My 2007 iPhone 8gb...

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Is still going strong, and the latest update will make it even better. What other phone has this sort of longevity?

Phone is nearly 2 years old yet still turns heads! :p
 
:rolleyes: Yay! Well done. Here's your pat on the back.
Good boy.
fetch..

:D
Seriously tho, it is a great phone.
My friend has a jailbroken 2g, works like a charm.
My only gripe is the lack of Opera mini, Coreplayer and Mxit was an issue but thats now resolved..
Entirely Apple's fault. Stupid approval process.
But I hear Coreplayer is going the Cydia route so maybe that'll lend Cydia enough cred to become an alternative route for big devs who've been rejected by the appstore...
 
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And I absolutely love my 8 month old iPhone 3G. :)

Dont think I have ever had another mobile phone that I 'play' with as much as this baby. I cant leave it alone....and had it for 8 months now! Still feels like I got it yesterday. ;)
 
Yep, mines not that old but still what a awesome phone, won't be able to go back to other phones after the iphone.

Can't wait for OP3, feels like formatting my PC with a brand new OS :)!

But tbh I don't think I will be jailbraking OP3.
 
I have had my iPhone since Friday and I am seriosly loving it. I cant understand why anyone out there wouldnt want one :D
 
kingrob said:
And I absolutely love my 8 month old iPhone 3G. :)

Dont think I have ever had another mobile phone that I 'play' with as much as this baby. I cant leave it alone....and had it for 8 months now! Still feels like I got it yesterday. ;)
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Jees ... same here. There are days when I'm like "naah, I guess I'm used to it now", then a day or two later I'd discover some new apps or just feel the urge to try some crap out, and the addiction starts all over again. Needless to say that petty 250MB data bundle is useless (and I'm still one of the asswipes paying R600PM minimum!! :eek:). Then there's the excruciating wait for OS 3.0. I actually loathe the day I have to switch to Windows 7, but the prospect of OS-X 3.0 on my phone has been haunting me for weeks.
It's awesome, this whole idea of getting away from the hardware dependence we've had with all other brands for years now. I actually stopped installing updates on my Nokia N80 months after they were released (what was the point anyway?).

Ok, this might be a bit embarassing :o
But do any of you guys also sometimes get the urge to just, you know, flick around the apps, opening and closing stuff, scrolling around etc...just for the fun of it? Weird, I've never had a device that intrigues my mind this much. It's almost as if the phone should not -yet- have existed *eerie scifi music in background*
...haha...(@ss wide open to iPhone haterzz!)
 
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RaptorSA said:
Ok, this might be a bit embarassing :o
But do any of you guys also sometimes get the urge to just, you know, flick around the apps, opening and closing stuff, scrolling around etc...just for the fun of it?
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Yeah all the time.. it's become a habit... a bit like smoking when I'm bored...
I scroll to a game and think should I?.. naah maybe later, launch the ipod then just browse without listening. :D
 
RaptorSA said:
Ok, this might be a bit embarassing :o
But do any of you guys also sometimes get the urge to just, you know, flick around the apps, opening and closing stuff, scrolling around etc...just for the fun of it? Weird, I've never had a device that intrigues my mind this much. It's almost as if the phone should not -yet- have existed *eerie scifi music in background*
...haha...(@ss wide open to iPhone haterzz!)
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You're not alone!

I think we do it just to hold it in our hands and to look at the breathtaking design. :)

Seriously, I have never ever seen such an awesome design on a mobile phone....nevermind the great OS.

The only other phone that remotely comes close, is the Motorola V3 Razr.....I can still remember my disbelief when I first held it in my hand.

Still have my V3 Razr....will never ever sell it/give it away.
 
Haha!!! I'm the same... I purposefully leave my phone in the other room when studying, otherwise I get WAY too distracted! It's either Bloomberg, Mail, News24, Facebook or IM+ that gets me distracted.. lol

I love this phone, and don't see me using anything else in the near future... :)

The crap thing with having a Nokia is that within months its already outdated.. With new firmware's getting released so often, how could anyone get bored of this baby!! ;)
 
kingrob said:
You're not alone!

I think we do it just to hold it in our hands and to look at the breathtaking design. :)

Seriously, I have never ever seen such an awesome design on a mobile phone....nevermind the great OS.

The only other phone that remotely comes close, is the Motorola V3 Razr.....I can still remember my disbelief when I first held it in my hand.

Still have my V3 Razr....will never ever sell it/give it away.
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HAHA... Awesome indeed.

The thing is, it's never about the things that are "missing"...it's about those small little details you never really put into words. For instance:

The idea that scrolling has become a thing of the past (and the fact that you can scroll past the info on the screen, with no obvious use, just the coolness of it, and the fact that you now KNOW there is nothing else to see), when I see another phone/device with a scrollbar I want to puke...why did it take so long for someone to get rid of it?

Or, when you flick through mails or songs, and you accidentally press on the wrong mail/song, you don't worry, you just keep your finger there and move it up or down...erroneous unnecessary action cancelled, no hiccups, no screen redraws, nothing... how cool!

Or, when you click on a button and it lights up, but it doesn't just glow within it's pane, it makes this awesome glowing bleed effect that masks whatever's beneath it...

Another thing, people who call those opening and closing effects "unnecessary" and "eye candy"...but it NEVER gets in the way, it's as if the time it takes you to take your finger off the screen to see when opening something, is almost exactly the time it takes to do that opening animation...as if your thumb is "pulling" it open when you remove it..

Also notcied that when an application "crashes" when closing or opening (when the animation doesn't happen), you can't really complain because it's still faster than on a winmo (or whatever) phone OS... The other phone OS's tend to do that thing where they "redraw" parts of the screen when they crash (or just open slower)...you never see that on OSX...and it just makes the whole experience feel infinitely more solid and surreal.

Oh, and when you're in a call or checking voice mail, and you press that "hide keypad" button, you just WANT to press the speakerphone button, press home and flick around the phone while the call continues in the background...(nothing new about that, but a cool experience indeed)

One of the niftiest new feature for OS 2.0 was that screenshot option, I use that constantly and it's made it much easier to cope without any copy+paste. (GF wants to know when a movie starts, open awesome full screen Ster Kinekor page, take screenshot, mail it... done)

Then there's the way they've organized settings. One option -> settings, need any other advanced setting? -> open the app and check in there. ALL the stuff you want to change right there in front of you, I had my previous Nokia's for about 2 years on average each, and I was still sometimes trying to remember where I changed some settings at the end of that period. (Seriously...what is it with WinMo, symbian etc. and the fact that the settings are scattered all over the place in unintuitive menu structures?)


P.S. one a side note...have you guys seen the vids on the Palm Pre? Now THAT is competition, finally!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VooKvlbrbs
 
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Um, u guys seem somewhat too ecstatic over a, phone? Hope none of u abuse the *cough* vibrate feature... :p
 
RaptorSA said:
HAHA... Awesome indeed.
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Brilliant post, RaptorSA!!

You just described most of the things I find SO cool with an iPhone.

*I got myself the 'Birth of Venus' Gelaskin for my phone, looks awesome when applied on the back. ;)
 
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