Apple iPhone

by **ifingers** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:40 pm

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<strong>Apple iPhone: Have Apple reinvented the phone?
What do <em>you</em> reckon?</strong>
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by **Pliable Diamond** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:53 pm

Renew contract isn't up for another 1.5 years...

Chomping at the bit already...

After seeing this phone/misc., I can't imagine wanting to use anything less - ever :wink:

An Apple a day makes me feel good...

by **toots** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:33 pm

A lot of people like candy more than fruit, and Verizon has been making a big deal about their Chocolate Phone which is an mp3 player/phone for a while now. Not the portable computer that the iPhone is touted to be, but enough to satisfy most people for relatively short money. It'll be a long time before the iPhone changes my life, I still am working with my G4 eMac!

by **ktuppuluri** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:36 pm

It's beautiful, I wanna marry it.

by **kilroydegeek** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:59 pm

Er, I had to say no, what they have done is reinvent the PDA. While probably not capable of it now, the fact that iPhone runs Mac OS X (not a cutdown version, rather an optimised version), the portent of this is a pocket office tool in future generations. Add in Grafitti, advanced Speech Recognition and iWork, and you've got the ultimate roadwarrior's handheld.

In a few generations, add in an optimised iLife and a built-in iSight camera and YouTube will kill the MTV star (my apologies to Trever Horn

)

This will happen before the end of 2010, I'm tipping. Australia, of course, won't see it until 3010 :roll:

by **Talkin Ape** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:30 pm

To the Poll, I say No!

But they have come up with a damn cool phone/ipod/mobiwebthingy!!!!

My current contract runs until the time iPhone gets introduced here!!!1 Whoopieee!!!! So I'll be in the early adopters group as usual... I like the living on the edge!!

BUT!!!! The pricing has to be right! We in the UK have a very different pricing arrangement for our mobiles than the US. I wonder what we'll get come October - November?

by **Boris** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:42 pm

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reinvented the phone? for me and my needs, yes. absolutely.

i have to concur with Katie on this.

by **kilroydegeek** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:12 pm

Talkin Ape wrote:...I like the living on the edge!!

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space, hey

I'm warming a bit to the iPhone as I find out more about its capabilities, but mainly because I really like the idea of truely portable computing (I'd love to see a 2nd or 3rd gen iPhone with Firewire and Garage Band - add a PreSonus Firepod, make music anywhere and UPLOAD FROM ANYWHERE!)

by **ifingers** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:46 am

Yes, The exciting part for me is that it has Mac OS X built in, so the possibilities are endless.... don't know where my Logic Pro dongle will fit though...

by **kilroydegeek** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:56 pm

ifingers wrote:Yes, The exciting part for me is that it has Mac OS X built in, so the possibilities are endless.... don't know where my Logic Pro dongle will fit though...

Indeed, but even if it only ever ran GB, that's probably enough for a portable sketch pad, then transfer the project to Logic when you get home.

I suspect it may take a few years to convince Apple, this is a creative's portable studio.

by **rcandrews** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:43 am

interesting

by **Talkin Ape** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:24 pm

rcandrews wrote:interesting

Aww don't ya just love "The .........." (censored title, you must go read first) :lol:

by **rcandrews** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:27 pm

oh so The Onion is being funny? DOH! :oops:

by **Talkin Ape** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:38 pm

rcandrews wrote:oh so The Onion is being funny? DOH!

Yeah, afaik the onion is kinda satirical rather than real news.

But hey, good find :wink:

by **rcandrews** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:10 pm

i often thought that but then i had read an article boris had found about Sting and it appeared to be well Sting

so i thought maybe they had changed their platform.

so i went and looked around some mo, only to find they were claiming 4 of the bill of rights had been stricken from the books :roll:

all that said i wouldn't be surprised at the rate in which this technology flies by that within a year it will be an old interface so to speak.

still i wouldn't buy one. for half a grand i could be 1/4 the way closer to the martin d-28 i been eye ballin fo ever it seems :mrgreen:

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