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Author Topic: Are you gonna get an iPhone? Joel N. Weber II Expert Film Handler Posts: 115 From: Somerville, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 06-05-2007 07:45 PM                     But Scott, does your local CO have analog trunking to other COs to properly duplicate the telephony experience of 50 years ago? Leo, I think the term ``user-friendly'' is somewhat imprecise. There can be a tradeoff between learning curve, and the efficiency once you have climbed that learning curve. It baffles me to see the large number of years of schooling most people in our society consider appropriate, vs the amount of time most people are willing to spend learning to use a computer. The emacs text editor is certainly not a low learning curve piece of software, but I find it a lot friendlier for certain operations than dumbed-down editors that lack the features to let my fingers type concise commands to make the edits I'm making. That said, there are times when software that's easy to learn is the right solution, and there are also plenty of pieces of software which don't work well for any group of users. (I was trying to go to a URL listed in a PDF file earlier today, and it wasn't set up as a hyperlink, nor did dragging the mouse across the URL highlight it. A coworker was able to find some obscure option to be able to highlight the text and copy it, but I don't think the difficulty I encountered benefitted anyone.)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 08:04 PM                     i WOULD NEVER CONSIDER iT SiNCE AT&T iS THE SOLE PROViDER. AT&T(CiNGULAR) HAS THE LOUSiEST SERViCE iN THE NATiON! WHEN MY CONTRACT WiTH THEM EXPiRES i WILL GO WiTH A DiFFERENT PROViDER..... Then my cell service can get back to normal. Mark  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-05-2007 08:10 PM                     quote: Joel N. Weber II The emacs text editor is certainly not a low learning curve piece of software, but I find it a lot friendlier for certain operations than dumbed-down editors that lack the features to let my fingers type concise commands to make the edits I'm making. As most people who've used emacs say "EMACS is a good OS. The only thing it lacks is a decent text-editor." What that means is: EMACS = bloatware  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2007 08:15 PM                        My local CO (BSTNMABEDS2) has a 5ESS and sound quality on my home line is way, way better than anything I have ever heard on a digital cell phone. Which just goes to show how pathetic the cell phone carriers (all of them) are. (Actually, the same office also has a DMS100, serving a handful of exchanges, not including mine.) Agreed that emacs is bloatware. I understand why the coders love it, but I'm perfectly content with vi for everyday editing needs.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-05-2007 08:55 PM                     I don't mind cell phones. Alltel has been very good to me. Like a lot of people my age I don't even have a landline, just my cell. That being said-I have a cell phone so I can talk to people. Not so I can take pictures, surf the web, play music, or any of the other bs that phones do these days. My current phone may not be 'cool' but it works for what I use it for-making and recieving calls. That's all I need. $600? You're out of your mind Steve Jobs if you think I'm paying that for a damn phone.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-08-2007 02:21 AM                     I dumped my celphone service to those 'gas' phones like Tracfone..no 2yr contracts, credit cheks and no age limit. www.tracfone.com It's an easy way to budget your income and it puts more responsibility on celphone usage knowing that, like a car, you run out of gas, you gotta fill it up to use it. (Maybe, this is what Mark should look into if he's having probs with the Cingular/AT&T service since that is the provider that I dumped for the Tracfone...and what's great about Tracfone is that you can "port" your old cel number to your Tracfone. This way, your contacts that has your number don't need to be contacted with a new cel number...)  |  IP: Logged Joel N. Weber II Expert Film Handler Posts: 115 From: Somerville, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 06-08-2007 11:41 PM                     Last I checked, most of the big cell carriers also offer prepaid service if you go looking on their website. Some carriers offer much more affordable service than others. The salespeople in brick and mortar stores who are after a commission are unlikely to be found pushing the prepaid service, though.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-09-2007 12:12 AM                     Yup, after taking over my brothers Tmobile account for 6 months I switched over to the prepaid account, which is $100 for 1000 minutes. These cards are good for 1 year, and is equal to 10 cents a minute. Since they offer 1500 minutes service for 40 bucks a month and after roughly $10 taxes that's like 50 bucks a month total, that's $600 a year for your contract service. That would be 6 cards you could purchase to equal the service, or 6000 minutes which is 500 minutes a month roughly. Depending on your usage, the prepaid service may be the way to go, if you use it for emergencies only or to say "I'm running late" etc... stuff like that. One good thing about Tmobiles prepaid service is that they do not charge $1 (or 10 minutes in time) if you use the phone. For instance, on Verizon, if you use the phone 5 minutes on Monday, you get 15 minutes deducted from your time. If you dont use it tuesday, no time is deducted.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-09-2007 02:28 AM                        I'm surprised they didn't spell it iFone to make it more 'hip' I don't even own an iPod!  |  IP: Logged Joel N. Weber II Expert Film Handler Posts: 115 From: Somerville, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 06-09-2007 10:34 AM                     When I was looking at Verizon's fine print back in Jan/Feb of this year, I got the impression that their prepaid plan always charges $1/day regardless of whether you used it that day. T-mobile appeared to have slightly better rates on prepaid service than Cingular back in Jan/Feb, but the thing I missed is that it appears that Cingular would have probably let me recieve some text messages ``for free'', whereas I think T-mobile charges me for each message. Even with a 20 minute conversation a month and not being overly careful about how many automatic text messages the computers send me, plus other random small usage, it looks like I've used up just over 1/4 of that $100 in just over 1/3 of that year. However, I do usually make a point of finding a landline phone when I'm having a long conversation.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-09-2007 01:06 PM                     Verizon's one of those services that I can't stand. Our company uses Verizon for their celphonce service and I've had more dropped calls with Verizon than when we had NEXtel before. Only reason that we went with Verizon is that a couple of the office people had Verizon for their personal cels and the rest of us used the NEXtels. But one mgr on the NEXtel was talking to her fam all the time (whom had Verizon) and she rattled up megaminutes and excessive celphone bills. SO, to please that one mgr, the rest of us had to switch over to Verizon to get in this so-called "family plan", but also took a large bite in reduction in our monthly peak minutes. Also, in my favor, is that I get most of the minutes okeyed due to being business calls with rare personal calls.. Luckilly,I don't have to pay for their service which is the only thing nice about it. ...so retarded....  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-09-2007 01:25 PM                     Joel, yeah Tmobile does charge 1 minute each for a text message sent and received. I kind of wish they had an add on package for text messages.  |  IP: Logged David Graves Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Cocoa, FL Registered: Nov 2006 posted 06-09-2007 01:35 PM                     I'll pick up an iPhone in another year or two. Right now, there are too many problems -Too expensive- it's guaranteed there'll be deals from AT&T once the hype dies. But $600? Please. -More storage space- to replace my iPod I'm going to need more than 8 gigs, sad to say. It's all flash, so right now they could do 32GB- that'd work. -Needs to be full 3G- right now there are phones that take advantage of AT&T's high speed network, but the iPhone only uses EDGE, which is painfully slow for browsing. Supposedly the phone automatically finds open wi-fi and clicks over to that for web browsing when possible- but isn't that 9 out of 10 times going to mean you're stealing someone's unsecured wi-fi (their fault, for sure, but still...) -Needs to include GPS- $400 to replace my cell, my iPod, and a full GPS unit is something to consider. -Needs to be open for people to make new programs. I hear they're actually doing this, I hope it's true. I use a Windows Mobile Smartphone right now, and there's nothing smart about it. It's buggy, the programs are insanely expensive and don't work, and it crashes all the time. I welcome Apple to the game (I long ago switched from PC to Apple and I don't regret it), but they'll have to represent a bit better before I plunk down $400-500.  |  IP: Logged Patrick Dunn Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: newark, DE, United states Registered: Aug 2005 posted 07-20-2007 05:24 PM                        I bought the Iphone, I think it's awesome, even though it was $600. I also got unlimited text and internet use for $40 a month. I heard that when they are going to be releasing upgrades through Itunes to add more features to them.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 07-20-2007 09:58 PM                     Not me. No phone is worth that much dough. My neighbor has one and HATES it.  |  IP: Logged

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