Are you saying keep SMS because it's something the iPhone can do?
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Originally Posted by dr_lha
You can just email pictures instead, which is much more useful.
I'm hoping that the iPhone will basically remove all the annoying TXT variants we have now ("TXT, PIX, FLIX etc..") with standard email that works on all phones. Sure the birthing pains may be hard, and we can't give up SMS just yet, but eventually we'll be free from those annoying 50cents a go multi-media messages.
Stay near a plug... your iPhone will only have 8 hours of battery life! Here... have one of our 2-to-5-hour models instead
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options Which you'll probably never need anyway.
Imagine the iPhone-haters with the 4-hour batteries who will be bragging, "See! My battery just ran out! And I have the privilege of lugging along spares, so it doesn't matter! Click!" (Meanwhile their poor iPhone-burdened friends are still talking on the original charge.)
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Originally Posted by Clive At Five
Page 3 of the Verizon document says that the iPhone doesn't have ring-tones!
Damn, it must be a bitch having a phone that you have to stare at for the visual cue that someone is calling. A lot of missed calls, I'd assume.
What a bunch of pansies.
-Clive
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
And I'm sure Cingular will be more than happy to sell you a 7 second ringtone for 1.99 through their Tones service!
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Originally Posted by nagromme
Stay near a plug... your iPhone will only have 8 hours of battery life! Here... have one of our 2-to-5-hour models instead
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options Which you'll probably never need anyway.
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
I'd like to read what they'd be saying if the iPhone was coming out on their network. They'd turn around 180 degrees and be claiming it's the best phone in the world.
More people have phones that do MMS that do real email. The problem wouldn't be sending pictures/video, it would be receiving.
Well I cannot receive MMS from outside my network (though sending seems to work). But I can receive email from anyone. And this is from a 4 year old Nokia 6820.
What network are you on. I send receive MMS from people who have Tmobile and Sprint. I'm a Cingular customer.
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Originally Posted by JupiterOne
Well I cannot receive MMS from outside my network (though sending seems to work). But I can receive email from anyone. And this is from a 4 year old Nokia 6820.
What network are you on. I send receive MMS from people who have Tmobile and Sprint. I'm a Cingular customer.
That's strange.
The same.....Cingular. As a matter of fact, I remember the last time I looked into this, a couple of years ago (back when it was AT&T Wireless), a rep even told me that it would not work (receiving) outside the network. However, I have sent a few MMS messages to Sprint friends and they said they received them.
I personally think that the battery not being swappable sounds like a big deal, until I realize that I have never needed to swap the batteries in either my phone or iPod.
I agree. I charge my phone every night that i remember to. I don't have a 2nd battery laying around and never have. Personally, no one in my family or anyone else I know is that hardcore in having a 2nd battery with them at all times. So to me, that point is mute about the iPhone not having a replaceable battery. That will suck though if/when the battery needs to be replaced.
By the way: I have Verizon. When my contract is up nothing they say will stop me from switching. Free phone, discounted plan, not gonna work on me.
Who the heck owns a cell phone and isn't *already* camped out near an outlet? And i have the original iPod and a 3rd gen. I bought my 3rd gen early in '04 and I still get 4+hours of use out of it after using it nearly everyday.
Stay near a plug... your iPhone will only have 8 hours of battery life! Here... have one of our 2-to-5-hour models instead
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options Which you'll probably never need anyway.
Imagine the iPhone-haters with the 4-hour batteries who will be bragging, "See! My battery just ran out! And I have the privilege of lugging along spares, so it doesn't matter! Click!" (Meanwhile their poor iPhone-burdened friends are still talking on the original charge.)
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
Like I care about the ring tones. I never purchased one, the ones that come with phones are more than fine.
Not many non-business users carry around a spare battery. I know people who use car chargers, but that's as far as it goes.
The only thing that scares me about the battery not being removable is that with my past experience with cell phones, sometimes they lock up, and the only way to get them to power off is to remove the battery. This is Apple, so hopefully I won't have this problem. Maybe some type of force quit built in.
Verizon's job in the short run is to stop anyone from leaving for iPhone... and in the long run, to copy the iPhone as closely as possible!
Verizon doesn't make phones, but my prediction is by 1st quarter 2008, we'll see Windows Mobile 6 supporting as much as they can legally copy from iPhone's functionality as well as a Nokia phone running Linux with Opera browser, including Java.
Verizon obviously is crapping their pants. I rather have an iPhone with 5 minutes battery time than being stuck with a crappy phone company that cripples my phones. I just hope they lose as much business as they fear they will.
So I guess all of those "Business People" using Wi-Fi with their laptops this whole time have been doing so with little or no security. Interesting . . . . .
Love seeing the last-minute scrambles by Verizon and Sprint.
What they say about WiFi is correct.
It's harder to find than you might think, except in limited areas.
It's also only a mobile technology in that you can use it outside the home or office.
But, you can't walk down the streets while on a call, or be in a car, on the highway. That's true mobile.
You can just email pictures instead, which is much more useful.
I'm hoping that the iPhone will basically remove all the annoying TXT variants we have now ("TXT, PIX, FLIX etc..") with standard email that works on all phones. Sure the birthing pains may be hard, and we can't give up SMS just yet, but eventually we'll be free from those annoying 50cents a go multi-media messages.
as a workaround for no mms you can simply email a photo to the [email protected]
Nothing on the iPhone that isn't already offered on WM phones, besides visual voicemail. I think companies will try to capture the interface of the iphone, but as far as functionality, the iPhone is lagging.
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Originally Posted by mstone
Verizon doesn't make phones, but my prediction is by 1st quarter 2008, we'll see Windows Mobile 6 supporting as much as they can legally copy from iPhone's functionality as well as a Nokia phone running Linux with Opera browser, including Java.
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Just curious, but what is the advantage of MMS over sending the same picture via regular email?
You can just email pictures instead, which is much more useful.
I'm hoping that the iPhone will basically remove all the annoying TXT variants we have now ("TXT, PIX, FLIX etc..") with standard email that works on all phones. Sure the birthing pains may be hard, and we can't give up SMS just yet, but eventually we'll be free from those annoying 50cents a go multi-media messages.
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options
Imagine the iPhone-haters with the 4-hour batteries who will be bragging, "See! My battery just ran out! And I have the privilege of lugging along spares, so it doesn't matter! Click!" (Meanwhile their poor iPhone-burdened friends are still talking on the original charge.)
Page 3 of the Verizon document says that the iPhone doesn't have ring-tones!
Damn, it must be a bitch having a phone that you have to stare at for the visual cue that someone is calling. A lot of missed calls, I'd assume.
What a bunch of pansies.
-Clive
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
Stay near a plug... your iPhone will only have 8 hours of battery life! Here... have one of our 2-to-5-hour models instead
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
More people have phones that do MMS that do real email. The problem wouldn't be sending pictures/video, it would be receiving.
Well I cannot receive MMS from outside my network (though sending seems to work). But I can receive email from anyone. And this is from a 4 year old Nokia 6820.
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
But... there hasn't been a confirm on ringtones from your iTunes library... It's looking like that may not happen.
Well I cannot receive MMS from outside my network (though sending seems to work). But I can receive email from anyone. And this is from a 4 year old Nokia 6820.
That's strange.
http://www.nokia.ca/english/products/6820/6820.asp
Share information and experiences with Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), which allows you to send and receive messages with image, sound and text.
It's a service you have to sign up for. You can't just start sending MMS messages if you haven't signed up for the service.
What network are you on. I send receive MMS from people who have Tmobile and Sprint. I'm a Cingular customer.
That's strange.
The same.....Cingular. As a matter of fact, I remember the last time I looked into this, a couple of years ago (back when it was AT&T Wireless), a rep even told me that it would not work (receiving) outside the network. However, I have sent a few MMS messages to Sprint friends and they said they received them.
I personally think that the battery not being swappable sounds like a big deal, until I realize that I have never needed to swap the batteries in either my phone or iPod.
I agree. I charge my phone every night that i remember to. I don't have a 2nd battery laying around and never have. Personally, no one in my family or anyone else I know is that hardcore in having a 2nd battery with them at all times. So to me, that point is mute about the iPhone not having a replaceable battery. That will suck though if/when the battery needs to be replaced.
By the way: I have Verizon. When my contract is up nothing they say will stop me from switching. Free phone, discounted plan, not gonna work on me.
Stay near a plug... your iPhone will only have 8 hours of battery life! Here... have one of our 2-to-5-hour models instead
And in four years when your iPhone's life has dropped to the same life OUR phone has now, you'll have all kinds of iPhone battery replacement options
Imagine the iPhone-haters with the 4-hour batteries who will be bragging, "See! My battery just ran out! And I have the privilege of lugging along spares, so it doesn't matter! Click!" (Meanwhile their poor iPhone-burdened friends are still talking on the original charge.)
I think they mean you have no CHOICE of ringtones.
Which obviously you do, as seen right in Apple's demo
Like I care about the ring tones. I never purchased one, the ones that come with phones are more than fine.
The only thing that scares me about the battery not being removable is that with my past experience with cell phones, sometimes they lock up, and the only way to get them to power off is to remove the battery. This is Apple, so hopefully I won't have this problem. Maybe some type of force quit built in.
Verizon's job in the short run is to stop anyone from leaving for iPhone... and in the long run, to copy the iPhone as closely as possible!
Verizon doesn't make phones, but my prediction is by 1st quarter 2008, we'll see Windows Mobile 6 supporting as much as they can legally copy from iPhone's functionality as well as a Nokia phone running Linux with Opera browser, including Java.
So I guess all of those "Business People" using Wi-Fi with their laptops this whole time have been doing so with little or no security. Interesting . . . . .
Love seeing the last-minute scrambles by Verizon and Sprint.
What they say about WiFi is correct.
It's harder to find than you might think, except in limited areas.
It's also only a mobile technology in that you can use it outside the home or office.
But, you can't walk down the streets while on a call, or be in a car, on the highway. That's true mobile.
You can just email pictures instead, which is much more useful.
I'm hoping that the iPhone will basically remove all the annoying TXT variants we have now ("TXT, PIX, FLIX etc..") with standard email that works on all phones. Sure the birthing pains may be hard, and we can't give up SMS just yet, but eventually we'll be free from those annoying 50cents a go multi-media messages.
as a workaround for no mms you can simply email a photo to the [email protected]
ex: [email protected]
this also works with t-mobile, but I don't recall the mail address.
Verizon doesn't make phones, but my prediction is by 1st quarter 2008, we'll see Windows Mobile 6 supporting as much as they can legally copy from iPhone's functionality as well as a Nokia phone running Linux with Opera browser, including Java.