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iwas the first person to see the iphone!!!!!!!!!! my friend was buying a different phone in the At and t store and i was with her. they closed the store to set up and we weren`t done like paying and stuff so we stayed inside and the brought out the iphones and we got to see them a full 2 hours before the were released. when we walked outside of the store, we yelled "WE WERE THE FIRST!!!!!" and the guy at the front of the like 300 people line was soooooooooooooooo mad, cuz he hought that we actually got the phone!

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Purchased iPhone and it was very easy to get up and running. The itunes interface was clear and helpful. I had an itunes account however I had to give the information again. That was a small inconvience. I am pleased with the interface and the features. I will be learning more every minute on the interesting programs. Tough to justify the price, but if you added a iPod, a Blackberry, and a GPS might come out right

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OK, 24 HOURS LATER MY IPHONE IS STILL NOT ACTIVATED AND OF COURSE MY ORIGINAL WIRELESS IS DEACTIVATED. CUSTOMER SUPPORT SEEMS TO NOT HAVE A CLUE. $600.OO THIS THING SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORKING WHEN I BOUGHT IT!

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great phone, i thought it would take forever to activate at 9 pm etern time yesterday. no problem 5 minutes and running. Wish the battery life as better. i guess i am too used to my LG 8600.

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LMAO
I think this is funny as hell. All those people stood in line for hours, spent hundreds of dollars for a damn telephone and due to a glitch they can't even use the things. I'll bet the customer service employees got an ear full yesterday.

It reminded me of when people were fighting in the stores and acting a damn fool of those Cabbage Patch Dolls.

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Couldn't agree with you more PurpleRaindrops. Hundreds of dollars for a telephone. Something they probably have 2 or 3 of already.

Could have donated that money to a homeless shelter or helped some of their less fortunate relatives.

What idiots.
LOL

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Well my one buddy bought one of those there iphones with the add on ipod hickymajiger and he said it didnt take long to activate and he loves that there thing!He might be from the country but he's still up on the Tech. Dang dog got ahold of it already and its still hangin in there too .... Deff. a strong peice of equipment if u kno what i mean! Phone gets service down here in tha Hollow and all. Deff a good investment boy

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I have to also agree with both PurpleRaindrops and HellOrHighWater, this is crazy. You spend all of that time and money on a phone that in six months will be out with the old in with the new. I have to say, at that time Cabage Patch dolls rocked....

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the whole phone is piece of s...t. Took me forever to activate. Got a huge headake to transfer music. Still did not transfered everything. You have to be a computer geek/nerd combined to use this damn thing. For money I paid it should be easier to use. Or at least user friendly. I am very very disappointed. To make things worth you can buy chinese version of this phone which can utilize mp3 files and has TWICE AS RESOLUTION. I feel that I was ript off.

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I agree with you all. I spent 600.00 for mine. I have the imate k-jam and it is about the same as this new phone. I had the original version imate-jam, had so many problems with it that I had to switch it for the new version because the company had to work out the kinks. You spend all this money and you have no one that knows how to operate it when you have a problem. I love my phone, but I do love to be up on the newest technology. Probably will wait for the kinks to get worked out on the iphone first before I purchase it.

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Sooooo...Just what does the ipod Dooooo?
Start the Car? Run the Dishwasher? Hook to the Home Puter to play Pogo remotely?? Music Somehow? Pics for the Wall? Or.... make a phone call? How about a one paragraph statement about: WHAT THE ipod Does!

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Subject Reasons why the iphone blows.. ;-)
Body: You won’t be able to sit in line and pull out your iPhone to play games, because the iPhone DOES NOT HAVE ANY GAMES. Games from the iTunes store are not compatible.

Although you can fill it up with 8 GIGS worth of mp3 songs from iTunes, you CANNOT CUSTOMIZE YOUR RINGTONES WITH MP3 SONGS

Although it has the “most advanced” interface using your fingers and the touch-screen, you CANNOT USE VOICE COMMANDS OR VOICE RECOGNITION OR VOICE DIALING.

The keyboard supposedly isn’t a real bother after you get used to it, but TYPING PERIODS AND COMMAS ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK, requiring you to go to a 2nd screen each time. Given that you use a period or comma in almost every sentence you type, this is NOT CONVENIENT.

Even though it has a 2 Megapixel camera, you CANNOT SEND PICS TO OTHER CELL PHONES VIA MMS PICTURE MESSAGING.
You CANNOT FREELY USE THE iPHONE ON OTHER CONTINENTS WITH SIM CARDS - you are restricted to AT&T international roaming networks only.

You CANNOT DOWNLOAD OR ACCESS ITUNES DIRECTLY from the iPhone, you always have to do it through you PC or Mac’s iTunes program and then sync files.

You CANNOT USE IT AS A MODEM like you can with the Samsung Blackjack and my Sony Vaio laptop.

The iPhone CANNOT GET REAL-TIME GPS MAPPING like you can on the Blackberry 8800 because it is NOT GPS enabled

You CANNOT GO ON VACATION OR ROAD TRIP WITHOUT YOUR CHARGER because it doesn’t have a removeable battery, so you cannot use multiple batteries as back-up or spare

You CANNOT LOAD MORE THAN 4GB or 8GB worth of video, music, audio, documents, contacts, email, etc because there is NO REMOVEABLE STORAGE CARD supported

The iPhone CANNOT SURF THE WEB AS FAST AS MOST COMPETITOR PHONES like the 3G Blackjack or Blackberry because it does not support 3G (i.e. The NYTimes Site took almost 1 full minute to download).

You CANNOT CONNECT TO ALL iPOD DOCKS AND CONNECTORS currently out there - most will work, and a upgrade may be in the works, but for now, you may have to buy yet another accessory to connect the iPhone to speakers, car radio, etc.

About connections, not all earplugs/headsets will fit into the jack since it’s reported to be a extra deep connection. Some accessory manufacturers are going to sell $40 adaptors just to get their standard earphone jacks to work with the iPhone properly. Be ready to add $40 to your purchase price!

You CANNOT WALK OUT OF THE STORE WITH A WORKING iPHONE - you’ll have to go home and activate it through iTunes.com

Since the iPhone DOES NOT HAVE A REMOVEABLE BATTERY, and the expected life is 300-400 charges, you’ll HAVE TO SHIP IT TO APPLE TO REPLACE THE BATTERY EVERY YEAR OR TWO just like iPods. Who wants to be separated from their smart phone for a week every year or two AND have to pay for it!

Intelligent keyboard and all, but you CANNOT COPY/PASTE ANYTHING!

Oh yeah, you HAVE TO LITERALLY PAY AT LEAST $2196+ FOR THE iPHONE for your 2 year contract. That’s a lot for a cell phone, no?

Ill stick to the my blackberry!



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It appears the touch pad will be hard for many to adapt too. Some seem to be easily impressed. I will wait to see how many still like it after a couple months of use. I think their may be a increase in traffic accidents due to the iphone. Since most say they cannot dial with one hand. One curious thing I have seen with Apple products. People seem to overlook the flaws on Apple products. If say Microsoft made the the phone, the experts would be all over the two handed dialing and the activation problems. I personally think human's will always prefer touchable keys to typing on a flat surface.

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I LU-LU-LU-LUV THIS PHONE! I have NEVER been a person to care much about gadgets, but I guess there's a 1st time for everything! Although the lines were very long on Friday, the Apple geniuses made the process quick and painless. The phone is beautiful, AMAZINGLY functional, does everything it boasts and then some, and it was a snap to get activated!

I have a friend who picked one up yesterday, and although he has the newest macbook Pro laptom, he has not yet been able to activate his phone because he hadn't accepted any Apple updates on his laptop over the past month.

As long as your system requirements are up-to-date, it should be quite simple to get going! It took me less than 10 minutes before I was talking on my new iphone.

I LOVE YOU APPLE!!!!!! (I can't believe how nerdy/techy I sound) heehee!

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A curse on ATT and APPLE for unleashing such an un-adulterated piece of crap on the world. I've never had a worse experience with any techno-gidget in all my 54 years.
Bought it, brought it home. Tried to activate ... tried again .... two days later still trying. Brought it back to the store and paid $50 restocking fee. Meanwhile my old ATT account is dead and I don't have a cell phone now.
Not a problem. I canned my ATT account and bought a sidekick from another carrier.
May ATT and APPLE (the un-Holy alliance) Die a painful death and never bother us again with such garbage.

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Waaaah! I had to be the first one on my block to have the newest toy that I was told can't live without, and it won't work right, and I paid too much! Waaaah!

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I only saw the iPhone briefly today, but it looked rather different than I thought it would. A little less Apple, a little more Samsung? I am genuinely surprised about the compatibility issues Lupe was talking about, I sure hope they fix that.

My favorite thing about the iPhone craze is watching others. The picture of the first guy in line in NY is pretty priceless.

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Early Adopter Blues!
Didn't any of you people who sat in line for the privilege of spending $600 for an iphone understand that you an EARLY ADOPTER? Do you get that you will be subject to the technological shakeout that will occur as this thing gains exposure in real use across the country? This is Apple's first experience with phones. There will be lots of upgrades and changes, improvements that will make this device more usable and reliable. $40 for an adapter that will allow you to plug a pair of standard headsets? All of the nonsense that Lupe has listed above? These bugs and shortcomings will be worked out over time, and the cost will come down as volume picks up and competition comes into play. I paid $500 for my first Razor - imagine that. Now they are giving them away with a 2yr contract. And the Razors today have all the bugs I bought for $500 worked out. When you buy the first ones out, you have to expect problems and shortcomings. After all, you're am Early Adopter!

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When you see the 'privileged', noveau, vanguard of early iPhone users on the street, keep the following tidbit in mind before you begin frothing at the mouth or, worse yet, wetting yourself:

How much to make a $599 iPhone?

$220 - Oh no, tell me it ain't so........!

Apple hasn't said much publicly about who's supplying the various bits of the iPhone, but US firm Portelligent has been trying to find out, via the unorthodox means of tearing a handset to pieces.

It claims the touchscreen is made by German firm Balda, the main microprocessor chip and flash memory comes from Samsung, while another chip comes from NXP Semiconductor. But most startling is Portelligent's conclusion: that the cost of materials in an 8GB iPhone add up to around $220.

That doesn't include the final assembly costs, but cor, eh? It's a fat profit whichever way you look at it. And, of course, it leaves plenty of room for price cuts in the future once the early adopters have all piled in...

(via Business Week)

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A friend of mine just got an iphone and he's extremely pleased with it. No trouble activating it, he said and he loves being able to scroll the page up or down with his finger. I think this phone will get even better over the next year or so. The price will come down, the battery power increased and Apple will do with this phone what it did with desktop computers, laptops and the ipod.

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