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Email from Apple- iPhone "Talk to you Soon"

Max Payne said:
Things people do while waiting :D Nice though.

UK users will have to wait until after September.
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Well.. Perhaps since the time is 9:24, you'll be waiting until September 24th... dun dun duuuuuuun.... :cool:

EDIT: Ha, jokes on me... It's 9:42.... my attempt at a lame joke got even lamer!
 
nagromme said:
Must... wait... gor 16... GB....

Must... keep... Discover card... in... wallet....

Must... not... be... early... adopter....

Please... send... help....



Reverse what? No amount of competing renditions are going to equal Apple's multitouch functionality and attention to user experience--much less actually engineer and SHIP something, which Apple will soon do.

iPhone "competitors" (there are none so far--it's not quite in the same category as other products) do the same thing that iPod competitors do: they increase the amount people are talking about Apple products! Any time one of those is mentioned in some article, Apple ALSO gets free mention. Must be nice to get so much free buzz :)
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LG Prada is out soon and looks really nice.
 
the view of the phone makes me want to yea u know..myself. I can't wait. Is frustrating that I don't know anything on the release or cost/plans. O well I need a birthday present
 
What do you all think?

What do you all think of the Blackberry Pearl? I have it, and it's pretty awesome. It's not as glamorous as the iPhone, but it can do it all. Is everyone psyched on the OS X on phone?

I apologize ahead of time as I think I'll get flamed for this posting.

Hope everyone is well.
 
Mark Kuroda said:
What do you all think of the Blackberry Pearl? I have it, and it's pretty awesome. It's not as glamorous as the iPhone, but it can do it all. Is everyone psyched on the OS X on phone?

I apologize ahead of time as I think I'll get flamed for this posting.

Hope everyone is well.
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A co-worker and I were playing with the Blackberry pearl, and we got it to crash twice within 5 minutes. That's the extent of my use of it.
 
koobcamuk said:
LG Prada is out soon and looks really nice.
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Not to mention, it has a smaller screen, lower res, black-and-white interface, no WiFi (!), tiny storage capacity (MicroSD!), no tilt/proximity/ambient light sensors, and of course no multitouch (oops, stray touches beware--no wonder it needs a bigger wasted margin around the outside that iPhone doesn't need). That leaves aside the software capabilities of the iPhone, from coverflow to realtime photo zooming to visual voicemail to visual tracking of multiple text sessions to REAL web browsing to iTunes integration to whatever else OS X in your pocket (with GB of storage and great graphics power) might come to allow.

And it costs $778 :eek: Granted, it's slighty smaller across than the iPhone. (And slightly thicker than the iPhone.)

"Really nice" is in the eye of the beholder :)

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/lgs-ke850-prada-official-iphone-says-wha/
 
Is it just me or does this email seem like it should have been sent as an auto-response to signing up at the Apple website. The more I think about it, I am more confused by this email than anything.
 
Just as the iphone slowly disappear from our minds apple reminds us to prolong our agony until june - smart marketing
 
AVID said:
Just as the iphone slowly disappear from our minds apple reminds us to prolong our agony until june - smart marketing
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Exactly!!! but it's so annoying considering UK fans have to wait till like December 31st to get it and pay 500+ smackers for it.....with an 18 month contract.
 
nagromme said:
Not to mention, it has a smaller screen, lower res, black-and-white interface, no WiFi (!), tiny storage capacity (MicroSD!), no tilt/proximity/ambient light sensors, and of course no multitouch (oops, stray touches beware--no wonder it needs a bigger wasted margin around the outside that iPhone doesn't need). That leaves aside the software capabilities of the iPhone, from coverflow to realtime photo zooming to visual voicemail to visual tracking of multiple text sessions to REAL web browsing to iTunes integration to whatever else OS X in your pocket (with GB of storage and great graphics power) might come to allow.

And it costs $778 :eek: Granted, it's slighty smaller across than the iPhone. (And slightly thicker than the iPhone.)

"Really nice" is in the eye of the beholder :)

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/lgs-ke850-prada-official-iphone-says-wha/
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Just remember, much of what the iPhone does has been done before. Palm has patented threaded messaging (the iPhone SMS demo looked like a complete copy from Palm's Windows Mobile SMS app), and Blackberry already has a screen that adjusts based on ambient light.

I have a feeling we'll see a number of lawsuits right before the iPhone launch.
 
nagromme said:
Reverse what? No amount of competing renditions are going to equal Apple's multitouch functionality and attention to user experience--much less actually engineer and SHIP something, which Apple will soon do.

iPhone "competitors" (there are none so far--it's not quite in the same category as other products) do the same thing that iPod competitors do: they increase the amount people are talking about Apple products! Any time one of those is mentioned in some article, Apple ALSO gets free mention. Must be nice to get so much free buzz :)
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I'm sorry, but your opinion is of the Apple-bias. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as excited about the iPhone as you are and I don't value the competition as highly as the TRUE iPhone, but we're mac-lovers. The general population values their wallet above any company loyalty, and if companies like Samsung have the time to develop and release a competitor to the iPhone for less, then guess what? The iPhone loses customers. And with a 10 million goal, they can't afford to lose a single one.

I'd also be lying if I didn't say that after stepping away from my excitement, I realized that there are a lot of features lacking that will keep me from buying right away (unless these features pop up by the time they release). Had Jobs announced that the iPhones were shipping back in January, they'd have sold me one right then.. but now that I've had time to really look it over, I'm not as impressed, and will be holding out. I cannot be the only one.

StrictlyCircus said:
You clearly missed the larger point: be first to market. Apple's announcement beat LG and Prada's similar offerings and made them seem like copy-cats. Although we all might need to bear through the wait, no one should be complaining that interest will wane. Over 1 million people have signed up to get those e-mails from Cingular and Apple, so they must be doing something right.
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Please. Who released that statistic? Cingular. You have to be careful about what statistics and numbers you believe. Personally, I don't believe for a second that 1 million unique users signed up for the iPhone announcement.
 
Except that...

MacbookSwitcher said:
Since no one has used it, we don't know what the multi-touch functionality and user experience will be like. We also don't know how many bugs it might have, what the reception will be like, etc, etc.

Sorry to rain on your parade, though. I'm looking forward to trying one out as much as everyone else.
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Without any specifics, I have read many articles from when it was debuted from all the tech people that got their hands on it, and I seriously didn't read a single negative word about the multi-touch interface or keyboard. On the contrary, every article I read said that they LOVED it and it was amazing.
 
xfiftyfour said:
.......I'd also be lying if I didn't say that after stepping away from my excitement, I realized that there are a lot of features lacking that will keep me from buying right away (unless these features pop up by the time they release). Had Jobs announced that the iPhones were shipping back in January, they'd have sold me one right then.. but now that I've had time to really look it over, I'm not as impressed, and will be holding out. I cannot be the only one........
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You aren't the only one
 
wordmunger said:
9:42 is the time on the clock. So if you invert the time, you get (roughly) 24:6. Does that mean the release date for the iPhone is June 24?
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I totally like that :p. But it's later than an inverted June 14! Too bad neither are Tuesdays.

-=|Mgkwho
 
So where do I sign up to get emails about Leopard? :)

Seriously tho, has anyone heard if Apple might end up changing/upgrading any specs that are already known/rumored?
:confused:

I can't wait to see the final numbers of all those who end up with the phone after summer is over. Soon you will see tv reports about all the movie stars that got their new iPhone and how much they love it.
 
what are the chances that when it ships it will be 8 or 16 GB capacity? bet you it is!!
 
daneoni said:
Exactly!!! but it's so annoying considering UK fans have to wait till like December 31st to get it and pay 500+ smackers for it.....with an 18 month contract.
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Advantages to being in UK: we are forced not to buy a first gen product and instead get a second gen one straight off.
 
running said:
Hey, that's the first promotional picture without that hand! :)

Anyway, the iPhone will be available in Europe maybe in 2008, maybe more... and since it will be impossible to change SIM, I won't be able to buy it in US and use here :mad:
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Not true. It uses a sim card. just pop it in, and you're good to go.
 
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