The cat is out of the bag! iPhone!

They can stick it.

I'm still smarting at being quoted £500 to replace a graphics card on an ibook. I'll have to put it in the bin - no way am I paying that.

Microsoft has it's faults, but you could replace an equivalent Windows note-book for that kind of cash.

well, I assume this will be overpriced, fragile, ignorant of standards and use batteries that you have to send it away for.

Well done apple, and to think I used to laud you to all and sundry.

PS...you do all know that OSX is free-bsd[1], without the free part LOL

[1] lots of broadband modems and routers run bsd, along with the coffee machines in my work, pretty bloody scalable huh?

PS, Col, Bill doesn;t make hardware mate, that's why it's cheap, remember MS charge hundreds for a broken browser, an email client with a silly name that may as well be a petree dish for viri, and a media player that can't open it's own formats.

Quality control on my iBook is shite.

I sometimes have an issue of hitting buttons with my cheek while talking, what happens when you have the touchpad next to yer face?

Doctor? wrote:

PS, Col, Bill doesn;t make hardware mate, that's why it's cheap, remember MS charge hundreds for a broken browser, an email client with a silly name that may as well be a petree dish for viri, and a media player that can't open it's own formats.

I know, but you can buy gear that runs Gates' stuff for peanuts, anyone can fix it, it all talks to one another and you can chuck it away if i really breaks. Fucking Apple's gear just sits there, won't let you swap music properly and completely gets on everyone's fucking knackers. The stupid fucking crap crap.

Hope that's clear.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

EdelBrock wrote: I sometimes have an issue of hitting buttons with my cheek while talking,

you trying to shove that phone up your arse???

that's

You kn ow I always thought the voice sounded a bit muffled! Thanks !

BIGINOIL wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

PS, Col, Bill doesn;t make hardware mate, that's why it's cheap, remember MS charge hundreds for a broken browser, an email client with a silly name that may as well be a petree dish for viri, and a media player that can't open it's own formats.

I know, but you can buy gear that runs Gates' stuff for peanuts, anyone can fix it, it all talks to one another and you can chuck it away if i really breaks. Fucking Apple's gear just sits there, won't let you swap music properly and completely gets on everyone's fucking knackers. The stupid fucking crap crap.

Hope that's clear.

The same kit that runs gate's virus can run any number of non retarded OS's tho. linux, bsd, even fucking sun solaris!!!

just wait til windows for macs comes out, then you can have all the flexability and compatibility of mac, combined with the stability, security and ease of use of windows....I'd rather be anally raped by a rhiino.

Spotnick wrote: One word... WOW

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

I want it but I'm more intrigued with appletv

What will Apple come up with next? I'm also concerned about my face bumping against the touch screen while talking on an iPhone. Plus, after I'm done with college I'm thinking about getting a MacBook.

This is why the terrorists hate us...

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: What will Apple come up with next?

The usual....the same thing MS will "invent" 4 years later.

Either that or they'll patent the i-wheel and start suing all the car companies for stealing their idea.

PS, if you think the Ipod is silly ( like me)...you should check out the Zune, MS actually brought out a product that doesn;t WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA....I mean really, since Xp will be off the shelves in a few weeks, and the upgrade or die FUD about to start,and considering they're ballsing away about how everything will work on launch day...you'd THINK they could do it right THEMSELVEs, never mind that they've had Vista's specs for months more than anyone else (years actually, vista was under devel when XP was still a baby virus about to wreak it's havoc on humanity)

FUD; MS's second fave marketing tool after Astroturfing....Fear Uncertainty and Doubt....like Balmer saying all linux users are terrorists and stuff.....and my personal favoureite, corrupting the public definition of "hacker" to be synonymous with "cracker", so that any person encoutering any open source project for the first time sees the work and thinks it's made by crims, instead of just code-ninjas.

EdelBrock wrote: I sometimes have an issue of hitting buttons with my cheek while talking, what happens when you have the touchpad next to yer face?

same as with any other phone with a touch sensitive screen i guess. never had a problem with it myself, do you have an unusually fat face?

All that hype, style and all those cutting-edge features.

Yet no 3G network support.

Strike one!

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hibster wrote:

EdelBrock wrote: I sometimes have an issue of hitting buttons with my cheek while talking, what happens when you have the touchpad next to yer face?

same as with any other phone with a touch sensitive screen i guess. never had a problem with it myself, do you have an unusually fat face?

Nope, skinny and thin....probably just need a dvd totorial on how to talk on the phone proprly.

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I'm also concerned about my face bumping against the touch screen while talking on an iPhone.

You're worried? Imagine how the iPhone feels!

What a load of shite! I wont be getting one,i've got a Sony Ericsson K800i now and thats got more bells and whistles than i already need. It seems nowdays the phone part of a mobile is the least important.

Who needs a phone with all that techno shenanigans on it? Just means it'll break easier

The only things i use me mobile for are phonecalls and the clock. Dont really need any more than that on it:\ohwell:

Spotnick wrote:

depthcharge wrote: All that hype, style and all those cutting-edge features.

Yet no 3G network support.

Strike one!

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"Sources report that the iPhone will bs a GSM/EDGE (2.5G) phone and not a UMTS (3G) device. Apple's decision to go with 2.5G lies in the technology's advantages over 3G: physically smaller components and more reliable communication."

Appletalk for "we couldn't get all the bells and whistles of 3G working for this phone"?

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Apple's being hit by a lawsuit for use of the name iPhone. And they wingeing about it! This would be the same Apple who sues every backyard Bob for using the word "pod" in his product, with Nazi-like gusto. Yes, the word "pod". A word that existed in the English language several hundred years before their over-hyped mp3 player.

Apple Sued

Apple's increasingly guilty of the same tactics that cause people to despise MS. So much for their humble altruistic beginnings. Mass success with the likes of iPod and now they're behaving like any other corporate monopolist. Their industrial design and innovation sets a high standard but watch for the iBacklash to gather momentum.

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