I had a car crash recently. When I got the car back on the road and off the tram tracks, I typed in “Auto” in the maps, found the nearest garage, and navigated there. Maybe you can do that with some other phone – I’ve no idea – but it was very quick and easy, and saved a lot of stress.

A friend wanted to go to Delft and eat sushi. In a minute I’d located all the sushi places, selected one, called them to make a reservation, and added the address to my contacts, which are automagically synchronised to my desktop via MobileMe. Just works.

i get asked ‘is that an iphone?’ a significant amount. i don’t think i’ve ever specifically pointed it out to anyway.

dont like it, dont get one.

there are more important things in this world to get irritated by.

CountZero

It’s just so much more capable and ergonomic, (look it up)

mE google ergoneemics but it no say anyfink real good ’bout shiny black fing.Least nuthin me can understand like real good anyways.

Me fink “Haptic Perception” (look it up) are big important for sumfink like a tellymophone so az me can use one real good without me looky at da screen like real real hard all time when me wants to do summit real simple n’ all. Dats what me thinky anyhow. But me stoopid.

it’s more than a phone

Look, you’d think he’d won the World Cup or something. Sad tw4t.
even worse are the row of cvnts behind him applauding him for having bought a phone. Is this what happens when you buy a mobile phone? I haven’t ever done this so I don’t know.

I make 2, maybe 3 calls on my iPhone a week, but use it for other things all the time. I don’t really refer to it as my ‘phone’ and iPhone sounds less stupid than calling it a “personal communicator” or “connected pda” or some other **** generic description for what can so easily be described using the product name.

Pieface – Member

Just viewing this on my Latitude and I’ve realised my Diesel’s are no longer the correct presription. Also my Calvin Kleins are a bit tight so I’d best go and change into some Henry Lloyds. That remindas me, need to pop into Tesco on the way home to get some Goofella’s. I think I’ll be ok to leave the Kona outside, as long as I Kryptonite it outside.

When I get in it may be dark so will turn on the Osram’s, then walk across the Karndean to store my Ortliebs in the cupboard. Then its off tot he Armitage Shanks for a wee.

excellent: it could be straight out of a Douglas Coupland book. All feature some delightfully damning ‘product placement’ but Shampoo Planet is brand-mungous.

oh FWIW my boss calls his iphone a ‘phone’ and gets all flustered if we go on about how flash it is. But I don’t think he has got any further than putting a load of Genesis albums on it…

Well, I’m posting this via my Smart Phone, and I have to say, it’s fiddly and slow. Give me a full sized keyboard any day, and a screen that I won’t go blind, squinting at, struggling to see the tiny text.

Sent from my ‘phone thingy.

Well I call mine my phone.

But it is an awesome bit of kit that makes everything else look like beta test samples. The only physical problem is using the keyboard while driving in a car, or travelling on a train, I find that the keyboard can be a bit hit and miss then – certainly more so than my work BB.

But what really makes it are the unbelievable quality and value of some of the apps. I downloaded MotionX for £1.79 which turns it into a really, really decent GPS for the bike (especially for tracing rides and speeds). The Facebook, Twitter, Weather, Flickr, TiotiTV, Shazam etc etc apps are all great – and I would say I use the laptop a lot less now on an evening.

Could I live without it? Yes. Do I need all this information to make my life happy? No. Do I like having it anyway, and find it a genuine pleasure to use? Yes.

And I’m a PC fan. I don’t really like Mac OS any more than Windows – in fact I prefer the latter…

What does surprise me is the number of people who can be arsed to knock it. What’s with that, and why do you give a ****? Are you telling me it really bothers you when someone refers to their phone as their iPhone? I mean, really? What’s your reaction when someone says something really offensive. Lighten up, you’ll die young.

EDIT: Too much cognac – how many errors in the above?!

EDIT No 2 (ten minutes later): I realise it probably doesn’t bother you that much, you’re bored, and you’re just filling the board with the kind of random crap that makes this place interesting.

I’m just tired. And grumpy. And a little bit drunk on a school night.

And I didn’t mean driving oneself before you all start – I meant as a passenger! 😉

Why would you want to eat sushi in Delft?

Why not? I had a samosa in Peaslake on Sunday.

RudeBoy: well I’m responding to you via my __phone while sitting on the bog. I’m not squinting as the display is clear and large, and although I can only really type with one finger on this keyboard, I find it perfectly adequate for a little reply like this.

Maybe you just need a better smartphone? I hear that one from Apple is quite good.

s’cuse me

*flush*

well look at it this way then.

I want a pocket device that plays songs. After much ado, it’s an ipod. OK. Now I also want device that plays videos, cripes, that’s narrowed the field down a bit. OK, ipod it still is. Classic or an ipod touch, or an iphone. Right, now I want a phone that does browsing as well as the other two. Are there still two options? Even if there were, the iphone comes head and tails above the rest and get this, I’m a macophile, I don’t like their computers at all. But handhelds, sweet. Way better than all the blacklberrys I’ve used, the nokias and everything else. Yes I’m sure other manufacturers are hot on the trail and will be there in 6 months but I bet they’re not so slick. or app loaded to the gills

It’s up to you though.

I ate a nice bit of Sunpat on Kinsmill and a nice Lavazza with some Cravendale (I don’t take tate and lyle). Of couse I used a Denby to stop crumbs getting on the Wilton, on my Fatfaces, or the DFS.

I thought i’d check my thunderbird on the fujitsu, making shure the Li Shin was plugged into the MK. There was only spam so I opened Mozilla to post crap on STW.

Now going to browse the web on my Nokia

Why would you want to eat sushi in Delft?

Because Dutch food is crap?

Now going to browse the web on my Nokia

Good luck.

A friend wanted to go to Delft and eat sushi

Eat Sushi?!?! tell your mate to harden the phuck up the girl!

Well, I’ve managed to get the unlock code from BT, so I now have a fully functioning snazzy ‘phone thingy. With internets, music, videos, etc. And I’ve learned there are loads of little apps for it. It really is quite a nice ‘phone, I have to say.

Cost me £29.99, as an additional upgrade cost, when I took out a BT broadband deal in September. I’ve left them, because of their failure to provide a service as advertised, so it’s cost me just £29.99 (I never paid a penny of the BB charges, ‘cos it was sooo shit)! Result! I saw a used one on ebay t’other day, went for about £130 or something silly.

It’s not as flash as an iPhone, and is only 2G, but it does loads of stuff. I’m happy with it. And it will work with any network.

If someone gave me an iPhone, I’d be well happy, but I’m not about to go and spend all that money on something I can live without.

What does surprise me is the number of people who can be arsed to knock it. What’s with that, and why do you give a ****? Are you telling me it really bothers you when someone refers to their phone as their iPhone? I mean, really? What’s your reaction when someone says something really offensive. Lighten up, you’ll die young.

I find it annoying, just one of those little things that niggles, like people who eat with their mouth open spitting food about, or who interrupt when someone is talking. Doesnt ultimately upset me, or stress me, it’s just mildly annoying and pointless and deserves to be pointed out as ridiculous, as it is. I suspect this inner demon that wishes to voice his opinions on such small things has been released by spending time on STW. From this point forwards I shall refrain from the use of STW apart from evenings when there’s no riding/surfing to be had.

100

posted from my iphone 🙂

(not really as I don’t have one yet though despite being an apple-phobe I am seriously considering one – the interface really is much better than anything else out there IMO)

Missed 100 on my own damned thread. Bugger.

RudeBoy: are you talking about one of the BT ToGO handsets? (a rebranded HTC S620)

Image from: FileSaveAs

Do you still get free access to the BT OpenZone and Fon WiFi spots now that you’re not with BT?

I think GrahamS sums it up best. FWIW, I haven’t edited the iPhone sign-off, partly ‘cos I’m too lazy, partly so that people are aware that I’m not sat at a computer, so an immediate answer will probably not be forthcoming. I had a Nokia N95 prior to the iPhone, and frankly it sucked in just about every area. Battery life is woeful, the GPS is virtually useless, web browsing is painful, the camera is almost useless… I could go on. At the moment I’ve got apps that allow me to track routes with the GPS, get up to date weather, check movie times, get tv schedules and set-up my sky+ box, get info from Wiki, read any of the hundred or so ebooks I have on disc, browse STW and contribute to the forum, listen to music, take photos and tweak them on the phone…

This is an example exactly what is clever about the iPhone. If a techy person has an N95, they can upgrade the firmware, which fixes the battery life / gps issues listed above, and can download software to do all these things you’re talking about, in some aspects it can even be slightly better than the iPhone (although web browsing is not quite as good). But a non-technical person like you, you’ll play a little bit, discover it is fiddly to get started, and not get anywhere. Whereas with the iPhone, even a non-techy person can use all the features.

The depressing thing is that so many of the problems with nokia user interface stuff would be so easy to fix, if they just had one or two good UI designers involved in designing a UI for a phone, rather than seperately designed UIs for each application on a phone.

Joe

Coffee

Did you not see my second edit at the bottom?

No need to kick your toys out…

GrahamS; no, mine’s a HTC s710, which was an extra £29.99 over the s620. Glad I paid the extra, because if I’d only gone with the s620, BT wooduv demanded it back, when the contract was cancelled. In fact, they cooduv charged me for the unlock code too, so I’ve done pretty well, I think!

I like it. Not as fancy as an iPhone, but it does the job. I dunno about the OpenZone thing, probbly, ‘cos in’t that open to everyone? The Fon thing, probbly not. But it works with open Wi-Fi hotspots anyway. Not that I’m really bothered about having internets wherever I go. And I probbly woon’t want to use it anyway, as if I were in such places, I’d mostly be with a friend or whoever, so I woon’t be fiddling with me ‘phone. It’s rude.

That looks alright. No wonder you’re squinting at that screen tho.

You usually have to pay for OpenZone unless your mobile contract specifically includes it. (e.g. on O2 you can pay £10 a month for “Web and WiFi” and you get unlimited access at Cloud or BT OpenZone).

get that for free with the iphone…

get that for free with the iphone…

No, you pay a monthly fee for it….

GrahamS; do you have details of that? Can’t seem to find it on O2’s site. Is that Web via GRPS?

iPhones, aren’t they a bit 2007?

Still, if Steve Jobs dropped a steaming brown one in a small, white plastic box I’m sure plenty of people would queue around the block to get one then spend hours on forums telling everyone how much better than any other steaming brown filled white boxes it is. Mind they’d carefully skirt around the poor battery life for the supply to the turdmatic tumbler as well as the remarkably large amount of money they spent of it.

If you really, really, really want an iPhone, buy a Nokia 5800.

If you just want a mobile for phone calls and have chosen to ignore/don’t feel you need other functions then the iPhone is not targetted at you.

You fit the iPhone user profile if you want to have the functions of other devices integrated in something that has great ergonomics and feels good to use. I couldn’t go back to a regular mobile from any other vendor without downgrading in some areas, I don’t have to compromise with an iPhone.

also, pornhub has an iPhone specific mode….

RudeBoy:

Aye, details of it as an Bolt On for PayAsYouGo here:
http://www.o2.co.uk/explore/tariffs/boltons/paygoboltons/o2webwifi

Or Pay Monthly here:
http://www.o2.co.uk/explore/tariffs/boltons/paymonthlyboltons/unlimitedwifi

I think it is Web access via GPRS or WiFi hotspots.

sootyjim:

the funny thing is that many folks on here (including me) have pointed out that they are definitely not macophiles and definitely don’t think the sun shines on high from St Jobs bumhole. In fact the iPhone is the only Apple device I have ever owned.

Not sure why the Nokia 5800, a phone with its own dance routine is any less worthy of disdain than an iPhone?!

Not sure how a phone released in July 2008 can be a bit 2007 either, buy hey ho, I’m really not into following this year’s latest mobile fashion.

also, pornhub has an iPhone specific mode….

See also lite erotica, Mobile Mofo and ipg. Apparently.

Did you go for the wipe clean case?

rudeboy – i paid extra for it when i had an N95, i don’t pay for it now i have a iphone. that seems free to me.

i know if you want to be really pedantic then its not free. lets try subsidised instead.

…the remarkably large amount of money they spent of it.

8GB iPhones will be free on £35 a month contracts from this summer.

You heard it here first.

also, pornhub has an iPhone specific mode….

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What!!?? No one mentioned this! Where do I get one!! Now I see why all you iPhoners have one.

Coffee

Did you not see my second edit at the bottom?

No need to kick your toys out…

Not until I read it a second time.

No toys kicked, this is a gentle chuckle on my part 😉

Not sure how a phone released in July 2008 can be a bit 2007…..

Actually you’ve nailed your ‘not a Macophiles’ colours to the wall right there.

They were released in the UK in November 2007 and in the US back in July 2007 (the seriously hardcore Jobbies were booking flights to New York for theirs).

I own an iPod BTW (two actually), just wasn’t overly impressed with the size, weight, short battery life nor the inability to upgrade the memory to something more suitable to my needs (I wanted a phone to also replace one of my iPods as a music device).

I’m sure that if your needs are met by what the iPhone offers then they are fairly good but they’re not the be all and end all and as with iPods/MP3 player, better all-round alternatives are available.

Actually you’ve nailed your ‘not a Macophiles’ colours to the wall right there.

They were released in the UK in November 2007 and in the US back in July 2007

Erm no. The original version of the iPhone was released in June 2007, yes. But the iPhone 3G, which I suspect is what most people here will have, was released in July 2008.

I’m sure that if your needs are met by what the iPhone offers then they are fairly good but they’re not the be all and end all and as with iPods/MP3 player, better all-round alternatives are available.

No one is denying there are alternatives, but it is naive and patronising on your part to assume that iPhone popularity is purely driven by some kind of Apple cultism or by people who don’t really know what else is available.

There is probably some degree of that going on, but I’m sitting here as a tech-literate and non-Apple-cultist telling you that it really is very good.

…but it is naive and patronising on your part to assume that iPhone popularity is purely driven by some kind of Apple cultism…

Did I say that? Has the English language changed since yesterday?

i believe i used the expression “I’m sure plenty of people would” rather than “every single iPhone owner would”.

You are very defensive of the iPhone. Are you sure you haven’t a little photo of Mr Jobs secreted somewhere about your person to pay devotion to during low moments?

I simply advocate and defend things that I think are good. Nothing cultist about it.

I’m sure the Nokia 5800 is a fine piece of kit. Specs certainly seem good. But I don’t have one and I’ve never played with one, so I can’t personally recommend it.

i believe i used the expression “I’m sure plenty of people would” rather than “every single iPhone owner would”.

Indeed. Well I’m sure “plenty of people” calling themselves sootyandjim are wannabe-elitist idiots that think that dismissing something popular makes them somehow superior without stopping to consider whether it might actually be popular for a good reason.

Not everyone called sootyandjim obviously, just some of them. 😛