The new 3G iPhone will be mine in 4 hours!

Post by **_Mercury** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:15 pm

Apparently the activation process if Fux0r3d. Apple is scrambling to fix it. Good luck, the lines are getting longer and longer.

Post by **_silentkid** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:15 pm

I'm a little slow in accepting this cell-phone-as-fashion-accessory thing. That commercial for the new LG phone drives me crazy (OMG UR a pig). My current phone is a brick, but it's a slide phone brick that can play TV, so I'm okay with it. I'd love to get an iPhone, but that would mean switching from Verizon to AT&T. I'm not willing to make that move.

Post by **_Angus McAwesome** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:54 pm

Dr. Shades wrote:
GoodK wrote:I will cut in line, my nerdy friends have been there since 4 AM

For a freakin' CELL PHONE, of all things?

What's the appeal, anyway?

The original iPhone you could order online, crack it, and use it with any carrier. In order to prevent people from doing that with the 3G iPhones, since AT&T is subsidizing the hell out of the phones (wonder why the 3G's start at $199? That's why...), the only place you can purchase a 3G iPhone is at an AT&T Wireless retailer with a service contract. So basically these trendy tools are paying $199.99 per phone ($299.99 if they go with the 8GB model) in order to get locked into a contract with AT&T wireless just so they can show off their their little hand held status symbols. Meanwhile I'm running around with Nokia N958GB phone that can use every network the iPhone can and networks that it can't use, it'll make calls pretty much anywhere in the world where there's a cell network, can do pretty much everything the 3g iPhone can and has a 5mp camera with video, and best of all...

I'm not locked into a service contract. Sure, I paid more for my phone, but not being shackled to a single service provider in order to use mine, being able to use it anywhere I go is completely worth it.

Post by **_Trevor** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:40 am

Angus McAwesome wrote:So basically these trendy tools are paying $199.99 per phone ($299.99 if they go with the 8GB model) in order to get locked into a contract with AT&T wireless just so they can show off their their little hand held status symbols.

You make many great points, but I think the $199.99 model is the 8GB, while the $299.99 is a 16GB.

Post by **_Angus McAwesome** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:48 am

Trevor wrote:You make many great points, but I think the $199.99 model is the 8GB, while the $299.99 is a 16GB.

hey, you're right. My point still stand though... Only reason the iPhone costs that is because AT&T is subsidizing the living hell out of the iPhone 3G in order to retain exclusive rights to it on their network.

Post by **_KimberlyAnn** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:56 pm

silentkid wrote:I'm a little slow in accepting this cell-phone-as-fashion-accessory thing. That commercial for the new LG phone drives me crazy (OMG UR a pig). My current phone is a brick, but it's a slide phone brick that can play TV, so I'm okay with it. I'd love to get an iPhone, but that would mean switching from Verizon to AT&T. I'm not willing to make that move.

I'm a little slow at anything to do with cellphones.

I've had my newest phone a little over a year now, and still can't figure out how to get it off speaker phone. For some reason, it ends up that way, and I push every button on it until the speaker turns off. I literally make and answer calls with it. Nothing else.

No fancy phones for me. I just couldn't care less about them. Heck, my phone usually isn't even on.

KA

Post by **_Trevor** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:51 am

Angus McAwesome wrote:hey, you're right. My point still stand though... Only reason the iPhone costs that is because AT&T is subsidizing the living hell out of the iPhone 3G in order to retain exclusive rights to it on their network.

And, they are charging more for their services, so in fact the iPhone user saves nothing by getting a break on the phone price. He or she is in fact paying more in the long run.

Post by **_moksha** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:39 am

Is that new model the one with extra-vibrate so you will be happy to get calls?

Post by **_Scottie** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:47 am

I pretty much just call and txt on my phones. I really don't want to get e-mails on them. I'm kind of not that important that anyone needs to get ahold of me 24/7.

Post by **_Mercury** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:41 pm

moksha wrote:Is that new model the one with extra-vibrate so you will be happy to get calls?

Nope, but they do have a wii accessory with similar results:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/10/wiibrator-link-is-ex.html