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Joe saw a commerical the other nite for a phone with the push screen and he looks at me and goes that is what I want for my next phone hun. I'm yelling at him I'll be dam if your getting a dam Iphone just to talk to people! He didn't realzie what it was. and he can just use pen and paper for his notes. There would be nothing else on that phone he would use. It would be kewl if he would get just a tad bit geeker you know. However, I don't want him to sink and drown!
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend. (Old Irish Proverb)
The iPhone is really for folks with too much money who want the latest trendy toys. It has cool features, yeah, but in time, most cell phones will have figured out how to do the same thing cheaper.
I'm not big on the iPhone but...
My 3-year old daughter can navigate the phone (calls her grandparents daily) and browser (Sesame Street is a favorite) with ease.
The iPhone has a great user interface, and merges the iPod to a phone. I have to admit, for the target market (which I don't consider IT folks to be a part of*) it's a great device!
*Not that IT folks are excluded, but since we're not usually intimidated by buttons & screens. There are many devices that could suite our needs - at least that's what I think (i.e. Moto Q; Blackberry; HTC; Treo; Nokia E6x; iPAQ; Samsung Jack; Nokia Nx; etc...)
The iPhone is really for folks with too much money who want the latest trendy toys. It has cool features, yeah, but in time, most cell phones will have figured out how to do the same thing cheaper.
I'm not big on the iPhone but...
My 3-year old daughter can navigate the phone (calls her grandparents daily) and browser (Sesame Street is a favorite) with ease.
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Meh... if my 3-year-old son wants to browse the Web, he hops up and gets on the *computer*... not some overpriced toy.
Some people might call the computer an overpriced toy
At any rate, I'm not sure that the iPhone is targeted towards the 3-year old crowd. As someone who generally carries an iPod with me to work each week, I can see the value in combining that with my phone, which I carry with me each day. Add to that the fact that you can get e-mail and Web access from anywhere, I can see the benefit to the iPhone. I don't have one for two reasons: 1) I don't want to use AT&T and 2) I don't have a reason to justify the price...my current phone and iPod together cost less than the cost of an iPhone, and I get more storage space on the iPod. But, for people who travel frequently and need remote access to e-mail/Web, I think the iPhone's a better choice than a lot of the "smart" phones out there, and there are plenty of them. Have you ever tried to *use* any of the other so-called smart phones?!?
No, but most of the users I've supported say they're great for a PDA... horrible for a phone.
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Exactly my point. I've never used a PDA or smart phone on a daily basis, but many people who use the iPhone say that it's good for both functions, which as you've indicated is quite a feat considering that most users who use other smart phones say that the phone functionality is horrible. If Apple has, in fact, created a smart phone that actually works well as a phone and as a PDA and is additionally a high-quality music and video player, then kudos to them. If it works as advertised, it's not hype. You may not need that functionality and you may not want to be tied to iTunes or AT&T, which are certainly valid reasons not to get the iPhone, but dismissing it because it was made by Apple is just as bad as Apple users dismissing Windows Vista or the Xbox 360 just because it was made by Microsoft.
I iPhone does indeed work fine as both a phone, pda and media player
however there are some caveats to it, caveats that can be fixed with software for the most part
It's easy to jump on the 'oh its an expensive toy, oh its not for real techs, oh its for trendy people with too much money' bs bandwagon but lets be fair, sure anyone can do it in 3 years, that's the nature of technology, its always more expensive to do it FIRST, that's life
Things it really should have
voice dialing, omg who wants to pull out a $500 phone to make a call all the time?
home page speed dials (yes this can be rigged atm with weblinks, but they open safari and ask you if you want to call, lameee, one click calling is what we need)
voice recording, like hello?
it's a good device, but like the G1 iphone, it will improve a lot as time goes on, and technology improves
Exactly my point. I've never used a PDA or smart phone on a daily basis, but many people who use the iPhone say that it's good for both functions, which as you've indicated is quite a feat considering that most users who use other smart phones say that the phone functionality is horrible. If Apple has, in fact, created a smart phone that actually works well as a phone and as a PDA and is additionally a high-quality music and video player, then kudos to them. If it works as advertised, it's not hype. You may not need that functionality and you may not want to be tied to iTunes or AT&T, which are certainly valid reasons not to get the iPhone, but dismissing it because it was made by Apple is just as bad as Apple users dismissing Windows Vista or the Xbox 360 just because it was made by Microsoft.
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I never said I wouldn't ever get one... I just said that if my son wants to get on the Web, he'll use the computer instead of an overpriced toy. ;)