I just bought a new cell phone. I wanted the opposite of an iPhone, but no one seems to want to sell it to me.
I’m rare - I want a cell phone that sends and receives phone calls, and takes voice messages when I don’t answer the phone and nothing more. I don’t like cell phones and never have. There are two reasons I have one - a) pay phones are an endangered species and b) when the school or day care calls saying “you have to pick up your child right now because…”, I’m the one who is in a better position to drop everything and respond for about 90% of the time. Other than that, I would prefer to not own one. Cell phones - yeuchh!
The thing that I got has a camera that takes pictures of the inside of my back pocket; how did I ever live without that feature?
I am very much considering getting a Palm Pre though. It looks to do everything that the iphone can do, but has a real keyboard and I won’t have a $100 bill just for getting unlimited data. And a camera flash too.
I loved my iPhone but then ATT realized that I live in an area without their coverage so they killed off-network internet from my phone. I hate using a laptop for all the surfing I used to do from my phone it’s not nearly as comfortable.
Eventually I’ll move back into a coverage area and go back to my phone being my life.
The Data Plan on an Iphone is $30.00 a month. According to this article, the same phone service will be cheaper with Sprint, but not that much cheaper. My wife and I both have Iphones and have another person on our plan and our total monthly cost is maybe $140.00. The other phone is not a smartphone so we don’t have data, but the cost isn’t that much different, and as a bonus, I don’t have to deal with Sprint.
I like my Iphone. It does what I need it to do, lets me surf the internet if I am bored somewhere, and it allows me to eliminate a device as I don’t have a separate mp3 player anymore.
Owned my 3g for a year now and waiting on the next generation of phones to come down the pike before I decide on something else or stay with apple. The pre looks good right out of the gate, and the droids are looking interesting enough.
For the most part apple has changed the phone world, in that the near future most phones will be more smart than dumb, with the exception of a few niche devices that will simply send and recieve calls and little else.
While web browsing on the iPhone won’t hold a candle to either a desktop or a laptop, most of the other functions of the Internet are very comparable to the static contemoraries, and so far nothing has come close to the mobility of the iPhone in size, compared to posting from the beach on a sunny day from a laptop.
I bought my iPhone last October (already an AT&T customer and needed to upgrade my 5 year old phone anyway) and it’s one purchase I have never regretted. I’m not sure I understand the attitude of “I want my cellphone to just be a phone.” There’s plenty of options out there for that. I want my phone to be my laptop when I can’t use my laptop.
What is the big deal about the iPhone? I just don’t get it. Seemed like it was kinda neat, and had a bigger screen than the Blackberry. And… it’s been kinda neat, has a nice big screen, and I like it just fine. Was there some kind of optional attitude I was supposed to purchase with it?
I’m with ya. I was choked when I lost my old school Nokia and had to “upgrade” to a cell with a camera. I finally drank the Kool-Aid, though, and got an iPhone. I have to admit it’s handy, and pretty fun.
My iPhone is one of the best purchases I ever made. I’ve had ATT since it took over Cingular and I wanted a phone I could browse the Web with. I checked a lot of phones and the iPhone was the best.
You left out the option of wanting one but not being able to afford it.
Or, in my case, justify the expense when I make almost no phone calls of my own. And I’m still not feeling the lack of dedicated keys. At least give me a numpad, so I can text without looking…
I love my iPhone. I actually call it BatPhone because it can do just about anything I want it to. I’ve had it almost a year and it’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. Next year when my warranty runs out I’ll upgrade to the 3G S.
I am in the “Have one and love it” camp, but not the “it defines me” part. I had my first one for about 6 months before it got stolen/lost, and I bought a new SIM card to throw in a cheap candy-bar phone for a while until I could afford another one, and it was miserable.
The Data Plan on an Iphone is $30.00 a month.