New phone time, iPhone 4 or ?

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by nineball

iphone is the way to go... i am entering year 3 with an iphone now and to date i have only ever paid for one app and it was $0.99 (i bought a video recording app for my old 3g). everything else i run (all 6 pages of them) are free apps that work great...

You can get this one for free Bosch Light 'Em Up Dyno iPhone application - AppStoreHQ

But the $4.99 upgrade is worth it;

It turns your iPhone or iPod® Touch into a dynamo-meter. The free version measures your 0-60 time. But for just $4.99, you can upgrade to the full version to measure your quarter mile, horsepower, lateral G’s, and several other performance metrics.

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Order the free case upgrade from Apple right away to "fix" the antenna problem - the downside is it takes five weeks but Sep. 30 is the last day.

So does this mean after Sept. 30, one can no longer get the case upgrade to fix the antenna situation? What happens after that? Will a newer iPhone be distributed with the fix in place?

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by dd74

So does this mean after Sept. 30, one can no longer get the case upgrade to fix the antenna situation? What happens after that? Will a newer iPhone be distributed with the fix in place?

I'm guessing that they will deliver them with the band already fitted...

as for delay... You posted at 12:20 and I got the e-mail, on the Iphone at 12:20 so no delay on the Rogers 3.5G Network.

9ball

If you are getting e-mail from PP on yours, what time was it when you got dd74 one?

[jyl]

Means you pay for the case, it's no longer free.

So, spend $25 for a case. Which you might want anyway for drop protection etc.

Or put a piece of tape over the special spot of the antennas.

Or realize that the so-called "death grip" issue doesn't actually matter much or at all in real life usage, even though it is a fun parlour trick.

[TheMentat]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

If I were to ditch my iPhone it would be for an HTC android phone... I think I am going to hold on to my 3GS for another year tho and get the latest greatest iPhone then...

Same here... The HTC Desire looks pretty awesome, and gets good reviews from a buddy of mine. I'll be searching in a year or so, but I get the feeling that we are only seeing the beginning of what's to come from Android phones. Till then I'm happy with my iPhone.

[porsche4life]

Honestly I'd switch for the HTC Evo 4. But its sprint only. If you look at a sprint map in Western OK it follows I40. I get way too far off the interstate for that. Att coverage is decent out here.

[nineball]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

You can get this one for free Bosch Light 'Em Up Dyno iPhone application - AppStoreHQ

But the $4.99 upgrade is worth it;

It turns your iPhone or iPod® Touch into a dynamo-meter. The free version measures your 0-60 time. But for just $4.99, you can upgrade to the full version to measure your quarter mile, horsepower, lateral G’s, and several other performance metrics.

who needs a dyno. over the weekend i was out at a party when it became known what i was driving. that lead to quite a few rides for people, but the hot chicks got the longest ones. love the feeling of cruising at 65 all nice and calm and suddenly dropping it into 3rd and letting rip til redline. they all loved it too. you can keep your iphone dyno, i'll stick to making nipples pop

[onewhippedpuppy]

You guys sold me, guess I'll be an Apple fanboi.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by nineball

who needs a dyno. over the weekend i was out at a party when it became known what i was driving. that lead to quite a few rides for people, but the hot chicks got the longest ones. love the feeling of cruising at 65 all nice and calm and suddenly dropping it into 3rd and letting rip til redline. they all loved it too. you can keep your iphone dyno, i'll stick to making nipples pop

I remember my singles days...

If I keep spending this way I will probably see you at one of those party

[island911]

HTC HD7 (phone 7) is looking pretty damn nice. 1280 x 800 screen res. (October)

Also of note (on the larger side) is the Samsung Tab. (a few days out)

. . .as I've said before, cellphones are becoming thee personal computers . . .which, of course, have a phone app. ...or two. This means you want a screen which is as big as possible, but as portable as possible. --a 5" screen will fit in most pockets, And give usable higher resolutions.

That is, the iPhone4 will soon be looked back upon as a Zoolanader phone, with ridiculously tiny pixels. ...and the iPad with large, Crayola sized, pixels, in an Etch-a-sketch sized hugeness.

Originally Posted by jyl

Means you pay for the case, it's no longer free.

So, spend $25 for a case. Which you might want anyway for drop protection etc.

Or put a piece of tape over the special spot of the antennas.
.

I expect that Apple will have a clear coat (dielectric) over the band antenna.

Originally Posted by jyl

... Or realize that the so-called "death grip" issue doesn't actually matter much or at all in real life usage, even though it is a fun parlour trick.

uh huh ...

[dd74]

I have Verizon, and while at Staples, the salesman showed me the Samsung Fascinate. Very impressive. Of course, I looked at Samsung only because the iPhone is not part of the Verizon network.

Then I was later inside Starbucks. Every laptop being used there was an Apple laptop. This was near Warner Bros. Studios, so that makes some sense as it's uncouth to write scripts on anything but an Apple.

I've seen the iPad on several occasions. I keep asking myself "Why would anyone own this & a laptop?" Just buy a small, thin laptop. In short, I don't "get" the iPad.

[jyl]

Current Android is not suitable for tablets w/ larger screens (like 7"). Google has explicitly said so. They say tablets using current Android may be blocked from Android Marketplace. For tablets, need Android 3.0. Release date unknown, was thought to be end of 2010 now looks like early 2011? On positive side, seems like Google wants Android tablets to be very cool, not just a scaled-up handset. But looks like a near-term obstacle for the Android tablet market.

[island911]

Interesting...

tho' looks like Android runs well



albeit not THAT high of resolution.

[jyl]

Mind you, I think there will be more Android tablets than iPads and more Android handsets than iPhones. Inevitably. As these become large markets, it is very hard to imagine that Apple can hold >50% share. And they don't need to.

Admittedly the iPod remains massively dominant with >70% share of portable music players. I think that is because the iPod Touch has expanded its reach into portable gaming and portable computer territory, where traditional portable music player maker competitors can't follow because they don't have a general purpose operating system. But that's not the situation in handsets and tablets.

[JavaBrewer]

I recently presented at the Open Grid Forum in Chicago. Most of the crowd was a mix of European and/or Academia and just about everyone BUT me was sporting a Macbook Pro, iPad, and iPhone. I loved it - especially when they all quickly updated to the iOS 4 "upgrade" on the first day and they all were rendered with crashing iPhones... haha good times.

[gprsh924]

Originally Posted by island911

Also of note (on the larger side) is the Samsung Tab. (a few days out)

. . .as I've said before, cellphones are becoming thee personal computers . . .which, of course, have a phone app. ...or two. This means you want a screen which is as big as possible, but as portable as possible. --a 5" screen will fit in most pockets, And give usable higher resolutions.

That is, the iPhone4 will soon be looked back upon as a Zoolanader phone, with ridiculously tiny pixels. ...and the iPad with large, Crayola sized, pixels, in an Etch-a-sketch sized hugeness.

I expect that Apple will have a clear coat (dielectric) over the band antenna.

uh huh ...

I disagree here. The iPhone 4 is just about as big as anything I would want to consistently carry in my pocket. The HTC Evo is a really sweet phone, but even at 4.3" I don't like the way it feels in my pocket at all.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Have to say the iPhone is blowing me away. This thing is downright awesome - I'm not the least bit disappointed yet...

There are some cool Porsche apps for it too.

[slodave]

I didn't get any feedback on a thread I posted a couple of days ago, but I'm having speakerphone issues with my iPhone 4. It causes my voice become garbled on the other end. I can hear the other party just fine. I have to find some time to go to the Apple store during the week. No way I'm going there again on a weekend.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I have no complaints with my iPhone purchase. The only knock I have compared to the BB is that the email management isn't as good. Everything else blows it away, and I'm quickly getting used to the keyboard.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Any hints on getting outlook email redirected to my phone? Blackberry desktop redirector was a very simple way to do this. I don't want to just forward my messages.