WC Poll: iPhone... Yes or No?

Yes, there are quite a few people out there that just have to have the latest gadget. Nothing wrong with that, we all do at certain times.

There is alot of hype out there, mostly coming from Apple. This product seems to be one that the consumers really need to research before buying.

If I read the reviews right you have to sign a 5 year service contract with AT&T. How many of you with cell phones keep the some one for that long? The technology chages to quick and often to be tied down like that.   

You sign a 2 year service contract with AT&T, like just about any other phone service out there.  Apple however has signed a 5 year exclusive with AT&T, so they're the only service that can sell them until 2012.

I like the newest whiz-bang gadgets like most, however, 600 bucks is a lot to shell out for a phone/ipod. I've got a phone and I've got an ipod, and i can get on the internet right here at my trusty pc...WOULD i get one, if I had disposable income...yes. WILL i get one...no.

Thanks for the correction Zoomba, just goes to show you either I read what I wanted to or the reviewer got it wrong. Not to be the square peg in the round hole, but I have a Tracfone, no contract.   

If im going to spend 600 dollars it sure as hell wont be on a phone.

Amen to that. On the other hand, these days you're not really buying a phone; you're practically buying another computer!

Yup.

If you make 5 to 6 hundred dollars a month it's time to get a second job  

As for me I usually go out and get the latest gadget (3 RZARs and a SLVR) but I think I'm going to wait on this one.

I'd buy one but unfortunately I lack the money to get it, that and I live in the UK where we don't have iPhones.

If I got one, I'd only use it as an uber-iPod. AT&T is the worst choice they could have had for a provider. But the reason the iPod is ubiquitous is because it wasn't locked into a single source vendor. Locking the iPhone to AT&T for 5 years was a terrible mistake.

It's an hysteria-fed fad, just like the iPod.

Anyone rushing out frantically to buy one probably needs a priority-reset button.

How long till the first mugged-for-iPhone reports?

iPod and its 'signature' white earphones.....didn't shout out 'STATUS SYMBOL'...it shouted instead 'MUG ME'...

I doubt I'll ever buy anything spelled with a lower case 'i'.

Maybe I'm just an iDiot ....

A friend of mine said the same thing. They don't call it a craze for nothing.  

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Unless it's unlocked, it's not an option

Besides, it's a first gen product, never buy a first gen product

Well, since I'm in Canada I don't even have the option yet... seriously, wth is that about!? We're right on top of you. There are people who live on one side of the border and work on the other. Why in the name of all that's good and pure do we always have to wait longer (latest rumor puts the iphone in winter up here) for the latest stuff??

Anyway, my rants aside, to be honest I just don't need half the stuff the iphone has and it's missing half the stuff I'd want in a device like that. So I'm gonna wait for either v2 or maybe something better that'll come along. For now I'm satisfied with what I have.

What I don't understand is why did apple make that contract with AT&T? I mean am I really suppose to believe that AT&T gave apple enough money to cover all those users that would've bought the iphone if it were available from other providers for 5 years!?! 'Cause I don't see any other reason why apple would want to limit the iphone to one, apparently not very good, network.

Can't believe there is so much made about this device. Ditto to most of the comments above. Think I'll wait till the version with the Terra-former, Transporter and universal Translator comes out and get it only when they rename to the iT.

I'm thinking about getting a Motorola Q from Amp'd, along with a Motorola stereo Bluetooth headset.

I'll admit Apple's smart phone looks nice, but if it doesn't do what *I* want, why should I pay US$600?

I cant wait to see what the competition bring out! Apple always win on the hype but their products are a long way from being the best. They sell to and cater exclusively for the fashion-following sheep and people who buy brands not products.

Not available here in Oz, but I wouldn't have one even if it were....not even if it were given to me, free, for nix, gratis, etc. I've never carried a phobile mone, and no gadget weighing in at an enormous $600 US is gonna convince me to suddenly become fashionable. That translates to around AU$900, and no over-hyped/over-priced new fangled gizmo is gonna prompt my (non) desire to keep up with the Jonses...in this case, Jobses...it ain't never gonna happen.

Fashions/trends come and go, but I've always been a shorts/jeans and T-shirt type of bloke, so no amount of marketing gobbledegook/hype has a hope of transforming me into one of the 'in' crowd/mindless sheep.

Just wait and see the service At @ T provides after the first or second year of all this. Your phone will be useless unless you live under a tower. If it is even still in 1 piece then. I have gone through a phone a year for bout 10 -12 years now. Thats over $6,000.00 in iphones for the next decade. I think I'll take the opt out road.   

Island Dog reminds Zubaz of his Martial Arts background, and urges him to "try it".





I didn't buy a brand, I bought a product.  It didn't matter to me if it was made by Motorla (which I have a Q as well), or any other manufacturer.  I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, nor am I hater, the same goes for Microsoft.  Most people who criticize the iPhone are doing so based on their opinion of Apple, much in same way people talk about Vista based on their opinion of Microsoft.

Simple answer "NO".

silly way to dump perfectly good $$
"phones" are for making and receiving "phone calls"
[agreeing w/jafo in the other thread]

I think that the iPhone is a great thing to have, but here in SA it's not that cheap. I have seen photos, vidoes, blogs and the works relating to the iPhone and like it so far.

Now, although I wouldn't go and buy one right now - I just want to ask something.
Are there any bugs with this thing? Are there any small problems that it has. This could be in terms of reliablity, style, ergonomics (I hope that's the right word ) etc...

Whiterabbit, blame your government.

As a man who travels between the US and Canada regularly for business, I can assure you that you have a terrible monopoly controlled cell phone system (even worse than our cable/dsl Internet system). Just compare the rates for data (unlimited!) at t-mobile in the USA versus your Rogers, etc. plans (NO UNLIMITED DATA plans period!) in Canada.

Your government won't let other vendors compete in Canada, so you guys really get hosed when it comes to your cell phone service.

I hope it changes soon, because the price you pay per megabyte there is OUTRAGEOUS.