Comments on: iPhone on June 29th, But Not for Me

By: SCY

SCY — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:07:26 +0000

I am still trying to decide. I have a curve and love it. I want the iPhone but don’t really need. Now if it had support for 3g then I’d be camping out at the Apple store right now, but as it stands I am writing this on my curve and probably will be after the 29th.

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Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:41:39 +0000

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By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:57:14 +0000

No thanks Coop, I just can’t stand Windows Mobile in any form.

By: Coop

Coop — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:47:16 +0000

Too bad you are on Cingular, the T-Mobile Dash (AKA HTC Excalibur) is probably the best SmartPhone out right now. EDGE support and WiFi – game over. Plus T-Mobile has a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.

By: Donald Jenkins

Donald Jenkins — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:41:46 +0000

The BlackBerry is the only phone that allows you to store all your data in one place (your choice of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which I think is better, or BlackBerry Internet Service, which is less flexible) and access it either from a Mac or from a PC as well as from your phone, keeping it all in sync over-the-air, seamlessly;

Thereâ€™s no gettong away from that, and I wonâ€™t be buying an iPhone either until it offers all those features.

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By: jim

jim — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:31:48 +0000

I see from Twitter you got your Curve. I’d love to hear your experience with it and Gmail Apps once you’ve had a chance to test it out.

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Yohannes Wijaya » I Am Still Getting The iPhone on June 29th — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:27:39 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:21:32 +0000

I am with you on the not buying an iPhone, at least not until they get round to releasing v2. I want to see how and who Apple partners with in the UK for starters. The new advertisements are great, entertaining as the “I’m a PC” series are, they need more than just snide comments at Windows- the iPhone adverts sum up the simple yet cool style of Apple perfectly.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:38:13 +0000

Mike you are correct. You MUST buy into the 2yr agreement.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:47:50 +0000

A breath of fresh air, thanks Paul.

By: noah kagan

noah kagan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:26:02 +0000

I have the pearl.

By: Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:44:16 +0000

I was just watching the new commercials for the iPhone on apple’s website… did anyone else notice at the end, when the at&t logo shows up, it says “Use requires minimum new 2 year activation plan.”

Am I reading that right? USE requires 2 year minimum activation plan? Does that mean you can’t buy the phone separately and avoid being locked in to a 2 year agreement? wtf?

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0000

maique – Maybe consider the P1? Seems pretty much like an updated M600.

By: maique

maique — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:49:30 +0000

i’m very happy with my se m600i but, from time to time, i have blackberry dreams.
i’ll be waiting for your review. good luck getting it.

By: Michael Janofsky

Michael Janofsky — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:37:59 +0000

Paul, I’m looking forward to a review of the Curve once you get one. Which plan do you have from cingular?

By: Michael Janofsky

Michael Janofsky — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:37:42 +0000

Paul, I’m looking forward to a review of the Curve once you get one. Which plan do you have from cingulair?

By: Ash Haque

Ash Haque — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:38:24 +0000

Can’t say too much about the whirl, but I’ve used the Blackberry Pearl for a few months now, totally awesome!

By: Zach Wilt

Zach Wilt — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:12:38 +0000

I’m in the same situation. But I went with the Nokia N80, the Curve is beautiful though. But I’ve got to tell you, if I was with Cingular it would be tough to turn down the iPhone.

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Confirmed iPhone To be Launched on June 29 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:58:43 +0000

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By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:52:10 +0000

Yeah, it probably won’t take too long to build simple iPhone apps – they are pretty much just glorified widgets.

By: David Moore

David Moore — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:50:06 +0000

I think some will. The tools Apple are putting in place will allow small simple apps to be ported readily…..of course you will have others that will need a bit more work.

The major thing that i am hearing regarding these third party apps is that they will be limited in the way they interface with the OS to avoid it breaking anything. This is why this announcement has come so late and maybe why Apple pulled OSX devs off Leopard onto the iPhone.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:46:45 +0000

Yeah but I’ll wait til that’s actually released before I put any value into it. The real question is.. will developers have apps ready by the iPhone launch… or 5 months down the road?

By: David Moore

David Moore — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:38:58 +0000

Paul,

Actually Apple have said they will allow 3rd party apps on the iPhone and will be running Dev sessions at WWDC07 on it.

Dave