So...Do you have one? Do you like them? hate them? and why? :)
I have one and I'm really happy with it. There are only 2 things that bug me.
1. Compability only with special earphones (the plastic around jack has to be small enough to get into the hole in iPhone)
2. it's a bit too big after all :)
I have a 3g. Size isn't the problem, I've had no problems with earphones.
The only problem i have with it is how long the fucking thing takes to charge.
And the fact it is overpriced and underspecced.
I kind of got one almost free (but 2G) so price wasnt problem in my case. But I have to agree that it's overpriced (like everything by apple)
My friend has got one. The only problem he mentioned was that it runs out of power and has to be recharged again too fast. What I've noticed, when he let me use it was that you can't always see what you are doing because your fingers are blockng the view, plus the screen gets messed up with oiy stains too fast.
I don't own one myself, but from what I saw about it (the boss of a tax advising agency I used to work at had me "fix" up pretty much everything remotely techie, including his iPhone... long story...) it's really no match for the gold old PDAs. Mine has very slightly worse specs than a newest-generation iPhone, but at approximately 25% of the price (and has a higher resolution to boot). Plus, less fidgety interface (although I have to admit it looks far less cool). That decision was really a no-brainer.
I don't know how much of the information here is correct, but it's still a nice article:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
The only thing, and I do mean the ONLY thing, the Apple made that was even remotely "usefull" was it's OS. Even though it has problems it is, let's face, less annoying than Windows (even though if you know your stuff Windows don't have to bother you that much).
OS on Macs is a bit better at graphical stuff although it kinda lacks some customisation that Windows have (not talking about the look of it but technically) and it doesn't have register...enough said.
Anyway, Apple has a brilliant marketing strategy I'll give them that, but still why the hell should I pay 3x the price for something that has less functions than a "regular" phone. Same goes for iPod, also 3x the price plus you can't just download from any computer plus the battery that dies and has to be changed ONLY at an Apple.
Yes, iPhone is a cool gadget, still that doesn't mean it's worth the price or the hype.
My brother has an iPod Touch with a SEVERELY cracked screen and it still works perfectly, so I can attest to the build quality if nothing else.
When I played around with it, I felt as if I was playing with something quite definitely impressive. The technology behind it and how thin it is were the main things that grabbed my attention. It seems pretty long for an mp3 player, though at least it's thin enough to fit in your pocket. I like the idea of the practical applications but there's a problem with not being able to run applications in the background (as far as I know, I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, ignore this).
I will also add that the thing that impressed me most is ton of small details. Like the music fading out when you got text message and then fading in again, or like when you select the place where you want to edit the text you wrote and before you fully lift your finger beam tends to jump one letter forward/backward but iPhone ignores that fact and takes it back. It has tons of small things like that. I have to admit that when it comes to user expirience apple did really good job
Quote from: SpacePaw on Mon 20/07/2009 01:45:10So...Do you have one?
No...doesn't fit my requirements...so I'll wait for the Palm Pré to hit the shores of the Netherlands, for from what I can see it's closer to my wishes (plus with some mild programming better adaptable to my needs). Until that time I fully agree with Akatosh and stick to my good old PDA.
Plus I'm really not impressed by the amount of real innovation in the iPhone-development since its launch two years ago...
Quote from: Mr Flibble on Mon 20/07/2009 13:32:31I like the idea of the practical applications but there's a problem with not being able to run applications in the background (as far as I know, I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, ignore this).
Wrong for 1st party (Apple) applications, not wrong for 3rd party applications...it was a dicision Apple made.
Pps. While it's not the phone for me, that doesn't mean that I don't understand why it might fit someone-else's needs and wishes...and if it does, just go for it.
Most of the snobby spoiled kids in my class have one. Some have two ,the freaking tyrants of hapless parents. And the effing annoyingstrange thing is that they all complain about them- not enough space to store all their illegally downloaded music, always low on juice, and too hard to glue glittery stuff on personalize. It's strange, but there seems to be this thin line between design and functionality...
Personally I would use one, but they are a bit too pricey for my taste.
One thing that pissed and still pisses me off as a (hobby) developer is that I considered buying an iphone in order to use it and simultaneously get into mobile game development but guess what: you can only develop for the iphone on a MAC. I know Microsoft often does the same (ie. not open-sourcing their stuff and not making SDKs available on other OSs) but Apple has the image of being 'better' than that and also they went to court often against Microsoft in order to make them change their ways. So, while Microsoft is somewhat of an evil big company that only care for money, Apple is not better in the least. At all. They just never got the chance to be as evil as Microsoft is.
Also, the Apple store is ridiculous. They reserve the right to allow what can be sold and what not and will use to enforce their political views on people. For example, they first told the team behind the politically critical TV show South Park that they could develop an app for the iphone that would allow people to watch episodes for free anywhere they are (basically a portable version of southparkstudios.com) but when the money was spent and the app was ready, they suddenly disallowed the sale of the program because they political content didn't sit well with them apparently.
Waaaaaay to pricey to even consider tbh.
My roommate's sister came over one night and they started talking about the iPhone and its "mad apps." It's got an app for this and an app for that!
It took them a while to realize I was making fun of them by joining in...and by took them a while I mean I had to explicitly tell them. Even though I was mimicking them by constantly saying, "mad apps."
I sense a motivational (http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/halo-motivational-poster.jpg) coming on here...
iPhone
It has mad apps.
Does it have any killer apps, though?
:P
Dont know about that, but it will blend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI)
I love my iPhone. In my pocket at all times, in one device, I have constant unlimited internet access no matter where I am, an excellent MP3 player, a phone, movies and TV shows (on my iPod or from BBC iPlayer), a voice recorder, a guitar tuner, MSN, a usable camera (although I would really like to see the camera being improved...), my photo albums, and iTunes (meaning I can sample and download new music to my phone whenever I like). I've got a recipe book with 1000s of recipes for when I go shopping. I've got a step counter and calorie counter for exercising and dieting, and I've got an app that listens to and then identifies music so that I can identify cool songs I hear being played randomly in pubs or whatever (I've gotten so much use out of that app...) I've got BBC news and the Guardian news sites bookmarked on my homepage for train journeys. I've got live train updates in fact.
I've got a shiny little entertainment system, and personally to me that is worth a lot. I can see someone like my mum would not find it so useful, but I love mine. Also someone made a point earlier about how well-designed it is in terms of usability. That is very true. It's a very polished product.
A chinese executive lost an iPhone prototype and killed himself because he knew he'd get in so much trouble for it.
Quoth the Slashdot: Want to kill yourself?
Spoiler
There's an app for that.
Quote from: Meowster on Fri 24/07/2009 14:43:32
I love my iPhone. In my pocket at all times...
Remove it from your pocket immediatly, unless you want to ne unable to have children or worse for the rest of your life. True story.
Quote from: Lionmonkey on Fri 24/07/2009 19:26:29unless you want to ne unable to have children or worse
Are you suggesting it would be
desirable to have something
worse come out of a woman's body than a child? I'm not saying children are terrible, but you seem to imply it would be a travesty if Meowster was unable to give birth to some mutant demon-spawn. :D
Yes, yes, we all know cell phones cause cancer...I mean...I think it would be apparent what with the way we're all encouraged to have one with us at all times...clearly a government conspiracy!
I'm honestly hoping that Lionmonkey's post wasn't any more serious than mine.
The only reason most iPhone owners have an iPhone is so that they can flash it around in public making sure everyone knows they have an iPhone.
They're the kind of people who come back from holiday and spill their Euros all over the counter in shops saying "oh, you don't want those do you?" just so you know they've been on holiday.
The trouble is so many people have an iPhone, that it's not really as impressive as they think, it just makes them look like wankers. It's like when mobile phones first came out, and those who had one made sure everyone knew about it, but these days everyone has one and they tend to keep it to themselves unless it's got an Apple logo on it.
Well said Stupot.
Lol calm down buddy.
Ipods are pretty smart and the OS is nice. To say everyone who owns one is a wanker doesn't make you look very good, or mature does it mate?
Nathan the fact that you capitalized it as "Ipod" instead of the real name, iPod just proves that you sir are in fact a "wanker."
By the way, why was I still of the impression you were on hiatus? Seems you been somewhat active over the last two weeks (at least comparatively to the last 9 months!).
I'll add to the consensus that Stupot has a great point. Of course back when everyone was "Look at me, look at me, I've got a cell phone!" was also the point at which cell phones had to be carried around in a briefcase...so it was easy to notice. Whereas now they're so small they're much easier to hide. :P Except iPhones which are still large.
Edit: @TerranRich (below): "pseudo-PDA"? You're one of those people who say that a Mac isn't a PC aren't you? PDA stands for Personal Digital Assistant. That's completely ambiguous. I get the idea that the term was brought about in reference to a specific type of device, but just like a PC is a Personal Computer so is a Macintosh when it's owned and operated privately. I'm just being a bit analytical here, but really all these acronyms we've got should really have some more thought put into them (IMO). :P
If I own an iPhone (or an iPod Touch more likely), it'll be because I've always wanted one and it would be insanely useful for me. I won't be looking to impress anybody with it... though scoring a hot babe because of my pseudo-PDA would be nice.
Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Sun 26/07/2009 02:19:52
Nathan the fact that you capitalized it as "Ipod" instead of the real name, iPod just proves that you sir are in fact a "wanker."
By the way, why was I still of the impression you were on hiatus? Seems you been somewhat active over the last two weeks (at least comparatively to the last 9 months!).
Beginning a sentence with a capital letter :o unheard of!
And people come and go, i only started logging in again because i thought i had a programmer for HTMI but he's kinda busy now.
How are you anyway? Last i heard from you was something about a religious voyage?
Yes well ignoring that, if you're looking for a programmer I'm game.
And as for your capitalization techniques, if you were insistent on doing it that way then it should have been IPod. :P
Due to personal reasons the aforementioned trip has yet to take place. I'm still very much a religious person, though due to those same reasons I rarely actually practice. I'd still like to make good on that one day; but for now it, like so many other projects around here, is on indefinite hold.
Stupot that's quite a generalisation. Maybe most people you know with iphones are wankers, however I don't know a single person who does that. When something great exists - from mobile phones to flashy cars - there are always going to be a few people somewhere who are dicks and only get it to look cool. You can apply that to anything that exists and is in some way good. For you to find an overwhelming majority of people do this with the iphone shows that either you're surrounded by an unusual number of dicks, or you're just overreacting and in fact you meet plenty of people every day who have iphones and you don't even know about it. To say most people who own iphones do so at great expense only so that they can flash it around in public seems a bit ridiculous and bitter.
I'm also quite sure nobody bothers to throw down euros 'just so you know they've been on holiday'. That sounds more like you're being a bit bitter mate, but maybe where you are from, most people are genuine wankers and bother to spend their time thinking about this stuff.
Anyway I just came back to this thread to link you all to this, yay!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8169971.stm
Of course I'm generalising. Alongside exaggeration, it's one of the many fun features of friendly banter. One of my best mates owns an iPhone, and while I wouldn't call him a wanker, he certainly does like to flash it around in public.
Quote from: Meowster on Mon 27/07/2009 12:41:49
I'm also quite sure nobody bothers to throw down euros 'just so you know they've been on holiday'.
Having worked in a grocery store in a very middle-class village for almost 6 years, I can tell you this is an almost fortnightly occurance. And sometimes it's so obvious it's funny.
Quote from: Meowster on Mon 27/07/2009 12:41:49
Anyway I just came back to this thread to link you all to this, yay!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8169971.stm
I only recently discovered Spotify (along with torrents and the definition of "tldr"). It's quite a handy tool... except for the lack of original Chili Peppers stuff... it's all tribute stuff... still a good substitute for free though.
I have an n97, its all of the iPhone for a reasonable price <3 Although it has a few issues, Im an early adopter. I am jealous of iPhone spotify :( But apparently they have other mobile versions in the wings, so they might roll them out pretty quickly over time.
Also, uh, its full of chilis... The old stuff, but I prefer that stuff mostly.
Sorry but this pisses all over anyone who puts the iphone down.
http://appstore.gearlive.com/apptapper/article/q309-monkey-island-comes-to-the-app-store/
I don't really think so, I honestly couldn't care less.
Who wouldn't want a legal way to play monkey island on the move? Despite the visuals being shite in the remake switching to old skool gfx makes everything warm and fuzzy again :)
Plus those 1080i backgrounds look a lot less unfinished on the iPhone.