Apple 3G iPhone

[iwishiwas-all*]

this is the one im buying
2nd gen allways rocks it

[RiversideS13]

f*ck now i felt like a sucker =(

[yokotas13]

oh fuckkkkkkkkk yeah

bas will be getting iphones for sale fo sho.

i gettin one!

[lflkajfj12123]

htc diamond looks sweet

[Baka Sama]

Originally Posted by Akiros

I sold my old iPhone to get the at&t 8925 Tilt. and I freaking love it. Safari is a better browser, but there is one in the works, and the mobile opera browser is pretty good. OH, and it also has a 3.0 megapixel camera, and records video, AND can hold up to a 32gb microSD card, AND they are hackable, once you tweak it a bit it is a freaking sweet phone. $550 without contract, but I think you can get one from amazon for $99 with a 2 yr service agreement or so I've heard. Mine was 150 for a refurb with a 2yr agreement. Those prices alone KILL the fucking $300 pricetag for an iPhone.

P.S. Chrono Trigger is fun on my phone

conclusion: techies get a tilt, easily amused people get an iphone.

I played with my friends tilt for a good hour at work one day. Let me tell you there is no way in the world I would buy that phone. Sure it has a lot of cool features, the most important to me is that is takes sd cards. But I simply could not take the tiny tiny keyboard and windows. Almost as bad as a blackberry. I hate having to us the stylus for simple things its a pain in the ass. I felt like i was about to go blind looking at that thing.

3g Iphone has almost everything i want besides the sd card reader.

The only other phone i would get besides the iphone would be the nokia n95. Takes sd cards and has a 5mp camera! But no US phone carrier has picked it up yet so your gonna have to pay full price for it. But without a doubt its the best phone out right now.

[just1pepsi]

3g is the faster network it uses, not the "generation". You can get insurance on it, either through ATT or and normal Insurance provider (allstate, farmers, etc will insure it for dirt cheap) - the new iPhone will have active GPS, which should be sweet. I think the touch screen is nice, although it takes some getting used to. I dont own one, but my parents do, and they use them constantly, so the must be user friendly. I think the iphone data plan is $20/mo ontop of your normal plan, and remove any company discounts you get, the iphone plan is not elligable to receive them. This is why I wont be owning one. I like paying less than $45/mo for a cell phone. I dont need all that fancy crapola.

[02BRB20]

the current rate of technology makes buying these phones sorta pointless.

id rather wait another year or so when all these phones basically become mini computers; 50 gigs that projects a infrared keyboard to type on.

[ScottMan]

Originally Posted by Akiros

conclusion: techies get a tilt, easily amused people get an iphone.

I think this is really what it comes down to for a lot of people. Sure, there are a lot of people who jailbreak the iPhone and get a ton of really cool stuff going, but for me I wanted something that did a lot right out of the box, didn't require a ton of knowledge, and was very elegant in form and function. Whenever I see someone tapping away on a stylus and showing me they can remote access their PC on their phone I just chuckle. Yep, they got me...they are a whole lot more tech savvy than I am and their phone is way cooler, so enjoy playing World of Warcraft all day, or whatever it is people do who spend time hacking their phones.

For those of us who just want something that performs very well and efficiently and is easy to use, it's a Godsend. Not to mention the "elegance" that iPhone Kool Aid drinkers like myself like to point to. Is your Saleen S7 faster and "better" than a DB9? Sure. Does it have really neat doors that fold up and cool stuff like that? Yep. Which is more elegant and classy though? Stupid analogy, but it works IMO.

[Bushido]

windows mobile sucks dicks thats why I prefer the iphone.

I had a Q, then a Q9 and also had a blackjack for a little while. I'm not totally crazy about the iphone but the interface and operating system makes sooooo much more sense. windows mobile sucks.

[water]

^yeah windows mobile is terrible to me too.

As for the iphone, I simply could not get comfortable with it. Its big and bulky and feels like crap when I'm talking on it, txting is a complete pain in the ass, and the lack of mms is ridiculous.

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[240trainee]

I'll get one when someone cracks it, I have no desire to switch from t-mobile to AT&T

$30 more a month with no insurance to do it, and AT&T gets the same, if not shittier service where I am.

I'm already out of contract with t-mobile, so thats cool.

[O3DigitalBath]

i'll sure i'll end up picking up this one as well....

just still havn't decided if imma try and bother selling the 1st gen one.

[DUFFM4N]

Originally Posted by 02BRB20

the current rate of technology makes buying these phones sorta pointless.

id rather wait another year or so when all these phones basically become mini computers; 50 gigs that projects a infrared keyboard to type on.

see but the problem with that way of thinking is....you'll NEVER end up buying a phone because you're gonna keep telling yourself "well next year something better will come out"

[pink godzila]

Originally Posted by Dutchmalmiss

Any idea on how much they'll be without contracts?

same question... how much will be without contracts?? Can i just get the phone instead the contract with At&t.? Because Im buying one for my girlfriend, she keep talking about changing from Nokia N96 to 3G... ahhaha so I can have her N96 or just keep use my SonyErricson w900i ... poor me

[ScottMan]

^^^I don't think you can purchase the phone sans contract unless you find a loophole or some way to circumnavigate the system.

[DUFFM4N]

well i heard that you can buy the phone directly from the Apple store, but you have a certain amount of time before it needs to be activated

[pink godzila]

Originally Posted by ScottMan

^^^I don't think you can purchase the phone sans contract unless you find a loophole or some way to circumnavigate the system.

so you mean.. I cannot just go wait in line at the Mac store on the 7/11??

[pink godzila]

Originally Posted by DUFFM4N

well i heard that you can buy the phone directly from the Apple store, but you have a certain amount of time before it needs to be activated

oooo... thanks, also are people going to over price the 3G after it release?? I mean they just going to post on Ebay to get more from it... becasue 199$ for a 8G is not bad and not over my budget

[ScottMan]

I mean if nothing has changed in this release from the last one if you stand in line they're going to set you up with a 2-year contract upon activation. I think people have found a way around this though. Someone said you can fail the credit check when you activate it on iTunes or something. Pretty ridiculous...just get a different phone.

[240trainee]

yea

Fucking at&t, they suck, the data plans for iPhones are outrageous

[pink godzila]

Originally Posted by ScottMan

I mean if nothing has changed in this release from the last one if you stand in line they're going to set you up with a 2-year contract upon activation. I think people have found a way around this though. Someone said you can fail the credit check when you activate it on iTunes or something. Pretty ridiculous...just get a different phone.

Man..this is gay... im getting for my girlfriend one.. hope there is other way. by the way, what if I just bring cash and leave my card at home... if they ask I;; just tell them that im just a college kid and never have a card if that work??

[drift freaq]

Originally Posted by 240trainee

yea

Fucking at&t, they suck, the data plans for iPhones are outrageous

Yup ATT has terrible customer service and its closes at 9:00 P.M. at night pacific time and is closed on sundays. What kind of a cell phone provider closes their customer service? These are mobile phones which means people use them 25/7. With that said I had Cingular(ATT's name before SBC decided to pose and steal the thunder of the Original ATT) it was over priced. I switched to T-Mobile and never looked back. Its every bit as good as Verizon here in SoCal so Verizons claim as the best is just advertising. Verizon is good in some areas but not all area's as is every other provider. Plus There will be cracks for the Next gen Iphone to run it on our Network its a GSM phone.

Oh and for Akiros techies comments it should be rephrased , programming geeks will like the TILT. People who have real lives and don't want spend have the day fucking with horrible windows mobile and a tiny tots keyboard will not bother.

[02BRB20]

Originally Posted by DUFFM4N

see but the problem with that way of thinking is....you'll NEVER end up buying a phone because you're gonna keep telling yourself "well next year something better will come out"

no.

im just waiting for the day where I can condense my laptop, mp3 device, camera, and phone all into one device, that hasnt happened yet but it is around the corner.

till then im happy with my bobo Nokia 5000 haha

[CKAMC]

besides the fact that this phone will be activated in store, you CANT get this phone to run on tmobile's 3G

Tmbobile's is on 1700mhz
iphone is 850/1900/2100 MHz

Honestly I can't deal with a phone that I can't feel the buttons when typing, especially when one is driving and texting (keeping an eye on the road)

FYI its HTC Touch Pro not Diamond, price should come down a bit hopefully and be considered a cheaper option than the sony


Sony one isn't going to be cheap(hopefully iphone helps drop its price) but it has everything the iphone doesnt have along with a bigger screen.

[drift freaq]

[QUOTE=CKAMC;2105657]besides the fact that this phone will be activated in store, you CANT get this phone to run on tmobile's 3G

Tmbobile's is on 1700mhz
iphone is 850/1900/2100 MHz

[QUOTE/]
Ah you need to read up more about bandwidth. First off 3G is World CDMA and the purpose of it is to be compatible with all Networks. AKA Japans UMTS for example. Now with that said the spectrum range for T-Mobiles 3g is from 1700-2100mhz which basically means a hacked 3G Iphone will work on T-Mobiles service.

[just1pepsi]

Originally Posted by pink godzila

Man..this is gay... im getting for my girlfriend one.. hope there is other way. by the way, what if I just bring cash and leave my card at home... if they ask I;; just tell them that im just a college kid and never have a card if that work??

They straight wont sell you one. I went with my dad, and he only had cash, they werent going to sell it to him. I had to pay w/ my debit card.. thats when they were 399 or whatever.

[TheArkitekt]

I just bought a iclone from china, its cheap as hell $100 to my door. and it works fine, looks identical to the iphone and has 2 sim card slots (good for traveling internationally) and 2gb of memory. for the cost i couldnt ask for any better.

on a side note, if you want to run a iphone on tmo, you only need jailbreak (cracking software) and a blackberry data plan to make it work. service is like ~65 a month including txt.

[CKAMC]

Originally Posted by drift freaq

Ah you need to read up more about bandwidth. First off 3G is World CDMA and the purpose of it is to be compatible with all Networks. AKA Japans UMTS for example. Now with that said the spectrum range for T-Mobiles 3g is from 1700-2100mhz which basically means a hacked 3G Iphone will work on T-Mobiles service.

WHAT?!!!??! From my knowledge a spectrum stays within 100~200mhz and that its only in the 1700mhz range unless you look at their european spectrum of 1900mhz.

[240trainee]

Originally Posted by TheArkitekt

on a side note, if you want to run a iphone on tmo, you only need jailbreak (cracking software) and a blackberry data plan to make it work. service is like ~65 a month including txt.

Yep, thats my thing, already have that setup with my pearl, it's just getting the iPhone, but if this one is that harder to crack, and harder to get with no contract....