Apple iPhone - after a few months, what do you think?

[[AK]Clay]

Now that it's been a few months and the novelty isn't quite so intense, what do iPhone users think of their iPhones? Was it worth the cost? Worth AT&T?

[[AK]Squidly]

Best phone I've ever owned. Still love it, and I can't imagine how cool it'll be once the APPS start flowing for the thing in June.

Regarding AT&T, I was a Cingular customer for 3-4 years before they were bought by AT&T... never a problem, no dropped calls. Pay my bills online.

[Slaughter]

Little over a month before I'm out of my T-mobile contract and have an iPhone of my own.

[[AK]Clay]

Best phone I've ever owned. Still love it, and I can't imagine how cool it'll be once the APPS start flowing for the thing in June.

Regarding AT&T, I was a Cingular customer for 3-4 years before they were bought by AT&T... never a problem, no dropped calls. Pay my bills online.

Around here they are asking $500 for the 16 GB iPhone, plus you have to commit to a $60 2 yr contract (though this does include free internet, which is nice). That's pretty steep - for someone to say it's worth that you must be pretty darned impressed Squid!

Mostly I'm interested in how good is it as just a plain phone (good transmission reception quality and signal strength?) and how well does it hold up to use and abuse.

One thing I love about the iTouch is it has built in wireless for high-speed internet browsing. Does the iPhone have wireless eithernet as well? How about GPS and maps?

[Slaughter]

Yep, iPhone has wireless (We register them for the campus wireless every so often).

[[AK]Squidly]

The reception for me has been rock solid, and the sound quality the best of any phone I've used.

Yes, it includes wireless, and it runs google maps native - with satellite view and road view, directions, etc. It doesn't have GPS, but it does use tower triangulation to plot where you are within a reasonably sized "bubble."

It also can display real-time traffic (by coloring roads according to congestion.)

The 2 year commitment is no big deal...it's standard fare when buying a "smart phone." Ditto the $60 service... I paid over $100 for my Treo 650 (thanks to the horrid data plans.)

[[AK]StitchJones]

I'm still not big on the whole all in one package. A phone should be to make calls. The rest of that hoopla can be in a separate device. If any one feature breaks, it will pretty much render the rest useless. And I'm not having that, no sir-e-bob.

[[AK]Bribo]

I'm still not big on the whole all in one package. A phone should be to make calls. The rest of that hoopla can be in a separate device. If any one feature breaks, it will pretty much render the rest useless. And I'm not having that, no sir-e-bob.

OK, Batman.

I for one like carrying as few devices around with me as possible. I can remember the day when I had a pager, a phone, a PDA, etc and having to lug all of them around.

Consolidation is the future and I welcome it.

[[AK]StitchJones]

Dude, my utility belt is the shizzile. Chics dig it, and my pocket protector.

[[AK]Hylander]

Around here they are asking $500 for the 16 GB iPhone, plus you have to commit to a $60 2 yr contract (though this does include free internet, which is nice). That's pretty steep - for someone to say it's worth that you must be pretty darned impressed Squid!

Mostly I'm interested in how good is it as just a plain phone (good transmission reception quality and signal strength?) and how well does it hold up to use and abuse.

One thing I love about the iTouch is it has built in wireless for high-speed internet browsing. Does the iPhone have wireless eithernet as well? How about GPS and maps?

In this area, most people avoid AT&T service like the plague because it's so spotty... It's been several years, but I use to lose reception in downtown Bethlehem with AT&T. I've never lost connection on Verizon.

But $60 for a 2yr contract that includes free Internet sounds like a good deal to me as long as you know your coverage area is strong for where you will be driving/commuting/talking from. I was looking at possibly getting a BB at Verizon... but the data plans are just so ridiculously expensive. I already pay $75 a month for 2 phones with about 100x the amount of minutes the wife and I use in a month - which probably less than 20 min on average. If they ever roll out FIOS and I can drop DSL, I'll get rid of my landline - which is another waste of $45 a month.

[[AK]Beaker]

Most importantly if Clay get's the iphone I get to stop the whole where did he leave my itouch game that has become the routine in my house.
And I still don't have all my music and stuff on it!

We would need service that is reliable because cell phones are the only phones we have. It would need coverage without extra charge in the rural area that I drive.

Finally at&t would need to also have a plan that allows for 1 fancy phone (Clay's) and one klutz phone (mine) that doesn't need many features except capable of being dropped many times and surviving. My poor Katana with the metal cover is scratched to heck!

[[AK]Squidly]

AT&T offers family plans. That's what we use. My wife has a simple phone and I have the iPhone. Prices are very reasonable I think.


(This was posted from my iPhone.)

[[AK]Beaker]

Went to the AT&T store today.
Sadly they don't offer the iphone at the store because the internet we would be forced to use is SLOWWWWW in our area. They would allow you to use an iphone if you purchased it from Apple but it would not have good connectivity. In addition the network doesn't really cover the area I drive to every day so that would mean either spotty coverage or roaming (no charge for roaming) but you might not get very good reception.

So I guess I better hide my itouch better in the evenings so I can find it in the mornings until the network gets better in our area.