tOfficial iPhone news and discussion thread

hexydes · 07-01-2007, 01:05 AM

I took that picture in the Cingular store in Dearborn last night, around 6:25pm.

Ok, so my thoughts are, the phone is really nice. The touch sensitivity is really surprising, it works quite well. Even typing on the on-screen keyboard works a lot better than I even expect it to as I am typing (there were times I was pretty sure I pressed two letters, but the iPhone grabbed the right one). Unfortunately, Cingular's employees are incompetent, and they did not have the wi-fi set up, so I couldn't really try the Internet functions (I was that interested any, to be honest; I more care about how the phone works).

The special input methods (flick-scrolling and snapping to zoom) work just as everyone says, that is, very well. Pretty impressive. Like most Apple products, the input and interface were very consistent across the entire product, and resembled using other Apple software (iTunes using CoverFlow in particular).

I was very impressed by this phone. That said, it costs too much to ever be used by a majority of phone users. I care more about my phone that probably 99% of all users (I love tech for the sake of tech), and I honestly couldn't see myself paying more than $249 out the door for the 4GB model, on launch day. Within a year, I would expect to pay $199, or $149 subsidized. I think that if Apple does not lower their prices, they will get their 1-2% of the market and that is it. If the goal of the iPhone is simply to get their name out there, their brand in peoples' hands, and credibility as a high-quality consumer electronics manufacturer, I think they will accomplish that. On the other hand, if they honestly are trying to make a significant grab at the cell market (I'm thinking 10-20%), they'll simply need to cut their prices in half within six months, because by that time, people will have copied them, and the devices will be 95% as good (and for half as much or less, this is close enough).

So there you go, my un-biased review (I seriously don't care either way what happens, other than I like to see the bar moved forward, which I think Apple has done). While the iPhone delivers in just about every area they promised, at the end of the day, I still feel the same way as I did before the iPhone was released: great product, costs too much.

07-01-2007, 01:05 AM	#332 (permalink)
hexydes Walk-On 5,000+ posts Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: MI Posts: 8,137 #45 Andrew Hawken	I took that picture in the Cingular store in Dearborn last night, around 6:25pm. Ok, so my thoughts are, the phone is really nice. The touch sensitivity is really surprising, it works quite well. Even typing on the on-screen keyboard works a lot better than I even expect it to as I am typing (there were times I was pretty sure I pressed two letters, but the iPhone grabbed the right one). Unfortunately, Cingular's employees are incompetent, and they did not have the wi-fi set up, so I couldn't really try the Internet functions (I was that interested any, to be honest; I more care about how the phone works). The special input methods (flick-scrolling and snapping to zoom) work just as everyone says, that is, very well. Pretty impressive. Like most Apple products, the input and interface were very consistent across the entire product, and resembled using other Apple software (iTunes using CoverFlow in particular). I was very impressed by this phone. That said, it costs too much to ever be used by a majority of phone users. I care more about my phone that probably 99% of all users (I love tech for the sake of tech), and I honestly couldn't see myself paying more than $249 out the door for the 4GB model, on launch day. Within a year, I would expect to pay $199, or $149 subsidized. I think that if Apple does not lower their prices, they will get their 1-2% of the market and that is it. If the goal of the iPhone is simply to get their name out there, their brand in peoples' hands, and credibility as a high-quality consumer electronics manufacturer, I think they will accomplish that. On the other hand, if they honestly are trying to make a significant grab at the cell market (I'm thinking 10-20%), they'll simply need to cut their prices in half within six months, because by that time, people will have copied them, and the devices will be 95% as good (and for half as much or less, this is close enough). So there you go, my un-biased review (I seriously don't care either way what happens, other than I like to see the bar moved forward, which I think Apple has done). While the iPhone delivers in just about every area they promised, at the end of the day, I still feel the same way as I did before the iPhone was released: great product, costs too much. Last edited by hexydes; 07-01-2007 at 01:26 AM.