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Hackers Finally Unlock iPhone 3G
nandemoari quotes a story at Infopackets:
"2009 has gotten off to a great start for a team of iPhone enthusiasts with little regard for Apple's licensing requirements. They've finally figured out a way to get the phone to work with any cell phone carrier (and not just AT&T). The iPhone Dev Team is best known for their work on 'jailbreaking;' the technique of altering an iPhone so that you can run any applications on it, not just those approved by Apple. Given the company's questionable vetting policy for entry to the official App store, it's not surprising many users approve of jailbreaking."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you iPhone fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an iPhone (a 3G w/16 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while I attempt to talk to my mother. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running Skype, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same conversation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this conversation, excuses to get off the phone will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the whole "work emergency" trick is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various iPhones, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a iPhone that has run faster than its Windows Mobile counterpart, despite the iPhones' faster chip architecture. My Cingular 8125 with 64 megs of ram runs faster than this 8gb device at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the iPhone is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an iPhone over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
No more coffee for that guy!
>If T-mobile didn't suck so hard and the Sidekick wasn't marketed to douchebags, I'd probably go back to owning one in a heartbeat over the iPhone.
One might argue that the iPhone is marketed to douchebags as well. That seems to be Apple's core demographic.
I see moderation on Apple stories is back on form - if anyone else slagged off a product using terms such as "patheticly ugly, clunky" rather than using evidence, and then threw ad-hominems of "troll", they'd be modded down in an instant.
The seamless integration between the Phone OS, the standard apps, the 3rd party apps, my mac, iphoto, itunes, ical, mobile me.
I get so tired of the grumpy "featurism" of Slashdot posters. The Iphone might do everything and more than what my current phone does... on paper. In truth, that doesn't mean that these things work as well, I can't copy and paste when I'm editing, every time I installed a Java program it didn't work, and even though it had a 2 megapixel camera, it doesn't even have a flash, nor could I work out how to record a video with it.