I gave in and got an iPhone. :: semicomplete.com

Fri, 07 Dec 2007

I gave in and got an iPhone.

I picked up an iphone tonight at the apple store in the mall. Yay new toy. The setup process was pretty simple. In fact, I feel comfortable stating that this cellphone purchase was absolutely the most pleasant cellular experience I've had.

Go to Apple store.
Say "I want to buy an iPhone"
Someone hands you a box with an iPhone in it. You pay.
Go home, plug iPhone into PC.
Run iTunes. Follow the trivially simple activation steps(*)
Rejoice now that your iPhone is activated without ever having to deal with morons at the AT&T retailers

(*) My desire to keep my current ~~Cingular~~ AT&T account was satisfied. I was presented with the option of transfering my current service to the new phone. It even set me up with a data plan. Pretty hassle-free.

Much love to Apple for making me not have to talk to anyone at the AT&T retail stores.

Uploading photos to flickr is the same as my previous phone: emailing photos to flickr
meebo.com (web2.0fancy instant messenger gateway) happily works on the iphone.
google reader works too

Comes standard with a google maps and youtube apps.

Fancy. The first two project ideas that came to mind are a both remote-control tools. One for a universal remote (basically smash buttons on a webpage tells an IR emitter to do things) and one to remotely control a PC (mouse, keyboard, etc). I'm guessing there will be a VNC client for the iphone out very shortly after the Apple SDK is released, so I'll think about the infrared remote control project.

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1 responses to 'I gave in and got an iPhone.'

Bob posted at Sun Dec 9 04:12:43 2007...

I've been going through the carrier, plan, and phone debate lately too. My Razr just died, and my contract[s] are up in December, so it was time for a new phone. I found out about the Sprint Employee Referral Offer Plan (SERO) and signed up for that. Ended up getting 500+1250 minutes (two lines) with unlimited data and texts, free nights/weekends starting at 7pm, and the fastest data network around right now.. for $80/mo.

I got a Treo 755p, though I think I'm going to exchange it for an HTC Mogul. I'd like to get the Treo 800w, or whatever the next Treo with Windows Mobile 6 on it would be, but that doesn't seem to be coming out anytime soon..

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