Since it's an Apple, my money is on JC buying one before most...
Has anyone? :+clueless
And if is, is it worth the 600 bucks?
Has anyone? :+clueless
And if is, is it worth the 600 bucks?
OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
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idiotspayforpick
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Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
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someone gives me 600 I will throw my cell in the fuckin lake right now....man what did we all do before cell phones. They are so fuckin annoying.
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
someone gives me 600 I will throw my cell in the fuckin lake right now....man what did we all do before cell phones. They are so fuckin annoying.
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
Just what I need, a $600 leash.
I want to be lost, not found.
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
Just what I need, a $600 leash.
I want to be lost, not found.
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
Re: OK Fess up, anyone here buy an iphone yet?
I always thought that you were...:LMAO
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I always thought that you were...:LMAO
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If I was with AT&T, I would. I with T-Mobile though. It doesn't make since to go through all the hassle just to go to At&T and spend all the money. Maybe next year it will be on T-Mobile just like the RAZR went every where
If I was with AT&T, I would. I with T-Mobile though. It doesn't make since to go through all the hassle just to go to At&T and spend all the money. Maybe next year it will be on T-Mobile just like the RAZR went every where
Re: OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
I can't work half the shit on a regular cell phone.
I can't work half the shit on a regular cell phone.
JohnnyDeMarco
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My friend who works at a big at&T store in atlanta said betwen 6 & 11 p.m last night they sold 932 of them. many of them were not activated and will be sold on EBAY.
My friend who works at a big at&T store in atlanta said betwen 6 & 11 p.m last night they sold 932 of them. many of them were not activated and will be sold on EBAY.
Hache Man
"Seven Days Without Gambling Makes One Weak"
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Was thinking that as well MrSensation..
Was thinking that as well MrSensation..
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
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i sell broken phones on eBay and CAN'T WAIT until the end of the year because i sense by then i will have one to list on eBay and sell for a nice chunk of change
I KNOW it is only a matter of time before some dumbshit ruins his and wants to get rid of it - and i can sell it and make a fair chunk of change
i sell broken phones on eBay and CAN'T WAIT until the end of the year because i sense by then i will have one to list on eBay and sell for a nice chunk of change
I KNOW it is only a matter of time before some dumbshit ruins his and wants to get rid of it - and i can sell it and make a fair chunk of change
The General
Another Day, Another Dollar
Re: OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
To Be honest, I am still trying to learn how to use a cell phone and all the gadgets with it.
To Be honest, I am still trying to learn how to use a cell phone and all the gadgets with it.
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
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and since you live in the Midwest - probably electricity and a toothbrush, too
and since you live in the Midwest - probably electricity and a toothbrush, too
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AT&T isn't worth the sweat on my nutsack, wouldn't consider being a customer again.
AT&T isn't worth the sweat on my nutsack, wouldn't consider being a customer again.
sabian06
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The General
Another Day, Another Dollar
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woomera
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Just read this thread and realised I read this online!
Will iPhone discombobulate the mobile market?
Sholto Macpherson, ZDNet Australia
29 June 2007 06:09 PM
<!-- story body begins --> <!-- sphereit start --> Commentary The launch of the iPhone is more highly anticipated than the Second Coming -- hopefully it will bring redemption from the ongoing scourge of terrible mobile phones.
Consumers unable to afford the latest smartphones have had to wade through the overpriced mid-range market: a short drop in price but a big compromise in quality.
In the mid-range, the mobile phone industry has followed a business formula that turns out high profits but terrible phones -- and generates enormous environmental waste in the process. For example, when Nokia bought out the N Series some users found that their old chargers were no longer compatible and had to be thrown away.
Watch how fast manufacturers upsize internal memory now the 8GB iPhone has hit the market.
Mid-range mobile phones have been the worst deals in IT technology for a long time. It?s not for lack of money -- millions of dollars are poured into R&D by the big players. But basic improvements have gone begging.
Take memory for example. USB drives -- small sticks of flash memory -- have been with us since 2000. Boosting the base memory to 256MB or more would mean being able to store hundreds of texts, long caller lists and thousands of contacts.
Add a USB connector and your mobile phone is an all-in-one portable drive for carting around files of any type. The potential was obvious.
But nothing happened. Motorola?s RIZR Z3, released late last year, came with 20MB internal memory. That was more than 10MB less than the breakthrough 2005 model RAZR, of which only 7MB was available to the user.
Instead we got SD cards. Who wanted tiny, expensive cards that are easy to lose? Not the consumer. The real reason lies in the development of a highly profitable accessories market.
Mobile phone manufacturers might make a couple of percent profit on the handset, but they can make 30-40 percent on the sale of SD cards, card readers and cables, according to Robin Simpson, research director, mobile and wireless, Gartner Australia.
None have tinkered with this model, until now. Watch how fast manufacturers upsize internal memory now the 8GB iPhone has hit the market.
Boosting accessories is also the reason behind phone charger incompatibility between vendors and even between models. The iPhone is not the first to charge by USB, but this should have been standardised long ago. Nokia's N Series, all of Motorola's RIZRs and RAZRs and the Australian releases of the Dopod are just a few of the mid-range/high-end devices that can charge via USB.
Mobile phone manufacturers also generate enormous waste and cost by regularly refreshing the connector design for peripherals and dragging their heels on sensible standards. How long did it take to get the 3.5mm audio jack?
The other glaringly under-funded area of mobile phone design is software; operating systems remain far from perfect.
Freezes, long pauses during menu selection, resets -- this stuff just shouldn't happen in a device critical to business and social life. And endless menu trees. "For some very strange reason very little effort has gone into the user interface," says Simpson.
What a difference the iPhone will make
The iPhone is priced in smartphone territory but the 4GB iPhone will drop in price as higher capacity flash modules come onto market. This will put massive pressure on mid-market phone makers to come up with a comparable product.
Just as all iPods right down to the AU$99 Shuffle enjoy the benefits of iTunes and OS Xs syncing and quality user interface, consumers buying the cheapest iPhones will expect the same quality OS on their handset, rock-solid syncing and innovative design.
But best of all, the iPhone brings the possibility of a new business model that encourages innovation, listens to consumers and prizes ease of use.
Cell phone manufacturers have been stuck in a single mindset, said Simpson. "It takes a disruptive technology with a different business model to [bring] change."
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Just read this thread and realised I read this online!
Will iPhone discombobulate the mobile market?
Sholto Macpherson, ZDNet Australia
29 June 2007 06:09 PM
<!-- story body begins --> <!-- sphereit start --> Commentary The launch of the iPhone is more highly anticipated than the Second Coming -- hopefully it will bring redemption from the ongoing scourge of terrible mobile phones.
Consumers unable to afford the latest smartphones have had to wade through the overpriced mid-range market: a short drop in price but a big compromise in quality.
In the mid-range, the mobile phone industry has followed a business formula that turns out high profits but terrible phones -- and generates enormous environmental waste in the process. For example, when Nokia bought out the N Series some users found that their old chargers were no longer compatible and had to be thrown away.
Watch how fast manufacturers upsize internal memory now the 8GB iPhone has hit the market.
Take memory for example. USB drives -- small sticks of flash memory -- have been with us since 2000. Boosting the base memory to 256MB or more would mean being able to store hundreds of texts, long caller lists and thousands of contacts.
Add a USB connector and your mobile phone is an all-in-one portable drive for carting around files of any type. The potential was obvious.
But nothing happened. Motorola?s RIZR Z3, released late last year, came with 20MB internal memory. That was more than 10MB less than the breakthrough 2005 model RAZR, of which only 7MB was available to the user.
Instead we got SD cards. Who wanted tiny, expensive cards that are easy to lose? Not the consumer. The real reason lies in the development of a highly profitable accessories market.
Mobile phone manufacturers might make a couple of percent profit on the handset, but they can make 30-40 percent on the sale of SD cards, card readers and cables, according to Robin Simpson, research director, mobile and wireless, Gartner Australia.
None have tinkered with this model, until now. Watch how fast manufacturers upsize internal memory now the 8GB iPhone has hit the market.
Boosting accessories is also the reason behind phone charger incompatibility between vendors and even between models. The iPhone is not the first to charge by USB, but this should have been standardised long ago. Nokia's N Series, all of Motorola's RIZRs and RAZRs and the Australian releases of the Dopod are just a few of the mid-range/high-end devices that can charge via USB.
Mobile phone manufacturers also generate enormous waste and cost by regularly refreshing the connector design for peripherals and dragging their heels on sensible standards. How long did it take to get the 3.5mm audio jack?
The other glaringly under-funded area of mobile phone design is software; operating systems remain far from perfect.
Freezes, long pauses during menu selection, resets -- this stuff just shouldn't happen in a device critical to business and social life. And endless menu trees. "For some very strange reason very little effort has gone into the user interface," says Simpson.
What a difference the iPhone will make
The iPhone is priced in smartphone territory but the 4GB iPhone will drop in price as higher capacity flash modules come onto market. This will put massive pressure on mid-market phone makers to come up with a comparable product.
Just as all iPods right down to the AU$99 Shuffle enjoy the benefits of iTunes and OS Xs syncing and quality user interface, consumers buying the cheapest iPhones will expect the same quality OS on their handset, rock-solid syncing and innovative design.
But best of all, the iPhone brings the possibility of a new business model that encourages innovation, listens to consumers and prizes ease of use.
Cell phone manufacturers have been stuck in a single mindset, said Simpson. "It takes a disruptive technology with a different business model to [bring] change."
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woomera
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Re: OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
UPDATE!
Gullible iPhone 'winners' quickly become zombies
Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia
02 July 2007 05:05 PM
<!-- story body begins --> <!-- sphereit start --> As Apple's new gadget sells out across the US, spammers are exploiting the situation by sending e-mails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won a brand new iPhone of their own.
Web filtering specialist Secure Computing is warning users not to fall for the socially engineered e-mails that contain a link which, if clicked on, will attempt to connect to a Web site and install malicious software designed to take control of the victims' computer.
Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism for Secure Computing, believes that although this is the first iPhone related "phish", it certainly will not be the last: "Because of the popularity of the iPhone brand this is the first in what's bound to be a series of scams involving the iPhone".
The criminals behind this scam are using sophisticated techniques to thwart security firms. For example, the Web site is loaded with more than 10 different pieces of malicious code, each targeting a potential browser vulnerability. In addition, users that attempt to visit the site more than once are redirected to another, "safe" Web site.
"This threat is particularly insidious in that scripts within the HTML code returned to the user contain exploit code for multiple vulnerabilities to improve the malicious hacker's chances of gaining the necessary access to install the rootkit /spam bot malware," said Henry.
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UPDATE!
Gullible iPhone 'winners' quickly become zombies
Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia
02 July 2007 05:05 PM
<!-- story body begins --> <!-- sphereit start --> As Apple's new gadget sells out across the US, spammers are exploiting the situation by sending e-mails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won a brand new iPhone of their own.
Web filtering specialist Secure Computing is warning users not to fall for the socially engineered e-mails that contain a link which, if clicked on, will attempt to connect to a Web site and install malicious software designed to take control of the victims' computer.
Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism for Secure Computing, believes that although this is the first iPhone related "phish", it certainly will not be the last: "Because of the popularity of the iPhone brand this is the first in what's bound to be a series of scams involving the iPhone".
The criminals behind this scam are using sophisticated techniques to thwart security firms. For example, the Web site is loaded with more than 10 different pieces of malicious code, each targeting a potential browser vulnerability. In addition, users that attempt to visit the site more than once are redirected to another, "safe" Web site.
"This threat is particularly insidious in that scripts within the HTML code returned to the user contain exploit code for multiple vulnerabilities to improve the malicious hacker's chances of gaining the necessary access to install the rootkit /spam bot malware," said Henry.
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The co-CEO of Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the popular line of BlackBerry email devices, said in an interview at RIM's Waterloo headquarters that he's not losing sleep over Apple's efforts to upend the wireless market in much the same way as its wildly popular iPod music devices changed the way people acquire and listen to music.
In fact, Balsillie said he couldn't even confirm whether anyone at RIM's sprawling campus has managed to get their hands on an iPhone, which went on sale in the United States a week ago amid a torrent of media coverage.
"I haven't seen one," he volunteered with a shrug of his shoulders and a bored expression.
"It's possible, I guess. I mean, you watch these things, but you really have to just focus and do your job."
While such an indifferent attitude may seem foolhardy given estimates that Apple may have sold as many as half a million iPhones in its first weekend, Balsillie nevertheless has good reason to project confidence about RIM's ability to survive the latest so-called "BlackBerry killer."
The co-CEO of Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the popular line of BlackBerry email devices, said in an interview at RIM's Waterloo headquarters that he's not losing sleep over Apple's efforts to upend the wireless market in much the same way as its wildly popular iPod music devices changed the way people acquire and listen to music.
In fact, Balsillie said he couldn't even confirm whether anyone at RIM's sprawling campus has managed to get their hands on an iPhone, which went on sale in the United States a week ago amid a torrent of media coverage.
"I haven't seen one," he volunteered with a shrug of his shoulders and a bored expression.
"It's possible, I guess. I mean, you watch these things, but you really have to just focus and do your job."
While such an indifferent attitude may seem foolhardy given estimates that Apple may have sold as many as half a million iPhones in its first weekend, Balsillie nevertheless has good reason to project confidence about RIM's ability to survive the latest so-called "BlackBerry killer."
Re: OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
it makes accessing my cd collection (1000 + ) so much easier.
the actual telephony is going to be up to you guys.
I'm a huge fan of apple 's itunes.
it makes accessing my cd collection (1000 + ) so much easier.
the actual telephony is going to be up to you guys.
NoNewbieca
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Stick with the tried and true RIM Blackberry...it kicks ass.
Stick with the tried and true RIM Blackberry...it kicks ass.
Re: OK Fess up, has anyone here bought an iphone yet?
grrrr
tip for you lot who have no intention of getting an i phone.
DO NOT update to i-tunes 7.3
it has a couple nasty little processes called applemobliedeviceservice.exe and applemobiledevicehelper.exe
both of which are reasonably resource heavy and if your a gamer will shag your ping.
fine you say i'll just disable them in the task manager.
cool so do i , they just re boot themselves after 2 minutes or so.
i'm rolling my itunes back to version 7
grrrr
tip for you lot who have no intention of getting an i phone.
DO NOT update to i-tunes 7.3
it has a couple nasty little processes called applemobliedeviceservice.exe and applemobiledevicehelper.exe
both of which are reasonably resource heavy and if your a gamer will shag your ping.
fine you say i'll just disable them in the task manager.
cool so do i , they just re boot themselves after 2 minutes or so.
i'm rolling my itunes back to version 7