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Apple iPhone

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Written by: katelynl – Posted: Tue Jul 10th, 2007
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The highly anticipated iPhone has finally been unleashed unto the world. A friend who works at Apple told me people had actually camped out in front of the store the night before so that they could be sure that they would be one of the first people to purchase the phone. Crazy, but very expected!

Priced at $499.00 for the 4GB and $599.00 for the 8GB model, this gadget-to-end-all-gadgets deserves an in-depth look into all of its technological wonder.

Presumably, Apple has come out with the easiest and most convenient phone yet. The forward-thinking company continues to come out with technology that America loves - and the iPhone is most certainly not an exception. This nifty cell-phone comes fully-equipped with web browsing, e-mail, text messaging, a built in 2.0 mega-pixel camera, and a music library complete with an Album Cover Flow, which allows you to easily leaf through your music collection by way of album cover art.

The iPhone also has other unique features such as a navigation system where you can simply type in the word (like "pizza") and it will list off all the pizza places in your area, and which one is closest. Cool, huh? For those who want a quick fix of entertainment the phone has a YouTube button which directly links you to the site. Rounding out the features are the old standbys like a calendar, calculator and notepad, just like every other phone. Sounds like a dream come true.

A phone this amazing couldn't have any flaws, right? Wrong. Apple may have come out with a one-of-a-kind type of phone, but there are a few nagging problems that keep the phone from being a "must purchase." The biggest complaints I have are based on the practicality and overall value for the average consumer.
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Dang I want one of those! Of course, I'd have to go into
bankruptsy to get it. Tee hee. I heard no matter how cool it is,
it's going to be obsolete in a year. Pretty freaky.
Well i absolutly love it!!
im actually on it right now. Im pretty much used to the keyboard
and i have only had it for a week now. I say if you have the money
you should definetly buy one.
you dont need to be up your contract to get the iphone, you can
automatically renew it (its an exception w the iphone) for a 2 yr
if you buy the phone.
i am a deparment manager at a wireless deparment in walmart and
the feture of GPS (its called google maps) can really be done on
any 3g cingular phone. not just on the iphone and the seach for
the locations nearlest you can be done by any cinguler texting
phone.. all you do is text like for ex pizza plus your zip code to
googl(google w/o the e)and it will send u all the places near that
zipcode. w there phone numbers address and stuff. its really
cool:)another cool thing is you can look up gas prices near your
zipcode. just when you go online you type in the search gas finder
and then it will ask for your zip and then give u the top 5
locations w the cheapest gas:) sorry i just love givin out info
about phones
well my brother just got his last week and to tell but he truth
its really nice i wouldn't mind having one but there's no way i'm
paying that much for a phone unless i was rich and could afford
one lol but i think ill deal with my razr phone for the time
being.. lol
we just got our 8GB one in the mail yesterday.. took 2 days to
ship from china.. and I LOVE IT! its my bfs though. i cant get one
til my nextel contract ends nov 08, but they will an iphone2 by
then!
the iphone looks cool but i dont think i want one
who texts outside in the freezing cold anyway? i live in Wisconsin
and thats the last thing i would be doing outside in the middle of
January.
I wish I could get one of these, but I don't have that much money
to spend on a phone =[.
I am normally one to stay up in the times with technology. I have
a Sidekick III right now and was excited to go out and buy an
iphone when it released but after only 2 weeks of being released
there were already people having issues with their iphones so I am
going to hold off until they figureo ut how to get those issues
fixed.
my friend has one i am getting one soon
My friend got one and I tested it out.

I hate it.

Hate hate hate hate hate.

I don't like a lot of the features and some of them just seem
trivial, more like "Oh, let me show off my phone."


i don't think that the phone is worth the hype. wouldn't it be
easier to just use a regular cell phone. i think that they would
be cool but i don't have the money to buy one anyway.
I was surprised that the price was only $600. When Apple first
released the idea of the iPhone there were rumors that it was
going to be $2,000.
I went to one of the Apple stores in San Francisco and one of the
Apple guys gave my friend and I a great demo on the iPhone. The
price is too much though and not having At&t hurts a lot of would
be customers because breaking contract with a current carrier is
just flushing money down the drain. The winter and glove factor,
I don't think, would be a deal breaker, like any cell phone out
there having gloves on and pushing a button IS STILL difficult.
But all in all I think the iPhone rocks, but rumor has it an
iPhone Nano will be released before the end of the year.. and at a
much better price that 600 bucks.