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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone
Bjarne Stroustrup[^]
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I purchased a used iPhone, the non-3g version. Where I live there is only the Edge network, where I work they have 3g, but I try to spend as little time in that city as possible...so the older iPhone works for me.
Reasons for the iPhone - it was $75 for a 4gb and I have yet to load any type of music on it. I get to have all the virtual bubble wrap I could possibly pop on it. MochaVNC runs well on it, and it's cool controlling my pc from my iPhone. And I appreciate being able to check my gmail and yahoo mail accounts painlessly on a fairly decent size screen. Bonus - the phone I purchased had a whole line of dead touch screen area, making dialing manually impossible. The former owner never noticed because he mainly used it for texting. It was still under warranty so I contacted Apple and they replaced it with a NEW first gen. Since it's not a new iPhone, adding it to my AT&T Wireless account meant no contract, but I did have to had a $20 dollar iphone media package, this included unlimited internet and 200 txt msg. But because I have a family talk plan with the Unlimited Text Family plan I don't have to worry about going over my 200 txt limit. I'm essentially paying $5 more a month to use internet on my iPhone (when I was using my RazorV3xx it was $15) Otherwise, I can't beat it with a stick.
What I dislike about the iPhone, is the texting can be a little awkward at times and if you're trying to rattle off quick answers the predictive auto-correcting spelling can make for some really messed up messages. Luckily my friends and family have now gotten used to it and have all ordered secret decoder rings for my cryptic late night messages. Secondly, I hate it that Apple in their infinite wisdom does not allow for the sending or receiving of MMS messages. We have also learned to work around that, but it's just dumb not to be able to attach a picture or sound-bite to a text message. Nor can you forward text messages (if you can, I haven't found the way). Plus it sucks as a speaker phone, and I hate that I lose voice control when using my Jawbone ear piece.
Caveat - YAY no chain forwards with potentially embarrassing pictures or sound-bites.
Bottomline - the iPhone has quickly become integrated into my connected life and it is essentially a more portable version of my touchscreen tablet notebook - the only things I can do with my notebook that I can't with my iPhone are burn cds/dvds and graphic design.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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I would love to get an iPhone, but I would have to switch to AT&T because I'm currently with Verizon. I'm so jealous of you right now.
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It's my understanding that they will come out with an "unlocked" version, but it's gonna cost an arm and a leg 
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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If they do come out with an "unlocked" version, I wouldn't be able to use any of it's 3G functionality. AT&T is the only wireless provider in the US that supports the 3G version of the iPhone (based on what I've read).
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Yeah I'm guessing if it's the 3G you're after then you would be out of luck. For me, 3G wouldn't have done a thing for me so I was very happy to get the used one that ended up being a brand new one.
I haven't really checked to see if you can unlock any of these older iphone. Would be interesting if you could.
S.Nowlin
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I'm a Techwriter Monkey -- handy, just less useful than the Bathroom Monkey.
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Also Verizon uses CDMA for their cellular network whereas AT&T uses GSM and the iPhone can't be used on Verizon.
I believe only AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM in the US, all the rest are CDMA.
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Gotta live in Belgium mate  .
My iPhone worked, immidiately although it's getting used to at the beginning (took me some figuring out to unlock it). Now my work is paying the phone bills for my iPhone  . Then again, I use it for my work.
There some things I hate about it, but generally it's a very good phone.
for once I love belgian law
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I am using iPhone since April this year, and enjoying using this. Previously I was using Imate K-Jam and while upgrading to Windows 6, it crashed. Anyway, things I miss in iPhone are:
*- Video recording
*- Copy-Paste
*- Proper integration with Outlook, especially Notes
rest is really great.
snowlin wrote: predictive auto-correcting spelling can make for some really messed up messages
You can also turn it off, search for iClarified site, and they have the solution.
snowlin wrote: Nor can you forward text messages
I am using iSMS, that allows me to froward SMS.
-muneeb
A thing of beauty is the joy forever.
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Man, I love my smartphone (iPhone.) I used to think they were unnecessary. Then my girlfriend had a baby. Between 4am and 5am when one hand is occupied with feeding junior you can have the smartphone in the other hand playing iCannon or Aurora Feint or browsing the Code Project or Digg or IMing with a friend in the Sudan or some such. Bloody brilliant. Saves me from making any meaningful contact with my daughter at night (if you engage with her at 4am she won't go back to sleep till 8am. Engage with her during the day all you want, just don't do it at night if you want either of you to get some sleep.)
I tried a Nokia N95 for awhile but if one phone personifies crapness then that is it. Sorry geeks, its a bad phone.
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Paul Watson wrote: I tried a Nokia N95 for awhile but if one phone personifies crapness then that is it. Sorry geeks, its a bad phone.
Just as well I didn't get one. I was thinking about it but the deal breaker for me was that I couldn't get a contract I liked. Now, I've seen people with the iPhone and I think it looks great - I might even get one...
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Unfortunately my iPhone 3G experiences have been rather bitter so far. Calls drop consistently when 3G is enabled. The GPS does not work on 3G. When 3G is disabled call stability is good, but then my data speeds go down terribly. And even with 3G turned on, data speeds have been up and down all the time, and the last week or so speeds have been horrible. Oh and every once in a while Safari freezes up when I press the backspace key. After a 15 second pause all the backspaces are flushed together resulting in unexpected text deletions. My verdict so far for the iPhone 3G : Looks good, but not as usable as smartphones from other companies
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Sorry to hear that Nish. I've read that 3G has been a problem for the iPhone but have not experienced any problems on mine (O2 network though, not AT&T or Rodgers.) You've got the latest firmware (2.0.2) yeah? Apparently that solves some of the 3G problems.
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Subtract 1 Sony Ericsson from the stats. I own a dumb phone (but works as intended!).
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Ive got the HTC TyTN2, i absolutely love it!
There are only two things about this phone that i can really complain about, lack of graphics processing power and the tiny little speaker isn't as loud as any of my previous
Nokia's.
Now if i only had the time to develop some apps for it
Harvey Saayman - South Africa
Junior Developer
.Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)
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Any one has an exact definition for Smartphone? I have a mobile that has calendar and is able to connect to the net, run some apps, etc. but as long as I know most of today mobile phones does have such features. Are all these cellphones called smart phone?
Is it just me or you have a tall text box for optional text answer? Maybe Chris is looking for deep and detailed text answers. 
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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> Is it just me or you have a tall text box for optional text answer? Chris is looking for deep and detailed text answers I guess.
Same for me.
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Same pitch 
Regards
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If it takes longer than 30 seconds to boot then its a smartphone.
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If it takes longer than 10 seconds to power up and be ready, it is replaced.
Software Zen: delete this;
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iPhone takes about that. Rarely have to reboot it. More than I'd like though.
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or something like that
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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peterchen wrote: Smartphone = smarter than you
Heh! There's nothing called Smartphone then 
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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