livendive 8 #26 January 10, 2007 Quote Errr no i will have shitty service than live back in the Uk my teeth feel so much cleaner Awesome!! Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob.dino 0 #27 January 10, 2007 Historically, Europe and Asia have been much quicker in the uptake of more advanced phones. So much so that Nokia barely sell their N-series phones in the USA. The US market is much more enamored of clunky Blackberry clones with full keyboards than the Europeans or Asians. Additionally, the 3G infrastructure is better in Europe & Asia. EDGE gives you in or around 40kbps, whereas HSDPA will give you 1.8Mbps to 3.6Mbps. More than enough bandwidth to download new music from iTunes while you're on the train to work... I'm not at all surprised that Apple launched in the USA first. That's where their brand is strongest and the market they understand best. They are, however, targeting a less-sophisticated market. And yes, they'll sell shitloads. BTW, EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) is available all over the world - it's an extension of GSM. Think of it as 2.5G. Offhand I can't think of a GSM network that doesn't support EDGE. Many 3G providers, such as Three in Australia fall back to EDGE on GSM when out of UMTS coverage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #28 January 10, 2007 No ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jsaxton 0 #29 January 10, 2007 Do you have any idea how many jumps that'll buy at Lodi?!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaoskitty 0 #30 January 10, 2007 QuoteQuoteNow THAT'S a phone I would shell out for. One that works--oh, joy! I would love that! I laugh evertime at that cingular commercial...Least dropped calls My cingular never drops calls. I know I tell you it does but really I'm just hanging up on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gene03 0 #31 January 10, 2007 Tracfone? I've had good luck with mine.“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #32 January 10, 2007 No, I use and am (apparently one of the few) happy with cingular. I have some Nokia phone that looks sort of like the old 8260.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #33 January 10, 2007 don't look at it like a $600 phone, look at it as a $350 phone with a $250 ipod built in. there's no word on who the carrier will be in canada, so i guess i have to wait anyway."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stallboy 0 #34 January 10, 2007 ...and a $250 Blackberry built in Also it doesn't look like it's been design by a callaboration of Mr. Spock and Robocop like the other phones/pdas do. The iPhone is undenieably beautiful and is very functional and the cost will give the phone an exclusive factor that will appeal to many people (the people with money). It will be hugely successful.One day, I'm gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #35 January 10, 2007 Sure. I use my phone to take pics and videos, send text messages and MMS. Through 3G and GPRS I can use it either as a modem to hook my laptop up to the net, or access the net directly. It's also an MP3 player, and best of all, it even makes telephone calls. Of course, as others have said, it's free - on a contract from my SP. tIt's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #36 January 14, 2007 Am I the only one that thinks the Apple TV is a lame offering? 40 gig HD - even the newer iPods have 80 gig, and they're about 1/5 as small. No DVD player - I've only got one HD input on my 30" flatscreen, and it's currently occupied by my DVD player. If they want us to really use this, they need to stick an HD DVD player in the thing so we can use it as our DVD as well. Syncs from iTunes - so Apple bends over for the RIAA and doesn't allow iPod to download back to a PC. That was just peachy when my VIAO HD failed and everything was stuck in limbo on my iPod mini. Now this thing pulls iTunes content wirelessly? Will Apple please just tell the RIAA to piss off and do something right for the consumer? It's as if this thing was designed five years ago and released last week Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladydyver 0 #37 January 14, 2007 Thats an awful lot of jump tickets wasted - on second thought...that is a lot of beer wasted.DPH # 2 "I am not sure what you are suppose to do with that, but I don't think it is suppose to flop around like that." ~Skootz~ I have a strong regard for the rules.......doc! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
