So I finally found an iPhone (granted only an 8 gig 2g, but good for the cost) that I felt I could afford, and that would be easily jailbroken/unlocked for me. Next week it arrives in the mail much to my pleasure, and I began to wonder, who all in massassi owns an iPhone? Also, what apps do you have, what are your top 5-10 favorites, and what do you find yourself doing the most on the iPhone?

I've got a lot of culture to dive into and update myself with, so I figured the best place to start is asking the people who I've shared my technology news and knowhow with for the past almost decade now (wow) what they do and why.

Plus, who doesn't love bragging about buying new technology

So sharebear or failwhale

Wheres the neutral "I don't have one, don't have a problem"
Oh it's jepman.

I have a 3G, but I want a 3G S, so I can get this:
http://www.acrossair.com/apps_nearesttube.htm

I've got the 3G. Love it. I probably use Facebook, Pandora, and the XBMC/Boxee remotes the most. At least that's what I've got on my first page of apps.

I'm waiting on an iPhone with an unrolling OLED display, a 1080p projector, and a terabyte of flash memory,

Detty, does that really need the 3GS? I thought it did that all by GPS locator and not by the compass thing?

If I want to check facebook and browse the web I'll find a computer.

And the tactile feedback of actual buttons is a must for me.

Ew iPhones.

I still have another year or so on my Verizon contract.

Fun fact: iPhone was first pitched to Verizon. But the geniuses @ Verizon didn't think it would take off or some bull****. So they turned it down.

The 3GS is fantastic, the speed boosts are very noticeable, and the video recording and the new camera are great.

It needs to know which direction you're facing, it could do it by recognising landmarks but that would require some pretty impressive data-capture on their part as well as some expensive image processing. The fact that the tube stops are overlaid on the camera view is effectively a gimmick to make it look more impressive than it really is.

I look forward to the day when we have implants that allow us to see the same kind of thing whenever we want.

Perfect timing of this thread, I just wrote all about how iTunes sucks. Be sure to stick with Winamp or something else to talk to your iPhone.

If you think that's bad, you should try using two iPods (with separate song libraries) on one computer/copy of iTunes.

THAT, my friend, is hell on earth.

The one other comment I will make though is that you're using iTunes on Windows. All the problems I've had, or heard of, have been with iTunes on Windows. When running it on a Mac it seems to work much, much better.

That being said, it's no excuse.

Actually it was because Verizon wanted absolute control over the iphone including customer and tech support, to which Apple laughed and moved on.

I'm damn glad Verizon didn't get the iphone, they would have halved its processor speed and memory and put some bull**** vzw brew system on the phone instead of what it has currently. Jailbreaking? I think not. Plus verizon would charge you monthly for features included in the iphone dataplan such as the GPS. (an extra $10 a month with data plan) Apps? forget it, not only would they be useless and unable to be created by cosumers, they would charge you 5.99 a month like the "apps" they have now, rather then a one time charge for unlimited use such as the app store. Music? Laughable. The phone would most likely not run through itunes, but through verizons sync program with Windows media player, and if you wanted to buy songs (if you actually pay for music) you would have to pay to the tune of $1.99 a song through verizons Vcast music store, rather then itunes $0.99.

I do not own an iphone, but considering the bull**** I have gone through with verizon, especially over my Env Touch and all of its manufacturer bugs and dealing with their tech support morons, I am damn glad they do not have it.










Why is it "hell on earth"? I frequently put songs on my sisters ipod from my computer with no problems at all. Name the ipods differently, and make sure your library isn't synced to your ipod and its essentially the same as having two flash drives that you connect to the same pc. If your trying to connect them at the same time, then I can see where that would be an issue, but again, keep it on manual and just load them up one at a time and you should be absolutely fine.

I've never had a single issue with itunes for windows and I've been running it since the 3g ipod, aside from one small one where selecting more then 4 files (not folders) to add to your library will add none of them. I am not sure if they have corrected this bug yet.

I have the 3GS, but not too much on it yet. A couple games, pandora, facebook, etc.

I hate iphones. The only thing I like about them is... well, I can't link it, but if you typed guys with iphones (all pushed together) and a stuck a .com after it, you would find the only thing I like about that silly gadget.

I'm looking forward to the facebook/twitter apps (maybe I'll check twitter with regularity) along with the podcasting, might sign back up for audible, etc etc. There's a lot of things I've really wanted to do that my current phone does okay (n82) but the iPhone will be ace at. Just gotta drop the extra 20 bones a month for the data plan I guess.

Got this last week.



It's amazing, like, if I want to call someone who also has a phone number, I can just use this device to enter the number and talk to the said person without leaving my apartment.

Fantastic this technology these days.

Conversely, girls with iphones (all pushed together) and stick a .com after it.

win.

I don't have an iPhone but I absolutely love them & my wife & I will both be getting them when our contract is up (maybe sooner). However, I did just order an iMac, which I've been wanting for quite some time, & it'll be here on Wednesday.

I don't own an iPhone, but my brother gets one for work. He works for a game developer, building iPhone games. They just released iFPS Online, the first iPhone FPS. He says it only works well on newer iPhones, though, and runs slowly on older models.

The iPhone is great. I used to knock on it before I got one because I was ignorant and Apple-hating like a lot of people. My life is now significantly easier because of this device. The little things in life that changed because of the iPhone really add up.

Bored? Guess I'll play Oregon Trail or kill zombies. Nah, maybe listen to music. Or I could watch some episodes of Entourage or Family Guy or watch The Italian Job. Oh ****, I just heard a song I like and want to hear again, I guess I'll Pandora it or just download it from iTunes. Home from a long day of work, I think I'll turn on some music on my home stereo system on my way up the stairs with Remote. That's not even mentioning the fast internet and google maps. Plus the Assistant app is awesome. I can check my credit card activity, debit card activity, ebay account, paypal account, emails, checking and savings all in one app. Plus it will also warn you when suspicious activity happens on a card you have saved in it, such as a charge of more than $200.

You realize what you sound like, right?

"I used to hate product X, but now that I tried it, I have been enlightened. Product X is great and if you don't like it, you must be ignorant"

Where "product X" is anything from "the iPhone" to "Scientology"

Glad you are fully using your iphone drizz. But those things aren't that uncommon for other phones.

No, suck it, Apple.

Oh and this is my phone, just so you don't think I'm being jealous or anything.



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No, the palm pre is way out of my price range, on a different network, and doesn't have the apps store.

The only phone that comes close IMO is the n97, but I don't have 700 to drop. I dropped 200 on this and was iffy about it. Maybe the G1 but the deal I got on the iPhone was just too good to pass up.

I hate those tiny keyboards on phones.
The iphone gets away with it by having a touch screen instead of raised buttons and a ridiculously good auto-dictionary (admittedly some other phones may have it too, just not ones I've tried), also having the ability to turn the phone on its size for a much bigger keyboard in certain apps makes a great difference too.

hahahahhahahahahahah, yeah sure

A. Get a better network (which would be anything)
B. N97 is terrible, complete letdown.
C. The Pre has the same specs as the 3G S, costs the same, and the plans are much cheaper.
D. Has an app store, albeit tiny. Of course, who cares when in 6 months everything you'd ever want will be rooted onto it anyway. (There's already playstation emulation which is apparently even faster than it is on the 3G S, not to mention a lot easier to play with)

In short: yay Pre.

N97 is far from a let-down, I've actually played with and seen one. They're ****ing awesome.

T-Mobile's the best network in the area (maybe not your area, but everyone knows it differs from place to place. Here, they're the best)

I bought an iPhone 2g, not worried about specs, worried about functionality/the apps store.

I <3 my iPhone. Apps I use most?

Twitterfon
FlightControl
Bento
Evernote
Pocket God (if I were to recommend one, it'd be this game)
Skype
Sky News
FStream (free internet radio streaming app)

From reading reviews of the Pre, I'm sure I'd like it but the one stumbling block for me is getting all your streams of contact on your main screen rather than separated out by app.

For example, I can glance at twitter if I want (and just do that), pop onto MSN or whatever, check facebook, check my emails etc. I do this one at a time, and it allows me to keep my head clear. The Pre (as I understand it) delivers all this to you as it comes in. Obviously to a lot of folk, this is a massive plus but to me it'd be too overwhelming. It is pretty though.

Would love it if the iPhone were on T-Mobile (with 3G). I'd switch in a heartbeat. I've never been somewhere where T-Mobile got anything worse than full bars. Love my 3G S, hate the carrier. Such is life.

I really want to try out the Pre (except Spring coverage here sucks). But I also wish the Pre didn't have a physical keyboard. While tactile feedback is sacrificed, I like touchscreens because they're almost infinitely expandable in terms of keyboard orientation and languages.

No, they're terrible. Engadget has full reviews with videos on some of the absolutely asinine things it does.

A. Resistive touchscreen. Can we please kill the styluses?
B. The UI is completely inconsistent.
C. The whole system loves to lock up and stop responding to various actions.
D. It's still running the S60 OS
E. It's surprisingly slow.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/22/nokia-n97-review-a-tale-of-two-bloggers/

I especially love the second video where he can't even get the phone to answer a call.

In short: Hardware? Very good (except for screen). Software? Horrendous.

I meant AT&T, since you said iPhone. I was assuming you didn't jailbreak it and stick it on a 2G network :p

Just thought I'd mention that most of those apps have similar or the same on the Pre now :p (Streaming is actually built in, no app required)

Not really like that.

Twitter is a separate app (two to choose from). As is email. Facebook is a mobile page. Contacts is where most of the synergy comes into play. All of your contacts from Facebook as well as AIM and GMail fall into this together, and maintain themselves without bothering you. Calendar will also update itself from your various implemented accounts (Google Calendar, Facebook, etc). You can filter that out as well if you don't want it.

For the most part, though, everything you said is what you'd do in separate apps. To compare though, you would need to close one app, and open another in iPhone. On the Pre they can all be running and you can move back and forth between them with a flick.

Another thing to keep in mind, which IMO is more important than the synergy stuff, is the notification system. The iPhone can actually get pretty annoying with its alerts, especially now with push notifications. The Pre has notifications that appear at the bottom of the screen, and do not interrupt the application you are using. This applies to all notifications. If you get an IM, it'll slide across the bottom, and then minimize into a tiny icon, waiting for you to address it later. Same with email. Calendar appointments will open a somewhat larger notification which allows you to delay or dismiss the item (or ignore till later). This means you are less likely to have your focus taken from what you're doing, but also don't need to check everything constantly.

That's what I was getting at - even that is too annoying for me, and I don't have anything that pushes in iphone (apart from mail and sms, and mail doesn't notify).

It's totally a personal thing - like I said, if I had one I bet I'd really like it. Apart from being constantly bothered by it

Push notifications have 3 levels of notification - sound, badge (little red number icon on the app icon), and alert (the little popup most commonly associated with push notification). Each app has 3 independent toggles for each level of notification, so you have pretty good control over how notifications are received. They're only as annoying as you let them be.

The AIM push notification is wicked. It's really changed how I use the phone.
Twitterific is great
IRCHon for mobile IRC. (I wish this had push notification as well)
Tris (Tetris app)
Maddow (RACHEL MADDOW MOBILE VIDEOS F*** YEAH)
Pandora

I was half kidding because, the real target of the Pre is the Blackberry. There are a lot of things the Pre can't do yet. It's only been out for a few weeks, don't be an idiot by comparing it to, on equal footing, a device that has had over two years of refinement.

Maybe it's a shame that Verizon is the only network around here that gets a decent signal. But then again I just paid $0 for an lg versa, and I really can't beat that.

The iphone plan is damn nice, though. Hopefully they will force their competitors to drop prices soon.