I know what you're saying pal. I'm eager to get my hands on the Phone myself. I would be totally willing to shell out what you are hoping to, but the problems being reported are really putting me off. Do you see where I'm coming from? I don't want to spend almost a Grand on something I really want, only for it to be "defective"... I'm happy to let all these stupid queues and outrageous auctions end and then pick it up towards the end of July (if we hear that these problems are fading away).
I won't buy it unless they fix the problems with antenna. Also, I never buy the first type of a series of electronic devices, I always wait for the following model. In most cases the initial mistakes made while designing are fixed.
Why should I buy an iPhone 4? Hi guys, I was so excited when the iPhone 4 was announced, I told my GF that I was planning to buy one, that it looked damn good and that I've never had an iPhone before, then she asked about the price and I told her "well, the iPhone 3GS is 820 dls (here in Mexico), so I think the iPhone 4 will be around that price". She said and I realized that it was way too expensive, plus a 40 dls per month contract, I thought ZOMG thats too much money. Right now I can afford one iPhone, but don't know if it will be worth for that amount of money. So, why is the iPhone 4 so special?, Will it be worth it?, Is there any other device that do almost the same things for much less amount of money? I know the power and oportunities that the App Store offers, lots of apps and games, but maybe a new iPod Touch + a normal phone would fit for me and my ****ing country taxes. Thanks for reading my bad english
What's not to love about the iPhone 4? Totall redesigned and looks as modern as hell! Then again, it is more of a luxury than a nessecity. It all depends on what you want it for, if you want it for business, don't get it, the iPhone 3GS should sufface. If your a hardcore gamer... Well, I think you get what I am trying to say. Anyway , here are my reasons for getting an iPhone 4. 1. The design looks absolutely fabulous and is one of the most modern looking smartphones on the market today. I didn't think it could look cooler than it already was. 2. It is absolutely amazing for gaming. The new Retina Display makes games look a thousand times better than they did before, and, there are hundreds of thousands of games that have been updated to fit iPhone 4, such as real racing. 3. iOS 4 is absolutely great, multitasking, home screen wallpaper, and a lot of other Great features make this iPhone a dream. Remember what I said in the beggining, it's more of a luxury than a nessecity, it's defenitely your opinion. Cheers!
Looking at a 20 min comparison between the evo and the iPhone 4, the evo wins big time apart from the screen quality, though the screen on the evo is bigger which is kool. Speed wise the evo is faster and you can customise it cause it is android, also supports flash and has lots of nice features. You can change the battery so you never have to worry about that and when the battery comes towards the end of it's life you can just switch it out. The Evo takes better quality pictures thanx to it being 8MP, though the video quality is lacking abit, that could just be a software thing tough. The evo also supports 4G which is must faster which is kool and the iPhone doesn't, so in a few months it will feel so slow. You can upgrade the evo's storage too, not limited to 32GB or 16GB.
iPhone 4: Good Enough for Newbies Isn't Good Enough for Me http://www.tested.com/news/iphone-4-good-enough-for-newbies-isnt-good-enough-for-me/493/ Really kool read, how I felt about my old 3GS really. The problem is there isn't anything worth buying as an alternative yet, no Evo in the UK
Fandroid. Having a bigger pixel count doesn't mean it's a better camera. Just look at this, par example: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/nikfletcher/4743663696/
You can't completely judge a product in 20 minutes, especially since what makes the iPhone so great is that it gets better as your experience with it continues. Just warning you, if you do get an Android, you have to be quite careful, because one in five apps in the Android Market is malware that steals your personal data. That's why the iPhone's closed App Store exists, to protect the user. Along with the iPhone's camera being better, its 3G data speeds are pretty much twice as fast as the EVO's. Unless you're always going to be in a specific location with 4G, you'll almost never receive it. Sprint's 4G had the same speed for download as AT&T's 3G, and AT&T's 3G upload was still a lot faster than Sprint's 4G. Your storage is limited to how much data you can fit on a microSD card. With the iPhone's new battery, you don't need to make a hassle to buy extra batteries and swap them out, since it lasts pretty much all day. And the EVO is tied for speed with the iPhone 4.
I've got a Sprint 4G Overdrive WiFi hotspot device to get online, and right now Sprint's 4G coverage is a complete joke. Even in areas where their coverage map shows you should be well within 4G territory, I still find the device rolling back to 3G. The only thing I can do to keep it in 4G mode is to force 4G only, which often means it barely clinging on to 1 bar of 4G service. Whenever I fire up my Overdrive to get online I run a speed test through speedtest.net, and a speed test using the speedtest.net iPhone app and oddly enough, AT&T is almost always faster than Sprint. I say almost because there have been two instances so far where I've been able to download faster via Sprint's network: One was sitting at the Delta terminal in O'Hare where I was able to pull down a solid 8mbit, and the other was in some super dodgy area of LA where I oddly enough had full 4G coverage and only 1 bar of EDGE on my iPhone. Assuming Sprint's $20b+ of corporate debt doesn't stop them from rolling out 4G nationwide, it might be worth having a 4G device some day. Unfortunately, the massive sacrifices you're making today in battery life (not to mention the extra $10/month you pay for data regardless of whether or not you're in a 4G area) makes the Evo a fairly confusing purchase. I think more often than not people get blinded by feature listings and see things like 4G, a micro SD card slot, a higher megapixel camera, and everything else but don't stop to realize that 4G is very hard to come by, juggling SD cards is annoying, and few people are able to discern a difference between 5mpx and 8mpx images. Also, as Android market segmentation gets even worse and the Android app store becomes overloaded with shitware, spyware, and other junk... It's even harder to rationalize an Android device.
Really nice read, he pointed out some of the reasons I don't have a touch instead of an iPhone and why I stick to Blackberry.
Meh, it seems like he's complaining about things that have, in general, been there since day one: The closed system, carrier limitations, etc. I'm not sure why he expected the iPhone 4 release to be any different than the previous three, but it sounds to me like he set for himself expectations for which there were absolutely no indications that they would ever be fulfilled, and many indications that they probably wouldn't be because Apple's justifications for having done so in the past haven't changed, and some of those reasons are demands from AT&T, not Apple; tethering, for example, has only just been approved by AT&T, and they charge for it, while it's been available here in on the Rogers network in Canada since the 3GS, and it's free as long as you have the highest-tier data plan, $5/mo otherwise. Similarly, I'm quite certain that the limitations on uploading HD video to YouTube are a restriction placed by AT&T, and we already know that 3G FaceTime is something Apple is still working out with AT&T. Not to sound like an apologist here, but the iPhone 4 at the very least met my expectations, and first-release glitches and the lack of a storage bump aside, there's nothing to disappoint me here because I didn't set unreasonable or unfounded expectations.
Finally got mine! I went to AT&T this morning (not much of a line, I live in a fairly small college town), they were sold out of the 32GB's, but I really don't need to carry around 20 gigs of music with me anyways - The 16GB set me back $400, but I'm happy I finally have it!
