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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 8, 2009 13:23:07 GMT -5
www.macrumorslive.com/Notables: Upgrades on the MacBook Pro 13" Macbook now a MacBook Pro Iphone 3.0 w/ over 100+ new features
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Post by Boz on Jun 8, 2009 19:40:41 GMT -5
I admit it. Apple products turn me into a drooling, ravenous consumer.
Hell, I'm already wondering how much it'll cost me to turn in my iPhone for the new one.
Damn you Steve Jobs and your wonderful little toys!!!!
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Post by guru on Jun 8, 2009 20:41:03 GMT -5
I admit it. Apple products turn me into a drooling, ravenous consumer. Hell, I'm already wondering how much it'll cost me to turn in my iPhone for the new one. Damn you Steve Jobs and your wonderful little toys!!!! So the new iphone has a video camera, and it's faster. Other than those things - though I can see wanting the video capability - I'm not sure where the incentive is to upgrade. The new OS seems to have most of the new capabilities, and that will be a free download for all existing iphones. Maybe I'm missing something? |
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Post by Boz on Jun 8, 2009 21:11:51 GMT -5
Hello? What part of "it's new" didn't you understand?  ;D Actually, I am looking forward to the 3.0 upgrades, particularly MMS, which is pretty inexcusable for not being available for this long. I'll probably wait until contract renewal time (by when there'll probably be another new phone, maybe one that's embedded into my skin) to actually get the new hardware. |
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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 8, 2009 22:42:34 GMT -5
Hello? What part of "it's new" didn't you understand? ;D Actually, I am looking forward to the 3.0 upgrades, particularly MMS, which is pretty inexcusable for not being available for this long. I'll probably wait until contract renewal time (by when there'll probably be another new phone, maybe one that's embedded into my skin) to actually get the new hardware. Id say that is my favorite addition to 3.0, MMS. Unfortunately it is being implemented across the world immediately, but wait, since the US is stuck with AT&T we won't be able to use it until the fall. |
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Post by jgalt on Jun 8, 2009 22:45:59 GMT -5
Hello? What part of "it's new" didn't you understand? ;D Actually, I am looking forward to the 3.0 upgrades, particularly MMS, which is pretty inexcusable for not being available for this long. I'll probably wait until contract renewal time (by when there'll probably be another new phone, maybe one that's embedded into my skin) to actually get the new hardware. Thats what I am going to do. I am banking on the fourth iphone to be the big upgrade that people were hoping for today. Chances are by this time next year OLED will be a possibility, making the whole thing a hell of a lot thinner or having a crazy hard drive capacity that would really make my ipod obsolete and a much much longer battery life. And the crazy person in me wants a forward facing camera for ichat, but that would be too much to ask. |
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jun 8, 2009 23:55:53 GMT -5
Hello? What part of "it's new" didn't you understand? ;D Actually, I am looking forward to the 3.0 upgrades, particularly MMS, which is pretty inexcusable for not being available for this long. I'll probably wait until contract renewal time (by when there'll probably be another new phone, maybe one that's embedded into my skin) to actually get the new hardware. Id say that is my favorite addition to 3.0, MMS. Unfortunately it is being implemented across the world immediately, but wait, since the US is stuck with AT&T we won't be able to use it until the fall. What's the advantage of MMS? |
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Jun 9, 2009 1:45:25 GMT -5
What IS MMS?
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Post by DrumsGoBang on Jun 9, 2009 8:41:33 GMT -5
Multimedia Messaging Service (Pictures and Videos in Texts)
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Post by guru on Jun 9, 2009 9:03:33 GMT -5
Hello? What part of "it's new" didn't you understand? ;D Actually, I am looking forward to the 3.0 upgrades, particularly MMS, which is pretty inexcusable for not being available for this long. I'll probably wait until contract renewal time (by when there'll probably be another new phone, maybe one that's embedded into my skin) to actually get the new hardware. Id say that is my favorite addition to 3.0, MMS. Unfortunately it is being implemented across the world immediately, but wait, since the US is stuck with AT&T we won't be able to use it until the fall. What? What's the reason for the MMS delay in the US? |
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Post by theexorcist on Jun 9, 2009 9:27:33 GMT -5
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Post by Buckets on Jun 9, 2009 9:44:00 GMT -5
The more concise explanation, and what I think theexorcist was trying to say more eloquently, is that the delay is because AT&T sucks.
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Post by thebin on Jun 9, 2009 10:09:21 GMT -5
Wouldn't the new downloadable OS make the our original 3g iphones faster?
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Post by thebin on Jun 9, 2009 10:18:12 GMT -5
Do you all have the dropped calls, etc that I do with your iphone 3g? Is that an At&t problem?
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Post by DrumsGoBang on Jun 9, 2009 10:33:48 GMT -5
yes, AT&T sucks. The USA is behind on mobile tech. We are like the Canada of the world..always a little bit behind. Most countries are now rolling out 4G and we are amazed if our 3G works.
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Post by thebin on Jun 9, 2009 11:01:36 GMT -5
do the phone calls travel on 3g or is that just data like web pages, etc?
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Post by Boz on Jun 9, 2009 11:45:02 GMT -5
While I do blame AT&T for not being up to speed enough to handle MMS from the iPhone -- IMO, viewmymessage.com is the biggest embarrassment ever -- I've never had a problem with my phone/voice connectivity or clarity.
AT&T may suck from a global perspective, granted, but is there any other US carrier who is really any better?
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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 9, 2009 12:09:45 GMT -5
While I do blame AT&T for not being up to speed enough to handle MMS from the iPhone -- IMO, viewmymessage.com is the biggest embarrassment ever -- I've never had a problem with my phone/voice connectivity or clarity. AT&T may suck from a global perspective, granted, but is there any other US carrier who is really any better? I agree, I actually despise when I get a MMS message, 1/2 the time viewmymessage.com wont accept the username/pass they give me, the other half it won't load whatever the message is. That is mostly why I can't wait until MMS is included in the iPhone. I would say yes there are a few carriers that are better: Sprint's 3G is faster (although probably because no one with a 3G phone has sprint...well before the Palm Pre, which is incredible), Verizon has a larger customer base (just going on the # of people I know who have it), and T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the hard one because internationally it is known as one of the better services and I can't really imagine why it doesn't necessarily offer the same in the US. Their main problem is the image of being a crappy service. |
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Post by thebin on Jun 9, 2009 12:12:24 GMT -5
While I do blame AT&T for not being up to speed enough to handle MMS from the iPhone -- IMO, viewmymessage.com is the biggest embarrassment ever -- I've never had a problem with my phone/voice connectivity or clarity. AT&T may suck from a global perspective, granted, but is there any other US carrier who is really any better? Yes, for pure phone call signal, connectivity, etc, I never had any problems at all with Verizon in the NYC metro area. I have dropped calls, etc all the time with my iphone. And a friend with the first generation iphone had so many problems with late/never recvd texts that he got rid of it. |
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Post by Buckets on Jun 9, 2009 12:27:59 GMT -5
While I do blame AT&T for not being up to speed enough to handle MMS from the iPhone -- IMO, viewmymessage.com is the biggest embarrassment ever -- I've never had a problem with my phone/voice connectivity or clarity. AT&T may suck from a global perspective, granted, but is there any other US carrier who is really any better? I agree, I actually despise when I get a MMS message, 1/2 the time viewmymessage.com wont accept the username/pass they give me, the other half it won't load whatever the message is. That is mostly why I can't wait until MMS is included in the iPhone. I would say yes there are a few carriers that are better: Sprint's 3G is faster (although probably because no one with a 3G phone has sprint...well before the Palm Pre, which is incredible), Verizon has a larger customer base (just going on the # of people I know who have it), and T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the hard one because internationally it is known as one of the better services and I can't really imagine why it doesn't necessarily offer the same in the US. Their main problem is the image of being a crappy service. Consumer Reports did tests in twenty-something cities a few months ago... Verizon is better than AT&T most places. Sprint may have good 3G but their coverage is abysmal. |
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