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Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day
With the launch of Apple's brand-spanking-new 3G iPhone today, Engadget has a great review of the product and many of the prominent features. The review has quite a few good pictures and is not shy about technical details, but I guess they would know a fair bit about it, having ripped one apart yesterday. "The wireless industry is a notoriously tough nut to crack, and it's become pretty clear that the first iPhone wasn't about total domination so much as priming the market and making a good first impression with some very dissatisfied cellphone users. With the iPhone 3G, though, Apple's playing for keeps. Not only is this iPhone's Exchange enterprise support aiming straight for the heart of the business market, but the long-awaited 3rd party application support and App Store means it's no longer just a device, but a viable computing platform. And its 3G network compatibility finally makes the iPhone welcome the world over, especially after Cupertino decided to ditch its non-traditional carrier partnerships in favor of dropping the handset price dramatically. $200? We're still a little stunned." Update 17:17 GMT by SM: The guys over at Engadget also pointed out that Apple is having some severe problems with their iTunes servers and many customer are being sent home without their sync complete for new iPhones.
Free? Apple?
He'll come back after getting a free widening of his anus and lightening of his wallet.
Sweet! After 10 years of perfect karma I finally got modded Flamebait. As a lifetime (so far) resident of the US I think I'm in a position to hold the opinion that wanting to be a rock star is an epidemic in this country and not just limited to Scottsdale (although having been to Scottsdale I agree the infection rate may be higher there).
Intel transfer the difficult from Hadware to software, for get more power, programmer need more technology. -- chinaitn
Yeah. Everyone knows it. It's one of those scams perpetrated by them. I know for sure, because I get on email on the internets that told me about a guy whose cousin knows this girl who has a friend that does exactly that every day.
Man I hate them.
Since you are person #2 to point this out, using this language, this early in the comments, I'll take this opportunity to tell you that you don't 'have' to do any such thing. No one makes you buy the phone in the first place.
I don't live in a 3G area either, EDGE barely works out here, but I had an EDGE iPhone gifted to me. And even though that stuck me with a data plan I could only use when I traveled, the phone itself has turned out to be well worth it. When the 2.0 firmware jailbreak comes out, and iXbal gets ported to it, I may well buy the new one. What I don't expect I'll do is come on Slashdot and claim someone is making me pay for a 3G plan I can't use because, obviously, I am free to either choose to buy the phone and pay for the plan or make due with some other phone.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
no it wasn't a bad deal. It just depends where your value is at.
IS there a comparable 3g service plan that's cheaper?
No? STFU.
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I swear, if Steve Jobs personally kicked every Apple customer in the balls, 90 percent would talk about how they had it coming for some reason or another.
They DO have it coming, they BOUGHT into Apple FanBoiDom.
--Toll_Free
You know what I don't get? How the iPhone 2 comes out of the gate, doesn't work for set-up, people get sent home to set it up on iTunes - doesn't work and no one on /. is saying squat about the crappy execution.
Is Apple so holier-than-thou to this site that it walks scot-free on such a huge cock-up? If Microsoft released a product and the only thing wrong was the color of the GUI, you would've roasted them by now. Even Linux distros get more criticized!
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.