Comments on: Trying Not to be All Insane About This

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:01:59 +0000

Jon,

Getting a 404 from your CrunchGear link here …

(UK)

By: Alisa

Alisa — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:38:33 +0000

I can’t wait until other companies (hint: T-Mobile) start making smart phones that can compete with the iPhone. This oughta be good.

By: bananie

bananie — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:44:33 +0000

i just touched one. i held it in my hand and gave it poking kind of caresses.
it’s niiice. i wanted to lick it, but it does not belong to me.

this one is going cheap on ebay.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:40:14 +0000

Here’s another fan:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/29/BAGJNQOEBO4.DTL&type=nocolumn

Still have a few “US Festival” t-shirts from back in the day.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:13:18 +0000

iPhone ‘Surfing’ On AT&T Network Isn’t Fast, Jobs Concedes

By: blurb

blurb — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:51:05 +0000

I’m not that crazy, Gannon.

By: Gannon

Gannon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:35:15 +0000

When I first read this headline: “IPhone Fan Camping Out in Utah”, I thought it might just be Blurb.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/28/ap3867517.html?partner=alerts

Dave

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:49:24 +0000

I got the feeling Walt really wanted to hate it and couldn’t bring himself to it. Kudo’s to him being fair..

No one is going to really use this until they get to a WiFi hot spot anyway. Did you know that a ton of McDonalds are ATT wifi ready? Your iPhone should work there. One thing I found interesting about Walts review was he didn’t even touch the iPod feature on this. For me, who has a ton of music and wants internet access at all times, and does actually hang out in Starbucks at times, this is perfect. The only thing that is stopping me right now is considering a wait for version 2.0.

By: jonniker

jonniker — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:59:07 +0000

Heh. Mossberg. I love him. I used to do tech PR, and met with him a few times, hawking some client product or another. Once, during the worst meeting of my life, his wife interrupted our meeting with a hysterical phone call, because her car had been impounded and, from what I could tell, she was nearing some sort of…arrest? For an expired registration, I want to say? I don’t know, but it was among the worst meetings I’ve ever had. Walt was hysterical, his wife was hysterical, his assistant hadn’t briefed him on our meeting, he was pissed, and oh God, the shit was just HITTING THE FAN.

I’ve been afraid of him ever since, but I respect the hell out of his reviews, because he’s tough as balls, no matter who you are. So knowing that, while I won’t be getting one at the moment, today or ever, I’m impressed and a little excited about the iPhone. I am absolutely floored, however, that he’s not throwing a bigger fit about the price, because that’s almost always where he gets pissy. I’m a little disappointed in his lack of pissiness about it, in fact.

By: smartlikestreetcar

smartlikestreetcar — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:54:45 +0000

Hey Charles…

I know that using EDGE is a deal breaker for some, but it’s not the ONLY way that the iPhone can access the Internet. Including WiFi (or Airport) means that your Internet connection will often be screaming, as long as you’re in a wired office, Internet coffee shop, hotel, airport (the kind with planes), your home… that sort of thing. It’s a wired, wired world. So I’m not sure that I buy the slow-internet-connection argument

I’m not thrilled with the tardy Canadian launch either, and I agree that AT&T is the iPhone’s weakest link. But Apple needed to find a provider willing to change their network dramatically to support the iPhone, and most providers balked. Cingular — now AT&T — didn’t. Apple had to make concessions to make it worth their while.

With the smaller Canadian market, I don’t think Rogers is currently willing to make the changes that Apple needed — at least until Apple proves it has a hit on hands. Let’s see what happens in three months.

I’d like to have one — even if I never actually use it to make a phone call.