iphone

Ok, so which of you nut bags got the new iPhone??  How is it and what network you guys on?  I'm still debating if I'm going to plunge in and get it.  I found out with my plan I can get it for unlimited everything for $50 a month with Sprint.  I'll have to see some more reviews before I do anything  ;D

I went with the LG optimus V with virgin mobile…great phone….and $35 a month for unlimited texting/data/web….

I picked up the 4S on Friday and it is awesome!!  This is my first iPhone, however, so I'm sure I'm more enthusiastic than someone upgrading from the 4. But yeah.  Fantastic.  I love apple. Fuck Android.  Long live Steve Jobs!!

pre-ordered 10/7 at 10am at an AT&T store - still w/o the 4s phone.  AT&T preorders couldn't even cancel theirs, even when there were iphone's still available at the store.  pretty weak sauce.

RustyOrgan wrote:
I picked up the 4S on Friday and it is awesome!!  This is my first iPhone, however, so I'm sure I'm more enthusiastic than someone upgrading from the 4. But yeah.  Fantastic.  I love apple. Fuck Android.  Long live Steve Jobs!!

Too late…he's dead.

stepped into a sprint store yesterday and checked out the Epic 4G Touch (AKA Galaxy S II).  gawdaym that's a nice piece of hardware.  the screen is amazing, and its big size will help with the work apps i need to run on it.  only downside is the size of the thing: big screen means big phone.  not sure how well it will fit in a pocket.  when the missus saw the thing, she joked that it was the half-way point between an iphone and a tablet ;D

unless anything else magically appears in the coming weeks, this will likely be my next phone.

sweetcell wrote:unless anything else magically appears in the coming weeks, this will likely be my next phone.

Hold off until tomorrow night as Google has rescheduled their event for tomorrow night (well, technically Wednesday in Hong Kong).  We will learn a lot more about the new OS (Ice Cream Sandwich), the new Nexus phone (Galaxy Nexus or Nexus Prime) and most importantly, release dates for each of these!  I probably won't sleep until then…

$50 a month for iphone unlimited everything? where?

any ideas on what new features will the nexus and nexus prime will be bringing over the S-II?

hutch wrote:
$50 a month for iphone unlimited everything? where?

It's with Sprint called the Sero Premium plan.  You have to have it awhile ago.   Right now they don't offer it anymore so if you were in there before you are golden  ;D  Still not sure if I'm going to get the iPhone yet as I'm hearing all these horror stories with the slow data.  Right now I'm still on the 30 dollar Sero but if I move up to iPhone it's 50 dollars  ;D

wml7 wrote:

hutch wrote:
$50 a month for iphone unlimited everything? where?

It's with Sprint called the Sero Premium plan.  You have to have it awhile ago.   Right now they don't offer it anymore so if you were in there before you are golden  ;D  Still not sure if I'm going to get the iPhone yet as I'm hearing all these horror stories with the slow data.  Right now I'm still on the 30 dollar Sero but if I move up to iPhone it's 50 dollars  ;D

i'm on sprint but never heard of this sero

hutch wrote:
i'm on sprint but never heard of this sero

It's closed now so don't worry about it.  It was the Sprint Employee Referral Offer and offered huge plan discounts if you were willing to wait a little while for new phones.  Many people are still grandfathered in (like wml7) and continue to enjoy the benefits.

It's been replaced by this:

http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/nxt/epc/epclanding.asp

vansmack wrote:

hutch wrote:
i'm on sprint but never heard of this sero

It's closed now so don't worry about it.  It was the Sprint Employee Referral Offer and offered huge plan discounts if you were willing to wait a little while for new phones.  Many people are still grandfathered in (like wml7) and continue to enjoy the benefits.

It's been replaced by this:

http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/nxt/epc/epclanding.asp

lovely..

guess its not good enough to be a paying customer since 2002..


fuckers.

Yeah, those fuckers!!  ;D

so the iphone, ipod and ipad are all made in China?

Vas wrote:

so the iphone, ipod and ipad are all made in China?

Yes, but they are "Designed by Apple in California" so everything's OK.

hutch wrote:
lovely..

guess its not good enough to be a paying customer since 2002..

This has been dead for years.  It was a Holiday 2006 perk and lasted for about 6 months for new customers and those that added a 2nd line.  Honestly, you had to try hard NOT to hear about it if you paid attention to at all.

sweetcell wrote:
any ideas on what new features will the nexus and nexus prime will be bringing over the S-II?

Sorry - I missed this when I originally viewed the thread.

The biggest difference is going to be a more effective use of screen real estate.  What I mean by that is that the next Nexus phone is not going to have any physical buttons on the face of the phone.  It will be screen only with 3 buttons across the bottom of the screen that act in place of what you see with today's physical buttons.  When you want to watch something in full screen or want to use an app in full screen mode, the touch buttons disappear. 

In effect, you'll be getting a 4.5-4.6 inch screen with the phone physically being what you'd expect with a 4.0-4.3 inch sized phone.

And of course a pure version of Ice Cream Sandwich, or version 4.0 of Google's Android OS.  The GSII runs Gingerbread (or version 2.3.7) with a Samsung skin called "TouchWiz".  ICS will have dual core optimization for a snappy feel.  The GSII will be getting ICS, but probably not for about 6 months, based on Samsung's history.

The big question now is when will the new Nexus reach each individual carrier… 

vansmack wrote:

hutch wrote:
lovely..

guess its not good enough to be a paying customer since 2002..

This has been dead for years.  It was a Holiday 2006 perk and lasted for about 6 months for new customers and those that added a 2nd line.  Honestly, you had to try hard NOT to hear about it if you paid attention to at all.

Paid attention? To cell phone ads? Dude, I didn't even have a TV til last year. I don't sit around comparing cell phone plans!

Anyways if you hear of something good clue me in.. thanks.. we have two cells with sprint ..$30 a month…shitty old phones..wouldn't mind having an iphone but we're limited in how much we want to spend. Thanks.

Snide, sassy Siri has plenty to say

(CNN) – By now, early adopters of the iPhone 4S, which has sold more than 4 million units since debuting on Friday, have no doubt taken Siri for a spin.

The voice-activated "personal assistant" is a talkative tool that helps schedule appointments, send and receive messages and perform any number of other routine tasks.

But for iPhone owners presented with the sci-fi dream of a computer that talks back in a robotic female voice, the temptation to test the app's more random – and existential – sides has been pretty overwhelming, too.

The Internet, always up for a chuckle, has noticed. Blog posts, tweets and even whole websites are popping up to share what happens when users start testing the boundaries of the app by peppering Siri with off-the-wall questions.

The findings? Siri can be a sometimes sassy, sometimes snide companion. And she's at least as fond of an inside joke as she is of reading you your e-mails.

continued: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/18/tech/mobile/siri-answers-iphone-4s/index.html

motherlode: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/page/2