Is anybody else jonesing after an iPhone? I am. I count the ‘freakin days until it is released! I even paid off a dude at my local Cingular store so I could get my greedy hands on one

So why do I want one? Wow.....too many reasons to list! To begin with, it flat out looks cool. The UI is light years beyond what is currently available and the feature set is a dream come true. I don’t have a video iPod so this will be great. There are many times that I find myself sitting around and waiting for whatever and it would be nice to watch a movie or a music video while I’m waiting. The internet browser is the bomb! I mean.....have you ever tried to surf the web on a cell phone? It doesn’t look *anything* like my browser at home. The iPhone browser looks almost exactly like my browser on my desktop, albeit a bit smaller. Brilliant! Now for the phone itself. I can’t wait to get my hands on this thing. No keys. That is awesome! Also, there are so many features that it would take a whole day to list the things I am looking forward to. One thing I would like to mention is the ability to forward to the message you want to hear. I *hate* having to listen to 4 or 5 saved messages in order to get to the one I *really* want to listen to. I don’t know exactly how the iPhone will pan out but my understanding is that it will seamlessly sync with iCal and Address Book. This is like a dream come true. I live and die by my calendar and the ability to carry it with me throughout the day will increase my productivity. In terms of integration with Address Book, this will allow me to sync my customer database to my iPhone and essentially carry my customers with me where ever I go. When someone calls and wants to schedule a job, I can simply look them up in Address Book and see their complete history instead of telling them that I will call them back when I get back to my desk.

Now....let me be the first to say that *some* of these feature already exist in phones such as the Blackberry but Apple always has a way of doing it much more elegantly and user friendly.

Can you tell I’m excited about getting an iPhone? Hehehehe. I can’t wait!

Did I mention the ability to manipulate photos by pinching? Yeah baby....bring it on!!!!

Did I mention that movies and pictures will go widescreen when I change the position of the iPhone? Bring it on quickly!!!!

LOL we can tell you are excited about the iPhone. 

MAYBE A LIL’ 2 EXCITED.
LOL

Yeah Skinny, the phones a phone not a chick

Hot piece of electronics.......not chick. Eh, not much of a difference.

I agree with Skinny. Unfortunately, that’s probably why I’m single.

I myself am awaiting this product.  Only a few more months until release.  Yay!

:drools:

If it isn’t delayed

It probably won’t be but ya never know.

Michael - 21 April 2007 03:56 PM

If it isn’t delayed

It probably won’t be but ya never know.

i want one of these too!

I’d get it if it wasn’t tied down to Cingular.

Rogers might not get the iPhone in the next year or two, I hear they don’t want to meet Apple’s demands, and there’s no other real choice for GSM here.  It would be amazing if Jobs wasn’t so stuck up and allowed for the phone to be unlocked, but I’d imagine sooner or later someone will be able to unlock the phone, but what worries me is that the phone may be set up similar to a CDMA phone, where the Sim card (if it has one) will be locked to the phone and carrier and that’s it.

I’ll wait until the price goes down, I don’t want to be paying $700 for a phone that has no discount and requires a 3 year contract.  I’ll probably end up just getting a Blackberry 8820, if it ever gets released.

I hear Rogers is a pain in the butt to deal with as a customer. Is that true?

It really depends.. I’ve had a so/so experience, it really just depends on the rep, I’ve had dumbass reps who told me that it will cost me to text an American cell in Canada (although that’s false… it’s part of the regular bucket of texts) or whatnot, but other reps who were outstanding.

They’re a pain in the ass to deal with on billing issues (which rarely happens) and hardware upgrade, plus they LOVE to telemarket, Canada has a do-not-call sort of thing like the US does, but Rogers loves to send telemarketing calls when a contract is up, or they contact a homephone line asking if the customer wants to add more lines, but mention that you can’t get service in a certain area and they hang up!

Their call centres are open 24-7 which is nice, the other alternative here only has offices open between 9-5, and this company’s stores are as much of a hassle as Sprint’s it sounds like, while Rogers stores/kiosks have usually helpful reps, I’ve had the odd rep go “what do you want” in a rude tone, but once had a store clerk remember me and my phone model.. a year and a half after buying the phone.. since it was a low seller of a phone… now THAT’s service.. so that’s why I think so/so, but moreso good than bad.