Apple finally did it and unveiled their cell phone. I still don't play to buy a phone before someone puts a gun to my head, but it looks interesting.

[quote="Thinliine"]I still don't play to buy a phone before I get any friends.[/quote]

Come now. Even checking Facebook, where it says I have 111 friends, being EXTREMELY critical of who is a real friend or not, I still come up with forty five. I have plenty of friends, I just have no use whatsoever for a cell phone. Why on earth would need one?

dude i'll buy it just for the crazy features it has. omg its soo cool. especially the music player.

[quote="pokemon master"]dude i'll buy it just for the crazy features it has. omg its soo cool.[/quote]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but...even if you are, yeah, I agree with you. Widgets kick total ass. The demonstrations on apple.com/iphone are pretty phenomenal. The only bit that worries me is...fingerprints. That would suck. Sure the device might look fine with the backlight on, but when it's off...I can only see it looking like complete shit.

Personally, I'd like to have maybe an iPhone with no iPod-functionality for a lower price. I have an iPod already, and I assume the people who will be initially buying the iPhone will have them too. Music and cellphones/multimedia devices just don't mix yet.

[quote="GoldenRhino"][quote="pokemon master"]dude i'll buy it just for the crazy features it has. omg its soo cool.[/quote]

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but...even if you are, yeah, I agree with you. Widgets kick total ass. The demonstrations on apple.com/iphone are pretty phenomenal. The only bit that worries me is...fingerprints. That would suck. Sure the device might look fine with the backlight on, but when it's off...I can only see it looking like complete shit.

Personally, I'd like to have maybe an iPhone with no iPod-functionality for a lower price. I have an iPod already, and I assume the people who will be initially buying the iPhone will have them too. Music and cellphones/multimedia devices just don't mix yet.[/quote]

oh no sarcasm there. the iphone is hella boss (dude who uses "boss" anymore?).

yea the fingerprints would be bad...but knowing apple for their high end (sorta) products, it probably has a stain resistant coating or material on it. but god it look serious badass.

and the whole seperate deal....i think its truely innovative to have anyway because it's pretty much also a new generation of ipod too with the touch screen and the rotate-and-it-shows-album-list function. personally i'd trade in the phone functions for the ipod functions. haha

It won't be that cool right away. Give the hardware and software a couple of revisions to smooth out the bugs, and wait for it to be available on more carriers than just Cingular.

In other words, I think that it's currently an unknown. It looks pretty badass in theory, and if it can stand up to the rigors of everyday use by a wide user base (and once the problems that user base will undoubtedly discover are fixed), it'll be pretty badass in practice as well. I'd buy one once it's proven.

Most touchscreens aren't glossy, so fingerprints may not be an issue.

[quote="Thinliine"]Apple finally did it and unveiled their cell phone. I still don't play to buy a phone before someone puts a gun to my head, but it looks interesting.[/quote]
I don't have a phone, either, and I really don't feel that I need one. If I had one, I'd barely use it, though it might come in handy sometimes. I hate talking on phones.

Of course, I don't have an iPod, either, and I do feel that I need one of those.

So I'd love to have one. But I'm not spending the money. I need it for books. ($550 this term, for 3 classes ) Eventually, I'll get an iPod.

[quote="Kozumou"]($550 this term, for 3 classes )[/quote]

wait, wut? are you some kind of freshman or something? amazon is where it's at. (and half.com if you trust the underlying ebay.)

yeah, i got ripped off pretty bad for books before i started using amazon

Heh, yeah, I know. Seriously, I know, but I haven't done that yet, gone to Amazon or anything like that. I've waited till I get to college each term, and then I need the books immediately for the classes, to do the work. I actually thought I was gonna be able to borrow a set of books that was over $200, but it turns out that not only should I have the newest edition, but I needed the workbook that came with it anyway, which I'll have to do my work in. Luckily, two of the three will last for multiple terms, for future classes, though. I really need to think ahead next time and look online; thanks for making me look like a moron, on top of feeling terrible for spending so much money on the books, because maybe it'll actually get me to next time. But I always procrastinate on things like that. (I'm a freshman. )

i'd have to say, i thought it sounded like a terrible idea when i first heard about it. but watching some of the demos..

it's actually pretty sweet.

I'm gonna be honest...even after watching the demos...it looks like a waste of money.

It completely fails as an iPod due to it's weak capacity. This is to be expected from a cell phone, but to use the iPod function as a selling point? No thanks.

A 2mp camera? Well holy shit, they must have gone out of their way to make this a kick-ass feature...not.

The phone also looks incredibly breakable. One thing I really demand from a phone is the ability to be dropped...a lot.

The only real benefit I see is its texting ability, which looks better than anything I've ever seen before.

The internet looks nifty...but I'm sure you will pay severely in airtime, and it won't be worth a damn thing. I would only use it if it's a straight per-month fee. That's the fucking thing about cell phones. Every God-damn thing you do costs more and more money, and the more you do it, the more it costs. I just want to pay a flat fee and get all the shit I can, like my internet, or my cable television.

I wouldn't pay any more than $200 for it, but I have a feeling it will cost more than that. Most of the phone is just neat-looking features that really have no functional merit. Anyway, I'm sure the market will be flooded with similar products in no time anyway.

Finally, like that link above states, revolutionary my ass. We need to one-up Japan with a 4G network.

Edit: You know, another major downfall of iPods is their ability to stop working for no reason at all. This is okay for an iPod, but for a phone it would be unacceptable.

I might add that I would pay hundreds of dollars for an 80gig iPhone. It would make me cream my pants.

[quote="sheerheartattack"]Edit: You know, another major downfall of iPods is their ability to stop working for no reason at all. This is okay for an iPod, but for a phone it would be unacceptable.[/quote]

Yeah, and no other MP3 players suffer from unexplainable problems and glitches. Right.