iphone

Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
My phone slides.

It's incredibly late 07/early 08

I suck.

A phone does not make a man, the clothes do. Just ask Julian.

Thou dost not suck.

Originally posted by chaz:
except make phone calls, sync with my exchange server, gps….

What laptop doesn't sync with an exchange server? I'm pretty sure laptops did that long before phones.

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by chaz:
except make phone calls, sync with my exchange server, gps….

What laptop doesn't sync with an exchange server? I'm pretty sure laptops did that long before phones.

don't bust my balls, i'm just saying that relative to the iphone the ipod touch doesn't do every thing I "need".

So I finally gave in and got one.  I must admit it's pretty damn cool.  Although I hardly use the phone part of it at all.

I'll just bite my tounge ;)  That is until I hear you use the "L" word.

Just browse the free apps and you'll find a ton of fun and handy things.  Enjoy!!!

I have the 8 gig iTouch


:( There's not enough space…

I got it because I was facing a 22+ hour series of flights, and I needed some distraction… it worked beautifully, between the crossword puzzles app, the downloaded movies, and the itunes.    The tiny screen is so sharp that after a few minutes of watching a movie, you forget what a small screen your watching it on.

I'm not gonna say I love it though, until they give me copy and paste.  :)    It would also be super cool for jet-setters like myself if Skype was available so you could make free international calls over wi-fi.

I got the 8 gig which may have been a mistake….

16 GB was a no-brainer  for me.  I won't bite when the 32 GB comes out, but when they hit 64 it's upgrade time…..

Most of my music is ripped at 320 or apple lossless (if I ripped it myself) so it fills up quick.

I still need my 160 GB ipod classic.

video chat coming soon to iphone?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/36349

Yes, because AT&T's network is having no problems with the demands being placed on the network right now, let's add two-way video to it…

How they get a patent on it though, I'm not sure.  You can already video chat on many phones in Europe and Asia…but in the US the camera on the front of the phone is generally removed because US networks supposedly can't handle the traffic.

I tell ya, we Americans like to think we're ahead of the rest of the world in every respect… but technologically we are sooo far behind Asia it's not even funny.  Even poorer Asian countries have more and better mobile options than we do.

Doctor wrote:
I tell ya, we Americans like to think we're ahead of the rest of the world in every respect… but technologically we are sooo far behind Asia it's not even funny.   Even poorer Asian countries have more and better mobile options than we do.

That's a little bit unfair, but factually correct.  While the US invented the Mobile phone, other countries benefited from being second to market, but I wouldn't ever stifle our innovation just to reap the benefits of being second to market. 

Our real problem is a mobile industry that under-estimates what it's consumers are capable of and are willing to do on these high powered devices.  The original owners of the infrastructure were the phone companies, so they applied the old telecom model to the mobile industry, when it required an entirely new model.  This of course led to the US Telecoms protecting their bread and butter (landlines), creating a conflict that led to the suppression of mobile innovation in the States.  The technology is there, the industry just refuses to open it up to it's customers.

Doomie, where are you going this time? Gaza? Feel free to start another thread about this if you feel the discussion will go somewhere.

I actually just got home the day before yesterday, from Thailand…  my job doesn't take me to war zones anymore…

Vansmack,  I agree that the real problem is the phone companies.  In Indonesia you can find a million different kinds of cell phone, and they're all unlocked.  And you can buy a SIM card from a guy selling stuff from a cardboard box on the sidewalk.  Too much control here.

Doctor wrote:
I actually just got home the day before yesterday, from Thailand…  my job doesn't take me to war zones anymore…

Vansmack,  I agree that the real problem is the phone companies.  In Indonesia you can find a million different kinds of cell phone, and they're all unlocked.  And you can buy a SIM card from a guy selling stuff from a cardboard box on the sidewalk.   Too much control here.

can i take all these statements, reuse them and take them completely out of context at a later point of my choosing?    :)

Doctor wrote: In Indonesia you can find a million different kinds of cell phone, and they're all unlocked.  And you can buy a SIM card from a guy selling stuff from a cardboard box on the sidewalk.   Too much control here.

There's nothing stopping you from buying the phone there, getting a free phone from AT&T or TMobile (this will not work on Sprint or Verizon) and taking the SIM card out and putting it in the Indonesian phone…but yes, way too much control here.

Google phone, ftw. I'm on it right now!

And we have a killer Skype app. I just wish we'd get flash soon.

Oh, I didn't realize Windows Mobile phones were the only one's with Flash.

Maybe if you're all lucky, they'll make a Silverlight App for Android too so Apple and Google folks can use flash based apps (a la Netflix streaming for the Mac).

i'm finding the best use for my iPhone are the Facebook and Myspace apps.  I like that all the clutter of those sites is just out when just doing update checks.  I also like being able to download podcasts directly to the iPhone.  I've even become a Facebook convert after starting to access it via the iPhone.  Last.fm and Pandora are nice to have apps as well on the iPhone.  I'm hoping the recent update make Safari more stable…

Contrary to what seems to be a universal iphone complaint, i don't think safari has ever crashed on me once.

And I totally agree about the FB app…it's great.  Buggy for a while, but rock solid the last two releases.