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Live Coverage of iPhone 3.0 Media Event
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High-Five euro-buddy!
I always laugh at their $100 a month "Unlimited" plans, when here in Ireland, I pay $25 for the same...
And then the excitement of them about 3G. You're so cute! 'ickle Amewickans!
Oh wait, you're in Ireland.... never mind.
Either way this 3.0 stuff is a lot of plusses for the iphone and ipod touch users. Took Apple long enough but a majority of the things that should have been standard have finally come.
Now we all have to find something new to gripe about.... like @$$hole comments from across the pond.
Looks like an excellent all-round update. The iPhone now has every feature anyone could really ask for. We got copy/paste, we got turn-by-turn, we got landscape keyboards, we got MMS and even more to boot!
The one thing left is possibly background processes, for things like OmniFocus, but I don't think we'll get them because of battery life, and a redesigned springboard/desktop.
The one thing left is possibly background processes, for things like OmniFocus, but I don't think we'll get them because of battery life, and a redesigned springboard/desktop.
actualy think about what your saying... your telling me that when people 1st bought the iphone apple advertised on the box "Just beware this doesnt have copy and paste yet"
So in all fairness... you dont fully know what your buying unless you absolutely try it out for yourself...
Even the 3G hasn't been out for a year. Many of us 2G owners are only halfway through our contracts ...
Yes you can. Im in the Uk and you can get the iphone payg.
$550 to buy the phone and $14 per month to top up and get unlimited data.
Not everyone is in the USA.
I think the audience was hand picked to ask easy questions. No other explanation possible.
And this is why my sig is what it is.
Because not everyone rolls over and accepts Apple's failings and trumpets them as successes?
I enjoy Apple's products, I like using them, and they all work together well (even if they're a bit expensive). I bought the original iPhone on day one, for full price, knowing full well what it could and couldn't do, and again I've enjoyed using it. But I'm sick of the fanboy mentality that everything they do is great and that we have to endorse all of it.
The truth is that while the iPhone did a lot of new things and did them well when it came out, there were many basic things that it did not do, basic things that it is finally getting two years later. You don't have to be an Apple-hater to realize that... but you do have to be an Apple-fanboy to deny it.
Having trouble with so many glasshalffull posts today. Regardless of whether in someone's opinion many of these features should have been in the original iPhone, they weren't. And now those and many more are included in this updated and extended platform. I for one (and obviously I'm not alone) am very happy with today's announcements and am looking forward to June.
In the meantime...give me my slingplayer application...that will keep me busy until WWDC.
In the meantime...give me my slingplayer application...that will keep me busy until WWDC.
True, although I'm referring to those 1st year buyers of the iPhone 2G, who won't have access to some of the new features. Nevertheless, Apple/At&t will probably have some "upgrade" program again to extend the contracts of iPhone users.
This is very true, especially given that Apple constantly shows the iPhone's speed incorrectly in their adverts. I would argue that some users get the iPhone and find out it's a completely different user experience than the one given by the commercials and mindless iPhone junkies.
eh? lol what I said was a legitimit comment... sounds like your a nerd with a rage factor :S...
I dont actualy own a Iphone but for someone like you to post something that sounded stupid and I replied with something that was logical it sounds like you got mad :S maybe you can get your mammmy to buy you some chocolate just copy and paste this message into a text message on your iphone its simple and fast!
mammy I need some chocolate < copy and paste then send and your all done
Lol get outa here man
I love these events. There's really no need to post, just read..
The features are great, but far more entertaining are the hoards of insanely immature and certainly unstable people who voice their rebuttal.
The best of the day have to be the original iPhone whiners over mms. Hilarious content.
The features are great, but far more entertaining are the hoards of insanely immature and certainly unstable people who voice their rebuttal.
The best of the day have to be the original iPhone whiners over mms. Hilarious content.
Or you do that horribly difficult task of reading reviews online
Apple isnt there to hold a bad shoppers hand, its their own damn fault if they choose to blow hundreds of dollars with no research.
Good stuff
Overall I'm really happy with the announced updates. Why aren't they allowing video recording though? Not a biggie, I'm just curious. I like the landscape keyboard...if for nothing else that it at least makes the UI more consistent. Copy/Paste is nice and the background app stuff should allow for some cool apps. The future is looking bright.
Overall I'm really happy with the announced updates. Why aren't they allowing video recording though? Not a biggie, I'm just curious. I like the landscape keyboard...if for nothing else that it at least makes the UI more consistent. Copy/Paste is nice and the background app stuff should allow for some cool apps. The future is looking bright.
Well if you look at the PICTURES, the slide CLEARLY shows the original iphone, and the 3g iphone with the caption FREE FOR THE IPHONE.
I'm already halfway through the contract on my 3G.
...It came out July 11, 2008. That's 8 months, which is not halfway (unless you bought it wholesale)
Or you do that horribly difficult task of reading reviews online
Apple isnt there to hold a bad shoppers hand, its their own damn fault if they choose to blow hundreds of dollars with no research.
Ok so what if your a parent or relative or what not buying it as a present for someone? no offence but I wouldnt read up on reviews for stuff like presents (im not a parent btw) but i think the parent mindset is like... "ok lets get him/her this all his/her friends seem to have them or talk about them"
then you can counter that argument with "well it doesnt concern them because there not buying it for themselves"
either way.. you dont fully know what your buying unless you actualy try it out for yourself... and in reviews some are wrong.. or some are bias... just my 2 cents...
UGHHHH.
Give us background processes for God's sake. The pre does it, a smaller phone, but it's bad for a bigger one's battery? Give it to us and once the idiots realize not to play thirteen movies at once they'llbe smart with the battery.
If Pres weren't so ugly I'd be all over it.
Weak update. Can't include video recording or folders when amateur developers can whip one up. My lord.
Give us background processes for God's sake. The pre does it, a smaller phone, but it's bad for a bigger one's battery? Give it to us and once the idiots realize not to play thirteen movies at once they'llbe smart with the battery.
If Pres weren't so ugly I'd be all over it.
Weak update. Can't include video recording or folders when amateur developers can whip one up. My lord.