H. L. Mencken once said:"Nobody ever lost a dime under estimating the intelligence of the American people". This hocum is positive proof of that statement.

Mpeeeeeeee mpeeeeeeee

sheeps going for slaughter :P

Waaaaa! The company that pays for astroturf only makes products people have to use not products people want to use.

My short review

my activation time was about 3 min. I already had a itunes account with my billing info so i just needed to click through. The process also copied all my bookmarks, contacts, cal and set up 3 email accounts. Plus the iphone imported all my itunes stuff, videos play list ect.

The activation problems seemed to happened to people who transfered numbers from another phone services.

The buzz is not from this or that technical feature but how smooth all the features work together. Six Generations of IPod development show up big. The interface is fast smart and easy to pick up. The screen animations are fluid.

And the visual quality of the display is sweet. 160 dpi is key. Movies look awesome. Its a super sharp screen and the color sync is flawless. The dpi resolution is four times a standard computer screen so the pictures render much sharper then what i'm used to. Its hard not to stare
http://webstyleguide.com...phics/screen-print.html

Edge is sloow but WiFi rocks.
http://www.iphonenetworktest.com/results

The keyboard is cool but could be better. Takes a little skill to type fast.

I already Need more storage for movies and video podcast. 60 GB would be a good start. Also I would like to see HDMI video out, GPS, and a video camera.

Build quality seems good, nice feel. Can't wait till the next major version.

Maybe I'm missing something... I don't get why the IPhone is so impressive to people?

I have the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC... I have 4 Gigs of storage... I can play music, video's, Movies, Word, Excel... It's a Phone. Plus it's 3G. And I can keep going on about what this phone will do. (not including all the software you can install on it)

So what's the "WOW" about the IPhone?

A friend of mine went out and bought a IPhone (Before he seen my Pocket PC) ran over here all excited and showed me everything it could do... Then I handed him my phone... You should of seen his face as his smile went away... After playing with my phone for a while you can just see he didn't even want to talk about his IPhone. And as he left said "I wasted my money on a IPhone I should of got a Pocket PC"

Maybe I'm missing something about the IPhone?

easy... iPhone is not ugly. :)

That's true. As I said, only for idiots!

The people who complain the most about overpriced novelty items are the ones who can't afford them.

It's official, anyone that still thinks the PS3 is overpriced, is a retard. The iPhone is the same price, and nowhere near as techonogically advanced...

Bingo.

ROFL! It's ok to be upset Ben. It's not your fault nobody wants a PS3.

The PS3 doesn't have a touch-screen that fits in your pocket. What are you smoking? ;)

The iPhone does not have Blu-Ray, Cell CPU, RSX GPU, and is just a phone...

ROFL! Ben do you honestly think the average consumer cares? They don't even know wdf that is.

The iPhone is something you can use everyday to increase your productivity and communication in addition to entertainment.

The PS3 is for entertainment only.

They are both over-priced. While I think the iPhone is pretty cool, its really only the new features that they could have released on a new iPod that I like. For phone/email, my Blackberry is far superior. As is my ipod for music and videos (just due to 60GB of storage).

Had they released an iphone unit, minus phone and just had it be a full touchscreen 30-60GB iPod and priced it around $299-349, then it would be far more worthwhile and I would have considered replacing my existing 60GB iPod.

Thus the logical conclusion is that people should buy PS3 instead.

Blaaaaa blaaaa. This sucks, that sucks waaaaaa!

Listen Apple made a phone that appeals to a novice home computer user. End point.

Let it go. It's a good phone. other things are better for other uses. Like the zune door stop. (just kidding couldn't resist.)

So it is confirmed. One half million idiots, most in the bay area. $500-$600 for the phone, $36 to activate, $70-$80 per month for a two year contract depending on the service, additional options (most ipod add-ons don't work) .... sounds like a hell of an expensive phone to me!

Service plans are the same with any phone offered by AT&T. In fact, they are cheaper than the Blackjack due to the lack of 3G.

So really, the only extra cost you're paying for is the phone. $500 is $200 more than the newest Blackberry. So yeah, it's slightly more expensive, but you also get an iPod and a better phone in the process.

It's also worth noting that the 3G and Blackberry plans from AT&T cost $50/month, compared to $20 for the iPhone's data plan. Over two years, that is $720 extra.

So, pay an extra $200 for the iPhone now and save $520 in the long run. Seems like a pretty good deal to me! Within 7 months, you've already made back the difference in data plans.

again where do you get your information from?
frist newest blackberry comes with 100$ mail in rebate therefore the 4gb model is 300$ more expensive and 8gb 400$ more expensive and yet lacks the same funtionality of a pda device which is why bb cost so much for what they can do, not cause they carry a brand name.
http://www.wireless.att....erry-personal-plans.jsp and those are 5$ cheaper with any current att plan so you really save 10$ over the bb net which can do more including gps.

The thing is if you disconnect your service the phone becomes a paperweight as none of the features work (at least to my understanding)

That is why it is not 4 u ;-)

I think that surpasses the PS3!

And the Xbox 360, and vista, and anything else. Sure makes "1 million Zunes by June" sound comical. Funny, it's July and I haven't heard how that worked out yet.

Actually, apple fanboy, they are close to selling 1 million zunes but that is besides my point as the Zune is not a phone. I must laugh at you saying that the iphone has sold more then Xbox 360 and Vista ... which is like saying, you're intelligent .. it'd just be plain fallacy.

Also .. umm how many PDA's and Smartphones have been sold with Windows Mobile on it? yea .. kthx bye.

In conclusion, i'm happy that apple sold its phone but thats because its a ground breaking device, but there are companies out their that could make a far better device.

"but there are companies out their that could make a far better device."

And many DO make a far better device. The only thing the iphone really has going for it is its looks and the fact that it's new.

My coworker got the iphone...and just for the hell of it we tried to do a test, who could look up a flight faster on travelocity.com...I was able to look up the flight and the cost of the ticket on the blackberry before the page even loaded for him. It was kind of funny actually...since he JUST finished bragging about it before we tried that. :)

FYI I don't own a single apple product. Temped by iPhone, but only tempted. And the sales number comparisons are for the first two days. Lets wait till iPhone has been available as long as some of these other devices and then we'll see what real innovation can do for a product.

its funny that these articles are so pro-apple. as a mainstream release of a mobile device it failed. yes it sold a s*** load but activations are something people are waiting on the phone for 3 hours to deal with. as of this point activations for any iPhone is between a 24-72hr wait time. if you don't believe me call cingular 18003310500 and ask and you'll get transferred to a message saying "due to overwhelming response to the iphone activations..." they had 2 years to prepare for the activations done through itunes there is absolutly no excuse for a 72hr wait time to activate a phone that can be done with any smartphone or blackberry 15 minutes instore to have corporate email syncd. the success of a release shouldn't be measured purely in sales, the device should work when you get it not 3 days later and there is currently a 4% return rate based solely upon the activation wait time, thats 20000 people and $998,000(4gb model) if you think 4% is not alot.

Yeah 2 years ago they should have anticipated 500,000 sales in one weekend. Just because they have sold more in 2 days than any other high-tech device has sold in 3 months is no excuse for being overloaded.

they did actually anticipate those sales yes... why do you think the supply was so high? the main reason for the activation delay is because it incorporates itunes into the process. it is not at&t that is any more overloaded, we dont even do any activations at all, its all handled by an apple team when itunes doesn't work. they activation process should not take 3 days, how much they sell doesn't make an average consumer say " oh ok they are making tons of money of this i guess i can wait 3 days to use my phone."

Yep that makes it a big failure alright.

That 3-day problem affected only a very small number of users. Most phones (the far majority, in fact) activated within seconds.

If you look on cnet there is a video of one of the reviewers activating his own iphone right in front of your eyes. It worked flawlessly and it took literally 2 mins, not talking to anyone. Now if you had some special circumstances, whatever that may be even if a small percentage say 10k out of 500k people had problems it will take awhile for say 300 support people to take care of 10k users activation issues, especially when its within a few days.

So with all of that said and done has any other phone sold half a million in just a few days, that forces you on a 2 year contract with a single company, costs at least 60 dollars per month AND costs you 500-600 dollars to boot?

Think about that for a second and then talk about if it was a success or failure. This thing set a new bar, lets hope they dont get into the gaming console business they would clean house.

where do you get your information from? the 3-day problem still affects a very large number of users. if 4% are returning the devices based on it its more like 12-18% are affected by the issue. thats 60,000-90,000 people. that is not a small number regardless of percentage size. there is currently teams setup within at&t to take calls from people pissed off they can reach the apple team because 1800myiphone is at its capactiy, i just called there and detailed activation as my issue and the wait time was upwards of 30 minutes, 3 days after launch... seems like the very small number of users still aren't active.
as the itunes activation process requires users to enter in billing information and select rateplans the phones being activated in seconds in phyically impossible but a nice idea.

yes the iphone sold the highest percent of sales for a single mobile, its impossible to dispute it made tons of cash even just on the first day, but it also had the highest percent of issues with activations at time of release.. not users.. percent of users. that is why im saying people who think the release went off without a hitch and apple has done everything right here are not entirely correct.

We get our information from FACTS, not some anti-Apple web log. Wherever you're getting your information from, you need to check it for its credibility :)

nothing that he posted was a fact. my information is first hand from working at at&t, its credible

Hmmm, And so many "Bashers" said it would fail. Criticisms and envy are a jealous man's tools.

...and Marketing and Hype are Apples.

Ain't Life Grand?

They had a good run yes, but if sales drop completely after this its not really much of a hit now is it?

Hmmm PCtool, you need to re-work this.. it would have been funny.

Well said Tappa.

Well in three days.. yeh a VERY good run!

Attention thieves:
"The biggest sales were centered in the Bay Area"