iPhone

[Al G Blenny]

Another thing is that you should never buy a smart phone without buying the extended warranty. I pay like $3/month on my treo for sprint to cover it. My last 650 started to have problems so they replaced it for free. I got a refurb but it was just like new. Used parts but new shell. I had the phone for about a year and a half. That means I paid about $54 for the service and I got a new phone with a new battery. If my phone didn't have problems I would have had to buy a new battery anyway and that would have been at least $60.

 

[Al G Blenny]

Only the full sized Ipods use a hard drive. The Nanos and Shuffles don't. Most people have problems with the bigger Ipods because they take them running. Hard drives are not meant to be shaken. If you are going to use it when you are exercising you should buy the nano.

 

[scuzy]

i got one it's pretty neat so far. Minor things here and there that oculd be improved but overall a great product.

 

[stubbsz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10257811#post10257811 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Al G Blenny
Only the full sized Ipods use a hard drive. The Nanos and Shuffles don't. Most people have problems with the bigger Ipods because they take them running. Hard drives are not meant to be shaken. If you are going to use it when you are exercising you should buy the nano.

The nanos are amazing at withstanding damage.... SOme guys were testing it and their original tests - the worst being, dropping out of a car doing 50mph- didn't stop it working or even damage it. They ended up having to dive over it (twice) to get the screen to stop working but the click-wheel still worked. Then they found that if they throw it into the air as high as they could onto concrete, they could stop it working. So good for jogging Personally, I waited for the nano because I wanted something that size and no hard drive. Shame the screen wasn't made more scratch resistant like the iphones is.
-Adrian

 

[stubbsz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10257515#post10257515 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Elite
Take some shot of your Xenia.. They are beautiful ..

My Skunk-clowns love it... I should be able to get a shot of them messing around in it.

Better than my polyped-challenged Idaho Grape.

-Adrian

 

[Vincerama2]

Note: In 1995, I bought a Motorola MicroTac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MicroTAC

It cost me $900 (Canadian) and it cost 25 cents/min to talk on it, plus it was like $30 (CDN) per month.

TWO HOURS after I brought it home, I found my dog Coco CHEWING on it. The antennae had bare wires showing and the plastic had bite marks all over it. I know she didn't know it cost me $900, so it was a test in self control for me. Lucky for her she's so cute!

I hate cell phones, but I've had one continously for 12 years. To be honest, the crappy freebie Nokia phones are just as good (phone-wise) as my wife's Blackjack (or my Blackberry Pearl). In fact, I kind of prefer my old Nokia, it could take a beating.



As for mp3 playes, my favorite that I have is actually the Creative Zen Nano (1GB). It is much nicer that the iPod shuffle. (I've had the Creative Jukebox ($500 in 2001) and currently have an iPod "video")

Don't fall for brand names, check out the devices first and then decide if it's for you. By now most people have lived with mp3 players, PDAs and cell phones long enough to know what they want (I've owned the US Robotics Palm Pilot 1000, the Handspring Visor Deluxe and the Palm M505 ... I'm an idiot, I never used them for more than an address book).

V

PS. Yes, I'm a recovering gadget "first adopter" it has never lead to anything other than regret as better, faster, smaller versions of the same device came out for much much less money.

 

[Jim_S]

Thought you guys might like this:

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html

And yes, hard drives are not meant to be shaken about....

But what you all have to take into consideration is....

While this phone works for everyone, it was built for mac users. As mac users, we simply don't have a pda/phone that we can 100% sync up to our computers. Everything on the market for syncing macs and pda phones is ALL 3rd party software. Nothing from apple.... until now. So now ALL mac users can now have a phone that works with their computer. Plug in and play baby!!!!!

If you don't have a mac, you don't "really" need one. In fact, you may be wasting your money on a generation1 iphone. You can get any number of phones that will work just fine for you. Sure these phones have some cool features, but they are only a MUST HAVE for mac users, who simply have been left out of the pda/phone loop for years now

Jim

 

[Al G Blenny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10258399#post10258399 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jimdogg187
Thought you guys might like this:

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html

And yes, hard drives are not meant to be shaken about....

But what you all have to take into consideration is....

While this phone works for everyone, it was built for mac users. As mac users, we simply don't have a pda/phone that we can 100% sync up to our computers. Everything on the market for syncing macs and pda phones is ALL 3rd party software. Nothing from apple.... until now. So now ALL mac users can now have a phone that works with their computer. Plug in and play baby!!!!!

If you don't have a mac, you don't "really" need one. In fact, you may be wasting your money on a generation1 iphone. You can get any number of phones that will work just fine for you. Sure these phones have some cool features, but they are only a MUST HAVE for mac users, who simply have been left out of the pda/phone loop for years now

Jim

Totally right. I can't sync my treo with my mac very well. There are programs to help but none that I have found are 100%. That is probably the biggest draw for me to get the iphone although I will wait for 2.0 to come out.

 

[Jim_S]

Same with my BB 8800. It can sync with the necessities like email, but no itunes, iphoto, no quicktime....... and the biggest feature that I want is the ability to tether my phone as a modem.... internet access anywhere my phone gets service!!!!!

2.0 will be sweet though.....

 

[reefer on a budget]

keep buying them iphones as it's indirectly helping out my company. we have an assortment of power controller chips in the ipod/iphone.

i wish i could buy one but damn, that is a lot of bread for a phone that ill probably end up dropping, scratching and eventually damaging.

 

[Maximus]

I bought one on launch day and love it. Surfing the net is incredible on it. It's not perfect but it kicks ***. Btw I posted this from the Iphone.

 

[Ti]

humm, time to get an iphone.

 

[fishme]

dawn, I can't wait until the end of July