iPhone. Did anyone get one?

[CeciliaH]

I love gadgets. Hubby freaked out when he heard about the iphone - immediately warning me I'm not allowed to have it. Luckily for him - I quietly agreed with him -for now- since its only available in the US anyways ^_^

However - I am SUPER curious if anyone here got one? Yay? Nay? Or just another phone that Japan has probably already made 8 years ago and we're just catching up to it now?

[jason]

I have no interest in it at this point. I've carried a cell phone for the past seven years or so, getting one more out of necessity than want. I pretty much just use it for making and receiving calls and I give the number out to very few people. In general, when I'm away from home and my computer I want to be disconnected.

Although I tend to be a gadget freak sometimes, I could care less that my phone has a web browser, IM client, and whatnot on it--I use it to make calls. I do get a few texts from my siblings, but I dislike trying to tap out messages with nine keys, so I rarely reply if I don't have to. Even if it was easier to use those features than it is on my current phone, I doubt I would use them anyway. I am in front of a computer most of the day anyway. I can wait to browse the web...

--Jason

[Sara]

I don't even have a cellphone and cannot see myself ever start out with something like iPhone. And since I'm mostly staying at home I don't really have a need for it anyway.

[mattsiegman]

It's AT&T, icky!



I think it's too expensive for most people, and the plan is too.

[Bondian]

I love gadgets. Hubby freaked out when he heard about the iphone - immediately warning me I'm not allowed to have it. Luckily for him - I quietly agreed with him -for now- since its only available in the US anyways ^_^

However - I am SUPER curious if anyone here got one? Yay? Nay? Or just another phone that Japan has probably already made 8 years ago and we're just catching up to it now?

Hey, Cecilia.

If I was your hubby, I'd let you do what you want.

If an iphone is what you want, then you could have it. Mainly because you're gorgeous, and it would save the phone bill.

From the amount of time that would have been wasted if you wasn't such a great admin, I say that hubby should buy it for you because obviously you're such a hard worker.

I'm no threat to him. I'm 46, British and about 6,000 miles from you. So if he wants to punch me on the nose, it ain't no biggie.

Ciao.


Ian

[CeciliaH]

ahhh! dont fill my head with such rubbish Ian! lol cheers!

[kornmonkie]

Sadly, they don't offer the iPhone up here (no AT&T network). I'm sure there will be bigger and better things to come, but I must admit that it does look pretty interesting.

[Ron]

I don't know where ni Alaska you are, but when I was broken down by the side of the road 98 miles south of Fairbanks, my tri-mode Verizon phone was useless -- no signal at all. The Flagger woman's phone (AT&T she told me it was the only way to go in Alaska) worked just fine, and allowed me to call for my VERY expensive tow job.

[Vin DSL]

To digress even further, I'm a Boost Mobile fan!

It's probably the antithesis of iPhone - actually designed for drug dealers and gang bangers...

Highly recommended!

[Vin DSL]

The Flagger woman's phone (AT&T she told me it was the only way to go in Alaska) worked just fine, and allowed me to call for my VERY expensive tow job.

Here's some trivia for ya, Ronnie...

[Ron]

My trip and phone experience were in 2003. Here is an article from 2004 talking about AT&T's exit from Alaska. See "And Then There Were Two."

http://www.akbizmag.com/2004/cellular_srvc.htm

My phone "should" have worked; it was on Verizon's One Rate America plan, which boasted that the phone would work and would be on home rates (no roaming, a big thing back then and earlier) "anywhere there was a signal." grrrrrrr Lies. Like I said, her phone worked, and I don't think it was on a GSM system, I am almost certain it was in analog mode.

I had 5 or 6 hours to chat with her waiting for the tow truck to arrive. I wasn't very uncomfortable, I had an entire motorhome filled with goodies. She had her first "home cooked" meal (a nice juicy steak) in 6 weeks.

PS Alascom has several tall microwave towers that are clearly marked in The Milepost, the bible of driving anywhere in Alaska.