Topic Should You Buy an iPhone?

Paperboy

NEW YORK (AP) -- The most eagerly awaited cell phone ever is upon us Friday. Should you resist the iPhone's breathless hype, or take the plunge? Unless you're already standing in line outside an Apple or AT&T store, or are prepared to mug one of the first customers to come out after the 6 p.m. launch, the answer, at least for now, will have to be "let me think about it for a week or two."...

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anthomeyer

Yes, I have to agree with you that despite all the buzz created, I would rather wait until reviews are out about how good the iPhone is before deciding to get one. Simply too pricey.

SageMother

I thnk the wise person will wait at least a full 10 months before even toying with the idea of buying an iPhone. As with all technology, the price for similar and better products will go down, in time. I think it is foolish to purchase such things when they are first introduced.

mmarsh

If you read the reviews there are some big problems with the iphone.

1. You cannot make new phonecalls as the phone has no touchpad. You must prerecord all the numbers from the PC and then upload them to the iphone. So if you need to call 911 and you didn't prerecord it you better off sending smoke signals.

2. Battery wears out very fast, and to replace it you must send the entire phone to apple and wait 2 weeks before they send it back to you. In the mobile business world thats ridiculous, you cannot be without a phone for 2 weeks. Most companies would be out of business before then.

I would pass.

-HAL-

That didn't sound very impressive mmarsh..

Donkey

Let's not forget it is a brick...

I find it funny with my friends that have to have the smart phones and the pda phones and they are always asking to borrow a phone because theirs is to big for their pocket....

mmarsh

Oh I think the concept is great. Its Apple's execution thats problematic.

I also left out the part where during labs tst it was calculated that the battery would die just *after* the warrenty expires.

How about that for a coincidence?

anthomeyer

Yes, I have stumbled into many threads at other sites. A lot of people have been thinking of returning their iPhone. Not sure if they are able to do that tho.