making this post on Iphone
sweet toy worth the money
sweet toy worth the money
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How's the net speed?Comment -
not bad. i tried google map, about the same as a wireless wifi. stock quote is pretty fast. the keyboard is pretty cool, very easy to use. you pinch and unpinch to zoom in and out, which is really cool feature. but it is kind of pain in the ass to login into this forum, since the keyboard is so small and you can't see your password onscreen, it took me 2 tries to login to this forum. i also tried pinnacle, that page works. zoom in and out kind of make your head little woozy, but it is way better than any browser application on other phones on the market. i would get it as soon as my current plan expires.
very useful if you want to bet on the go. one thing i didn't try is calling someone
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Pico is it push e-mail or do you need to fetch it?
Pico was it easy to buy? How did you purchase
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do they have them if I want one?Comment -
I look forward to picoman buying an iphone so he can start new threads even when on the move.Originally posted by pags11Originally posted by BuddyBearOriginally posted by curiousComment -
Anyone have a blackberry? Are they cool?Comment -
Are there any decent priced phones that are good for surfing the web with?Comment -
What about a PSP - you can play kick-ass games on it and still surf the web if you can find a WiFi connection which isn't too difficult. Oh and the browser is better than a Blackberry.Originally posted by pags11Originally posted by BuddyBearOriginally posted by curiousComment -
This should be interesting once they dismantle it
Geeks Rush to Dismantle the iPhone
his time round, Apple's iPhone lives to tell a different kind of story...
According to reports, just as there were enthusiasts waiting to get their hands on the iPhone, there were these tech freaks who made a mad dash to dismantle the device...
hey all but ended up revealing the innards of the iPhone -- something that Apple had tried hard to conceal...
Going by the revelations made by these tech revellers, pride-of-place indeed goes to Samsung Electronics, identified as the supplier of the iPhone's main microprocessor as also of NAND flash memory.
Intel turns out the supplier of NOR flash memory, while Broadcom is the maker of the controller chip for the iPhone.
Texas Instruments is identified as the supplier of a power management chip, whereas Infineon Technologies turns out the maker of parts that handle cellular communications.
The power amplifier is from Skyworks Solutions, while the battery charger chip is from Linear Technology.
Meanwhile, Cambridge Silicon Radio is the maker of the chips that allow Bluetooth wireless connectivity; Marvell Technology Group the provider of the chips that allow the iPhone to connect over WiFi networks; and National Semiconductor Corp the maker of the iPhone's display chip.
Reportedly, stocks of all but a few component makers soared post the discovery.
Chances are: if the iPhone lives up to all the hype, part/component/chip makers too will partake of the Apple-induced gravy train...Comment -
Apple IPhone Sold Out at Most Stores After Four Days (Update1)
By Connie Guglielmo
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. ran out of iPhones at more than half its stores less than a week after introducing the combination iPod music player and handset in the U.S.
Buyers emptied outlets in 10 states, with 95 of 164 stores reporting sellouts last night, according to a posting on Apple's Web site. Cupertino, California-based Apple started selling two models of the iPhone, priced at $499 and $599, on June 29.
Shoppers took home as many as 700,000 iPhones over the weekend, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst David Bailey has estimated, twice his initial projection. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs has sought to use the tie to the iPod business, which pulled in about $10 billion in revenue last year, to reach his goal of selling 10 million phones in 2008.
Apple's stores in Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington sold off their allotment of phones yesterday, leaving buyers to check with AT&T Inc.
AT&T has sold out of the phone in nearly all of its 1,800 stores, with ``just a handful'' of locations that haven't, spokesman Mark Siegel said in an interview today. San Antonio- based AT&T is the exclusive wireless service provider for the device.
Apple sells the iPhone for more than double its manufacturing costs, with profit margins of more than 55 percent excluding logistics and royalties, industry researcher ISuppli Corp. said in a report. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
Apple shares rose 61 cents to $121.87 at 9:41 a.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. They had gained 42 percent through yesterday since Jobs showed off the iPhone for the first time on Jan. 9. AT&T shares fell 12 cents to $41.73.
Breaking the Record
The iPhone broke AT&T's opening-weekend records, selling more in three days than phones such as Motorola Inc.'s Razr did in their first month, according to spokesman Michael Coe. Siegel declined to give specific sales figures for any of the devices.
While the first iPhone sales will be included in second- quarter results, they will benefit AT&T in the third quarter as enthusiasm spreads for the gadget, said Todd Rosenbluth, an analyst at Standard & Poor's in New York.
``The initial buyers brought it home, and now they're talking about it, showing it to friends,'' said Rosenbluth, who has a ``hold'' rating on AT&T shares.
AT&T's Edge data network, which allows the iPhone and other devices to access the Internet, crashed for several hours yesterday in a ``very limited'' outage, Siegel also said today.
The iPhone didn't cause the outage, he said, pointing to a network server malfunction that forced AT&T to reroute traffic. He declined to say how many total users access the Edge network.
To contact the reporter on this story: Connie Guglielmo in San Francisco at cguglielmo1@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: July 3, 2007 09:49 EDT
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iPhone unlocked 'within hours', hackers say
Hackers exchanging details about Apple's new iPhone say they are on the cusp of cracking the code which ties the device to the AT&T network
Jonathan Richards
Hackers striving to 'unlock' Apple's iPhone so that it will work with any SIM card inside it said today they were within hours of reaching their goal.
Since Friday evening, a community of hackers around the world have been exchanging details about the iPhone's system in an attempt to understand how to 'activate' the device with any SIM card - including a European - rather than those of AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the phone.
A successful hack would mean that the iPhones that have now gone on sale eBay for as much as $1,000 could be made to work in Europe, even though the device is not due out here until the end of the year, experts said.
By this afternoon, a post on one of the main forums in which would-be Apple hackers are congregating purporting to reveal details of the software on which the iPhone runs had been read more than 61,000 times.
"We know how unlocking of the phone occurs with a reasonable degree of confidence - we cannot yet trigger this unlocking or verify whether we are right but speaking for myself, i'm pretty sure I know how to do it " a post by 'gj' on iPhone Dev Wiki, read.
An update yesterday evening said: "I think by tomorrow night we'll have an activation crack."
Pictures posted on another site, www.howardforums.com, gave advice of how to remove the phone's existing SIM card: "Insert the end of a small paper clip into the hole on the SIM tray. Press firmly and push it straight in until the tray pops out," the instruction read.
A European-based group of hackers was asking colleagues to contribute towards the $500 cost of the iPhone so that a model could be shipped from the US and taken apart for analysis.
The iPhone, which went on sale in the US on Friday, was today selling on eBay for anywhere between $499, the retail price, and $1000, making the prospect of a successful hack tempting for Apple fans in Europe, who will not see the device in stores until the end of the year.
Apple maintains that the phone is securely locked to the AT&T network, but most mobile phone handsets have in the past been able to be unlocked, usually for a fee of between £5-10.
A blog called unlockuriphone.com was offering to unlock iPhones for "a small fee" as soon as it had cracked the code, asking owners to send details of their phone's International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) - the number which identifies each handset individually - in order that it could be untethered from AT&T.
"With a release as high profile as the iPhone, there's enormous kudos for the successful hacker, not to mention a potential income astream in handing over the code," Paul Vlissidis, technical director with NCC, a security firm, said.
"There's no reason why, once hacked, the phone won't work in Europe - it's a bit like Region Zero DVDs. Every phone is made to work with every SIM; it's just a matter of cracking the network lock that the manufacturer and the operator have agreed upon."
Sam & Max on Tour, a contributor on the forum Hackint0sh who promised to make the 'hack' public once it was successful, said: "We are not into making money with our stuff, we do it with fun and not for profit."
Asked whether what he was doing was illegal, he said: "No, we don't live within the US, there are a lot free countries that allow you to break or modify stuff on your own."
Not every forecast for a successful hack of the iPhone was so upbeat, however. A post on Mac Rumors, another forum for Apple users, said: "All current claims to people owning an unlocked iPhone are false. To this date no one I am aware of has successfully unlocked an iPhone."Comment -
Question: So this is full mobile internet? The same thing I would see on a laptop or desktop. Go to any pages I want?Comment -
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
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don't forget about the iphone's cool keypad...very smartly programmedComment -
There is clip floating around where some guy tries to steal an IPHONE during a live interview. Pretty funny.Comment -
huge drawback of iphone is the slow network it is on, no type of edge or 3G type speedsComment -
There is suppose to be a new one coming out next year that will be much faster coach.Comment -
For the same reason everyone wanted to by those Atari's back in the early 80's.Comment -
Thats really an understatement. My cousin brought his over today......talk about slow net speed.
He told me he is also plagued with crappy phone service.
A year or two down the road you'll get more device for the $$$. I don't know if I would want to give up Verizon for the "new at&t cingular". I switched to Verizon like a year ago because Cingular was so choppy.Comment
