iPhone;242739 Wrote: > Don't be afraid of what you have not used or have not owned. Come on in > the water is fine, no really it is. To each his own, and the iPhone > works well for and has great value to me. One should not slam something > they have not tried or even dont need. At the price they are going for, > somebody must need and like them! > > Yes I own an iPhone. I paid $289US for mine brand new in the box with a > hundred dollar Jawbone Bluetooth included in that $289 because I waited. > Less then I paid for my BlackJack two and a half years ago. I own no > Macs and have never owned an iPod. > > Who cares about the battery? Battery technology has come a long way and > by the time I need a new battery there will be a better cheaper phone > available or I will buy a new one. I use my iPhone for about 14 hours a > day never turning it off and get about a day and a half out of a charge. > And when it gets low, I just stick it in the dock and load new tunes on > it while it charges. > > The memory issue does not even exist. How many other cell phones can > expand to 8GBs much less come with 8 gigs? Answer, not many and the > ones that are coming are only there because of the iPhone. Have you > priced an 8GB MicroSD that will not come with the phone you buy? Can I > fill the phone up, with over 5000 CDs ripped, you bet I can. But I > dont need every song I own with me all the time. All I need are the > best of my favorites, which takes up about 6 GB. That is over 5 days of > music listening to it straight (dont think I can stay awake that > long). > > The WiFi works great (full real web pages not that mobile crap!)! And > when not in WiFi coverage it falls back to Edge automatically. If one > can't afford $20 a month for unlimited data, move back home to the > parent's basement and turn in your cellular phone! > > The touch screen is wonderful and the ability to do landscape or > portrait is a fantastic function. I have owned every Blackberry known > to man and tried every Smart phone and pocket PC (Cingular Wireless > allows to you return any phone in two weeks for something else). None > of them came close to allowing me to work away from home the way the > iPhone has. I used to be chained to my 9-pound laptop when I left the > house, now I grab my iPhone and dont give it a second thought. I get > all my E-mail, can react to any Market Alert, receive phone calls, and > buy or sell options mobile on the actual website instead of the > stripped down mobile websites that will not let you do complex spreads > or iron condors. > > Plus as others have said, if nothing else, the iPhone will make the > other phone makes put out a better product. I believe the iPhone has > sold more initial retail sales then any other cell phone in history. > And when it gets to the give away stage in two years for $59.95 plus a > two year contract extension, it will most likely become the worlds > best selling cell phone ever.
Yeah, what he said! Coming from a long line os smartphones (i300,i330,i500, several treos), iphone blows them all away in terms of shear simple joyful useability. -- shadowboxer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shadowboxer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507
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