Posted on 06/25/2007 7:00:27 PM PDT by Vermonter
We're not allowed to post any content from PC Magazine here, but Dvorak's column on the iPhone may strike a chord with some here ;-}
Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!
I’m starting to have to pick what I put on my 30GB iPod a 1GB player would just piss me off. I already have to find the talk button on my phone. I have a bluetooth headset but refuse to wear it because of all the tools I see walking around with them (not you). Like everything the iPhone has a market if you don’t fit in that market it you might not understand the draw, for some of us it is right up there with Jessica Biel on the lust list. Like the iPod the iPhone doesn’t have everything people want, but it has enough and will be easy enough to use to attract a lot of people. Apple is well known as easy to use, most cell phones aren’t. That is already evident as a key part of their pitch.
I would love to try one.
I heard there’s a betting site that has 2:1 odds that the first batch will be recalled.
One thing that occurred to me, after reading it. Q: Who would pay five hundred dollars for an iPhone? A: All the trendy people who want to stay ahead of the Joneses.
It’s more or less common practice to price new gadgets very high, and then bring the price down after a while. I think that probably makes them more desirable. You can be the first person on your block to own one. And soon people will be saying, “Wow! $400 for an iPhone! Last month it was $500!”
I saw a parody Mac Vs. PC commercial where Linux claimed someone compiled a linux kernel on a digital watch, or something like, so, like, why not?
As for the iPhone being a nice phone, there is no such thing as a nice phone. All phones are a bloody nuisance.
At work they are the worst because I have to answer them but at home I can at least ignore them if I want, which I usually do.
The Nokia N95 goes for $675 and up with careful shopping.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nokia_N95/4014-6452_7-32085029.html?tag=pop
Would someone please post the “not this **** again”
image?
Don’t listen to Consumers Report. They said Verizon had the best service across the country, but for me switching from AT&T/Cingular to Verizon was a big mistake.
My Verizon doesn't’t work worth a damn in the DFW area and out in the boonies of Texas doesn't’t work at all.
I have friends and relatives that live in small town Texas and their Sprint works a lot better than Verizon does for me out there.
Don’t sign up for a 2 year contract if you can avoid it.
Ask your friends and relatives what works for them in the area where you live, work and travel. Don’t believe the ads, only believe what people you know are telling you.
What will you be using the phone for? How much traveling in state and out of state will you be doing?
Start with a cheap phone and plan.
Display hardware is nice, but internet download speed on cell networks is NOT THERE YET. Coverage is too spotty to actually rely upon it being there - at least for me. I tried living with my email off a Treo 650 for a week and it was just tooooo painful and far too slow.
Wired into a wi-fi is acceptable.
Caller ID was probably the most important invention since the microwave oven. I answer my phone probably 40% of the time.
All this hype over the stupid iphone and all I really want is a phone with a better voicemail function. It takes to long to retrieve them. If they could put your voicemails on a list like your text messages, then let you click on them to open them, erase, fast forward, save, etc...that would be something to brag about. I don’t see why my voicemail has to be saved on someone elses computer and I have to call them and get access by entering a stupid code. PUT THE DAM MESSAGE ON MY DAM FONE! ITS MY MESSAGE FOR CRYING OUTLOUD!
An iDiot.
There is not a bigger anti-Mac person than Dvorak. So the fact that this is really irritating to him is music to my ears.
Ask the 1 million+ people who already pre-ordered it.
Too bad the 200mhz processor is molasses slow and we lack EVDO.
Paying $550.00 for something that *almost* worked versus $600.00 that is expected to work flawlessly is a no-brainer.”
I just bought my brother a TMobile,prepaid phone.
He got it ripped off and got one exactly like it at Walmart for $39.95.
He calls me from Oregon and I hear him just fine.
And I can remember when we would take the earpiece off the hook and a voice would say “Number please”. And, by the way, we were on a party line - very dull if I remember.
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