The Official "I Couldn't Care Less About the iPhone" Thread

thebobman · #1 (**permalink**) Jun 29, 07

Is anybody besides myself completely freakin' finished with hearing about that god-damned thing? You'd think they'd cured cancer or something.

Fuck.

se7en · #2 (**permalink**) Jun 29, 07

i feel the same. maybe im just feeling jealous, but then the phone, I think doesnt even have a camera and its gonna cost some insane amount when it gets here.

crookedking · #3 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

i've seen one ad for it and two threads on fnk.

i'm definately sick of those corporate mother fuckers trying to slam their useless technology down my throat.

Chewy · #4 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

all you really need is a phone that makes and receives calls. If it has the game snake then that is an extra bonus.

P.A.R.T.Y · #5 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

Yeah, 7 million people bought the iphone yesterday. What does that have to do with me? It's like property values in BC. I know they all went up and people made money, but I rent and I could give a hoot.

Grapes · #6 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

Not a gadget-addict, so it's not surprising I'm not all excited about it.

That said, I love my TV, computer, cell phone... so it's not like I'm immune...

I think I wait for gadgets to come to me, rather than anticipating "big realeases" and snapping them up at the first opportunity.

Like, if something actually is big enough and important enough and relative enough, I'll end up with it in due time

Gunter S · #7 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

i wuv the iphone

gnosis · #8 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

I haven't seen any ads for that shit.

But, what angers me even more is that I've read at least 2 "news" articles on the idiots queuing up to buy up that crap.

What better way to prove to the world that you're a mindless gadget-geek than to waste even one hour out of your life to "be one of the first" to get something that'll be outdated before school starts in the fall.

Morons.

Frosty
(human approval rating drops another point)

Carrie · #9 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

I have a camera in my phone and I've never used it.

I talk on the phone, and I text message.

I think I have an mp3 player on the phone too but I've never checked out that feature.

it's a nifty gadget, but I didn't line up for the ps3, or the wii, or any other electronic device.

FeelGood · #10 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

it'll prolly die on me in 3 months like my ipod did.

Gunter S · #11 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

waiting for the iwum

anewlife · #12 (**permalink**) Jun 30, 07

I'd prefer a blow-up doll called iFuck.

Grapes · #13 (**permalink**) Jul 01, 07

What's a blow-up doll. You mean a Realdoll?

thebobman · #14 (**permalink**) Jul 01, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by anewlife

I'd prefer a blow-up doll called iFuck.

That thing would totally have the mutli-touch interface too.

thebobman · #15 (**permalink**) Jul 01, 07

Off of Howard Forums: The Top Twenty iPhone flaws:

1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That's it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
3. The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
4. SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn't look into it extensively.
5. Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
6. The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone "learns" you, as the employees said, but even then, it's not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
10. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you'll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
11. "Picture pinching" or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
12. No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they're sent to your in an email.
13. Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
14. NO games. None.
15. No voice dialing.
16. No speed dialing (which can be made up by the "quick list", but getting to that quick list isn't as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
19. It's still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
20. It only takes around 2 hours to explore every menu without any options for expandability except to scrounge around for new web apps that will load slowly and nowhere near as smoothly as the native apps.

crookedking · #16 (**permalink**) Jul 01, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by thebobman

That thing would totally have the mutli-touch interface too.

you could connect it to your ipod so that you could listen to porn music.

anewlife · #17 (**permalink**) Jul 01, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grapes

What's a blow-up doll. You mean a Realdoll?

What's a Realdoll?