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[Wanderer]

[url="http://gear.ign.com/articles/753/753923p1.html"]http://gear.ign.com/...3/753923p1.html[/url]

Check that out. Feel free to discuss

[Warbz]

apple sux, but then microsoft is just as bad.

[Wanderer]

I won't comment about the company but the phone is very interesting as product and it has many innovative features.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

they finally announced it, i dont why they kept it a 'secret' everyone new it was going to be an iphone anyway

could be good, but it will be along time before they become available over here

[Prophet of the Pimps]

I will keep my o2 Atom thank you very much.

Also Sony Ericsson Walkman series will be a hard nut to crack. And the DRM bullshit of apple and clubbing iTunes for music transfer will ensure that at lest out here no one will take it up. Apple like always will over price its products and the true emerging markets like China and India will reject it. Its probably be lapped up by iPodophiles though.

EDIT: WTF is wrong with apple. i just found out the price at it is priced at $600.

[Alias]

Prophet of the Pimps, on 10 Jan 2007, 16:41, said:

i just found out the price at it is priced at $600.

O_o
That's almost 800 AUD.

That isn't close to sensible, that is excessive.

[Ascendancy]

I don't even own a mobile phone, but still. Apple always finds ways to make something grossly overpriced. It sickens me they get away with this kinda stuff. Whoever buys these things, will most likely be people who don't even need it. A decent mobile phone can be bought for like, $20.

Just another disgraceful thing on the market Apple has made...

[Lord Atlantis]

I reallt don't see the point of buying one. $600, thats just too much. The only benefit that this will get you is a music/mac/phone that gets you on the popular block.

I would rather stick with a simple Cell phone and my Zune.

-lord_atlantis

[Mathias]

I'll keep my w810i Walkman Phone thank you very little.

Edited by Mathias, 13 January 2007 - 16:40.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Ascendancy, on 10 Jan 2007, 06:36, said:

A decent mobile phone can be bought for like, $20.

thats £10, where the hell can you get any phine for £10, let alone a decent one

[Warbz]

Mathias, on 10 Jan 2007, 14:45, said:

I'll keep my w800i Walkman Phone thank you very little.

i got that phone. its so great!

[Prophet of the Pimps]

cheapest phone in India is costing Rs.2000 so that comes out to 45$

And the Reason why i hate Apple.
http://www.time.com/...75410-2,00.html

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All technologists believe their products are better than other people's, or at least they say they do, but Jobs believes it a little more than most. In the hours we spent talking about the iPhone, Jobs trash-talked the Treo, the BlackJack, the Sony PSP and the Sony Mylo (“just garbage compared to this”), Windows Vista ("It's just a copy of an old version of Mac OSX") and of course Microsoft’s would-be iPod killer, Zune.

Its this kind of retarded Smugness and elitism that many people hate from Apple and Apple product owners. Steve Jobs is worse then Any Microsoft or Sony CEO. The only reason for their success is good design but mediocre Functionality.

[Whitey]

Agreed totally with POTP

[Ascendancy]

Definitely agreed with Prophet of the Pimps. At least this house has never seen the light of something Apple has created. And my Sony Vaio, hell, when it was new it was smashing Macs to pieces.

Oh, and Bob, they sell little Motorolas at different places, they really are $20, they're not the best but they do work decently (my friends have one, I think they're pretty decent anyway...maybe you can find them at an evil Wal-Mart).

[Alias]

There isn't such thing as Wal-Mart in England.

I'm not a Mac lover, but I'm not a Mac hater either. We have several Apple products in my Household, and none of them have broken. Ever.

Edited by Alias, 12 January 2007 - 23:58.

[Soul]

Again Apple comes out with an piece of technology that's just a copy of other things already out that'a over priced.

Oh ya you guys are going to love to hear that Apple is being sued by another company that has copyright ownership over the word iphone which Apple has used without permission.

Edit: Here be the linky.

Edited by Forgotten_Soul, 13 January 2007 - 00:56.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

lol yeah, heard about that, i heard they are going to change it to apple phone, which sounds retarded, although surely it cant be true

Edited by Bob, 13 January 2007 - 01:02.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

at 600$ they should call it lemon Phone.

[Dauth]

Err there is Wal-mart in England, in the Trafford Park ASDA hypermarket Wal Mart is plastered all over it. As for an iPhone i cant be arsed to spend £260 on a new phone when my current one still works.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

another gem from steve jobs. uuurrrrgggghhh i just hate this pretentious dumb fuck.

http://arstechnica.c.../2007/1/12/6597

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“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider's network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”

[Moosy Crisp]

$600 bucks for a phone...What the hell? Is it made of cocaine? What makes it so better than a Razr or a regular Trac-Phone? Just fancy looks. Cell phones are for calling people, not for gaming or anything else.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

well if you are a power user like me there are other stuff that is of use to me.

I use mine to review powerpoints, pdf and word files just before my presentation.
Media is a big importance.
use it to surf when i cant be arse to turn on my PC.
PAC MAN

And a whole lot of other stuff.

But all that i cant do on the iPhone because of the closed approached apple has adopted. they are gonna have strict control on 3rd party apps and this will seriously limit the number of open source and free apps for it. Ironically MS has a more open approach to the pocket PC where they have a very good programming open source scene going on.

600 bucks
No office support
No voice Dialling
Limited application support
And tying to one cellular provider for 2 fucking years.

Only a idiot would get this.

But on the plus side i do like the look of the interface but the same can be done for pocket PC with 3rd part apps.

[Soul]

I agree with pimp 100%, only an idiot would get this phone.

[Futschki]

WTF ? 600$ ???? O_O
I can buy 2 Nokias with 600 bucks that have better features than this phone

[Sic]

No, I'd rather go upgrade my pc. 600$? That thing must be a wondermachine to earn the price.