Many people (including me) did not buy the first iPhone, because they were waiting for the version that supports 3G telephony.
- Now that the 3G iPhone is out, will you buy one?
- Did you buy the original iPhone?
- doubtful, bordering on certainly no.
- no.
It’s still exclusive to AT&T, right? Until it is open to other providers, no.
I have an iPod Touch and love it, and an iPhone would be great, but I have no reason to switch to AT&T.
- Probably
- Yes
- Maybe
- Yes, it’s not that old, & it works very well. That is why #1 is only “maybe”.
FYI, even if they opened it up to other providers, here in the US it would only work on T-Mobile. The others (Verizon and Sprint) use a different technology, so it would not work on those carriers, even if they changed the exclusivity contract with AT&T.
I have an iPod Touch as well and I like it too. The question is, why carry around an extra device, if you can get it all in an iPhone?
BTW, I’m on Verizon and my 2-year contract is up, so I don’t see reasons not to switch (unless you guys have some horror stories about AT&T wireless)
I’m strongly tempted. My old phone is dying, I want to upgrade to 3G, and the iPhone 3G has 3G on the 850, 1900, and 2100-MHz bands. And they just announced it for Canada. So maybe in the fall, after the hype has died down, and we know what the wireless plans are going to cost, and enough people have gotten one and posted about its problems that I can see it more clearly… maybe then, I’ll get one.
(Translation: I just spent $600 on a Time Capsule.)
I’ve been pondering getting a car GPS device for like $200, so this new 8gb model in the $200 range is very appealing, since it has a built in GPS.
Last week someone showed me their hacked iphone that could install third party apps and it looked like a really cool gadget.
If this new Iphone is unhackable and/or non-unlockable I probably won’t buy it. But if it is, it’s an extremely tempting gadget.
I have a T-mobile phone now and I don’t particularly want to set up new service. What are the odds I can get an iphone to work with it? What do packages typically cost per month that get you a reasonable amount of data access?
Edit: Related question. Can Iphones take advantage of free wifi hotspots?
Yes, I’ll buy one. No, I don’t have an older one- I’ve been using (and pretty much hating) a WM6 Smartphone.
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Possibly, I’ve been interested in getting a new phone, and it looks pretty cool. But I’m going to wait for the Android phones to come out first, and see how they compare. I like the idea of an open platform.
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nope
GPS, yes, but you still have to spend $10 a month for the service. After a two year stint on a small screen battery sucking GPS device you could easily go with the regular dedicated GPS for the car for less money.
Will the “fake GPS” still work and do that for free? I have seen current iPhone users do this. It triangulates on cell towers rather than using GPS satellites. Not as accurate as GPS but pretty close and more than sufficient for whatever it was they were doing.
And is it just me or is charging for the GPS service just a ripoff? IIRC the phone does all the work based on the signals from the satellite. Your provider has nothing to do with it so paying them $10/month extra seems an overt money grab (but maybe I misunderstand the technology).
Probably. My wife will get my current iPhone.
Yes.
No, but only because my wife has wanted to buy me one for my birthday, and I convinced her to wait for the 3G release. My present will only be 4 months late. 
No.
I don’t know, there’s sites out there that tout an app that will unlock the GPS so that you’re not stuck using TeleNav (AT&T’s $10 a month GPS service) but I’m super wary of messing with my phone’s brains. My girlfriend would shoot me if I broke the sucker by jacking around with hacks on it.
- Yes
- Yes
I want to. I want to SO BAD. If I’d gotten one of the “promotion” jobs I applied for a month ago that was going to be my present to me. I can’t justify it at this time, though.
Hmm. I wonder… if they aren’t providing any real service for that $10, then maybe someone will write mapping software that uses the devices without the subscription.
Do you have a cite for that? I couldn’t find any info on apple.com
But then you’d only have one device (a dedicated GPS) to show for your money. Instead of a GPS device+Music player+Cell phone+Handheld Internet device.
I would add camera, but at 2 megapixels, the pictures are not worth writing home about.
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The thing that pisses me off is why do cell phones in the US (including the iPhone) only have 2 megapixel cameras? What is it about the economics of the US market that limits us to buying cell phones with crummy cameras compared to Korea, Japan and Europe?
In other countries, they have 5 megapixels or more. Of course, the lens matters, and you will most likely get better picture quality out of a dedicated camera, but 5 megapixels would still be an improvement on the 2 megapixel pictures I currently take with my cell phone. And since you have your cell phone with you all the time, most of the spur-of-the-moment photos (which are usually the most interesting) are taken with cell phones and not with dedicated cameras, so why not make an effort to improve them?
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I’m pretty sure that the iPhone GPS does not use TeleNav and as such doesn’t cost extra. At least those are the rumors I’ve heard from sources that were right about other things today.
Nothing is unhackable. 
Although a lot of the temptation is removed with the newly added ability to run 3rd party apps.
I have heard knowledgeable people express doubts about the compatibility between the iPhone and the way the T-Mobile 3G is implemented. T-Mobile supposedly sends and receives on different bands and I doubt the iPhone can do that. The push technology being implemented by Apple also may not work on non-approved carriers.
The iPhone can take advantage of free WiFi. Supposedly (that word again) AT&T will be opening up all their WiFi access points (Starbux, B&N, elsewhere) to iPhone users for free. This was accidentally activated last month and then shut back off. The announcement may be tied to actual 3g iPhone availability.