So the iPhone has just been launched...

retired_lantern2camping · 11-10-2007, 12:37 AM

i'd prob buy a n95 before buying an iPhone, it would prob work as cheaper as well if you bought an n95, and then went and bought an itouch, cause then you dont have the mad contract that comes with the iPhone.

retired_monica90 · 11-10-2007, 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by Asmodeus:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Jearm84:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Asmodeus:
It's basically a poor man's Wasp T12, minus the MP3 decks with scrubjockey interface.

and not being associated with utter utter tripe television which makes Catherine Tate guesting on Little Britain watching a double bill of my family and all about me look appealing </BLOCKQUOTE>

What the gibber? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Just to clarify- jearm what the **** are you on about...?

2boxers · 11-10-2007, 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by Asmodeus:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Asmodeus:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Jearm84:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Asmodeus:
It's basically a poor man's Wasp T12, minus the MP3 decks with scrubjockey interface.

and not being associated with utter utter tripe television which makes Catherine Tate guesting on Little Britain watching a double bill of my family and all about me look appealing </BLOCKQUOTE>

What the gibber? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Just to clarify- jearm what the **** are you on about...? </BLOCKQUOTE>

ok i'll be blunt,

Nathan Barley is a fetid cumstain on the canvas of chris morris's genius
the thing had not one redeeming quality

hanouda · 11-10-2007, 01:02 AM

Was in town tonight and went down to the apple store to have look. If you have more money than sense it is a great phone. I have never sent an MMS in my life and 3G is possibly the biggest white elephant since jumbo the massive elephant painted himself white to evade polar bear attack while touring greenland.

Texting was horrible though. Interface otherwise I thought was qg. To sum up, non-plussed.

retired_FRED · 11-10-2007, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by Red_Hector:
Was in town tonight and went down to the apple store to have look. If you have more money than sense it is a great phone. I have never sent an MMS in my life and 3G is possibly the biggest white elephant since jumbo the massive elephant painted himself white to evade polar bear attack while touring greenland.

Texting was horrible though. Interface otherwise I thought was qg. To sum up, non-plussed.

when you say white elephant, do you mean the sort of white elephant that carries more traffic than the 2G networks in at least 3 of the 5 networks in this country that i know of, mabye even all 5.

yeah shocking white elephant that.

hanouda · 11-10-2007, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by Legends Wear 7:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Red_Hector:
Was in town tonight and went down to the apple store to have look. If you have more money than sense it is a great phone. I have never sent an MMS in my life and 3G is possibly the biggest white elephant since jumbo the massive elephant painted himself white to evade polar bear attack while touring greenland.

Texting was horrible though. Interface otherwise I thought was qg. To sum up, non-plussed.

when you say white elephant, do you mean the sort of white elephant that carries more traffic than the 2G networks in at least 3 of the 5 networks in this country that i know of, mabye even all 5.

yeah shocking white elephant that. </BLOCKQUOTE>

That's the one, the one that uses all that bandwidth to disseminate crap video to sun readers.

retired_rondaw25 · 11-10-2007, 01:23 AM

Oh that 3G.

2boxers · 11-10-2007, 02:10 PM

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retired_traci29 · 11-10-2007, 11:58 PM

you can tell nathan barley is awesome because jearm doesn't like it.

everything you need to know about the iphone can be found in the maddox review.

retired_FRED · 11-11-2007, 11:38 AM

Telegraph Article

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Yesterday, you'd be forgiven for thinking, if you were watching the telly or reading the papers, you saw the dawning of a new epoch in human history.
# Apple iPhone: All the latest news and reviews

Future historians will draw timelines, you were encouraged to believe, punctuated by shifts of equivalent importance: ice ages; extinctions; the dawn of Homo sapiens; the discovery of agriculture; the invention of moveable type; the Enlightenment; the Industrial Revolution; the nuclear age; the invention of the internet ...
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And then, yesterday: Friday, November 9 2007 AD. The day on which everything changed. The day on which - like an extraterrestrial monolith descending on a troop of awestruck chimps in 2001: A Space Odyssey - the iPhone went on sale in the UK.

The response has been, in some quarters, panic: the digging of shelters, the hoarding of tinned food and the wearing of tinfoil on the head. There have been unconfirmed reports of rioting in Barking. There has been looting in Luton. Cargo cults have formed in Esher.

Moaning peasants have made their way under a baleful winter sun down the central reservation of the M4, muttering religious imprecations in languages unheard of since the days of the elder gods. Jeremy Clarkson was believed to have been seen building an ark.

To help its dwindlingly small band of readers face this momentous day and all it means, this column is rolling out an easy-to-use technical support service. It is, like all the products of this column, user-friendly and WYSIWYG. It benefits from unique ReadPage© functionality. Here goes.

Technology Clinic: Your iPhone Questions Answered

Q: Is it a mobile phone?

A: Yes - but it's more than that. It's a mobile phone that works on only one network, that ties you into an 18-month contract, and that is very, very expensive.

Q: Is it an MP3 player?

A: Yes - but it's more than that. It's an MP3 player that holds only 2,000 songs and that is very, very expensive.

Q: Is it an internet browser?

A: Yes - but it's more than that. It's an internet browser that goes half as fast as one of those rotten old 3G mobile phones - and works across only 30 per cent of the country unless you're at a wireless hotspot. Oh, and it's very, very expensive.

Q: What is the correct term for an adult human being who's prepared to spend upwards of £1,200 to own a mobile phone for 18 months, just because it is made by Apple?

A: A wazzock.

Q: What is the correct term for an adult human being who will pitch a tent outside a shop overnight in order to be one of the first people on Earth to spend upwards of £1,200 to own a mobile phone for 18 months, just because it is made by Apple?

A: An utter wazzock.

Q: Does the Apple corporation do a valuable service to the general population by rolling out the iPhone, so that wazzocks and utter wazzocks can be quickly identified and - where appropriate - persecuted?

A: It does.

These foundational issues resolved, let's consider another question. The received wisdom so far has been that Apple is good and cool and nice, and that Microsoft is evil and rapacious and bad: Apple = The Kids; Microsoft = The Man.

Geeks are now griping, however, that Apple has betrayed The Kids and sold out to The Man, because it is trying to prevent The Kids from hacking its iPhones so as to allow them to work with other mobile-phone networks. And it's like, so unfair and, like, fascist.

If there's anything worse than a fashion victim, it's a whining fashion victim with a misplaced sense of entitlement. Apple is perfectly within its rights to restrict its phone to work on whatever network it likes at whatever price. Caveat emptor. If you want to use another network, buy another phone. Why shouldn't your warranty be voided if you try to cheat your way round it?

If I find a way of hacking my London Transport Oyster card so it works on the buses in Edinburgh, that's not me bravely sticking it to The Man: that's me stealing. If I hack my iPhone to work on another network - when I bought it in full knowledge that Apple has a deal with O2 - that's also stealing.

The idea that this is analogous to the behaviour that landed Microsoft in its antitrust case doesn't stand up to a moment's examination. Microsoft was accused of exploiting an enormous existing stranglehold over the market in order to force other products on a public already locked in to Windows.

Apple has no mobile-phone monopoly, no MP3-player monopoly, no web-browser monopoly. It is simply offering a new device with certain terms attached that the customer can take or leave.

Owning an iMac doesn't force you to buy an iPhone. Having an existing phone contract with O2 doesn't force you to buy an iPhone. The only thing that forces you to buy an iPhone is your slavish conviction that without it you will be half a person.

So the iPhone has just been launched...

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So the iPhone has just been launched...