I just bought a 1972 rotary phone from an antique store, the kind given out by Bell. It cost $45. The hoops I have to jump through to make this phone functional (rewiring, figuring out a way around the octothorp) take the same amount of time as making the iPhone work in a practical fashion. Granted, I can't whip out my 10-lb. rotary phone to casually check where I am or what song is playing in the elevator, but I'm not paying $699 for it and dropping calls, either.
including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB)
@wrd74: I'm sure they will have actual contractual upgrade prices posted at ATT soon.
ATT has a different upgrade scheme for the iPhone than it does every other phone. Something to the effect of: 12 months into your current contract will allow you to renegotiate a new 2 year contract with ATT and qualify for discounted prices with every other phone, but when you upgrade to the iPhone, you have to wait around 16 months to qualify for a new contract/discount on the phone.
It may not have been 16 months exactly, but this is what I was essentially told when I first went in to get the 3G (I was over a year into my contract but still had to wait several months till I qualified).
@Jon Ta: So I guess it calibrates the direction by sensing the phone's movement relative to the ground. Does this mean that the accelerometer is constantly monitoring your phone's rotation, or do you have to calibrate every time you want to use the compass?
The new iphone 3GS features are a joke mms, copy, cut, past, undo, compass, 3mega pixel camera and people get excited by this almost every phone has those features
Sorry to keep adding - GIZ: get an edit button for FSM sake!
Does it have an external antenna connection? That would ROCK. To be able to add a high gain cellular antenna to this thing would really solve the last remaining connectivity problems with EVDO.
On the other hand, it allows content providers (bands, musicians, purveyors of fine beef and beef by-products) to open up a virtual storefront, and communicate with and sell directly to their fans.
$3 is a lot for horse armor, though, except in actual battle.
@Kaiser 'St. Patty's' Machead: Thank you Kaiser, that's the smart way to navigate the AppStore, and I hope more and more people use it that way. The devs follow those comments and reactions as well, and shifty unpleasant tactics like 'horse armor' get the gas face, i.e. they get branded as 'Things the Customer Doesn't Like' and are usually avoided industry-wide after the negative reaction.
@pixelpushing: I try to do this as well, but a lot of the reviewers are idiots. Look at the public radio app: it has two stars due to morons one-starring it when they can't get top 40 stations.
@SirNotAppearing: I don't pay as much attention to the star rating as I do the actual review. Some reviews are not helpful at all, but even the dumb complaints can have some useful info.
I also do not want, but if devs go too hardcore on this route, nobody will download the app.
The app market will correct itself - I can see a slew of this to start, but when nobody wants to pay for "horse armor", and then they can go get "horse armor" included in another app without having to pay...the users will end up squashing this.
@Bradley Dobbs: Hopefully they will have a 'complete as purchased' section, right next to their 'free' section so we can easily sort out the apps that contain DLC.
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-Processor speed
-GPU
-RAM...?
Thanks to Apple, my retraining is almost complete. Pretty soon I will have no further use for actual numbers.
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"What do you mean. All the info is posted at Apple's site"
"No, not that. I mean the processor speed, RAM, etc."
"What? Why would you need to know that?"
"Well, I like making informed decisions on long term purchases such as th..."
"It's got a compass."
"I know that, but I wan..."
"It also has voice controls."
"Yes. Yes. I know that. That's all well and good, but I want to know exactly what I am paying for."
"COOOOOOMMMMPPPASSSSSS! COMPASS! Now stop asking questions you don't want to know the answers to."
"But I REALLY want to know."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Sure, sure?"
"Absolutely!"
"Wait. What are you doing with that gun?!? No! NOOOOOOO!!!!!"
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We've downstepped in clock speeds for most systems, yet the cpus are faster. Funny that.
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*poof*
no, not a blue fork. jebus
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Sadly, I don't know anyone who can afford to upgrade to one.
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You see guys, I've been saying this for years on Giz. True apple fanboys, wait until Revision C of the hardware is out.
Carry on!
06/08/09
Read the fine Print!!!!
[store.apple.com]
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ATT has a different upgrade scheme for the iPhone than it does every other phone. Something to the effect of: 12 months into your current contract will allow you to renegotiate a new 2 year contract with ATT and qualify for discounted prices with every other phone, but when you upgrade to the iPhone, you have to wait around 16 months to qualify for a new contract/discount on the phone.
It may not have been 16 months exactly, but this is what I was essentially told when I first went in to get the 3G (I was over a year into my contract but still had to wait several months till I qualified).
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Wow, that's pretty epic, lawlz.
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people based the goddamn PSP Go as a rehash but AT LEAST IT IS DIFFERENT.
This PoS is the same old same old with "new" features that should've been in the MOTHAFUCKIN ORIGINAL.
Anyways, sad sad sad day for apple. Why the hell would I pay an extra 100 dollars FOR A FUCKING COMPASS. FUCKIN LETDOWN APPLE
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Does it have an external antenna connection? That would ROCK. To be able to add a high gain cellular antenna to this thing would really solve the last remaining connectivity problems with EVDO.
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$3 is a lot for horse armor, though, except in actual battle.
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"OMG APP NEEDS $$$ TO UNLOK LVEL SIX!!!11"
Good to know!
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+1 for the 3rd Bass reference!
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The app market will correct itself - I can see a slew of this to start, but when nobody wants to pay for "horse armor", and then they can go get "horse armor" included in another app without having to pay...the users will end up squashing this.
Nice idea - but only good on paper.
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