IPHONE!

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:30 pm

I played around with my assistant's today. The interface is very user friendly. The keyboard takes a bit of getting used to but once you trust it, it beats the hell out of using the number pad on my Samsung.

The ability to pick and choose voice mail is fantastic. The ability to have the interface move from portrait to landscape is very useful. When you use it as a handset, it feels better against your head than a Blackberry. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand.

The flash memory cuts down on the size. Also, you will need to get a cover, at least one my useful than the one it comes with because there is a lot of surface area to scratch up. The service plan through Cingular is seems like a really good idea. $80 a month for unlimited data, 700+ minutes and 200 SMS a month is cheaper than I pay now. While it is nice but I still don't need it.

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by **More Cowbell** on Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:59 pm

agentogden wrote:
LaxRef wrote:They sold 500,000 last weekend, which was double the estimate. As a Mac user, that makes me very happy!

Apple has released no such number.

out.
AO

Yeah...but pretty much every industry analyst has estimated that they sold 500,000+

by **LaxRef** on Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:06 pm

agentogden wrote:
LaxRef wrote:They sold 500,000 last weekend, which was double the estimate. As a Mac user, that makes me very happy!

Apple has released no such number.

out.
AO

I saw it on CNN at the health club today. This report states, I think, where that number came from:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5558

by **Champ** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:46 pm

A very good iPhone review!

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx? ... deo=iphone

by **horn17** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:59 pm

rumor is, there might be a smaller version available soon per a release from msnbc....the link below if from pc mag

a nano styled phone that is at the 300 dollar tag...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13432 ... ticle.html

AO - double check on that, I'm looking for the numbers, I think they did sell that many....

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/art ... RTUNE5.htm

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 368,00.asp

by **bste_lax** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:34 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hriAMxCinhg[/youtube]

by **ineedmorecowbell** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:00 pm

i got one. i love it. it's pretty much perfect for the stuff i do.

ps. that nano rumor has been debunked by jpmorgan themselves. it was just a patent apple applied for. it doesn't mean it was gonna go anywhere.

by **agentogden** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:21 pm

AO - double check on that, I'm looking for the numbers, I think they did sell that many....

I promise -- Apple has release no number. July 25th you will find out how many were sold.

out.
AO

by **horn17** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:44 pm

ineedmorecowbell wrote:i got one. i love it. it's pretty much perfect for the stuff i do.

ps. that nano rumor has been debunked by jpmorgan themselves. it was just a patent apple applied for. it doesn't mean it was gonna go anywhere.

keep in mind the last "patent" they applied for, produced the Iphone....I think it has some merit espically when the biggest gripe is the price on the bad boy...

AO - you feel pretty confident that they did or didnt sell that much? I think they definately sold more than 500,000

by **agentogden** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:56 pm

horn17 wrote:
ineedmorecowbell wrote:i got one. i love it. it's pretty much perfect for the stuff i do.

ps. that nano rumor has been debunked by jpmorgan themselves. it was just a patent apple applied for. it doesn't mean it was gonna go anywhere.

keep in mind the last "patent" they applied for, produced the Iphone....I think it has some merit espically when the biggest gripe is the price on the bad boy...

AO - you feel pretty confident that they did or didnt sell that much? I think they definately sold more than 500,000

Apple applies for a dozen patents a day. Alot of which never get used.

I don't see the biggest gripe about the iphone being the price. If that was the case, they woudn't have sold as many as they did. The RAZR was $600 when it came out and that thing is like fisher-price. one of the worst UI's out there.

I'm confident that they sold a ton and it out sold any other sell phone to date in that short of a time span.

The 25th Apple will most likely say how many they sold.

out.
AO

by **UofMLaxGoalie11** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:05 pm

agentogden wrote:Apple applies for a dozen patents a day. Alot of which never get used.

Its true. My dad recently took and passed the patent BAR, certifying him as a patent agent, so Ive learned a bit about intellectual property from him rambling on. People can often invent ways to get around patents or create a large competitor in the market. Large companies like Apple might patent certain ideas just to prevent a competitor from entering the market with a similar product.

by **Campbell** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:49 pm

UofMLaxGoalie11 wrote:
agentogden wrote:Apple applies for a dozen patents a day. Alot of which never get used.

Its true. My dad recently took and passed the patent BAR, certifying him as a patent agent, so Ive learned a bit about intellectual property from him rambling on. People can often invent ways to get around patents or create a large competitor in the market. Large companies like Apple might patent certain ideas just to prevent a competitor from entering the market with a similar product.

This girl I work with was telling me her father is retired and he just thinks up ideas and patents them. Not really sure what the scope of his ideas are, and I dont think she really knows either. Maybe it is a sort of investment for his family. Not sure if you can inherit patents though.

by **LaxRef** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:52 pm

I got to play with an iPhone this weekend. Very sweet. The interface was very intuitive, and I had no trouble at all typing on it.

by **UofMLaxGoalie11** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:39 pm

Campbell wrote:
UofMLaxGoalie11 wrote:
agentogden wrote:Apple applies for a dozen patents a day. Alot of which never get used.

Its true. My dad recently took and passed the patent BAR, certifying him as a patent agent, so Ive learned a bit about intellectual property from him rambling on. People can often invent ways to get around patents or create a large competitor in the market. Large companies like Apple might patent certain ideas just to prevent a competitor from entering the market with a similar product.

This girl I work with was telling me her father is retired and he just thinks up ideas and patents them. Not really sure what the scope of his ideas are, and I dont think she really knows either. Maybe it is a sort of investment for his family. Not sure if you can inherit patents though.

That sounds kinda like what my dad would like to do. Get hired by companies to go around patents. He currently works as a consultant doing problem solving using a systematic method to find several solutions. Using this he has walked into places and in under an hour, come up with several very possible solutions to problems their staff have been working on for months or years. Using that process and a knowledge of what a patent protects, he could help patent a product that would serve the same function with slight unseen differences for poorly written patents (which most are).

LaxRef wrote:I got to play with an iPhone this weekend. Very sweet. The interface was very intuitive, and I had no trouble at all typing on it.

A little while ago someone was sitting at the bar playing with his iPhone and my manager and I were sitting there watching him use the maps and such. The biggest drawback he could think of was that it didnt incorporate GPS into the phone (for directions and such).

by **Zeuslax** on Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:31 am

Some of you may have seen this already.

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx? ... deo=iphone

Pulverized that thing.....looks like gunpowder.

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