lazyweebs: iPhone

[dredpiratebunny]

okay, so i am almost going to take the plunge and get an iPhone.

if you have one, what do you love about it? what do you hate about it? are you on the at&t service or did you jailbreak it to work on a different network?

if you dont have one, why dont you? (besides $ of course)

thanks, i appreciate your thoughts!!

Comments

[clodappleleft.livejournal.com]

I have the iPod Touch and now I'm really wanting the iPhone, but I won't get it yet. My main reason is that I hate AT&T. Everyone I know that has the iPhone hates the lack of coverage and AT&T customer service sucks. The moment it becomes available on Verizon, if I haven't already gotten the Palm Pre, I'm getting the iPhone.

[dredpiratebunny.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm not a big fan of AT&T either, for those same reasons. if i get one, i'm considering jailbreaking it to stay on tmobile. whom i love.

[clodappleleft.livejournal.com]

T-Mobile coverage around here is even worse.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

I would think about jailbreaking an iPhone to stay on Sprint, I've been very pleased with their service. But cost is the only reason I don't have an iPhone. My cousin and brother both brought theirs to the last family gathering, and I drooled over so many of the applications and navigation and how easy and familiar it all looked. (I've been a member of Tribe Mac since 1983.) The only complaint I heard from either of them wasn't about AT&T, it was the battery life. They both wished it had longer battery life, but considering the size of the screen, it's pretty amazing how long it does last. And that family gathering was in September, I'm sure they've got newer models with better batteries out already.

[krztov.livejournal.com]

Apple products are overpriced, i Icould never pay that much

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're the one. I saw this on AOL this morning and was trying to remember who on my friends list had a phone that just went swimming in the cat dish.

http://www.switched.com/2009/03/14/11-quick-fixes-for-gadget-disasters/

[xany.livejournal.com]

I'm far from a member of the Cult of Jobs, but I really like my iPhone. It may just be the area of the country I'm in, but I've had no coverage issues with AT&T other than the ones I'd already had with T-Mobile. I liked T-Mobile a lot, but it just wasn't as cost-effective to buy the iPhone and port it over to them as it was to just buy the iPhone and cancel T-Mobile (including an early termination fee).

[hex61.livejournal.com]

I don't have one.

1) I used to have AT&T service. It was terrible. T-Mobile, for their occasional screw up, has been orders of magnitude better.

2) I have several friends with iPhones.

a) Calling is a nuisance (no buttons, numbers that vanish while dialing even though you need them for putting in conference call codes, must use ear bud or touch sensitive screen reacts to being pressed to ear).

b) Battery life is ok. Not great.

c) Checking email is good.

d) They mostly use their iPhone for email and games. Occasionally for managing contact numbers/address books. Not actually calling.

3) Wait another year and they will be cheaper with more options and better reliability.

4) Wait another year and you may have options other than AT&T without jail breaking the phone.

Those are my reasons anyway.

[razorslave.livejournal.com]

with mine, it screen detects the wide area of the face if you hold the screen against the side of your head, and deactivates the touch screen till it pulls away, when the screen comes back to life and use.

[nulldevice.livejournal.com]

Love mine.

Don't even mind AT&T...I've had sprint and USCell at various times and have had major suckitude in coverage from both.

I loved the fact that it worked nicely overseas. Quad-band GSM FTW.

3G eats up battery. It was amazing when i was travelling and had my 3g shut off, my battery barely dented over a few days. Came home, kicked it back onto my 3g net and boom, back to mediocre battery life.

I use my iPhone like a very small laptop. Checking mail, viewing documents, browsing, etc. I even have an SSH client on it.

[razorslave.livejournal.com]

I <3 My Iphone. . . but I'm on T-Mobile, so I had to unlock and jailbreak it to get it working. . .

[bunnygoth.livejournal.com]

I'm getting one on Friday - I guess bunnies think alike. (:3

[nikki-wraith.livejournal.com]

Time to dispell some FUD. Remember who I work for, and take a grain of salt with this.
ATT will be the exclusive carrier until the end of 2010. Verizon is unlikely to ever have the iPhone, as they rejected it twice already.
Simply buying an iPhone 3G and unlocking it will cost you in the neighborhood of $700. You'll have to repay ATT for the subsidy, and for early termination.
Battery life is fine - if you use it like it is intended to be. Sync/charge nightly and you will be fine. If you spend most of your life indoors, shut off location services - GPS needs open sky.
If you have a phone that stays black after you pull it away from your face - look at your case. About 90% of the time, that issue is caused by a case that covers the proximity sensor - 1/8 inch or so to the left of the receiver opening.

Anything else, drop me line directly.....

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

I would be reluctant to get one as I keep hearing that it lacks features that have long been standard on ordinary phones (Java, copy/paste, being able to use it as a modem, video, MMS) and if I'm upgrading to a new high end phone, I would expect it to at least do everything my 4 year old non-smartphone can do. Plus, all the things that people rave about it (web access, mapping software) have also long been commonplace on phones, which makes me suspicious as to how good it actually is compared to the competition, and how much is just Apple fan-ism...

So if I was going to get a high end phone, my preference would be at least to check out those from other companies too. I think I'd like one with actual keyboard (and ordinary phone buttons). I liked the look of tiamatlady's :)

(I speak with UK experience. My impression is that US phones have traditionally lagged behind phones in other countries, either due to the technology, or because the features were crippled by the network, e.g., disabling or limiting Internet acess, which possibly explains why there's a lot of hype over the Iphone, whilst over here we're not sure what the fuss is about:)