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post Apr 16 2008, 01:05 PM
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Hello Anyone have true life situations with the IPHONE ?? I am considering a purchase. I am not a MAC user, doe's this make a difference??
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post Apr 16 2008, 01:10 PM
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Love it, can't imagine ever going back. I'm doing research on the internet every day for something or another, and plenty of times I'm NOT at my desk. The iPhone makes that possible. And being able to read my email as it comes in is great. It's one of those things that can't be described well enough to make it sound as amazing as it really is.

The touch screen is intuitive and natural.

I LOVE IT!
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post Apr 16 2008, 01:11 PM
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Oh! they're great...what is it?

.....says he who has never owned a cell phone....or paid a cell phone bill....
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post Apr 16 2008, 01:13 PM
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Good in a lot of ways:

-Phone layout/interface
-Internet
-Email layout/interface
-Flexibility
-Maps
-Stocks
-Weather
-Excellent camera for a phone
-Nice layout of access to stuff/features
-Great organizational
-More features than I'll ever need in a phone

Bad in a few ways
-Expensive
-ATT is not my preferred carrier (but then who is?)
-Pretty slow on non-wireless internet (i.e. ATT)
-Access to 914world.com 24/7 anywhere (what did you say, honey?)
-Touch screen means undefined "buttons"
-More features than I'll ever need in a phone

OVERALL: VERY good!

Hard to imagine going back, also.

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post Apr 16 2008, 01:18 PM
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dad has it


loves it!!!

easier to use than his treo, and basically it is set up for any skill of user

the bad, you can go on youtube and watch videos, which im sure isnt work related


but its an easy phone to you, and you can store 8g (or16g) of music, use internet (wireless is fast), send mulitple texts, emails, go online, view maps, weather, etc


if i wasnt broke, id get one casue my razer is about to die

(i also happen to be a mac user, but i know others who have it and say it is just very easy to use)
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post Apr 16 2008, 01:20 PM
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i love iphones, but i was stuck on t-mobile just because you can get a blackberry with a MUCH cheaper plan and have unlimited data, texting, internet, with 1000 minutes for about the same amount as the iphone plan with less minutes, and only 200 texts. for the unlimited texting, it's 15 more a month, putting it at 98 bucks or something like that.

the blackberry pearl is a piece of shit by comparison though. what an awful browser, jesus (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

that being said...my main beef with the iphone is that the people i like least in this world, douchebags, all seem to have them. sucky, that.

i'd get one if AT&T didnt do this : (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif)
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post Apr 16 2008, 02:05 PM
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I have one and love it as well. It has been very useful with all my video and radio show recording as I can even interface it with a mixer and import a phone interview into my mac for recording the RAT podcast..
I swapped to it from a Blackberry after I smashed it a few weeks ago accidentally.

I liked the Blackberry better as a phone and it had a better signal in my rural area, even though they both share AT&T networks. I also liked the blackberry better for web based content and the data connection was faster.

The Iphone is better with data on a WiFi network, because the blackberry did not interface with wifi.

I think that anyone that isn't familiar with a Mac would have a bit of a learning curve with it..

I do like it better than the blackberry all around...
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post Apr 16 2008, 02:15 PM
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I played with one at the Mac store and I really want one except for 3 things-
It's too delicate a $500.00 thing for me to carry around,
AT&T signal doesn't reach my house,
I already have a geek brick that does all that stuff, just not as nicely.
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post Apr 16 2008, 03:28 PM
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iphone goooooooooooood.
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post Apr 16 2008, 03:29 PM
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I love mine.

It's not delicate at all. Mine has taken more headers than my old razor did and still hasn't even hardly scratched.

And I truly believe that if you handed one to anyone they could be up and running with it in a matter of minutes, whether they are mac users or not.
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post Apr 16 2008, 03:49 PM
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They need to get it on other carriers than AT&T...

Now, an IPhone with my SERO plan on Sprint..I'd be all over that!
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post Apr 16 2008, 04:07 PM
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I have one, switched from the blackberry to the IPHONE. I like it..its much more useful than I had figured...would not go back to the blackberry..

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post Apr 16 2008, 04:18 PM
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+1 on all of the above.


Also nice to sync with my mac business calendar.

I use an aftermarket rubberized case holder. Makes it a bit more durable.

And it does have a remarkable camera for a phone...




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post Apr 16 2008, 04:45 PM
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it does have a good camera


my dad got some great pictures from the rose bowl game, and compared to my razor, you can see the quality.



and if you are a mac user (like me) they have alot of neat features that are easy to explore
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post Apr 16 2008, 05:09 PM
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I would have one but can't justify the price. AT&T for me isn't that bad.
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post Apr 16 2008, 06:03 PM
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Durability?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=czCCavcnNd8
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post Apr 16 2008, 06:06 PM
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they are a pretty tough phone


i wouldnt do that test on my phone, and i wouldnt recommend dropping it, but its still pretty tough
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post Apr 16 2008, 06:10 PM
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It looks cool. But the lack of buttons had me hating it. There is zero tactile feel that lets you dial w/o looking at it.

It makes a cool palm-top computer, but a pretty crappy phone. I needed a phone, so back it went.

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post Apr 16 2008, 06:10 PM
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iPhone rocks. There are also Windows equivalents for those like me who need true native Windows and Office apps. Mine is unlocked, so I can use any service provider I want - I would not want to be tethered to ATT where I live!

EDIT: Hi Zach. Ironically I love mine because all the space that would normally be taken up by physical keyboard is now used for screen real estate!! I love having the most compact unit possible with the biggest screen possible! The virtual keyboard on mine rocks, and with the new paradigms, the keyboard is used far less compared to the on-screen interface.
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post Apr 16 2008, 06:13 PM
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Mine has already done a few 3 foot drop tests. On tile and blacktop parking lot (getting out of my 914 naturally).

And I bought mine because it's a better handheld computer then a cell phone. And yet, it still is. In fact, I bought it also because of it's hanheld computer potential.

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