Just Got an iPhone

[Goat Gosselin]

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what ever you do dont get an LG brand phone

[Omaplata]

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I've heard the clones all fall short of comparing with the iphone. I would be skeptical of trying to mimic something too closely. Plus, the iphone isn't really that much more expensive than the clones.

[lddc75]

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i have to disagree. mine is a business phone. i run a pc and the phone syncs seamlessly with outlook, email, calender, and contacts.

i tried a samsung instinct prior to the iphone, having read that it was a comparable clone. it sucked, IMO. nowhere near the quality and ease of use of the iphone. i dont want to sound like a commercial, really. this phone is just awesome and i wanted to hear other opinions.

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I know iphone recently went to a version of push email, but when your business is operating on a server, it's much more difficult. One of my associates has the iphone and previously had a blackberry. Our IT department had a lot of problems with the iphone due to our server. Additionally, I don't believe there is a better platform for push email than blackberry. I think the iphone is a very cool phone, but I personally don't find it to be as practical for a business with a large requirement for email as blackberry.

[lddc75]

we run on a server, but we dont often email documents or large attachments, so you might be right in your case. but for me it works just fine.

[sportster]

I got an iPhone 3G a couple weeks ago. It definitely has shortcomings where messaging is concerned. You can't forward a text message and you can't send/receive MMS - if someone sends you an MMS, you get a link to a website where you can go to see it, but you can't do it from the phone unless you're connected with wi-fi. That sux!
I've never had a PDA style phone before, so I really don't have a frame of reference to compare, and I don't use the phone for business. The phone has full email capabilities. I've set up my main email accounts (through bellsouth) and some other accounts through yahoo. Yahoo is a push account so any time I get an email there, it immediately sends notification to the iPhone. The calendar does everything I need in a calendar. And the apps that you can get are pretty unbelievable - everything from games to productivity stuff. A lot of nice ones are free, as well.
The plans are expensive - on top of your voice plan, you pay $30/month for unlimited data and another $20/month if you want unlimited texting.
In a nutshell, I'm very happy with it. Despite the messaging problems, I think it's still the coolest / funnest phone out there right now.

[Thomas]

I just had to re-post this here if anyone hasn't read it!



The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.
By Maddox (aka the baddest mofo in the universe)

No, I'm not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I'm not getting one because I already have a phone that's better: it's called the Nokia E70, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family:

You've probably never heard of the E70 because Nokia's marketing team is busy finding every last dick in the universe to suck, so I'm going to do their job for them and tell you about this product. And no, I'm not being paid to do this. I'm just tired of the iPhone fanboys shooting huge sticky wads and high-fiving each other (literally) over their stupid cellphones.

First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit. Nokia uses a technology that's even more advanced than the iPhone's tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you're pressing them! The technology is called "tactile response," and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called "buttons."

This keyboard will not only stomp your colon, but the colons of distant relatives of the human species such as lagomorphs, and hypothetical colons of children you haven't even had yet. Want to type a backslash? No problem. Ampersand? You bet your ass. On an iPhone, you have to press an additional button that opens up an alternate keypad that will allow you to type numbers and punctuation. So typing something as simple as elipses (...) requires you to tap your finger 9 times. Enjoy your phone, losers! People like me who have shit to do will stick to a keyboard that doesn't have its lips wrapped firmly to the user-interface equivalent of a throbbing dong:

When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead. He claimed that the phone was three devices in one: an iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device." Oooh, an Internet communications device?! AWESOME!

It's not three devices in one any more than my laptop is you morons. Using Jobs' loose definition of what constitutes a separate device, technically my laptop can be considered 8 devices in one:

# A clock
# A calculator
# An "Internet communications device"
# A phone (I can make voice calls with my modem)
# A pornographic media storage device
# A video player
# A word processor
# And an "iPod" (see below)

There's no such thing as an iPod. The word "iPod" is a marketing tool for a hard drive with software that plays mp3s. Yeah, doesn't sound so sexy now, does it you chimps? And an "internet communications device" is officially the douchebaggiest way of saying "it has a browser." So actually it's just a phone that plays mp3s and has a browser. SNORE.

The Nokia E70 not only plays mp3s, video, has a full browser and Wi-Fi, IMAP and POP3 email, and Google Maps, but you can even run terminal software to telnet or SSH into remote servers. What that means in non-geek is that my phone is invincible. I can literally do anything. I can reboot my web server if I want, and sometimes I do just because I can:

All of this power from a phone that's over a year old, and it only costs $360. Even the browser kicks ass:

There you have it: the most objective comparison of two cellphones ever made. I think I'll take the rest of the afternoon off and copy and paste text on my cellphone because I can.

[Thomas]

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If you are so broke that you dont even have a cell phone then the iPhone PROBABLY is a little bit our of your price range...i dunno, i'm just guessing

go and get one of those pre-paid things for like $30 a month

[carajas]

I wanted to get an iphone G3 but too much fucken money... I don't realy feel like paying $70+ monthly, I'm happy paying $39.99.
I don't need the internet 24/7 (well mabe I do, but I'm trying to cut back), anyways during the week I'm at the office all day, I also have my comp at home, and on weekends lucky me I have shit to do..


PS. I would get it in a heart beat if I could pay what I'm paying now... I could only wish

[Thomas]

I pay $90 a month but i have unlimited text/voice/internet (it's not an iPhone though)

One thing i really really like on my phone is the fact that i can watch TV on it. It makes waiting anywhere totally bearable, especially airports or long car rides. I usually watch CNN to catch up on the news.


ok I admit sometimes i watch MTV on it