So, anyone get the Iphone yet?

[Blastin]

Just wondering if it really will make you immortal

 

[hafrogman]

Only if you cut off your head and replace it with the iPhone.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

When someone does say they've gotten one, some additional questions:

1) Is this your first smartphone? If not, which did you have previously, were you using it up until getting the iPhone, what did you use it for (business/school/personal) and why make the switch?

2) Did you already own an iPod? If so, how big was it? How many hours a day did you listen to it?

3) If you did not own either previously, what made you interested in the iPod?

 

[Jhamin]

Ok, it's saturday.

The Iphone has been out for over 12 hours now. Has world peace started yet? Or at least an end to the cola-wars?

 

[Aeolius]

Has world peace started yet? Or at least an end to the cola-wars?

Around here, we call it the soda-war

I waiting in line for around 90 minutes, yesterday, to get my iPhone. I'm abandoning Sprint and a Treo for at&t and the iPhone. No complaints, thus far. I get a better signal with at&t, near my house, than I did with Sprint. I won't be abandoning my iPod anytime soon, as I use it mainly in the car.

 

[jaerdaph]

Five Reasons NOT to get an iPhone:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/14081

To this list I've added #6: You have to deal with AT&T, the worst company for service of any kind you will ever find on the face of the earth. The stupidest thing they could ever do when they bought Cingular was to drop Cingular's name and use their own tarnished one.

 

[Piratecat]

My coworker got one. Having seen it, I fully think that its importance is not so much the phone itself, but how it's going to revolutionize and transform future handheld devices. A lot like the Macintosh, I suspect that the iPhone is going to be the first of a new wave of products. It's hard to underestimate how well designed this sucker is.

I'm not an early adopter myself, but I was tremendously impressed. Even better, some of the weaknesses -- AT&T's network, for instance, or things that are changeable through software -- will only improve.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I waiting in line for around 90 minutes, yesterday, to get my iPhone. I'm abandoning Sprint and a Treo for at&t and the iPhone. No complaints, thus far. I get a better signal with at&t, near my house, than I did with Sprint. I won't be abandoning my iPod anytime soon, as I use it mainly in the car.

Is it as robust for business purposes as the Treo? It's hard to tell through the hype and counterhype.

 

[Piratecat]

Unclear -- I think it depends how much mobile access you need to the internet (it positively shines for that.) AT&T's currently iffy network is going to affect this, of course; for instance, AT&T is the only carrier whose cell signal we can't get clearly inside the office.

I know that our parent company THQ isn't supporting them right now, so even if it was perfect the iPhone wouldn't become our default work communication device until they did.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'm seriously considering getting one for my wife, since she runs around with three devices (Razor cell phone, 4G iPod nano, and Palm PDA) in her purse that could be replaced by this device. Plus we're already on an AT&T wireless plan (yuck!). She'd lose a few PDA features -- ones she doesn't use anyway -- and gain a lot of other utility. If it had an integrated GPS, it would be about perfect.

Wouldn't mind one myself, since I'm crazy electronics man when I travel (laptop, personal cell phone, iPod, work Blackberry, multiple chargers ...), but I'm not an early adopter and would like to be sure the majority of bugs are worked out of the hardware and software. And those bugs don't show up until the stress of the user release. Plus the cost ... choke.

I just saw an online PC World article on "stress testing" an iPhone -- sounds fairly durable. They tried to scratch up the screen without success, and it survived head-height drops onto concrete. That's tougher than my Blackberry.