Apple iPhone 4 Ping!
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Posted on 06/29/2010 1:10:19 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, and Apple's new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video.
"This is the most successful product launch in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, in the press release. "Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply."
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Mine is supposed to arrive tomorrow.
Got mine on day one. It is the best phone I’ve ever had. The retina display is so incredible.
Yep, the Anti-Apple Trolls™ are disgusting. They make using FR worse.
Got mine on day one, myself. Having used just a regular old flip-up cellphone for the past for the better part of two decades — camera-less, no less — the iPhone4 has overwhelmed me. It definitely fills in my downtime at work.
And it’s true: It’s more a computer than a cell phone, but it’s definitely both, and what’s wrong with that?
So far, I’m enjoying it. However, perhaps someone could recommend a book that I could read to teach me how to use the damned thing. I’m sure after a few days, I’ve merely scratched the surface. (Not literally, since I purchased the requisite cases and protective screens for the phone.)
iPhone iOS4 User Guide is here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPhone_iOS4_User_Guide.pdf
And other iPhone guides are here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphone/
They’ll probably be giving these away with new checking accounts within a few years...
>”They’ll probably be giving these away with new checking accounts within a few years...”
LMAO. Yup
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And that is the reason why "cell phones" are dead, as are "phone networks". Both the iPhone and Android devices are essentially mobile computers that have the capability to talk to a particular legacy network (the voice telephone system). This has been true since the iPhone 3G's introduction of the app Store in 2008.
The iPhone 4 represents something of an inflection point. It's a great piece of technology combined with masterful design and marketing. Apple has both pioneered and become the master of the technology fashion market, which is why it's product launches have become such media circuses.
Apple product launches have almost always been media circuses. Rather than showing new products at CES or some other convention, one among thousands, Apple likes to show new products at dedicated Apple events.
The secrecy helps, too. Most of the industry announces new products far before their launch, giving out specs, photos and demos, so there's no excitement when they are finally released. Apple tries to keep it secret until the last minute, letting speculation and tension build.
Love the hell out of mine!
Can’t wait till Otterbox or some other case manufacturers get going! I’ve been babying it
My nephew sent me a photo of the Seven Gables BB in Monterey Friday afternoon that was stunning in detail. The caption said “taken with my new iPhone 4G”. My daughter has one on order...
1.7 million and I haven’t even bought mine yet. Waiting for the white. Maybe labor day. I can manage my 3rd gen a while longer.
AT&T put them on sale today... and I got my iPhone 4 this morning. My daughter will get my 3Gs with the EnCase battery pack, my wife gets my daughter's current 16G First generation (she doesn't want a too complicated phone), and I will give my wife's current 8G first generation to a friend as a gift to get her started with iPhones... joy for everybody.
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