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Aug 18, 2007 | 4:37 pm
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Like most Apple products, in my experience, it excels at a specific set of tasks - and that set of tasks is narrower than other devices and narrower than I can cope with.
Aug 18, 2007 | 9:33 pm
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The iPhone doesn't have 3G or active synch exchange push email either, and I'm still trying to figure out why the phone doesn't support stereo bluetooth headsets (the iPhone is supposed to be good for multimedia, right?)
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Aug 19, 2007 | 6:57 am
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Clearly someone at Apple doesn't believe in A2DP or they'd have put it in their ipods ages ago. I've got several devices here that support it, and I don't bother using it.
Aug 19, 2007 | 8:05 am
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FWIW, I have been pretty impressed with the sound quality of the Apple wired headphones for phone calls. With both earbuds in I can hear better than with most Bluetooth headsets I've used. (They're far from fantastic for iPod use of course)
I never tried stereo BT before though.
I never tried stereo BT before though.
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Aug 20, 2007 | 9:53 am
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Aug 20, 2007 | 7:01 pm
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Refurb usually turns out well (carries same warranty as new, etc). 100 bucks is a good discount for something in that price range, really, if you're in the market for this gadget.
Aug 20, 2007 | 10:03 pm
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"iPhone Users Find SMS'ing is 2x Slower Than on QWERTY Phones"
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25478.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25478.php
Aug 20, 2007 | 10:19 pm
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"iPhone Users Find SMS'ing is 2x Slower Than on QWERTY Phones"
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25478.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25478.php
It took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone as it did on their QWERTY phone. While there was improvement over time, the difference persisted even after using the iPhone for 30 minutes.
Overall, the findings in the study can be taken as a good representation of what iPhone text messaging is like for a customer who has just bought an iPhone and is using it for the first time.
Craig
Aug 21, 2007 | 9:49 am
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That's about the right time. 6 weeks or so, enough time to refurb the early returns, DOAs, failures.
Refurb usually turns out well (carries same warranty as new, etc). 100 bucks is a good discount for something in that price range, really, if you're in the market for this gadget.
Refurb usually turns out well (carries same warranty as new, etc). 100 bucks is a good discount for something in that price range, really, if you're in the market for this gadget.
Ummm, no thanks I think I'll pass on the refurb which could be a lemon. Or had coffee spilled on it. Whatever. $100 off a $600 device is just not enough of a discount to take a chance.
Aug 21, 2007 | 10:16 am
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Is there some other product that gives you an extended warranty for free because it's a refurb?
Aug 21, 2007 | 10:30 am
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Over all I can type just as well on my iPhone after one and a half months of use as I could with my Treo 650 which I had for a year and a half. The only time I run into problems with slow SMS's on the iPhone is when I try using a lot of abbreviation and the software tries to correct me.
I agree also about the correction software- it took me a while to learn how to dismis the proposed correction.
When typing a SMS in a foreign language, it can become qute annoying to have to correct very word.
Aug 21, 2007 | 2:18 pm
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Oh my god... 55 pages devoted to the iCrap... 
Fellas, when will you realize that the iCrap is nothing special? It's an overpriced and underfurnished piece of junk. It's a Honda Civic with a body kit running on 20s.
Fellas, when will you realize that the iCrap is nothing special? It's an overpriced and underfurnished piece of junk. It's a Honda Civic with a body kit running on 20s.
Aug 21, 2007 | 2:26 pm
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Aug 21, 2007 | 2:36 pm
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Aug 21, 2007 | 2:57 pm
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"Next time you're at a wishing well ask for the manager. Tell him you've been coming here for 20 years and none of your wishes has come true. Either give me my money back or I'm sh*^&^#g in the well"