I haven't been all too excited about the iPhone itself, but really about the application store, or the "App Store" as Apple is calling it. I'm not ready to buy an iPhone for a number of reasons, including low capacity, certain UI features which aren't quite there (cut & paste), the keyboard, and one of the biggest being that it isn't on any other carrier aside from AT&T, specifically my carrier, Sprint. Not that I have anything specific against AT&T (I think all the carriers play shenanigans of one kind or another), nor that I would have to pay for an early termination fee (I don't since my 2-year contract with Sprint is just up). No, it's that I have a SERO plan which gives me unlimited data and 550 minutes of peak time for $30/month. I think something similar from AT&T for the iPhone is $70, and probably not much less for other phones (my wife also has a smartphone that she uses unlimited data for - actually it's my old 700P). So our monthly bills would immediately go up by at least $50 if not more, and that doesn't count the cost of new phones!
However, as I say, I AM excited about the app store mainly because these apps (many of them anyway) will work on an iPod Touch, which you do not need to sign a contract to buy. In fact my wife has one that I got her and I am updating it as I type with the new firmware, getting excited about playing with a bunch of these new apps for it. I'm also hoping that Apple comes out with new iPod Touches in September or October that have a GPS in them as well as an expanded capacity of 64GB. If they do indeed offer such a device, I'm almost certainly going to upgrade my own iPod Classic. Then I'll have two devices with both GPS and Wifi (the other being the about-to-be-offered 800w)! Then all I'll need is a Kindle as my third wireless device and I'll be all set! ;-) Levi > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Roger Prokic > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:19 PM > To: Treo User Palm Treo User Group > Subject: Re: [Treo] Of threads and treo-heads (was Treo 800w) > > Now to change the subject... Is anyone at all excited about the iPhone > 3G? I have a co-worker that bought one today. I got to play with it > some. But I'm still feeling like its a toy and don't have the sudden > urge that I have to have one.... Comments?
