Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Matt Lauer and Al Roker said they put their names on a waiting list. Is that do-able for us mere mortals, or only for 'celebrities' like Matt and Al and Meredith and Ann and Ted and Alice.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Sort of. <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/signup/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/iphone/si gnup/</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I saw that, and signed up -- now I'll get more offers for things in the mail. Just what I need, another Bowflex in my garage!
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good sales pitch.<< I have a friend who describes Steve Jobs as being surrounded by a "reality-distortion field" that makes you believe whatever he says. ;-)
Originally Posted By iceknyght It's neat and all, but I am with Utahjosh and I would rather have a widescreen iPod for cheaper... I don't need my phone playing movies. But I would like a widescreen on my iPod... And they have problems now with people talking and driving, imagine them with this in their lap trying to watch a movie and drive!
Originally Posted By fkurucz >> It's kinda big and bulky.<< I agree. I like my phone to be small and thin, so I can just slip it into my pocket.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I am actually anxiously awaiting this. There is no phone on the market that handles music well. Even the Chocolate that is plagued with issues. I have been wanting to get a smaller iPod but I still would be carrying a cell phone and an iPod. So an 8gig ipod phone that can play music better than 64kbps is a bonus. Also with a 2MP camera is bests 90% of the phones on the US market. Also I am glad that it is not being put on Verizon that handycaps their phone with v-cast and doesnt allow file transfer accept through their software/cable/online store. With Cingular I know that I will be able to transfer music, pictures, video and other things without hastle just like I do now on their existing phones. Overall it is going to be a much better improvement over any phone on the market including the coveted Razr, Chocolate and that other samsung one. Plus people have to remember that it is a smartphone and every smartphone on the market is bulky and sluggish so when you compare it to its class of phone it slams the competition.
Originally Posted By avromark I don't think it's coming to Canada, at least not right away. But I'm not a huge fan of combo devices, this may be explained by me having multiple devices where others have 1, I use an iPod, a PDA, a digital Camera (both my cell's have lousy camera phones) and my GPS separate in my car. I use a flatbed scanner, a colour inkjet, a 4x6 photo printer and laser, I don't like combination devices. I still pick my faxes up at work heh. Although one of my jobs is in IT, in some things I'm slow at converting with, My Pixma is newish (I replace these printers every 2 or so years), my Laser, well I just upgraded to a new LaserJet, my previous one was from circa 1990 and made in Japan (LaserJet II Plus), I still use my Newton although I'm pretty sure on Thursday I'll be getting an iPaq, I converted to LCD's this year from CRTs... It's funny how in IT I find 2 main types of people those that love technology, and those that want nothing to do with it once home.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Says the guy that spends his free time on the internet. What type are you?
Originally Posted By avromark A combination of both, this isn't free time exactly, this is multitasking time. I like my FT job hours right now I'm off by 2
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I am actually not a fan of combo devices (especially all in one printers....UHGH), however the iPhone seems to be able to do what it promises. It will never be a replacement for a full iPod, or a replacement for a full PDA. However the hope is that this will bring them together. They have proven they can make a good mp3 player. Of course this is all speculation as they are not release to the wild yet but there is more promise here than in any other device on the market.
Originally Posted By Ursula If the iPhone is what it is and I have no doubts of it, I can use it to work from anyplace, anywhere, anytime. Kinda scary that I won't have an excuse to take time off.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger For sale: One used iPAQ hx2755 and one LG VX6100. >>I have a friend who describes Steve Jobs as being surrounded by a "reality-distortion field" that makes you believe whatever he says.<< The SJRDF is a well known phenomenon: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R eality_distortion_field</a> The entire Mac community has been waiting for this phone for years. And it just so happens that our two year contract with Verizon is up in July! *HA* My uncertainties are that our current phones seem to be holding up OK and will probably still be quite serviceable in July, and Cingular's coverage area. Verizon seems to have pretty good coverage where we tend to go. (Not to mention some concern about the cost of the plan that will come with the phone.) The other thing that concerns me is the idea of being an early adopter. But I'd really like to stop walking around with a PDA on one hip and a phone on the other. (I tend not to use an MP3 player as anything but a feed for a stereo.) This could be the biggest thing for Apple since the introduction of the Mac. I was reading several live coverages of the event during the introduction, yesterday, and every one of them interrupted themselves at multiple points to exclaim something along the lines of "I just can't describe how incredibly awesome this thing is!" I'm going to have to watch the video of the demo soon.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger Well, poop! According to gizmodo, it will be a closed platform and people won't be able to write their own programs. What's the point of talking about it running OSX if developers aren't allowed at it?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut Im sure its an OSX Kernel but not full OS-X. But there are going to be widgets for it so there should be a way to port other widgets to it.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger So has anyone figured out just what the Apple TV is about, and why you should spend $300 on it? I think this product is a misfire unless His Steveness has some grand plan that he's going to reveal within a couple of months.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut its basically a stripped down media center PC. YOu can stream HD from you Mac (and PC I think) Streaming HD content from a PC to TVs seems to be the hot thing. Even though Wireless-N isnt even a standard yet people want to do it.
Originally Posted By berol I'd rather pay for an adapter and wires instead of Apple TV. I'd only pay that price if it had tivo kinda stuff, too. The 2 criticisms I keep hearing about iphone are only shops/apple can change its battery and speculation that it'll drain batteries like mad.
