Comments on: iPhone day in Columbus, Indiana http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/ Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: A Week With The Palm Pre Smartphone - Day 1 — The Gadgeteer http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-36985 A Week With The Palm Pre Smartphone - Day 1 — The Gadgeteer Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:47:38 +0000 #comment-36985 [...] that I wake up excited about a particular gadget. The last time I remember such a morning was June 29th, 2007. That was the day the first iPhone went on sale. My alarm was set early this morning so that I [...] [...] that I wake up excited about a particular gadget. The last time I remember such a morning was June 29th, 2007. That was the day the first iPhone went on sale. My alarm was set early this morning so that I [...]

]]> By: Tyler Puckett http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25949 Tyler Puckett Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:03:26 +0000 #comment-25949 <p>While you are activating the iPhone, you can fake bad credit by using 999-99-999 as your SSN, which will make you activate the phone using Pay as You go. As long as you activate it, the iPhone will continue to work, even if you cancel the service immediately afterward. So, you don't have to pay a dime to AT&T.</p> While you are activating the iPhone, you can fake bad credit by using 999-99-999 as your SSN, which will make you activate the phone using Pay as You go. As long as you activate it, the iPhone will continue to work, even if you cancel the service immediately afterward. So, you don’t have to pay a dime to AT&T.

]]> By: Rob Tillotson http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25948 Rob Tillotson Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:53:59 +0000 #comment-25948 <p>Unfortunately, prepaid service for the iPhone is not affordable in the usual sense. It only supports GoPhone Pick Your Plan, not the pay-by-the-minute plans they call "Pay As You Go". Furthermore, you are required to add the iPhone data service which costs $20/month on top of the minimum $30/month Pick Your Plan costs, so you're looking at a minimum of $50/month plus whatever taxes and fees they add on. And unlike the per-minute plans, Pick Your Plan requires that you let it auto-bill your credit card or checking account every month, whether you need more airtime or not.</p> <p>So, I guess the choice for frugal mobile users is... throw money into the bottomless maw of AT&T for airtime you'll never use, all for the privilege of not being outcast from modern iPhone society, or admit that you're not the sort of quality consumer who belongs in the new world, and go back to your <em>shudder</em> ordinary cellphone, which undoubtedly will only continue to operate because our masters in the blue and orange deathstar have pity for our pathetic lives...</p> <p>--Rob</p> Unfortunately, prepaid service for the iPhone is not affordable in the usual sense. It only supports GoPhone Pick Your Plan, not the pay-by-the-minute plans they call “Pay As You Go”. Furthermore, you are required to add the iPhone data service which costs $20/month on top of the minimum $30/month Pick Your Plan costs, so you’re looking at a minimum of $50/month plus whatever taxes and fees they add on. And unlike the per-minute plans, Pick Your Plan requires that you let it auto-bill your credit card or checking account every month, whether you need more airtime or not.

So, I guess the choice for frugal mobile users is… throw money into the bottomless maw of AT&T for airtime you’ll never use, all for the privilege of not being outcast from modern iPhone society, or admit that you’re not the sort of quality consumer who belongs in the new world, and go back to your shudder ordinary cellphone, which undoubtedly will only continue to operate because our masters in the blue and orange deathstar have pity for our pathetic lives…

–Rob

]]> By: mike roselius http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25947 mike roselius Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:20:39 +0000 #comment-25947 <p>Forgot that the iPhone supports pay as you go....depending on what my monthly costs might be to keep this thing with a dialtone - that might actually be an option.</p> <p>Until they release Activesync I don't need voice or data - but if I can pay $5 a month just to keep it active, and use the rest of the features.... hmmm</p> Forgot that the iPhone supports pay as you go….depending on what my monthly costs might be to keep this thing with a dialtone – that might actually be an option.

Until they release Activesync I don’t need voice or data – but if I can pay $5 a month just to keep it active, and use the rest of the features….
hmmm

]]> By: Joshua Wolf http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25946 Joshua Wolf Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:09:51 +0000 #comment-25946 <p>That is one aspect that I do not like. If it isn't activated you can't do squat with it.</p> That is one aspect that I do not like. If it isn’t activated you can’t do squat with it.

]]> By: mike roselius http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25945 mike roselius Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:36:57 +0000 #comment-25945 <p>I was really disappointed to discover that without a voice / data plan, the iPhone is a complete brick.</p> <p>I am locked to a WinMobile phone per my job - at least until the iPhone gets ActiveSync - so I can't switch over to the iPhone as my main phone - but I figured I might use it for everything BUT voice and data. Just the iPod, video, PDA functions would be cool - but apparently, until you actually connect w/ a plan, the iPhone won't do a thing. BUMMER.</p> I was really disappointed to discover that without a voice / data plan, the iPhone is a complete brick.

I am locked to a WinMobile phone per my job – at least until the iPhone gets ActiveSync – so I can’t switch over to the iPhone as my main phone – but I figured I might use it for everything BUT voice and data. Just the iPod, video, PDA functions would be cool – but apparently, until you actually connect w/ a plan, the iPhone won’t do a thing. BUMMER.

]]> By: carly http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25944 carly Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:19:52 +0000 #comment-25944 <p>Not only is it more comfy in a pocket, I am actually finding it to be very comfortable to hold against my face. i hate how it attracts face goop, but thats what the cleaning cloth is for.</p> <p>They definitely significantly tweaked the hell out of EDGE, at least in the nyc/nj area. It's much faster than it used to be. Or the iPhone is just that good. Or both. But websites that took so long to load in blazer that I'd get up, grab a sandwich, eat it, go to the gym, shower and then start browsing on my treo are popping up graphics and all in well under 1min on the iphone.</p> Not only is it more comfy in a pocket, I am actually finding it to be very comfortable to hold against my face. i hate how it attracts face goop, but thats what the cleaning cloth is for.

They definitely significantly tweaked the hell out of EDGE, at least in the nyc/nj area. It’s much faster than it used to be. Or the iPhone is just that good. Or both. But websites that took so long to load in blazer that I’d get up, grab a sandwich, eat it, go to the gym, shower and then start browsing on my treo are popping up graphics and all in well under 1min on the iphone.

]]> By: Joshua Wolf http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25943 Joshua Wolf Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:59:12 +0000 #comment-25943 <p>Thanks. But being at work, and wanting to sync it with a Mac, means I have to wait until I get home. Which is still four hours away.</p> Thanks. But being at work, and wanting to sync it with a Mac, means I have to wait until I get home. Which is still four hours away.

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25942 Julie Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:58:17 +0000 #comment-25942 <p>Congrats on winning a phone!!!</p> Congrats on winning a phone!!!

]]> By: Joshua Wolf http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25941 Joshua Wolf Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:52:38 +0000 #comment-25941 <p>My local radio station HATES me (stupid winning contest entry).</p> <p>I now have an iPhone. I need to decide now if I want to pay two wireless bills for the next 9 months, or eat the early termination fee (which is cheaper but has to be paid all up front).</p> My local radio station HATES me (stupid winning contest entry).

I now have an iPhone. I need to decide now if I want to pay two wireless bills for the next 9 months, or eat the early termination fee (which is cheaper but has to be paid all up front).

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25940 Julie Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:30:46 +0000 #comment-25940 <p>questionfear:</p> <p>Yes, I feel the same way about the size of the iPhone compared to the Treo. I think it's the thickness that makes the biggest difference. I had the iPhone in a cargo pants pocket yesterday and completely forgot it was there. :o)</p> questionfear:

Yes, I feel the same way about the size of the iPhone compared to the Treo. I think it’s the thickness that makes the biggest difference. I had the iPhone in a cargo pants pocket yesterday and completely forgot it was there. :o )

]]> By: carly http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25939 carly Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:22:47 +0000 #comment-25939 <p>I had people oohing and aahing over the rotating screen and the youtube app.</p> <p>Julie, I am curious if you are having the same experience I am; coming from a treo, do you feel like the iphone is incredibly small in comparison, even though they are around the same height?</p> I had people oohing and aahing over the rotating screen and the youtube app.

Julie, I am curious if you are having the same experience I am; coming from a treo, do you feel like the iphone is incredibly small in comparison, even though they are around the same height?

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25938 Julie Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:03:45 +0000 #comment-25938 <p>I went to visit my Dad tonight and was giving him a demo of the phone. He was really impressed :) The whole touch screen, pinch picture feature has a great pizazz factor!</p> I went to visit my Dad tonight and was giving him a demo of the phone. He was really impressed :) The whole touch screen, pinch picture feature has a great pizazz factor!

]]> By: carly http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25937 carly Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:53:58 +0000 #comment-25937 <p>I bought mine yesterday! Even though the Apple store I went to had plenty, and they seem to still be in stock according to the website, I wanted to get it right away. I was probably ~100 in line, but it was worth it. I loved the experience of being there, with the apple store employees high fiving everyone.</p> <p>Julie, have you been able to tear yourself away yet? I was so excited I actually hung out at the apple store and watched their demo class for a while (admittedly I was also curious what foot traffic looked like, since I think this is a case study in marketting and demand). </p> I bought mine yesterday! Even though the Apple store I went to had plenty, and they seem to still be in stock according to the website, I wanted to get it right away. I was probably ~100 in line, but it was worth it. I loved the experience of being there, with the apple store employees high fiving everyone.

Julie, have you been able to tear yourself away yet? I was so excited I actually hung out at the apple store and watched their demo class for a while (admittedly I was also curious what foot traffic looked like, since I think this is a case study in marketting and demand).

]]> By: Joshua Wolf http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25936 Joshua Wolf Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:11:11 +0000 #comment-25936 <p>If by some strange impulse I decide I need one. The Apple stores in the area all have them still in stock.</p> If by some strange impulse I decide I need one. The Apple stores in the area all have them still in stock.

]]> By: Jon Mack http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/06/30/iphone_day_in_columbus_indiana/comment-page-1/#comment-25935 Jon Mack Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:44:37 +0000 #comment-25935 <p>Shiny! And thinner than I thought! Very interesting. I can't wait for your review and for prices to drop so I can afford one.</p> Shiny! And thinner than I thought! Very interesting. I can’t wait for your review and for prices to drop so I can afford one.

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