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06-27-2007, 05:01 PM
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Ringtones are such a racket, its silly paying $.99 - $2.50 for a low bitrate, mono, 30 second cut of a song. I have been able to make my own for Sprint and Nextel, and I'm sure there is a workaround for AT&T's system also. I was leary of the Iphone, but they surprised me with a reasonable data plan... I'll wait another year until my current contract is done, and reevaluate the Iphone 2 vs its competitors.
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06-27-2007, 05:05 PM
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Ringtones are such a racket, its silly paying $.99 - $2.50 for a low bitrate, mono, 30 second cut of a song. I have been able to make my own for Sprint and Nextel, and I'm sure there is a workaround for AT&T's system also. I was leary of the Iphone, but they surprised me with a reasonable data plan... I'll wait another year until my current contract is done, and reevaluate the Iphone 2 vs its competitors.
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I wish that song ringtones cost $99 to purchase. 
I'd be willing to bet that there will be a way to get your own ringtones into it very soon.
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06-27-2007, 05:08 PM
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This is about to get really interesting when this is opened up to 3rd party developers...my guess is that the iPhone you start out with will not have nearly as many features as your same phone 6 months later...
This is really big news.
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06-27-2007, 05:09 PM
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Referring to the iphone and its possible customers: Due to lack of time, I will just quote (supposedly) P.T. Barnum: There's a sucker born every minute. 
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06-27-2007, 05:16 PM
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Referring to the iphone and its possible customers: Due to lack of time, I will just quote (supposedly) P.T. Barnum: There's a sucker born every minute. |
Quoting a tech reviewer that has actually used an iPhone: "This is the coolest cell phone I've ever used."
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06-27-2007, 05:57 PM
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This is about to get really interesting when this is opened up to 3rd party developers...my guess is that the iPhone you start out with will not have nearly as many features as your same phone 6 months later...
This is really big news.
Exclusive: Third Party Cocoa iPhone Apps Coming | MacApper |
As you likely know after moving from Windows, the Mac developer community is very healthy. If 3rd party apps are allowed on the iPhone there will be an app for every possible want you could have.
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06-27-2007, 06:42 PM
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I find it hard to believe that anyone is an actual "Windows junkie." I can see people tolerating Windows, or Windows meeting their usage needs....but to actually really enjoy Windows enough to be a "Windows junkie"...  |
I think that has more to do with the kind of people Apple's marketing attracts if that's what you're comparing.
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06-27-2007, 09:15 PM
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New video of the iPhone keyboard. Apparently it learns as it goes and predicts upcoming letters. Target zones for likely upcoming letters get larger.
One example is the word "time". After T, I, and M are entered, since there are no words spelled "timR" or "timW", it shrinks the target zones for "R" and "W" and makes the tap zone for the letter "E" larger.
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06-27-2007, 09:34 PM
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this thing is looking sick, crazy.
and I don't think anyone's considered what this does for mobile porn (billion $ industry, what will they do for this?)...
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06-27-2007, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor Barnes
New video of the iPhone keyboard. Apparently it learns as it goes and predicts upcoming letters. Target zones for likely upcoming letters get larger.
One example is the word "time". After T, I, and M are entered, since there are no words spelled "timR" or "timW", it shrinks the target zones for "R" and "W" and makes the tap zone for the letter "E" larger.
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What an great idea ... oh, wait - Windows Mobile and Blackberries have had predictive text for about 3 years now. 
But now its cool. 
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06-27-2007, 10:07 PM
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What an great idea ... oh, wait - Windows Mobile and Blackberries have had predictive text for about 3 years now.
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Yeah I think I remember reading about that in the Bible.
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06-27-2007, 10:31 PM
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What an great idea ... oh, wait - Windows Mobile and Blackberries have had predictive text for about 3 years now.
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Their physical keys actually grow larger in anticipation of the most likely letters that could come next in a word just like the iPhone does? 
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06-27-2007, 10:41 PM
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Their physical keys actually grow larger in anticipation of the most likely letters that could come next in a word just like the iPhone does?
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No, but the word(s) appears - ready to select.
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06-29-2007, 01:29 AM
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Wow! Sounds like my old treo with half the features and 10 times the cost.
Why do so many idiots buy into Apple's BS hype. Creative Nomad was selling 4 GB MP3 players five years before the iPOD even existed.
Apple's business plan seems to be to rip off other people's inventions, mass-advertise their version and then rip off the lowest common denominator.
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06-29-2007, 07:41 AM
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I wish that song ringtones cost $99 to purchase.
I'd be willing to bet that there will be a way to get your own ringtones into it very soon. |
If you look closely there is a little . in front of that 99.
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06-29-2007, 07:53 AM
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[quote=Trevor Barnes;3693987]Looks like AT&T/Cingular has boosted EDGE speeds today. It's part of a $50,000,000 upgrade of their network. Not 3G speeds, but a big improvement apparently. 
207 kb/s
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That's not fast enough for someone to do basic browsing on a cell phone?!?...
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It would be if you were using a wap browser, and checking scores, but the second best selling point of the Iphone is its wonderful safari browser. (The first being the categorized voice mail). The "wonderful" speeds you are listing is about a quarter of what you can get from Sprints EVDO, Mind you I don't have that delightful browser the Iphone has, but Opera Mobile has been pretty solid.... and fast! |
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06-29-2007, 09:59 AM
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Wow! Sounds like my old treo with half the features and 10 times the cost.
Why do so many idiots buy into Apple's BS hype. Creative Nomad was selling 4 GB MP3 players five years before the iPOD even existed.
Apple's business plan seems to be to rip off other people's inventions, mass-advertise their version and then rip off the lowest common denominator.
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This post is dead on.
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06-29-2007, 10:03 AM
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How far up Steve Job's butt is Trevor's nose these days?
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06-29-2007, 10:15 AM
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How far up Steve Job's butt is Trevor's nose these days?
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06-29-2007, 02:13 PM
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did anyone actually get one?
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