don't understand how I ever walked around an unfamiliar city without by iPhone's google maps function. Also glad nobody's stolen the phone yet.
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04 Aug 2007 09:17 pm
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It's not just iPhone; I have it on my Treo 700P. But neither has GPS, dammit.
Everybody who wants one already bought one.
I have a Treo 755p with Google Maps. What makes it better is I have a speedy 3G (EV-DO) connection instead of EDGE.
And a real keyboard.
I don't know how I used to watch porn without an iphone. Here's one favorite clip of mine:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8453646/M..._576-320_4.avi
Its from a mainstream movie called 9 Songs. In this clip, we see Margo Stilley having actual sex with some random dude from all the right angles. Now, some of you might say she's too flat, but at least she's shaved ;)
Hey, you're talking about Chicago, IL. How you going to get lost in a city like Chicago, IL?
I bet that's especially hard when you're drunk. Or maybe you're just writing like it!
OMG! There was never a Google Maps before the iPhone came along!
If you rely on maps to get everywhere your pattern recognition skills are going to atrophy and you'll have bigger problems than a mugger making off with your iPhone. You'll have made yourself stupid. Polynesian seafarers in 500 AD could navigate between islands thousands of miles apart using nothing more than their own detailed recognition of signals and patterns in their surroundings. You can make it from McCormick Place to Grant Park without GPS and an iPhone.
come on now. We should let Matt enjoy his Iphone in the only city which ATT has good service.
"Everybody who wants one already bought one."
Ummmm... No.
I was really shocked that the iPhone didn't sell that well... I guess price point really is that important.
It was interesting to see the breakdown of iPhone buyers by existing phone service. Something like 40% were current ATT customers. Which tells me that lots of people are waiting for their current contracts with other carriers to expire. I cancelled two differenct Verizon wireless accounts when I got my iPhone, which ended up taking about a $550 purchase into a $900 one. Okay for me, I got a wallet full of credit cards with almost untapped limits, don't go to concerts and don't pay for downloaded music. I suspect a lot of college age and twenty somethings aren't going to trade their Friday nights out simply to be an early adopter. As their contracts expire I expect a steady stream of iPhone converts.
Because the fact is that everyone I have showed my iPhone to wants one. Sure other phones have Google Maps, but can you expand and contract your field simply by pinching in and out on the touchscreen? Lots of phones give you music, but the effect of simply flipping through your album covers on screeen is awesome and I defy anyone to navigate through your song library faster. It is simply the coolest iPod yet. And the YouTube viewer is pretty slick as well, and despite scoffing at Edge speeds very fast as well. I barely use my iPhone as a phone, I use it as a fully functional internet viewer with full page capability, it really does put the Internet in your pocket. And the one touch access to weather, stocks and a full screen calculator are pretty handy to. Try that on your Treo.
In fact the whole Edge thing is overblown. How many people are that far from a WiFi hot spot to begin with? My city is planning citywide WiFi, the current speed advantage of EV-DO over Edge in most places is rapidly becoming a non-issue.
The one thing lacking is an external Bluetooth keyboard and there is no reason to believe somebody isn't working to supply one.
(Anyway the whole anti-Apple schtick remains a hoot. I remember when people laughed at the whole idea of a GUI driven by a mouse, cuz real men used command lines.)
Why does it have maps with directions but no GPS?
Bruce Webb. you make some good arguments.
Still, I'm more skeptical than you that the Iphone will be the future.
to me, you get the most bang for buck by purchasing a cheap but functional cell phone and a PDA (dell has a good one out). A Cheap Cell phone is in many respects easier to use than the iphone, and a pda has more capabilities than the iphone (especially opening different types of files).
For a while, I had a cheap cell phone and a PDA. It sucked. There I was, with the PDA (that actually had all the contact numbers) in one hand and the phone in the other. I was never very good at dialing with my thumb, so I'd have to set the PDA down on something, and manually dial the numbers I would read there. Bought a Treo 650 and never looked back. Of course, the Treo's getting a little long in the tooth now, so that iPhone's starting to look pretty attractive...
Nowadays you may be able to use Bluetooth to have the PDA dial the phone, or something, but having two devices to keep powered up, etc, still sucks.
good point about having to keep them both charged.
Still, PDA's strike me as a great value. they do not cost much more than an IPOD, yet they can do much more.
"Because the fact is that everyone I have showed my iPhone to wants one. Sure other phones have Google Maps, but can you expand and contract your field simply by pinching in and out on the touchscreen? Lots of phones give you music, but the effect of simply flipping through your album covers on screeen is awesome and I defy anyone to navigate through your song library faster. It is simply the coolest iPod yet. "
Well that's the thing. I'm not denying it's a brilliant interface. If they bring out a 120G iPod with the dual-touch technology I'll almost certainly buy it straight away, as my current one is completely full. But (even if it were available in Europe), I have no desire for an iPhone. It doesn't do most of the things my current phone can, and the music player side isn't good enough (minimal storage) to leave my mp3 player at home, so it makes no sense as a convergence device. But in a way I hope it succeeds, because it is undeniably an awesome interface.
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could you say that a little louder so that the muggers can hear you?
I'm just picturing MY wandering around in a daze, staring at the phone in his hand....
Posted by Count Cant | August 4, 2007 9:40 PM