Author Topic: iPhone! (Read 1945 times)

1K3 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:02:06 PM »

Nevermind...

Nilsen · « **Reply #16 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:20:39 PM »

The brilliant thing imo about the regular ipods is the user interface and they way they market the players. The rest of the player itself is pretty average.

This new iPhone is to me like a sportscar is to a driving fan.. Can be very usefull, but the big thing is the fun factor.

Max · « **Reply #17 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:28:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I guess I dunt get it, but then I dunt get iPods either.

Skuz it prevents teenagers from having to interact with the real world.
Which may also perhaps be said of us adults, who fly cartoon WW2 aeoplanes

Skuzzy · « **Reply #18 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:31:02 PM »

Uhm,,..all this depends on the ability to be able to read the itty-bitty screen.

Really Chairboy, it does not sound all that neat to me. It's just too small for it to be useful to me in the areas of GPS navigation, WEB browsing, and, well,...everything it can do. It's not even shaped well to be used for a phone. Sort of like the Blackberry.

My Wife has one (a Blackberry). Well, she is on her second one, the first one fell out my car window on the freeway. Needs bigger handles, I tell ya.

Chairboy · « **Reply #19 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:43:39 PM »

Ok, fair enough. I guess that when you said it was "goofy" I didn't realize you meant "it does not sound all that neat to me".

There'll probably never be a 'one device fits all', people have different needs.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #20 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:49:20 PM »

goofy: Silly, odd, contridictory, without merit, questionable, disturbing.

Take yer pick. I use 'goofy' for many things. Much like 'mook'.

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Originally posted by Nilsen
The brilliant thing imo about the regular ipods is the user interface and they way they market the players. The rest of the player itself is pretty average.

This new iPhone is to me like a sportscar is to a driving fan.. Can be very usefull, but the big thing is the fun factor.

I guess I am too practical Nils. I cannot equate 'fun' to a phone thing. Phones are anything but fun to me. The first time someone told me to "text them", I never talked to them again.

airspro · « **Reply #21 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:54:34 PM »

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goofy: Silly, odd, contridictory, without merit, questionable, disturbing.

Our family uses "differant" when we want to say something nice but "think" it is crap or wat not

Oh , well that's "differant"

Rolex · « **Reply #22 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:53:34 PM »

I think most phones are not fun because the weakest part is crappy, confusing interfaces created without any consideration for the user. You shouldn't have to read a novel-sized book to operate a phone.

The elegance is that even an old, old, old graybeard can use it.

You seem a little young to be so stuck in your ways...

Why don't you go to a store and get someone to show you one? Nothing beats actually holding it and seeing firsthand.

I used to be averse to phones that did anything but work as a phone, but I'm surrounded by cell phones that are state of the art. It's amazing how I've adapted and found uses for many features I thought I didn't want, or would never use.

rpm · « **Reply #23 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:56:58 PM »

It looks very cool to me. The touchscreen interface is the neatest feature, IMHO. You are not stuck with 1 keypad setup for many different applications.

Skuzzy, I understand the "whiz-bang" factor you are talking about, but this has possibilities. Who would have thought a camera / cell phone would have been a hit?

ramzey · « **Reply #24 on:** January 09, 2007, 06:07:19 PM »

1. i would never buy videophone, obvious reason...........
2. How different it is from current cellulars? not realy

vorticon · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2007, 06:42:56 PM »

meh.

coloured smoke and bent mirrors.

it combines all those dumb gadgets for girly-men into one ugly ****.

moot · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2007, 10:12:01 PM »

Another pocket kitchen sink.
Integrated phone/internet appliance/DV player will be interesting when they're slimmer a lot than that.

Until then they should let ipods be ipods, phones phones, and cameras cameras... It's too bad they couldn't make a lite version, with just the phone functionalities.. I'd have bought one on the spot.
The ipod should have gotten that tactile widescreen (as I predicted - tm. Lasersailor).

I'll probably fall into buying one, though, despite the absurdity of the storage/price ratio.
Can't the other manufacturers keep up and give Apple some competition?

DiabloTX · « **Reply #27 on:** January 09, 2007, 10:26:18 PM »

If they can get it to play World Of Warcraft online they'll sell millions of them.

Imagine if they could get it to play AHII...hmmmmmm...??

Chairboy · « **Reply #28 on:** January 09, 2007, 10:38:26 PM »

Moot: Slimmer? It's less than a half inch thick, any thinner and it'd need a Visa logo. 11.6mm = .47"

Vudak · « **Reply #29 on:** January 09, 2007, 11:31:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I guess I dunt get it, but then I dunt get iPods either.

iPods are incredibly useful if you really enjoy music and have a lot of it.

Not only can you store a ton of tunes, but you can organize them into playlists, and not have to bother with CDs.

Then, depending on how large your house is and how it is built, you can have every single radio in the place pick up what the iPod is playing, and viola, you have the most obnoxiously loud party on the block

I don't own one but I wish I did. If it was free, anyway. It's just the sort of music I enjoy isn't easily found on things like iTunes or Rhapsody, etc., and so I'd have to buy the CD first, anyway, before I could put it on the iPod. That doesn't make much economic sense to me at this time.