Today you can buy (if you can find it) the iPhone 3G from AT&T, the hottest thing to hit the market since sliced bread. You may recall one of our own being one of those trendy types who is probably waiting in line as we speak. According to a poll in that same thread, 25% of you will be getting the iPhone 3G.
On the flipside, that hunk of metal, glass, plastic and electronics creates more buzz than starving babies. No, I’m serious. On this website Engadget, they field questions from eager morons about meaningless things, like the following:
Santz24: How wildly does it dance on the table compared to the first iPhone?
If you’re asking how the vibrate function compares to the original, we got the two buzzing side by side and they feel pretty much identical.If you’re asking whether it wobbles on the table as you use it, yes, it does — but the amount of wobble depends on the type of surface. But even on a hard, flat surface it’s not really that bad, and we’re usually sticklers for that kind of thing.
My wobble has always depended on the surface. Do you think they will start including it as a phone feature? Seriously, if people care this much about a phone, then I consider my existence no longer meaningless.
Looking for an iPhone in Charlottesville?
If you are looking for an iPhone in Charlottesville, you can find them at one of two AT&T stores 1252 Emmett St and 1607 Rio Road. I tried calling and they told me there was a line around the building and that they were expecting to run out soon. But, guess what they told me… THEY ARE EXPECTING TO GET ANOTHER SHIPMENT TOMORROW. Can someone take a picture and send it in if you are there?
Apparently Lynchburg, Richmond and Herndon all ran out this morning.
/Getting an iPhone soon
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this reminds me of the time i woke up on the fourth consecutive rainy day at the beach and found out that all the iphones were sold out.
When you get the new iPhone or upgrade your old one to the new software, definitely install my application, Graffitio that made it into the App Store. Then stand outside of Spicy Bear HQ and write dirty things on their wall.
Jeez, Thor has has a chubby for starving babies lately… Just go buy some Gerbers and ship it somewhere impoverished already…
This morning, I got an eyePhone. It’s installed ocularly, and it’s wicked cool, but touching my retina kinda hurts.
/suffering for the cool.
Marketing brilliance.
/was one of those idiots.
(And yes, I felt like an idiot doing so.)
If anyone replaces their current iPhone w/ a 3G model, let me know. I need a new cell phone and I’d like to try jailbreaking an iPhone for T-Mobile.
I would probably give up sliced bread for one of these.
/will be giving up 299 slices of said bread for it soon…
I would probably give up sliced bread for one of these.
You loafer!
@8
Yep. People can snark on it all day long, but I have a severe technology habit and I can make an iPhone do lots of really cool things. I just don’t plan to pay AT&T’s ridiculous rates for it.
I use my phone just to call and text people. I know, crazy right?!!!
@7 I hacked mine but I have at&t so I didnt jailbreak it. MUCH happier since I did that and I dont need a new fancy one. My hacked one is rad.
@10 but I have a severe technology habit
Its true. I have seen him mainlining Firewire cables. Its not pretty.
/”I just need a few megabytes, man, just to get right til tomorrow… i swear im good for the bandwidth…”
@13
Now that you have broken our bond of trust, I hope that you understand that I’m going to have to find a new sponsor.
@11
And yes.. I use my current phone for texts, calls, and pictures…. but it’s a brick that not even Zack Morris would carry around and I’ve been holding out for the upgrade.
Besides, I need a new iPod after my last one was permanently borrowed out of my car.
@12
So, is AT&T forcing you to bump up to the new iPhone data rates or are you grandfathered in? I hear that even without local 3G coverage, new contracts require the 3G data plan.
@14 One byte at a time, my friend. Easy downloads it.
I don’t have a cell phone. I have a cell answering machine.
OK, donk… say it with me…
God grant me the bandwidth
to click the links I cannot see;
the media player to see the links I click;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one gif at a time;
Enjoying one jpeg at a time;
Accepting popups as the pathway to viruses;
Taking, as Hal did, this online world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that Hal will make pages load right
if I surrender to Hal’s terms and conditions;
That I may be reasonably connected in this life
and supremely connected with 3g
Forever and in Web 3.0.
Ascii.
I just dont get the hype =/ Wont catch me paying that much for another gadget
So you wait a week to get your new phone. What would be the big deal? I don’t get the line thing at all.
The Salad Shooter is a gadget. The iPhone is like really useful ambrosia granted to mortals.
/sorry, Thor. Not up on my Norse mythology.
“It’s pornography for gadget whores”
Ahahaha.
@lisa - what they don’t advertise on Apple.com (and I get this from a reliable source) is that when you get a new iphone girls start calling you! Hot girls without boyfriends that you didn’t even give your number to. And they want to go see big lebowski tonight and they are TOTALLY bi curious and posed for suicide girls once. Also they all have daddy issues and their last boyfriend was a total jerk.
You might want to wait on that iphone….
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Apple-iPhone.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
evidently they aren’t working too well.
The only people I know who own iPhones are my computer geek friend who’s married and a Flirtress with a rich boyfriend.
Idiots…
@24 my boyfriend is such a cheapskate.
@22 LOL! Well I hope for some peoples sake that things like that happen for them cause I think its too much money
@23 That’s why I wasn’t in line. I love Apple, but I think it’s always wise to let the new stuff hit the market for a while. They put stuff out too quickly, but they’re good at the 2.0.
ooo funny video of ipone crazies
Or you could buy this one:
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/07/woman_selling_cursed_iphone_on.php
Snicker. Its like jesus on a tortilla chip. Too bad the ebay auction just got yanked.
Ummm, maybe I’m reading AT&T’s map wrong, but it looks like there is no 3g (EDGE) data service in C’ville anyway, so there’s probably no real rush to get them here. Or is the map wrong? Anybody got 3G?
you are right jack.. no 3G
HAHA