Comments on: Apple’s iPhone launch - a disaster in the making?

By: eltoten

eltoten — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:53:58 +0000

this thread shows how full of shit some people are and how they jump at every little piece of junk published to create a disaster scenario.

TO HELL WITH YE BEGRUDGERS!!!!!!!!

By: kieran

kieran — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:31:54 +0000

listen to yourselves for godsakes! give the phone a damn chance. its way ahead of any other phone technically. That alone justifies any percieved rip-off with the contract. Apple are not perfect….nothing is….but they are more perfect than any other mobile phone manufacturer. Such as Nokia(laughs). They release about a million phones each week with the same out-dated interface. And my da has an N95,it crashes alot and the wifi system is awful……..nuf said!

By: egg

egg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:51:36 +0000

when i first got my hands on my iphone it was apart in days modded chipped etc. and broke…. :(, although mods can be added to the piece of hardware “bigger hhd” and software such as a programme as simple as paint keep your eyes open for mods and upgrades because the iphone is pretty much a handheld mac, also does any one have any information of the cyrsis in romanina all i know was that the waves been sent out via sattile were far to storng and put people at extreme risk

By: Zubi

Zubi — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:21:50 +0000

Lovely phone,i have ever had…

By: Richelle

Richelle — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:16:22 +0000

Is this phone available for citizens to purchase in Ireland??

By: Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:42:59 +0000

Tom,
Is it true the rumors that there are no plans to bring the iphone to Ireland. I have heard that 3 have passed up the opportunity

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:05:11 +0000

The sim card is in a tray at the top of the phone. It can be easily removed.

By: Ben Moffett

Ben Moffett — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:55:48 +0000

Let me tell you what I have had this phone now for almost a month and I cannot get over how much I love this phone. I feel like a celebrity anytime I pull it out. Everyone is like “Hey, is that one of those cool iphones?” I say “yes”. They say “Does it really work like they say it does?” I say “absolutely Want to see?”
Let me tell you what. I will never own another phone as long as apple is in the phone business. They have done it right.
Ben

By: lee

lee — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:35:15 +0000

its a very good fone its so slick

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:28:04 +0000

Hark, the error that I pointed out is in the above post on this site, I’m not sure if there is the same error in the New York Times article but their graphic of the iPhone correctly shows that there is a sim slot.

By: J Enright

J Enright — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:41:59 +0000

Its Noon! I spent the last four hours trying to get activated. After getting disconnected 2.5 hours into a reasonable useful call, I had given them the call back number and about 20 minutes after the disconnect THEY CALLED me BACK.
Now what they told me was that they will call me back again. In the meantime my old cell phone has been popped off the network. Elaped time since ‘iPhone activation’ began (11pm Friday to Noon Sunday is 37 hours); Ten hours my time on phone with support peopleat this time, Not active, no old cell phone, awaiting a call that I believe will come. It is past my noon deadline but I hope they can sort this soon.
There are only about 1,300 complaints out of 99,000 members of MacRumors.com… Still Not Activated

By: J Enright

J Enright — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:15:43 +0000

Disaster in the making? I bought the iPhone Friday (Fun experience).
I am writing this Sunday on DAY THREE of my iTunes ACTIVATION.

I have been on the phone with one Apple Care person after a 30+ minute wait. They asked me to reboot, restart iTunes and then gave up! Passed me back into the queue (to see if th next person could handle it?)

Friday and Saturday I spent talking with just a few representatives. I actually was busy doing some of the things I had planned for my weekend. By Sat evening AppleCare had closed 8pm(Hello Phone support does not really close right? Wrong.) I needed to reset the activation which had hung. This is what I am trying to do for my Sunday.

If I cannot have the phone activated by Noon, I’ll return the ‘emergency only puppy’

By: Hark

Hark — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:40:57 +0000

The NYT article is just poorly worded. The SIM card does come out and is replacable… but the phone is still locked to AT&T.

I put the iPhone SIM into my BB Curve, and it worked just fine.

By: Cian

Cian — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:53:52 +0000

Further to my last post, on the point of been able to take out the sim card or not, do you have any idea which is wrong, this thread or the the NYT graphic?…

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070627_POGUE_GRAPHIC.html

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:25:59 +0000

Whats the big Deal people….

#1. You can buy the phone either in the store or online or at an Apple Store. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A CONTRACT TO BUY IT OR A CREDIT CHECK.

BUT To get the service you have to a credit check. You can do that a couple of different ways. Either in the Store or online Through your Itunes. Don’t make it sound like its hard. Millions of people already use Itunes for their ipods. All you have to do is hook it up the same way BADA BING….You can do a credit check right there if you want to and begin loading stuff on it just like you do your IPOD.

I AM GOING TO A STORE BUYING MY PHONE AND HEADING HOME…FORGE THE HASSLE. Apple has done this right.

LASTLY, JUST GO TO A STORE AND HOLD ONE. ITS LIKE A NEW PUPPY….YOU WONT BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN…

By: Hark

Hark — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:35:20 +0000

Mike,
It’s optional. They’ll tell you all about it at time of sale. If you akip the credit check, take the iphone home and do it via itunes, you might have to return to an AT&T store to leave a deposit if your credit doesn’t check out. If they do it in-store, they’ll give you a credit check code to use during at-home activation. If you decide to return the iphone after opening it if you don’t want to leave a deposit, they’ll charge you a 10% restocking fee.

handy iphone locator: http://wheresiphone.com

By: Mike J

Mike J — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:03:43 +0000

Credit check - is this done at the apple store? Do they sell the phone, then you go home THEN find out it you fail the check? (ok, i have bad credit)

By: vinnie mirchandani

vinnie mirchandani — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:24:30 +0000

Not completely desirable…with just 2.5G on ATT you will be heavily dependent on WI-FI. Which I can do on my current PDA for $ 400 less.

Also, ATT hotspot availability is spotty in US compared to T-Mobile (though it partners with Boingo) and you would pay for that additional each month or per day.

On my current PDA, when I cannot get a free hotspot I use the modem feature - not a great speed but I can at least download and send mail - included in my data plan. Not available on iPhone.

With the locked SIM when you leave the US you will pay AT&T $ 2.99 a minute in India and $ 3.49 in Romania. More reasonable in UK, Germany etc at 99c a minute (if you consider that reasonable) . Plus $ 5 a month for the intl roaming privilege. Plus taxes.

I have other questions around GPS, camera, VoIP etc

So Apple may be bringing out a beauty but our telecom networks are not there yet…and the premium price expectations of both ATT and Apple make it what David Pogue of NY Times calls “one heck of a status symbol”

By: Three important events « AccMan

Three important events « AccMan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:20:34 +0000

[...] because it’s only available in the US. From what I can gather, while Walt Mossberg likes it, Tom Raftery thinks they’re on a hiding to nothing. And yes - techmeme was verrrrry slow on that one. Well done [...]

By: Cian

Cian — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:01:37 +0000

“…the sim is locked physically into the phone! It canâ€™t be removed”…

An NY Times interactive tour shows a “sim card slot” which “pops out” using a pin or paper clip.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070627_POGUE_GRAPHIC.html