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Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe
An anonymous reader sent in this article which opens, "Apple fans lined up through Yesterday night in Germany and Britain to be among the first in Europe to buy an iPhone, the must-have gadget that is set to shake up the mobile industry." Over 10,000 phones were sold in Germany by Friday afternoon. In France, however, the iPhone doesn't arrive until the end of month.
Parent is troll.
"The phone is programmed to check mail and deliver revenue to your service provider even when it is "off"" was proven to be utter bollocks.
I feel a bit envious, but not of the owner.
Rather on behalf of other just-as-or-more-worthy phones that get little or no attention for no good reason (apart from hype).
Max.
Hmmm my current phone which is a S/E t610 and 4 or 5 years old has these same problems.
When the network is down I can't use it and if they ever change the network I'll have to upgrade (some older phones just won't work on a modern cell network).
If I go roaming it costs me a fortune unless I pay for an extra roaming tax that lessens the charges but still costs me more than local coverage.
My phone downloads SMS messages even when it's off and when I don't want them and since I dont' have an unlimited SMS plan it costs me $.99 per message to receive the damn things???
My phone doesn't really let me install anything and if it broke I'd have to get a loaner (not even sure if that's possible...) while they fixed it
My phone also doesn't have advanced features (though custom ringtones are allowed - but that's not really advanced)
My phone cost $200 when it first came out.
SO how is the iPhone any different from other phones out there? I'm fairly certain that all of the above applies to 99% of the phones on the market, depending on the service plan you get.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Mod parent down please. It's a nice troll - I wonder by who he is paid to post here.
However, as apparently a lot of people believe this bullshit:
* The phone will only work as long as Apple wants it to work
You mean that if you update the firmware of a hacked iPhone, it might break? Same as for other phones then (although people hardly ever upgrade their cellphone firmware, so nobody normally notices).
* The Phone will cost a fortune to use outside of the local area
As does any other phone. This has nothing to do with the iPhone.
* The phone is programmed to check mail and deliver revenue to your service provider even when it is "off"
This is bollocks.
* The phone is a closed environment, and will probably require several days with a loaner phone, at additional cost, to repair.
Probably. Ah, so you don't actually know? Also, when is the last time you repaired your non-iPhone cellphone yourself?
* this phone does not have the advanced features that everyone seems to find so critical in other phones, such as user generated custom ringtones.
Bzzt wrong. Maybe pay attention to the news, if you absolutely have to put annoying ringtones no your iPhone, that's been perfectly possible since about 2 week after its introduction. Indeed it does not have some advanced features that almost nobody ever uses in the real world. Hardly anybody seems to care. How many weblogs did you read about people returning their iPhones in dismay after they discovered it doesn't support...well, what?
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
The ironically named HTC "Advantage" is a book-shaped small PC with a chicklet keyboard, not a music/movie/web handheld mobile like the iPhone.
It also runs WinCE, which is an absolute joke and you know it. What comparison are you making?
The Spectacular Failure of WinCE and Windows Mobile