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[beefstew]

If you are thinking about getting the new iPhone like I am, here are a few things you should think about. The list

The features on this thing are incredible, but I'm not so sure about a 2-year minimum contract, let alone the thing may cost well over $500. It seriously does just about everything. The keynotes are amazing.

Thoughts??

[mancopter]

As a general rule, I say no to first generation hardware. Overpriced and not market tested/proven. Remember the battery life controversy from the iPods several years ago?

But yes, that phone does look pretty sweet.

If they catch on, I may get one, but that's a ways down the road.

[beefstew]

As a general rule, I say no to first generation hardware. Overpriced and not market tested/proven. Remember the battery life controversy from the iPods several years ago?

But yes, that phone does look pretty sweet.

If they catch on, I may get one, but that's a ways down the road.

Yeah, I've been having a discussion with a coworker about it already. I will probably end up waiting like I usually do and then not getting it. I still don't have an iPod although I have wanted one since they came out. Not about money, just timing and price. Now there are so many of them, I can pick one that fits me just right.

That is a good rule though.

[thecreeper]

$499 for a 4GB one, $599 for an 8GB one, and that's after you agree to take cingular's service for 2 years(depending where you are, it's either good or dreadful). Add that on to a likely $80 or more a month fee to use the damn thing, plus restrictive iTunes (good for some, not for me), lack of a full qwerty keyboard, questionable battery life and durability...i think i will pass.

i want my phone to do one thing well - be a phone. if it can do other stuff, ok, but i dont need it to be an mp3 player/pda/whatever.

[Tender Lad]

I'd agree with Mancopter about the first generation thing, I picked up an 8gig nano for the same price as the 1gig used to be, wait a year or so and the price will be cut in half for something that will have all the bugs worked out.

[mothrock]

THIS is what I think about apple products in general

[mancopter]

THIS is what I think about apple products in general

Holy shit that site is great!

Now I have stuff to watch this afternoon.

Thanks, moth.

[mothrock]

unfortunately it wasn't my discovery.

You can thank mercatfat. I just saw the ipod thing which blew my mind.

[mancopter]

unfortunately it wasn't my discovery.

You can thank mercatfat. I just saw the ipod thing which blew my mind.

Not to get too far off topic, but....

[eraser]

i want my phone to do one thing well - be a phone. if it can do other stuff, ok, but i dont need it to be an mp3 player/pda/whatever.

Yeah, I'm usually in that camp, too.

The thing, though, is that a lot of cell phones seem to not even do being a cell phone very well, and it sounds like Jobs/Apple are gonna try to tackle that as much as try to cram in being an ipod, pda, mobile computer, whatever. Having read that Time article about how the iPhone came into develop, and knowing that Apple learned from its failures like the Newton, all of the other stuff, beyond being a cell phone, sounds pretty sweet.

Also, I think we're pretty much going to be in the midst of the Swiss Army cellphone days, if only because any companies lagging behind are going to try to catch up to the iPhone.

The price, along with the Cingular exclusivity, is pretty daunting. Within the first couple of years, though, it looks like there are plans to have other (possibly cheaper) models in place, in addition to one that was shown. Also, as much as Jobs likes Cingular, I think after the first year or two, Apple will find a way, or there will be reason to, to have unlocked versions of the phone that can be used outside of Cingular.

It's all moot as the real cool people with go so hardcore retro as to return to using homing pigeons to send messages, and listening to records played by its beak when it's not flapping around.

[mothrock]

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[quote name='thecreeper' post='451261' date='Jan 12 2007, 09:15 AM']i want my phone to do one thing well

It's all moot as the real cool people with go so hardcore retro as to return to using homing pigeons to send messages, and listening to records played by its beak when it's not flapping around.
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aka HFE

[chadk]

i just bought a playstation 2

yay

[mothrock]

Good deal Chad.

now you can get guitar hero. you won't be sorry.

[chadk]

your already my guitar hero, hero

[mothrock]

THIS is what I think about apple products in general

Holy shit that site is great!

Now I have stuff to watch this afternoon.

Thanks, moth.

I recommend watching the monitors.