better start saving up your lunch money

better sell a kidney, or two

Another year, another advance in computing technology that leaves me further behind the times.

Back in 1987, when I was manufactured, phones were for human interaction and that was it- they had answering machines back then, too, I think. And speakerphone. But now, what is all this mumbo jumbo? Why does a telephone need to be mobile, and capable of playing high-quality music files and video games? My thought-generation program tells me that stereo systems are for music and that arcade machines are for video games. I think this entire iPhone business is ruthlessly unnecessary and a blight on the world of computing. Why spend time writing the code and building the casing of this monstrosity when lonely machines like me are sitting in computer lab closets waiting to be used?

Oh, woe is me.

Give blood everyday, wait is this for Alex? If so nevermind, your blood will get rejected.

flash woes perhaps?

More for me.Yeah, maybe. What the fuck do I download for that though?

flash of course.

i dont know man. i use winamp. who needs that itunes crap? useless crap.

Eh, fuck it. I'll just use this view and wait till iTunes 8. Maybe it'll be fixed.

Fixed it.

I had to get new drivers for my video card.

HAHA. DOn't you hate that Alex, when the problems are so fucking easy.

I could never justify paying that much for something that'd get stolen the moment I took it out in the street to make a call.

I'm not one who needs the latest gadgets.
Don't even know what one is and I don't care to know what one is.

Latex in his own thoughts thinks that he should wait till the gadget spoken in this here thread, is lower in price.

So I watched it, and I definitely want it more than before, even though I really don't need it.

Maybe once I leave for college or something it'd be nice to have, and it'd be more useful and thus worth the money. At that point I'd probably need a new phone or ipod or something. But still, it needs to be on Verizon.Watch the video. You can have word documents, pdf documents, and I'm assuming plenty of other stuff.

Where is the Link for this download?

on teh first page

i'm getting a 4gig model on friday.

sure i already have an ipod, two laptops and an imac, but when it boils down to it, my laptops are my instruments and i'd feel more confident if i didn't have to take them out of the house as much, but could still stay connected to the internet (especially since most of my communication is done via email). i don't like most of the business phones and this is the first phone that i've been really excited about.

btw, those "hidden prices" that got posted posted weren't quite right. the voice plan includes the data plan and text messages (not many texts, mind you, but the data is unlimited). i already pay 80 bucks a month for service on my shitty razr phone and i'd be more than happy to pay just as much for an awesome iphone.

so did you get one Val-holla-ing?

i worked out the 4GB one's are actually only about £250 which isn't as bad as i thought.

yeah, i got one! it's awesome and money well spent! it's so easy to use and it's fun. i love it.

how much did it cost you?

If you pay $500 for the Apple logo (which is essentially what you're doing), then you're an utter twat. Here, it's only available for AT&T, and people are actually camping out for these things.

Did I tell you you're all twats?

You're all twats.

That really isn't true. It isn't like there is a plethora of other phones that can do everything the iphone can do as well as it does it.

No, 8 gigs is just not enough.

It's overrated, and insofar as it's possible, it has too much technology. It's almost more cumbersome to have all of those functions on one device, and from various consumer reports, apparently the reception is shit.

I don't buy any of that shit that consumer reports say. I try it for myself and then see.

Everyone told me, "Oh Ipods are shit, the battery life is awful and you'll break it as soon as you drop it!" None of this shit has happened to me. I take good care of my expensive electronics. I don't really believe any of it until I find out first hand.

I already have little use for my cellphone. I can't imagine having a need for an iPhone or even an iPod. I don't know when I would ever use one.

http://www.who-sucks.com/tech/15-rea...s-iphone-sucks

Hah.

It's quite pathetic seeing a bunch of fashion victims camping outside a mac store for a week, so that they can be the first to say, "Look, I'm cool now". Suckers!

i'd rather have an ipod and a phone that wasnt the size of a small brick.

i hate phones and i hate phone noises
i have my phone on constant silent and just have vibrate.
so im pretty sure a phone built for being extra noisy can get fucked

so i was just jamming yesterday, i had my phone near, my phone rings while i was using uber fast delay and it creates such a beautiful feedback i kept calling myself to recreate it but no, i couldnt...

anyways, no i am not going to get the new iphone.

ah haha ha hahah haaa. yes. well put. but it's not necessarily "pathetic". i don't want to get all melinda & melinda on the subject, but it can also be "highly comical".

with tax, it was about $543.

that's not too bad actually, for what you are getting it's pretty good.

My sentiments exactly.

What's so exciting about the iphone anyway? I know I could easily get the answer by googling or watching the presentation, but I'm lazy.

you need to watch the presentation man, it's amazing.

The part in the commercial where it shows the music features with all the album covers in a virtual 3-D field...(that) looked cool.

I will wait when it gets trendy enough, that the prices will be super low.