What, did they lower the price tag? That would be the nicest benefit they could come up with. Laim scripted news from Apple that gets the iPhone back into the wrip-and-print news.

"There has never been a phone like iPhone, and we can't wait to get this truly magical product into the hands of customers starting just 11 days from today,"

Wow, magical huh???? What a tard.

I wonder how many people who responded have actually SEEN/PLAYED with an iPhone such that opinions are based on REALITY rather than on what one might (or might not) have read somewhere!

I don't think people realize that they have to pay the iphone in full you don't get reduction. And you have to get locked in to a 2 years contract and still have to pay extra for a data plan. And if that's not enough there's no 3G and the damn thing is locked. I can't see myself paying $600 for a phone and I can't use it anywhere else. Usually with a 2 year contract you get a free phone and in some cases a second phone for 10 bucks or so extra.

There's not a chance AT&T gains one million customers. Anyone on an EVDO network is unlikely to switch to EDGE, so that leaves a much smaller pool of potential customers from which AT&T can poach.

Can anyone say "Apple Newton"? ;-)

A fool is easily parted from his money so there's no point trying to use logic to rationalise with those folks hellbent on buying one ASAP just because they've been sucked into the hype.

The fact that it costs 3 times as much as most phones and has half the features seems to be lost on the "oooh... shiny" crowd.

It must really suck for you huh? Let the haters hate because thats their job! [Katt Williams]

Can anyone say iPod? A poorly designed player, with crap components, and abysmal sound quality, but slick UI and great marketing...

I thought the sound quality was based on the but rate of the mp3 that you are playing. I may be wrong, just curious.

Yeah......like lots of "average Joe's" and artsy fartsy folks are going to pay $600 for a phone.

Come on.

WTF?

Oh wait........they probably will, considering that more than 60% of the population is in debt like ****ing crazy.

Dumb asses.

And I suppose you think that 99% of people who own mobile phones use them just for making and receiving phone calls. Yeah right.

I use my phone as a phone. I don't need all the extra bulls***. I don't need or want a ****ing camera, I don't need my phone to play music, I don't need it to play videos or look at pictures. People need to get over all this extra bulls*** on their phones. It does nothing but create extra work. PDA's are the same way. They were designed to make life easier but they created more work for people.

Yes. 99% of the mobile phone users use the phone just as a phone and nothing else. The people who use these extra features are most likely those who doesn't have to pay for them. AKA kids, teens.

Then you are being left behind in a digital revolution. I dare you to see how long you can just your phone as just a phone. LOL

I use mine for GPS, Email, Internet, Maps, Texting, Video, Pictures, games, oh and I call people too. LOL@technoobs

No one is forcing you to get one...so piss off will ya.

Why is it that a phone that cost $19.95 can send and receive pics?
And the most "technologically advanced phone" ever invented can't???
A $600 phone with no MMS capability, somehow that's so Apple like.

Apple's website says you can e-mail photos. It sounds like the iPhone supports MMS to me.

You don't quite understand MMS, do you.

Emailing photos isn't MMS, that's emailing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...media_Messaging_Service

Educate yourself.

regular phone: here i'll send you a video i took last night and some pics.

pda: its kinda hard to see its a little dark, maybe we can watch it sideways on the iphone and stretch out the pics and zoom and everything!!21!

iphone: you need to send it as an email, i dont use mms.

regular phone: but i, just as 90% of cingular subscribers use mms to send videos or pics... thats what its for. why dont you?

iphone: who knows?

it sounds like the iPhone does not support mms, to me at least.

No it doesn't MMS and e-mail are two totally different things. MMS is like SMS with multimedia content. And that's just another example of how Apple manipulates the consumers and lie to their gullible customers.

And another thing that a $600 phone should have is a user replaceable battery. And it's no secrete that Apples batteries are below average. And the iphone uses the same battery technology as the ipod. Just wait 6 months before the complaints and the law suits start pouring in.

They're both picture messaging. They're just two different ways of doing it. T-mobile's Sidekick 3 phone sends pictures the exact same way as the iPhone. I'm sure these two smartphones are not the only ones that require you to type an e-mail address instead of just a phone number.

For someone with a name "smarterthanyou"... you come off pretty dense.

What is the use of having a phone where the keys are displayed on the screen? Phone screens are difficult enough to see in daylight as it is, so you will never be able to see the keys to use the thing.

Bring back the old Monochrome LCD screens like the old nokia 3310, at least they can be used in bright daylight as well as at night.

Yup, so true.

Just like how long battery last with iPod, actual test last about 1/3 of what claimed.

Like I thought about what you like said like and then I thought like I can't like write anything itelligent like because I keep writing like too many times like so it was kind of like a waste of time like.

Woo hoo to the like like story!

You are being very creative. Nobody but you deserve the Apple fans of the year award.

Congrats!

Congrats? Oh you mean congratulations possibly?

No...he meant congrats.

Read what her wrote.

If he meant something else, he'd have edited it.

BTW a "like like" sotry ( as per original poster ) should make fun of a person who uses like for no reason and is not grammatically correct. WHich was not the case of the original comment.

So like, yeah, i dont like like u...how do u like that? :p

Latz, SB

If you'd written this:

"No he meant congrats.
Read what he wrote.
If he'd meant something else, he'd have edited it.
BTW a "like like" story (as per original poster) should make fun of a person who uses like for no reason and is not grammatically correct. Which was not the case of the original comment.
So like yeah, I dont like like you - how do you like that?"

Then maybe I'd have given a toss. [shrugs]
The point of my sarcastic comment (which is obviously lost on the two of you) is that I'd read far too many uses of the word like before I got that far. I can only assume you are both Amercian if you didn't get the sarcasm.

Doesn't matter much, lack of a hardware keyboard, 3G and MMS capabilities (among a few others) will only make customers mad that they didn't research the phone better before shelling out $600 for it. At least the customers that want more than a shiny Picture/Video iPod with a Phone built-in. Then again I might be misplacing my faith in the American public, who knows...

exactly, and people think that there will be more features at time of launch that we... just haven't heard about yet... and yet the sheep line up to buy the device without even knowing what it does. its funny people think this will be a great phone for pictures.. to bad it can't send or recieve them.

you mean to tell me that a $600 dollar phone don't send and recieve pics. that sucks. i will just stick with my pearl until the curve is released for T-mobile.

iPhone CAN send and receive photos, but only in emails or using wi-fi or blutu connection.

You mean like the lemmings did when Zune came out?

I guess that might be able to be changed, though. Like the MMS software intro'd to the Treo 700wx for Sprint. Where Sprint w/ Treo700wx must sent through email, there is a MMS software that allows you to send via MMS just like text messaging. ;] I use it, it works. And I couldn't be happier about it.

yah and thats pathetic for 600,000 of my pennies.

... and I think that's what Apple is counting on, the software and web interface filling in the holes for the things they did not want to add directly to the phone.

I don't think it's worth $600 either, I'm waiting for the second revision with 3G support. Once you get a phone with that, you're not going back to slower connections.

Well frankly the Zune didn't do that well.

The problem with that theory though is the iPhone isn't MMS compatible (accourding to the other posts). Plus the iPhone is closed source so you won't be able to add any software or games to it. Apples reasoning for that is they think that if they allow you to add programs, it may make the iPhone unreliable.

Them apples don't taste too good. And I'm sure the iSheep will run out and get it. Just think what else you could spend $600 on. You could probably get a laptop for that much.

Yeap, my PDA phone is already able to do all those. So there is no way I am going to buy this iphone. I do want to play with it for a few days, but thats about it :P. I will still stick with my current O2 XDA IIi.

The iPhone looks great but it's not fantastic. It's like saying I invented a car that runs on water but you can't buy tyres for it because we're worried about everyone elses tyres bursting. There are many good things about the iPhone but equally as many drawbacks - which is such a shame. There's no way that the iPhone in it's present incarnation is going to be sucessful in Europe and Japan.

Zune did everything it claimed to do.

And it happens to do them well.

iPhone claims to be revolutionary and yet lacks features commonplace in the same electronics category its competing in.

The comparison is not aplicable.

Sorry.

Latz, SB