OT - Iphone 3G

by **Behshad** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:36 am

So anyone here getting the new Iphone 3G, coming out tomorrow?
From what Ive seen and read, it looks like its gonna be one of the best phones on the market. And the price of $199 makes it even more attractive.
However the fact that they are ATT exclusive ONLY may affect their total sales figures.

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:22 am

Anyone got the new Iphone yet? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

by **NealIsGod** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:25 am

I am getting the Dare from Verizon tomorrow. It wouldn't make sense for me to dump Verizon - I always have a signal wherever I am, and most of my family and friends are on Verizon.

http://gizmodo.com/5020820/verizons-lg- ... iclone-yet

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:28 am

NealIsGod wrote:I am getting the Dare from Verizon tomorrow. It wouldn't make sense for me to dump Verizon - I always have a signal wherever I am, and most of my family and friends are on Verizon.

http://gizmodo.com/5020820/verizons-lg- ... iclone-yet

Yep, youre right. My buddy who is also on Verison wants a Iphone BAD, but once he sat down and thought it through , he figured its better to just get the Dare.
Now what he did, he asked Verizon what he has to do if he wants to cancel and move to AT&T, at which point they said they will give him a free Dare if he stays with them plus some extra minutes for free...... something you might wanna try

by **NealIsGod** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:56 am

Behshad wrote:
NealIsGod wrote:I am getting the Dare from Verizon tomorrow. It wouldn't make sense for me to dump Verizon - I always have a signal wherever I am, and most of my family and friends are on Verizon.

http://gizmodo.com/5020820/verizons-lg- ... iclone-yet

Yep, youre right. My buddy who is also on Verison wants a Iphone BAD, but once he sat down and thought it through , he figured its better to just get the Dare.
Now what he did, he asked Verizon what he has to do if he wants to cancel and move to AT&T, at which point they said they will give him a free Dare if he stays with them plus some extra minutes for free...... something you might wanna try

Do you know if he did that at a Verizon store or a reseller?

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:02 am

NealIsGod wrote:
Behshad wrote:
NealIsGod wrote:I am getting the Dare from Verizon tomorrow. It wouldn't make sense for me to dump Verizon - I always have a signal wherever I am, and most of my family and friends are on Verizon.

http://gizmodo.com/5020820/verizons-lg- ... iclone-yet

Yep, youre right. My buddy who is also on Verison wants a Iphone BAD, but once he sat down and thought it through , he figured its better to just get the Dare.
Now what he did, he asked Verizon what he has to do if he wants to cancel and move to AT&T, at which point they said they will give him a free Dare if he stays with them plus some extra minutes for free...... something you might wanna try

Do you know if he did that at a Verizon store or a reseller?

he called the local Verizon store.

by **NealIsGod** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:20 am

Behshad wrote:
NealIsGod wrote:
Behshad wrote:
NealIsGod wrote:I am getting the Dare from Verizon tomorrow. It wouldn't make sense for me to dump Verizon - I always have a signal wherever I am, and most of my family and friends are on Verizon.

http://gizmodo.com/5020820/verizons-lg- ... iclone-yet

Yep, youre right. My buddy who is also on Verison wants a Iphone BAD, but once he sat down and thought it through , he figured its better to just get the Dare.
Now what he did, he asked Verizon what he has to do if he wants to cancel and move to AT&T, at which point they said they will give him a free Dare if he stays with them plus some extra minutes for free...... something you might wanna try

Do you know if he did that at a Verizon store or a reseller?

he called the local Verizon store.

I will definitely try that. Thanks for the tip.

Website · by **FishinMagician** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:44 am

i'll get an iphone when they make 100 gig

by **finalfight** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:53 am

You might want to give this New York Times article the once over first in case it affects you -

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/busines ... ref=slogin

NEW YORK (AP) -- The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.

''It's such grief and aggravation,'' said Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Mass., after spending two hours on the phone with Apple and AT&T Inc., trying to get his new iPhone to work.

In stores, people waited at counters to get the phones activated, as lines built behind them. Many of the customers had already camped out for several hours in line to become among the first with the new phone, which updates the one launched a year ago by speeding up Internet access and adding a navigation chip.

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple's iTunes servers that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned.

Instead, employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers, spokesman Michael Coe said.

However, the iTunes servers were equally hard to reach from home, leaving the phones unusable except for emergency calls.

The problem extended to owners of the previous iPhone model. A software update released for that phone on Friday morning required the phone to be reactivated through iTunes.

''It's a mess,'' said freelance photographer Giovanni Cipriano, who updated his first-generation iPhone only to find it unusable.

When the first iPhone went on sale a year ago, customers performed the whole activation procedure at home, freeing store employees to focus on sales. But the new model is subsidized by carriers, and Apple and AT&T therefore planned to activate all phones in-store to get customers on a contract.

The new phone went on sale in 21 countries on Friday, creating a global burden on the iTunes servers.

The iPhone has been widely lauded for its ease of use and rich features, but Apple is a newcomer to the cell-phone business, and it's made some missteps. When it launched the first phone in the U.S. a year ago, it initially priced the phones high, at $499 and $599, then cut the price by $200 just 10 weeks later, throwing early buyers for a loop.

Rollouts to other countries were slow, as Apple tried to get carriers on board with its unusual pricing scheme, which included monthly fees to Apple. The business model of the new phone follows industry norms, and the price is lower: $199 or $299 in the U.S.

On Thursday, Apple had problems with the launch of a new data service, MobileMe. The service is designed to synchronize a users personal data across devices, including the iPhone, but many users were denied access to their accounts.

Enthusiasm was high ahead of the Friday morning launch of the new phone.

Alex Cavallo, 24, was one of hundreds lined up at the Fifth Avenue store, just as he had been a year ago for the original iPhone. He sold that one recently on eBay in anticipation of the new one. In the meantime, he has been using another phone, which felt ''uncomfortable.''

''The iPhone is just a superior user experience,'' he said. The phone also proved a decent investment for him: He bought the old model for $599 and sold it for $570.

Nick Epperson, a 24-year-old grad student, spent the night outside an AT&T store in Atlanta, keeping his cheer up with bags of Doritos, three games of Scrabble and two packs of cigarettes. Asked why he was waiting in line, he responded simply ''Chicks dig the iPhone.''

IPhone fever was strong even in Japan, where consumers are used to tech-heavy phones that do restaurant searches, e-mail, music downloads, reading digital novels and electronic shopping. More than 1,000 people lined up at the Softbank Corp. store in Tokyo and the phone quickly sold out.

''Just look at this obviously innovative design,'' Yuki Kurita, 23, said as he emerged from buying his iPhone, carrying bags of clothing and a skateboard he had used as a chair during his wait outside the Tokyo store. ''I am so thrilled just thinking about how I get to touch this.''

The phone went on sale first in New Zealand, where hundreds of people lined up outside stores to snap it up right at midnight -- 8 a.m. Thursday in New York.

''Steve Jobs knows what people want,'' Web developer Lucinda McCullough told the Christchurch Press newspaper, referring to Apple's chief executive. ''And I need a new phone.''

In Germany, sales were brisk at local carrier T-Mobile's stores, particularly in Munich, Hamburg and Cologne, said spokeswoman Marion Kessing.

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AP Business Writers George Frey in Frankfurt, Germany, Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta contributed to this report.

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:41 am

Thanks for the info Finalfight,,,, I read about it too,,,,

It doesnt reflect the overall quality of Apple's Iphone, but rather the fact that with SO many people trying to activate their phones at once..... By the end of the weekend it will be a more calm and better time to get an Iphone.....

by **ScarabGator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:49 am

Since Ive worked for the company that is networking this phone for 20 years now and I am currently an engineer that designs their telecom systems yes, I got it. With a major discount.

by **RedWingFan** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:53 am

ScarabGator wrote:Since Ive worked for the company that is networking this phone for 20 years now and I am currently an engineer that designs their telecom systems yes, I got it. With a major discount.

Can you hook a brutha up? :lol:

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:54 am

2 BROTHAS

by **ScarabGator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:56 am

God, I wish they'd let me but I am limited to just one right now...

by **WalrusOct9** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:04 am

It's a fucking phone. Get over it, people.

I'd actually say its a pretty sweet device if it wasn't made by a bunch of fucking Nazis who wanted you to sign a really expensive, long-term plan with the worst cell-phone carrier I've ever had just to buy one. Why do people give Apple such a universal hand job when they pull shit like that?

by **StoneCold** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:13 am

WalrusOct9 wrote:It's a fucking phone. Get over it, people.

I'd actually say its a pretty sweet device if it wasn't made by a bunch of fucking Nazis who wanted you to sign a really expensive, long-term plan with the worst cell-phone carrier I've ever had just to buy one. Why do people give Apple such a universal hand job when they pull shit like that?

I'm astounded how many WAITED DAYS/HOURS in line to HAND OVER $600 bucks at the launch last year. Then Apple says, psych!, did you pay 600? ha ha, no its only 400 now. That was classic.

How quickly they forget. Check out this line in Chicago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72uCFb1B7VI

by **ScarabGator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:51 am

WalrusOct9 wrote:It's a fucking phone. Get over it, people.

I'd actually say its a pretty sweet device if it wasn't made by a bunch of fucking Nazis who wanted you to sign a really expensive, long-term plan with the worst cell-phone carrier I've ever had just to buy one. Why do people give Apple such a universal hand job when they pull shit like that?

dont know if its the worst walrus. T Mobile sucks ass. Thats it I can no longer comment on this or I could be let go. Damn, that would cost them a lot to buy me out.

by **ScarabGator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:01 am

WalrusOct9 wrote:It's a fucking phone. Get over it, people.

I'd actually say its a pretty sweet device if it wasn't made by a bunch of fucking Nazis who wanted you to sign a really expensive, long-term plan with the worst cell-phone carrier I've ever had just to buy one. Why do people give Apple such a universal hand job when they pull shit like that?

I cant get over it..its making my stock go up!!!! Maybe I can retire soon!!! Buy those fucking phones peeps!!!!!

by **Behshad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:05 am

Its more than just a phone,,,, its a phone, a mini computer and a real ipod all in one,
I have had AT&T for 4 years and Im very happy with their services.
And I am not a Apple/Mac fan, but man they did a nice job on this one......
And how do you figure its a really expensive LONG TERM plan!???
Most phone companies these days want you to sign for a 2 year contract which is what AT&T is asking for.

and to pay $69/m for full internet included, I dont think its too shabby..... the 3G line is what makes this phone and its internet superior to most others.....

And the $199 is just a campaign,,,, the real price is the same as last year,,,,, those who paid $600 last year, pay $20/month for internet , while the people who pay $199, will pay $30,,, so eventually it will not only even up, but those with the $199 will end up paying more in the long run,,,,,,

by **ScarabGator** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:06 am

Behshad wrote:Its more than just a phone,,,, its a phone, a mini computer and a real ipod all in one,
I have had AT&T for 4 years and Im very happy with their services.
And I am not a Apple/Mac fan, but man they did a nice job on this one......
And how do you figure its a really expensive LONG TERM plan!???
Most phone companies these days want you to sign for a 2 year contract which is what AT&T is asking for.

and to pay $69/m for full internet included, I dont think its too shabby..... the 3G line is what makes this phone and its internet superior to most others.....

And the $199 is just a campaign,,,, the real price is the same as last year,,,,, those who paid $600 last year, pay $20/month for internet , while the people who pay $199, will pay $30,,, so eventually it will not only even up, but those with the $199 will end up paying more in the long run,,,,,,

Damn B....AT&T needs you for marketing!!!!! Probably couldnt afford ya though!!!! :wink:

by **Natalie** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:14 am

ScarabGator wrote:
Behshad wrote:Its more than just a phone,,,, its a phone, a mini computer and a real ipod all in one,
I have had AT&T for 4 years and Im very happy with their services.
And I am not a Apple/Mac fan, but man they did a nice job on this one......
And how do you figure its a really expensive LONG TERM plan!???
Most phone companies these days want you to sign for a 2 year contract which is what AT&T is asking for.

and to pay $69/m for full internet included, I dont think its too shabby..... the 3G line is what makes this phone and its internet superior to most others.....

And the $199 is just a campaign,,,, the real price is the same as last year,,,,, those who paid $600 last year, pay $20/month for internet , while the people who pay $199, will pay $30,,, so eventually it will not only even up, but those with the $199 will end up paying more in the long run,,,,,,

Damn B....AT&T needs you for marketing!!!!! Probably couldnt afford ya though!!!!

Nah, I heard he's cheap.......AND easy!

by **ttango1** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:56 pm

I waited from 8:30 until I got into the actual AT&T store at 2:15. My brother was in line at 6:30 so that's how I got up to the front. Anyways, it was a clusterfuck of mega proportions. The way that they handed out information( or mis-information) kept everyone edgy. They didn't know their own stock, they had more 8 gigs than 16, more white than black phones.
The store we were at just made us wait...and wait...and wait. We gre antsy everytime a fedex, ups, dhl, or any usps truck drove into the mall. Around 1:30 a fedex truck drove into the mall and started at the other end of the mall. It stopped at Verizon, inexorably, it makes it's way towards AT&T and then stops. Security checks and then helps the guy unload. There are 45 people in line and they process us 1 at a time. I got in at 2pm and waited for my brother 1st, then his wife, and finally mine. Computers were slow as hell as I waited out the credit app process but at 2:50...I walked out with my 1st iPhone a black 16 gig with the bundle of Jawbone 2 headset, a leather cover, a screen protector and a car charger.

I'm playing with the iPhone and truthfully, it kicks ass. It's expensive but if it can help me timewise, then it's a worthwhile investment.

by **rockposer** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:47 pm

Nope it is of no interest to me :roll:

by **Rhiannon** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:56 pm

I get a "company" one as soon as I can close my first outside sale.

by **NealIsGod** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:28 am

I ended up getting a Voyager because you can watch TV on it, which you can't do on a Dare. As soon as I saw that, I was hooked. I've only had it for 2 days, but I love it to death. TV, internet, email, GPS, music... oh yeah, and you can make calls on it.

by **Sarah** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:40 am

No appeal in the iPhone for me. I only use my phone for calls, alarms, and sending naked pics of myself.

XD

by **ttango1** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:43 pm

Sarah wrote:No appeal in the iPhone for me. I only use my phone for calls, alarms, and sending naked pics of myself.

XD

WTF?...Can those be seen at WTF?

I'm not asking for me...I'm asking for errrr.....SteveW2, yeah that's it. It's proof he's not gay.

by **stevew2** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:56 pm

I got a shitty Nextle phone that I dropped in my pool overnight, It is still working today,ill stick with that till my contract runs out.

by **stevew2** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:00 pm

ttango1 wrote:
Sarah wrote:No appeal in the iPhone for me. I only use my phone for calls, alarms, and sending naked pics of myself.

XD

WTF?...Can those be seen at WTF?

I'm not asking for me...I'm asking for errrr.....SteveW2, yeah that's it. It's proof he's not gay.

It will take more than that lame excuse. By the way its okay to be gay, thats my motto now, remember "its okay to be gay"

by **Sarah** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:16 am

ttango1 wrote:
Sarah wrote:No appeal in the iPhone for me. I only use my phone for calls, alarms, and sending naked pics of myself.

XD

WTF?...Can those be seen at WTF?

I'm not asking for me...I'm asking for errrr.....SteveW2, yeah that's it. It's proof he's not gay.

Oh I'm jk

OR AM I :lol:

MR

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