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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.

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  1. Oooooooo ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A new cell phone on the market. Excuse me while I go wring out my panties.

  2. Re:Be warned.... Don't lose your iPhone by NiceGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe you shouldn't lose your expensive phone then.

  3. Re:The big news really is the 2.0 software by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, leave him alone, willya?

    Its like you are asking somebody who is into BDSM about how he can let himself tied up, beaten and then raped in the ass. And while he has already gotten a 1st gen iphone and lusting for another one, do you think he would mind being ripped off by AT&T for mere $0.20 each message?

  4. Re:Has Apple jumped the shark? by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't assume you're a fan, I assume you're an idiot. I simply reported what was happening "on the street" and my experiences are apparently wide-spread. I'm not crying or whining about anything - you are.

    Good tactic. Now you're not only a whiny crybaby, evident for all to see. You're also a bit of an asshole.

    You (an apparently eager Apple consumer) went on the day the new product is launched (for which people have *camped out*) and unsurprisingly couldn't get one. Big surprise.

    There's roll-out quirks in a hugely anticipated new product. Big surprise.

    Wahhhhhh, listen to me cry and babble about how bad Apple is because they didn't me one. Wahhhhhhh!

    Here comes the Wahhhhhhhmbulance to give you a teddy bear to hug.

  5. NOBODY is stupid enough to stand in line for a BB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BB are shit. U see ne1 standing in line for a studpid BB? iPhone, Apple, Steve G for God Jobs is what is what gets stupid people to stand in line, LOOZER !!

  6. Re:quick, someone start complaining! by HillBilly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pfft.

    If the iPhone was release by another company such as SE or Nokia it would be called disappointing but because its apple its innovating.

    --
    "Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
  7. To The Cocksucker Who Modded This Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your mother is a whore and the daughter of a whore. She gave me a blowjob for free last week, but I still deserve a refund. Your father was likely her brother, but could have been any of her cousins. I'd have a second deliver a card on a silver platter, but your kind generally wouldn't understand it, and doesn't deserve much more than a dog-whipping anyway. You havn't got a clue. You couldn't get a clue if you smeared yourself with clue musk and danced the clue mating dance in a field full of horny clues in clue mating season. Your eyebrows meet in the middle, your forehead slopes, your pet gerbil wants you dead. Your mother would dress you funny if she could afford clothes. You're the primary reason bigots hate your ethnic group. You were obviously not toilet-trained correctly, which explains the stains on the floor of your cardboard box. Your webbed feet go well with the pointy forehead. Your manners are hideous, your brain minute, and your body odor could fell an ox. You would fit in on a short bus to a convention of Fundies.

    You are a living, breathing poster-child for birth-control and abortion.

    You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

    You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

    You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

    I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

    Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

    You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

    You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

    And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

    You are a waste of flesh, food and air. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

    On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and so

  8. Re:More Expensive by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought that male fanbois tended to have boyfriends rather than girlfriends.