Questions for iPhone owners...
One the near "eve" of my potential iPhone purchase, I was wondering if you all could enlighten me on a few things:
- Is 16GB necessary/worth it?
- White or black?
- Has any one figured out a good, free Text Message work around?
- Can you make your own ringtones yet?
- Does it really drop a lot of calls?
- Should I just hunker down, and wait five months until Apple puts out the new model?
- Will I still be cool if I don't buy one?
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posted by M S Martinez at 1/29/2009 10:34:00 AM
6 Comments:
1. No.
2. See Question 1.
3. Just get a family plan. Then you can annoy Brad with incessant texts during football.
4. Yes.
5. It's AT&T. So Yes. But your parents live in the burbs which means you will probably get good 3G coverage.
6. I mean it's Apple. It will probably be the best purchase you have ever made, but you will still be kicking yourself in five months over something that probably isn't all that much better. Besides the rumors of an iPhone Nano aren't really all that much to base any rational decisions on.
7. See below:
Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza?
Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time.
Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the "Us Festival".
Clerk: The what festival?
Homer: The "Us Festival"! Geez! It was sponsored by the guy from Apple Computers.
Clerk: What computers?
1. No.
2. Black is 8, white is 16.
3. I don't understand the question.
4. Yes.
Can you make your own ringtones yet?
5. The non 3G phone was way worse for me. I have very few problems, but I think I've heard that NYC has way better 3G coverage than SLC.
6. If they come out with a better one just sell your old one on ebay. There's a huge market for them.
7. Still? I didn't realize you were already.
1. No.
2. You can use Google Talk, but I think it's pretty limiting and annoying.
3. Dunno, don't care.
4. Yes. Maybe not so much since the last update, but whenever I talk to my mom the call drops. (And my mom is pretty much the only person I actually call.)
5. Nah. I don't think there will be any huge hardware improvements in the next generation. Seems like most of the improvements will come through software updates.
6. Of course. It's a bigger monthly expense (mine is, at least), so if you can wait, do.
1. No, but it's nice to have.
2. White.
3. Phone calls?
4. Duh. And I'll even give you all of mine. All you need is iTunes and a program that can crop MP3s.
5. On and off, yes. But if you're used to AT&T or T-Mobile, you're already used to it.
6. Your call. They hold their resale value like crazy.
7. Ask me again after you make your decision.
1. no
2. black
3. I'm on the family plan which is reasonable.
4. you've always been able to, you just have to skirt apples half hearted attempts to fence you in.
5. I only have problems between 126000 south and lehi.
6. buy it, you won't regret it.
7. you're just cooler if you have one.
1,2,4,5,6,7: Get a Nokia E71 (seriously, compare the features vs. iphone).
3. Since iphone has email, you can use that to send and receive text messages via SMS gateway. Latency times are on par with regular text messaging, and if the recipient replies to your text the carrier directs it as a reply to your email so it appears as a new email in your inbox.
To do it, you need to know the recipient's carrier. (There was a time when you could use teleflip but they've since gone out of business, with no respectable replacement).
If you wanted to send me a text from your email, dince I use sprint, you'd email 8018335552@messaging.sprintpcs.com.
It looks like most of you all use at&t, so to text each other you can send an email to (10 digit number)@txt.att.net, and a google search will turn up the email extensions of other carriers.
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