GO IN!Originally Posted by hella handsome
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, dudes hate on the iPhone just to hate.
if these were upgrades to a blackberry or HTC phone it would be getting tons of's and's
but instead, these are improvements that people have been begging for from apple, and when apple gives the people what they have been asking for, you still arent satisfied.
go sit down
what the $%@+ do you want it to have? digital cable? a !$*%%@# toaster? want it to come with a bag full of money?
hell, the phone can multitask, finally has a flash camera, front facing camera with video chat for ichat (which obviously will be apples answer to BBM... hence why ichat is only on apple products (duh...), removable battery, better battery life, new design (because everyone complained at the 3GS looking like the 3G), gamecenter which is like xbox live for iphone game apps, and a bunch of other upgrades in 4.0 firmware...
how much do you want to bet that after this phone drops, every one of apple's competitors will make phones with video chat capabilities with dual cameras for it? I give HTC 3-4 months before they come up with a new "killer" for this, and I give Google until December to upgrade that crappy Nexus One to the Nexus "Two" or some %$$# to compete.
they made the candybar, all touch screen phone and everyone followed suit, this will be next. and all of the haters will eat up the competition, because thats all you care about, seeing apples competition "take them down"
ohyeah, but i can't sound like an apple fanboy...
/exits thread.
"KEEP GOING!" -S.C.CarterOriginally Posted by nick0lis
GO IN!Originally Posted by hella handsome
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, dudes hate on the iPhone just to hate.
if these were upgrades to a blackberry or HTC phone it would be getting tons of's and's
but instead, these are improvements that people have been begging for from apple, and when apple gives the people what they have been asking for, you still arent satisfied.
go sit down
what the $%@+ do you want it to have? digital cable? a !$*%%@# toaster? want it to come with a bag full of money?
hell, the phone can multitask, finally has a flash camera, front facing camera with video chat for ichat (which obviously will be apples answer to BBM... hence why ichat is only on apple products (duh...), removable battery, better battery life, new design (because everyone complained at the 3GS looking like the 3G), gamecenter which is like xbox live for iphone game apps, and a bunch of other upgrades in 4.0 firmware...
how much do you want to bet that after this phone drops, every one of apple's competitors will make phones with video chat capabilities with dual cameras for it? I give HTC 3-4 months before they come up with a new "killer" for this, and I give Google until December to upgrade that crappy Nexus One to the Nexus "Two" or some %$$# to compete.
they made the candybar, all touch screen phone and everyone followed suit, this will be next. and all of the haters will eat up the competition, because thats all you care about, seeing apples competition "take them down"
ohyeah, but i can't sound like an apple fanboy...
/exits thread.
well technically, htc & sprint already annouced the evo 4g with a front facing camera weeks before this iphone leak, but i see your point. I personally am glad to see that apple is finally giving the people want they want and not just half stepping it like they did with the 3gsOriginally Posted by OptimusPrimeAPhiA
"KEEP GOING!" -S.C.CarterOriginally Posted by nick0lis
GO IN!Originally Posted by hella handsome
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, dudes hate on the iPhone just to hate.
if these were upgrades to a blackberry or HTC phone it would be getting tons of's and's
but instead, these are improvements that people have been begging for from apple, and when apple gives the people what they have been asking for, you still arent satisfied.
go sit down
what the $%@+ do you want it to have? digital cable? a !$*%%@# toaster? want it to come with a bag full of money?
hell, the phone can multitask, finally has a flash camera, front facing camera with video chat for ichat (which obviously will be apples answer to BBM... hence why ichat is only on apple products (duh...), removable battery, better battery life, new design (because everyone complained at the 3GS looking like the 3G), gamecenter which is like xbox live for iphone game apps, and a bunch of other upgrades in 4.0 firmware...
how much do you want to bet that after this phone drops, every one of apple's competitors will make phones with video chat capabilities with dual cameras for it? I give HTC 3-4 months before they come up with a new "killer" for this, and I give Google until December to upgrade that crappy Nexus One to the Nexus "Two" or some %$$# to compete.
they made the candybar, all touch screen phone and everyone followed suit, this will be next. and all of the haters will eat up the competition, because thats all you care about, seeing apples competition "take them down"
ohyeah, but i can't sound like an apple fanboy...
/exits thread.
This argument is as stupid as people getting moist over a phone we have not seen in operation.
Originally Posted by hella handsome
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, dudes hate on the iPhone just to hate.
if these were upgrades to a blackberry or HTC phone it would be getting tons of's and's
but instead, these are improvements that people have been begging for from apple, and when apple gives the people what they have been asking for, you still arent satisfied.
go sit down
what the $%@+ do you want it to have? digital cable? a !$*%%@# toaster? want it to come with a bag full of money?
hell, the phone can multitask, finally has a flash camera, front facing camera with video chat for ichat (which obviously will be apples answer to BBM... hence why ichat is only on apple products (duh...), removable battery, better battery life, new design (because everyone complained at the 3GS looking like the 3G), gamecenter which is like xbox live for iphone game apps, and a bunch of other upgrades in 4.0 firmware...
how much do you want to bet that after this phone drops, every one of apple's competitors will make phones with video chat capabilities with dual cameras for it? I give HTC 3-4 months before they come up with a new "killer" for this, and I give Google until December to upgrade that crappy Nexus One to the Nexus "Two" or some %$$# to compete.
they made the candybar, all touch screen phone and everyone followed suit, this will be next. and all of the haters will eat up the competition, because thats all you care about, seeing apples competition "take them down"
ohyeah, but i can't sound like an apple fanboy...
/exits thread.
yea but when I bagged you for copping the 3gs you said you didnt care and you couldnt wait right? nice tryOriginally Posted by dopestop
do you know how many?I think its been 10 days..Originally Posted by loskickking23
u gotta a few days to return it!Originally Posted by dopestop
I got a 3gs last week!!!
noooooooooooooo...
is there anything I can do
I had to pay a $150 security deposit, will I lose it?
[h1]A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back[/h1]
This phone was lost, and then found. But from Apple's perspective,it could have been considered stolen. I told them, all they have to doto get it back is to claim it—on record. This formal request fromApple's legal department is that claim. It proves—if there was anydoubt in your mind—that this thing is real.
Here's my reply:
Bruce, thanks.
Here's Jason Chen, who has the iPhone. And here's his address. You two should coordinate a time.
[Blah Blah Blah Address]
Happy to have you pick this thing up. Was burning a hole in ourpockets. Just so you know, we didn't know this was stolen when webought it. Now that we definitely know it's not some knockoff, and itreally is Apple's, I'm happy to see it returned to its rightful owner.
P.S. I hope you take it easy on the kid who lost it. I don't think he loves anything more than Apple.
And since this was the only missing piece of the puzzle, we have nowboth extinguished any doubts of its origin but also, we get to give thephone back. *warm, fuzzy, huggy feelings of legal compliance*
(Our legal team told us that in California the law states, "If it is lost, the owner has three years to reclaimor title passes to the owner of the premises where the property wasfound. The person who found it had the duty to report it." Which,actually, the guys who found it tried to do, but were pretty muchignored by Apple. )
I'm sad to see it go. We reasoned this pretty little piece ofhardware is probably something we'll see again some time soon, but whoknows exactly when. For some of us, that date can't come soon enough.
Send an email to the author of this post at /gizmodo.com/5520479/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back">http://gizmodo.com/552047...s-its-secret-iphone-back">blam@gizmodo.com.
Originally Posted by Crank Lucas
yea but when I bagged you for copping the 3gs you said you didnt care and you couldnt wait right? nice tryOriginally Posted by dopestop
do you know how many?I think its been 10 days..Originally Posted by loskickking23
u gotta a few days to return it!Originally Posted by dopestop
I got a 3gs last week!!!
noooooooooooooo...
is there anything I can do
I had to pay a $150 security deposit, will I lose it?
phones in europe and asia have always been years ahead of the american market. but we are talking about the american market here, where everything is 2-3 years behind.Originally Posted by Mastamind89
Originally Posted by hella handsome
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, dudes hate on the iPhone just to hate.
if these were upgrades to a blackberry or HTC phone it would be getting tons of's and's
but instead, these are improvements that people have been begging for from apple, and when apple gives the people what they have been asking for, you still arent satisfied.
go sit down
what the $%@+ do you want it to have? digital cable? a !$*%%@# toaster? want it to come with a bag full of money?
hell, the phone can multitask, finally has a flash camera, front facing camera with video chat for ichat (which obviously will be apples answer to BBM... hence why ichat is only on apple products (duh...), removable battery, better battery life, new design (because everyone complained at the 3GS looking like the 3G), gamecenter which is like xbox live for iphone game apps, and a bunch of other upgrades in 4.0 firmware...
how much do you want to bet that after this phone drops, every one of apple's competitors will make phones with video chat capabilities with dual cameras for it? I give HTC 3-4 months before they come up with a new "killer" for this, and I give Google until December to upgrade that crappy Nexus One to the Nexus "Two" or some %$$# to compete.
they made the candybar, all touch screen phone and everyone followed suit, this will be next. and all of the haters will eat up the competition, because thats all you care about, seeing apples competition "take them down"
ohyeah, but i can't sound like an apple fanboy...
/exits thread.
HTC has never been concerned with making "iPhone Killers"......they've had phones with front facing cameras for years now. Over in Europe/Asian that's a standard and the already announced/revealed that the SuperSonic for Sprint will have a front facing cam last month. Hell, there are app that let you use your phone as a webcam....but I'm sure that Apple has something like that too.
Jking has an iPhone 3GS, so I wouldn't say that he's hating.
Wasn't PIN the answer to BBM?
Why wouldn't Google make a Nexus Two or another Google phone?
Apple wasn't the first to make a all touch screen phone, and I'm pretty positive about that.
Yes, I maybe an HTC fanboy but I acknowledge other phones....I recommend other phones besides HTC all the time.
This just might be bad writing on gizmodo's part, but it's a weird contradiction:
Thinking about returning the phone the next day, he left. When he woke up after the hazy night, the phone was dead. Bricked remotely, through MobileMe, the service Apple provides to track and wipe out lost iPhones.
Weeks later, Gizmodo got it. It was the real thing.
The screen
While we couldn't get it past the connect to iTunes screen for the reasons listed earlier, the USB cable on that screen was so high quality that it was impossible to discern individual pixels.
How exactly were they able to see this screen if the phone was bricked weeks before they got it?
Not that it matters. I just find this whole thing interesting because it's never happened to apple before and it's not something that would really be worth the effort PR wise...they don't even need to do anything but announce a product to create the hype this whole thing has created.
