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[theinevitable]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

awesome. awesome. awesome.

[Drygioni]

Well, fuck me. Apple have found another way to turn inanimate objects into something I wish to kiss and marry.

[linnea]

UNGH!! God dammit, only Cingular is going to carry it.

Do you think that it'll be available unlocked and will take a SIM chip? Cos then I could just get one on eBay and use it out here. (We are so remote that nobody else's cell phones will work out here. We have a cell phone company here but my phone won't work anywhere else because they haven't arranged for reciprocity with other carriers for when we travel to Anchorage or the lower 48).

[CortJstr]

UNGH!! God dammit, only Cingular is going to carry it.

Do you think that it'll be available unlocked and will take a SIM chip? Cos then I could just get one on eBay and use it out here. (We are so remote that nobody else's cell phones will work out here. We have a cell phone company here but my phone won't work anywhere else because they haven't arranged for reciprocity with other carriers for when we travel to Anchorage or the lower 48).

IIRC Cingular uses GSM and their other phones allow SIM swapping. My main playlist is around 7GB so I suppose the larger iPhone could work in theory.

Of course right now my cell bill is like $10/year so I don't really see the point of an expensive phone.

[jough]

I still have 22 months to go with Sprint, but thanks anyway, Apple.

[innes]

I was all set to snurk derisively at peoples' Apple fetishism, but having looked at that page, well - that device looks very very lovely. It's a device that I would like to touch and make use of and own. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and fall asleep contentedly gazing at that device nestling on my bedside table.

Did you see the two-finger zoom thing? That's clever.

[Sub_Topical]

It's cool, neat and clever but for $5/600 I guess I'll live with the Palm/Nano/Razr triplets for a few years. Gotta hit ROI on thems.

Plus, I just completed a Cingular contract and bailed for a Same Service/$20 less a month carrier who's doing fine so far.

[slink]

I watched the keynote. 'Cause I'm a terrible geek, and the typical 'aren't we so great, we invented the penis'  shit aside, the iphone is very nice. Finally the UI I've been waiting for and basically the options I want too. Alas it's an ipod though...
And it costs about what an Apple product ought too. I am concerned as to who it will be partnered with network wise over here though, and how open it's going to be despite being unix based. If it's gimped to what you get, I'm not going to be nearly as into it. If you can replace the ipod part with say, a rockbox port, I'd go for it no further questions asked.

[Choop]

Not Unix. BSD.

[slink]

Not Unix. BSD.

Ah yes, please excuse my idiocy. I was just trying my best to have people say 'no no, really, you're not an horrendous nerd'.

[side_show]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on the planet that doesn't have a cellphone.  And usually that's a good feeling, but now... oh... 

Those sexy apple products.  It's really best if I forget it exists.  It's really best.

[Drygioni]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on the planet that doesn't have a cellphone.  And usually that a good feeling, but now... oh... 

Someone else too! Would you like a No Ear Cancer Here badge?

[smick]

Whoa whoa whoa... Judy... Aren't you in England?  Aren't there more mobile phones there than people?

How do you not have a mobile phone?  Do people throw rotten fruits and vegetables at you?

YAH!  SHOO!  GIT!  RIGHT OUT OF TOWN, PARIAH!

[CortJstr]

I'm just glad that it has a replacable battery and no insane Minimum Advertised Price! Finally Apple gets some common sense!

What? Oh.

Nevermind.


Having one less device to carry around (without sacrificing function) and the accelerometer are pretty badass, though.

[Drygioni]

Whoa whoa whoa... Judy... Aren't you in England?  Aren't there more mobile phones there than people?

How do you not have a mobile phone?  Do people throw rotten fruits and vegetables at you?

YAH!  SHOO!  GIT!  RIGHT OUT OF TOWN, PARIAH!

Although what you say about mobile phone population in relation to human population is true, Britain also has more nuclear bombs than it does mobile phone service masts.

There's no service out here. Why, if I bought a phone... they'd laugh at me!