Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] iPhone - my brief review

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> it doesn't matter if you buy an iPhone or not, because all of the cell 
> phone makers are secretly (or not so secretly) panicked and working on 
> their own similar products:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/technology/02cellphone.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

That is the great thing about it -- Apple's ideas can be stolen by other 
companies.  So competition will push the technology quickly out the 
masses.  I'm sticking with my old Treo 600 for now, but add some Apple 
interface-design brilliance, a nicer display and WiFi to the thing I'm 
using now and will buy it.  I also want GPS, bluetooth, much more memory 
and a faster processor.  It will all happen soon enough.  The old Treo is 
still working great (a nice surprise given how many failed when I first 
tried it).


> > (2) the one I was using was defective and most apps would work for only 
> > a few seconds before crashing -- totally unstable.  I showed it to the 
> > worker and he agreed that it was defective.
> >
> > So, I don't know about "2" -- is that a common problem for the iPhone 
> > or was mine a 1-in-a-million defect?
>
> Or maybe it was caused by 1 million monkeys pounding away on the thing 
> over the past couple of days? :-)

No, that would be worse because it was out there for a very short time. 
It was put out at 6:00 pm Friday, and I was there at 6:30 pm Saturday and 
the store was closed from 9:30 pm to 9:30 am.  So that means it wasn't out 
for more than 12.5 hours.  If it really can't handle 12 hours as a display 
model, it isn't ready for distribution!


> Apparently, the most obvious audience for it are "hip" people who like 
> stylish things, and carry around both an iPod and a cell phone. Getting 
> and iPhone thus reduces their device count by one, and if it allows them 
> to read email and look at the web a bit, well that's awesome, too.

Definitely.  It's supposed to be a better video iPod than the video iPod 
(maybe that was partly because of battery life).

For me one of the big short comings is that with the AT&T internet 
service, when you're on the 'net, your phone is off.  That's just wrong 
and they will have to fix that!

Funny thing on the local news - a woman carrying $16,000 in cash and 
planning to buy $100,000 worth of iPhones and sell them on EBay got to the 
Apple store and paid the first guy in line $800 for his place in line. 
She went up to the desk with all her loot and was told "Sorry - only one 
per customer."  You have to wonder why she didn't call on Thursday to find 
out what the rules were!  The 20-something guy with the $800 was with two 
friends, only one of whom wanted to buy himself an iPhone, so he used the 
extra money to get his friend to buy him a second iPhone.  The woman was 
pretty miffed about all of it.

Mike

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