Comments on: The iPhone Effect

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:30:49 +0000

Complete with starting timer, hand-keying URL, waiting for site load, scrolling through loads of misinformed statements (snrkkz), entering ID and the post text itself, then hitting send and "Home" button (the entire process so edgy and rad), flipping from landscape to vertical, and checkin' the timer: 7 min 52.3 sec

Can't wait till next week when I'm USED to it!!! :-D

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:21:20 +0000

…I should say that I posted that last comment from my old workhorse desktop PC in my home office @ 2:15am. This one, however, is straight from the iPhone, and I’ll give a timerstamp when I’ve finished: let’s keep the 30-hour oldness and learning curve of glass typing surface in mind (not to mention, I am a GIRL…LOL).

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:10:28 +0000

It does everything. And it's very smart. Any qualms ppl may have (EDGE not fast enough, certain boondoggles and glitches) would be shot to hell if I went from my iPhone back to the phone I was using just yesterday. Apples and Jupiter, people. It's not just hype...the people I've seen walkin' around w/ 'em so far (not many, but enough) are satisfied customers of the 21st century.

A computer in my pocket indeed. Any other "smartphone" is totally idiotic in comparison, and I'm damn glad I waited three years to go from one of the smartest "regular" phones out there (SonyEricsson Z520) to this.

Damn skippy, the iPhone is the future of the Internet.

By: weiran

weiran — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:51:35 +0000

My point was that it’s not a phone as such. If indeed you can make a phonecall on an iPhone (which I haven’t seen a demonstration of), it’s not a major feature.

Maybe you missed the first video on the iPhone web site? The iPhone is fundamentally a phone, it has the features of the iPod and other PDAs added to it, but at the end of the day its designed to make calls. The phone isn't the most interesting part of it which is why it's not getting much attention.

I don’t know why they just didn’t add it to the ‘iPod’ range.

Because that would be seriously underselling it, it only has 8GB of storage because fitting a HDD in it would've made it bigger, and it's already quite big. I expect Apple have plans for a widescreen iPod with a HDD sometime down the line, but to bring one out now would be suicidal to the iPhones success.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:45:38 +0000

Calm down!

My point was that it's not a phone as such. If indeed you can make a phonecall on an iPhone (which I haven't seen a demonstration of), it's not a major feature.

I don't know why they just didn't add it to the 'iPod' range.

By: weiran

weiran — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:03:47 +0000

Lol… it’s a phone.

You're missing the entire point of the iPhone. It's more than just a phone.

Yet it costs $500 before you can even make a phonecall.

It's obvious that if all you want to do is make calls this is not for you. $500 is an average price for a high-end mobile phone, it's less than the Nokia N95.

It’s less an iPhone, more iDoEverything.

Which is the whole point of the iPhone, a computer in your pocket. Did you even read the post?

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By: Daniel Pasco

Daniel Pasco — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:21:12 +0000

“From my experience of Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian based smartphones, none of them were that smart. They all had some big gotchas that seriously limited their usability” – I have had similar experiences and I totally agree with you.

I’d like to see some additional functionality via firmware update but so far the I think that the iPhone compares very favorably to everything else I’ve worked with before: http://danielpasco.com/2007/06/30/iphone-comparison/

-Dan

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:09:00 +0000

Lol... it's a phone.

Yet it costs $500 before you can even make a phonecall.

It's less an iPhone, more iDoEverything.