Comments on: iPhone: to buy or not to buy http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/ NY-based engineer / producer / mixer / sound designer / composer Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jair-Rôhm http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Jair-Rôhm Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:44:36 +0000 http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/#comment-25 Marc, I had the SE P910i over here. Not a bad phone. Not a great phone. As a long time Palm user, i just couldn't deal with the sync problems with the SE and OSX. Not only that, i really missed the tidy power of the Palm Pilot. So i got a Treo. The only models available here in Sweden that i know of are the 650, 680 and 700. Syncronisation with the Mac is flawless. Not to mention hot SIM card swapping (i had to turn off my SE to switch cards) and pretty much everything on your list of 'wants'. I'm really glad that i got away from SE. I've had tons of phones. Nokias, SEs, Siemens, Motorola, you name it. I've used Palm Pilots from the first Palm Pilot model. I have data on my Treo from 1997 carried over from my earliest Palm. I (like every other sane and reasonable person) think that the iPhone user interface is great. No one knows when they will be available here in Sweden. If nothing else, i hope that the user interface trickles down to the next generation of the Treo. JPW Marc,

I had the SE P910i over here. Not a bad phone. Not a great phone. As a long time Palm user, i just couldn’t deal with the sync problems with the SE and OSX. Not only that, i really missed the tidy power of the Palm Pilot. So i got a Treo. The only models available here in Sweden that i know of are the 650, 680 and 700. Syncronisation with the Mac is flawless. Not to mention hot SIM card swapping (i had to turn off my SE to switch cards) and pretty much everything on your list of ‘wants’. I’m really glad that i got away from SE. I’ve had tons of phones. Nokias, SEs, Siemens, Motorola, you name it. I’ve used Palm Pilots from the first Palm Pilot model. I have data on my Treo from 1997 carried over from my earliest Palm.

I (like every other sane and reasonable person) think that the iPhone user interface is great. No one knows when they will be available here in Sweden. If nothing else, i hope that the user interface trickles down to the next generation of the Treo.

JPW

]]> By: admin http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-24 admin Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:44:35 +0000 http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/#comment-24 Thanks for your comment. I haven't looked into BitPim but when I did now it seems like it is for CDMA phones (which I am not even remotely considering because it is such an old and US-only standard when compared to GSM). I am considering other phones (N95) and I have considered other phones (HTC Touch, Wing, Dash etc) which I scrapped because they run on Windoze... I guess I'll wait and see... Maybe I'll get a used P900 which runs Symbian OS 7 and therefore syncs with OS X via iSync and then I'll just wait until the next iPhone generation... In the meantime I am sure there will also be much other cool phones coming out too. Thanks for your comment.
I haven’t looked into BitPim but when I did now it seems like it is for CDMA phones (which I am not even remotely considering because it is such an old and US-only standard when compared to GSM). I am considering other phones (N95) and I have considered other phones (HTC Touch, Wing, Dash etc) which I scrapped because they run on Windoze… I guess I’ll wait and see… Maybe I’ll get a used P900 which runs Symbian OS 7 and therefore syncs with OS X via iSync and then I’ll just wait until the next iPhone generation… In the meantime I am sure there will also be much other cool phones coming out too.

]]> By: Steve Blue http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Steve Blue Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:23:24 +0000 http://www.marcurselli.com/2007/07/21/iphone-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/#comment-23 Wow Marc, You are correct that our opinions about the iPhone coincide in every way. I do like you r detailed analysis or your dream cell phone. I hope it becomes a reality in the future. I think the next iteration of the iPhone will be lower in price at least. But we will have to wait at least 2 years for multi wireless providers. Apple really screwed up with that aspect of their business model with the iPhone. Have you heard that ~500,000 iPhones were sold in the first weekend, but only ~160,000 were activated? I'm not certain of these numbers, but that means more people are walking around using the iPhone as a PDA than a cellphone, which is exactly what I'd be doing if I owned one. In the meanwhile, have you checked to see if the P990 is configurable with BitPim? I have had success synching my Mac with the LG Chocolate Flip VX8600 using BitPim. LG really dropped the ball not offering Apple plug and play support with their latest phones. Thanks for the comment. Steve Blue Admin / Creator iUseApple.com Wow Marc,

You are correct that our opinions about the iPhone coincide in every way. I do like you r detailed analysis or your dream cell phone. I hope it becomes a reality in the future. I think the next iteration of the iPhone will be lower in price at least. But we will have to wait at least 2 years for multi wireless providers. Apple really screwed up with that aspect of their business model with the iPhone.

Have you heard that ~500,000 iPhones were sold in the first weekend, but only ~160,000 were activated? I’m not certain of these numbers, but that means more people are walking around using the iPhone as a PDA than a cellphone, which is exactly what I’d be doing if I owned one.

In the meanwhile, have you checked to see if the P990 is configurable with BitPim? I have had success synching my Mac with the LG Chocolate Flip VX8600 using BitPim. LG really dropped the ball not offering Apple plug and play support with their latest phones.

Thanks for the comment.

Steve Blue
Admin / Creator
iUseApple.com

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