace their own batteries?

[SunkenCiv]

I've been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks, and have found that it mostly keeps its promises. In particular, I found that doing email and surfing the Internet typically was between three and five times as fast using AT&T's 3G network as it was with the older AT&T network to which the first iPhone was limited... The iPhone 3G is hardly the first phone to run on 3G networks, and it still costs more than some of its competitors. But overall, I found it to be a more capable version of an already excellent device. And now that it's open to third-party programs, the iPhone has a chance to become a true computing platform with wide versatility.

...but because it doesn't split the atom and cure cancer, it's a huge waste of money. ;')

[cowboyway]

What’s wrong with .mac? It’s been under maintenance for 2 days.

I tried it this morning and the new MobileMe start page came up and I saw one email and then, bam, back to under maintenance.

[Age of Reason]

It seems there’s no end to people who—lacking something truly worthwhile to do with their time—spend their money and time complicating their lives with this junk.

[KosmicKitty]

So #3 was in line at 7 am this morning to get his. No more 8GB so he got a 16GB - last one in black the store had.

Will have to check it out when he gets home tonight. I owe my husband one for Father’s day, but I don’t do lines since waiting for CSN (No Y) tickets in ‘78

[Sir_Ed]

I can’t get an iPhone in my area...rural southern Oregon.

There’s no ATT network that covers it.

It sucks, because I’d love to get one...

Ed