The Alchemist on 11/1/2007 at 00:28
So, no thread about this yet. Apple announces the iPhone and my pants are still wet.
(
www.apple.com/iphone)
Check out (
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/j47d52oo/m_sub8848125_350_ref.mov) this vid for a demo of the phone by Steve Jobs of course.
Amazing, I really like it. I've never been that big of an Apple fan and I have a strange aversion to iPods but this.....this I will own. The phone features are great, the iPod features are pretty kick ass too, but what impress me the most are the photo/video features and the built in full email/safari + google maps/satellite photos. That's hot hot shit. It's too many features to fit into one sentence. Amazing stuff, albeit pricey. $499 for a 4gb model. Worth every fucking penny I think, but maybe I'm a sucka like that.
Scots Taffer on 11/1/2007 at 00:31
I can't decide if that's really hot or as retarded as those travelmate combo toothbrush-hairbrush-shaving-kit dealios.
The Alchemist on 11/1/2007 at 00:38
If it were any other company, most probably. But watch the vid. The execution is quite spectacular. The features work -well- and smooth. And I can already see myself sitting in the hall waiting for my class to start watching movies on this thing or listening to mp3s while I go for a jog. And I know I'll be looking for some place wondering where the fuck I took a wrong turn just to pull up google maps on this thing to figure it out. It's not features I dont want or dont need, this is stuff I very much see myself using.
jay pettitt on 11/1/2007 at 01:51
Don't like the home screen idea. Orange decided that PalmOS doesn't have enough menus and UI and things so customised my current phone with a home screen. In theory when you turn a treo on you go straight the phone app so you can dial numbers and ring people. Thanks to Orange every time I want to use my phone to phone people I have to fanny around with the orange home screen first. Fucking irritating little niggle isn't the word. I'm surprised Apple has followed suit.
The keyboard on the treo rocks. Virtual keyboards don't, never have and never will. Not even laser projection ones.
The iPhone screen is the same resolution as the treo. Nice enough, but hardly exciting.
Contrary to a certain keynote speech, Treo battery life is measured in days and weeks, not hours.
And numerous other gripes - 3rd parties won't be able to develop for it, being locked to a network (the only network that doesn't compete with itunes - coincidence?), how much money? yadda yadda yadda.
The scrolling is good though.
Though even that would be improved with a keyboard so you can whiz to roughly the right place alphabetically speaking.
Cisco has trademarked iPhone for syncing software - not for phones. Possibly the reason why iPhone syncs via iTunes.
Printer's Devil on 11/1/2007 at 02:34
Quote Posted by The Alchemist
So, no thread about this yet. Apple announces the iPhone and my pants are still wet.
Did we really need a thread at all, considering Job's gloating face and clock-radio wonder is plastered just about everywhere?
fett on 11/1/2007 at 03:31
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
I can't decide if that's really hot or as retarded as those travelmate combo toothbrush-hairbrush-shaving-kit dealios.
It was a gift for fuck's sake. Take it back if you don't like it.
Isn't it the thought that counts?
Scots Taffer on 11/1/2007 at 03:52
I thought you sent the giant floppy rubber fist...
I've been thinking of you when I used it.
Aerothorn on 11/1/2007 at 04:11
Sounds nifty? Sure.
$600 worth of nifty? Nope.
Aerothorn on 11/1/2007 at 04:15
Sounds nifty? Sure.
$600 worth of nifty? Nope.
Wonder if the whole "Steve Jobs is a criminal ( (
http://www.slate.com/id/2157160/) )" thing will get 1% as much coverage as the iPhone.
