Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: D_Average on June 09, 2009, 07:48:05 PM
Title: Iphone 3GS
Post by: D_Average on June 09, 2009, 07:48:05 PM
So the new Iphone is now out. Anyone upgrading to it or taking the initial plunge now? I currently have the 16gig Edge model which still works great, but I'm tempted to move up, mainly for the speed. It seems like the only features left I'd really want are buttons, as in some sort of psp slim type iteration for those that really want to play games on it. But that will probably never happen, so may as well upgrade now and sell my current model to cover the cost.
Here's a feature guide for anyone interested. (http://i.gizmodo.com/5283099/iphone-3gs-complete-feature-guide)
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 09, 2009, 07:59:34 PM
I refuse to buy the iPhone as long as AT&T's contract plan is the only option. $70 a month is a rip-off. If pay as you go plans are introduced for the iPhone, I might get one. Maybe if Apple lets up their little monopoly (which is unlikely as Apple as never been friendly to consumers when it comes to letting consumers have choices) by letting other companies like Virgin Mobile carry it, it would improve.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: kraken613 on June 09, 2009, 08:20:06 PM
I have a 3G so I can't upgrade without being really ripped off!
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: nickmitch on June 09, 2009, 08:36:35 PM
I want to, but can because of reasons stated above. The biggest bullshit is the change in the "Let's not completly fuckover people who bought the last one" policy.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: UncleBob on June 10, 2009, 01:29:44 AM
How does the ripping people off thing work when you signed a 2 year contract?
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: kraken613 on June 10, 2009, 01:38:57 AM
With the 2G to 3g you could upgrade for $199. Not $700!
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: RABicle on June 10, 2009, 09:06:10 AM
Gunna get it. My current contract expires in August.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: UncleBob on June 10, 2009, 11:04:21 PM
With the 2G to 3g you could upgrade for $199. Not $700!
They never should have allowed early upgrades for first gen buyers when the second one was released. Now they all have this bratty sense of entitlement for yet another discount.
I pray for the day the US cell phone market stops subsidizing phones and making people pay full retail price for them.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 10, 2009, 11:31:05 PM
The iPhone sucks. Sure, there are tons of apps, and blah blah blah, but at the end of the day, it sucks. I have a Samsung Omnia, it can do every single thing that the iPhone can do, but it can also multitask (just like any WM phone), use real GPS, has a 5.0MP camera, can record video, has 8GB built-in storage, with a MicroSD slot so you can add 16GB more, and it only cost me $99...and it's $40 w/ unlimited data *and* text, including the actual phone plan. Stop wasting money on the iPhone, it's a piece of ****.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: EasyCure on June 11, 2009, 11:16:27 AM
The iPhone sucks. Sure, there are tons of apps, and blah blah blah, but at the end of the day, it sucks. I have a Samsung Omnia, it can do every single thing that the iPhone can do, but it can also multitask (just like any WM phone), use real GPS, has a 5.0MP camera, can record video, has 8GB built-in storage, with a MicroSD slot so you can add 16GB more, and it only cost me $99...and it's $40 w/ unlimited data *and* text, including the actual phone plan. Stop wasting money on the iPhone, it's a piece of ****.
qft even though i have a different phone.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: D_Average on June 11, 2009, 12:30:46 PM
I have a Samsung Omnia, it can do every single thing that the iPhone can do,
So it sounds like you're saying the Omnia can play Metal Gear Iphone? That's weird.
I got DOOM for free! Take THAT ;)
Ya....Well...My iPhone transforms into a guitar tuner, and I got THAT for FREE!! ;D
I can get that, i'm sure, plus mine has turned into a flute and piano before, and currently i have a pretty good drum set on mine ;)
oh and a daft punk soundboard! lol
Well well well, thats great and all, but ONLY I have Fieldrunners. 2008 GOTY. A game that pumps my Daft Punk as the soundtrack. I win.
I've never heard of it.. but i can load up my phone with Daft Punk mp3's and play them while i play some FREE DOOM and some FREE PACMAN (from Namco themselves no less, not some cheap knock off).
I have a Samsung Omnia, it can do every single thing that the iPhone can do,
So it sounds like you're saying the Omnia can play Metal Gear Iphone? That's weird.
I got DOOM for free! Take THAT ;)
Ya....Well...My iPhone transforms into a guitar tuner, and I got THAT for FREE!! ;D
I can get that, i'm sure, plus mine has turned into a flute and piano before, and currently i have a pretty good drum set on mine ;)
oh and a daft punk soundboard! lol
Well well well, thats great and all, but ONLY I have Fieldrunners. 2008 GOTY. A game that pumps my Daft Punk as the soundtrack. I win.
I've never heard of it.. but i can load up my phone with Daft Punk mp3's and play them while i play some FREE DOOM and some FREE PACMAN (from Namco themselves no less, not some cheap knock off).
Dude, in all seriousness. Call your nearest friend with Fieldrunners (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfV773DUkDs&feature=related), that is, if you like Tower Defense games. Its the cream of the crop in a genre quickly filling with mediocrity. I've lost 3 hours at a time when I should have been sleeping with this game.
It was until I played this game that I gave the cell gaming market any serious potential v the ds/psp
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: nickmitch on June 11, 2009, 09:00:11 PM
Peggle is on the iPhone.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 11, 2009, 09:18:36 PM
No phone but the iPhone has Flight Control, therefore all phones except the iPhone suck.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 11, 2009, 10:13:25 PM
It can play games - sure not every game that the iPhone has, but it can play games, that was my point, using the accelerometer and touch screen as well.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: D_Average on June 11, 2009, 10:39:20 PM
The iPhone sucks. Sure, there are tons of apps, and blah blah blah, but at the end of the day, it sucks. I have a Samsung Omnia, it can do every single thing that the iPhone can do, but it can also multitask (just like any WM phone), use real GPS, has a 5.0MP camera, can record video, has 8GB built-in storage, with a MicroSD slot so you can add 16GB more, and it only cost me $99...and it's $40 w/ unlimited data *and* text, including the actual phone plan. Stop wasting money on the iPhone, it's a piece of ****.
Who is your phone with? Metro PCS?
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 11, 2009, 11:54:00 PM
Verizon. It's a technicality that my phone is only $40 a month, my family has at least 5 lines on one account, and each one after the first is $10/month. Still though, my actual umlimited data plan (and all Smartphones on Verizon, unless you use "enterprising") is $30/month, including MMS and SMS. Sure there's a 5GB cap (after 5GB they throttle your download speed), but it's hard to hit that much on a cell phone to begin with, unless it's you're only way to get on the internet.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 12, 2009, 02:52:35 AM
Multi tasking, custom apps & 5mp camera sounds good. I'm gonna have to look that phone up.
edit: I can't upgrade till 1 year from monday :(
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: EasyCure on June 12, 2009, 09:22:09 AM
Multi tasking, custom apps & 5mp camera sounds good. I'm gonna have to look that phone up.
edit: I can't upgrade till 1 year from monday :(
That sucks. It's a horrible situation to be in when theres a nice new phone you'd like to upgrade to and can't bring yourself to just dump the kinda money they're asking for!
The last time it happened to me, i was using one of those really cheap free phones they give you when you upgrade, because i wasn't using my cell as much then. When i wanted to upgrade to something else, anything really, i had a year left on my contract and the phones i was looking at weren't on T-mobile so i had no choice but to wait it out. Luckily in that same time frame, they announced the G1 and it seemed like a decent phone and happened to come out the same time i could upgrade, so instead of a $400 phone i got it for a lil over $100 with the new contract. Even though i had doubts about the phone before purchase, it won me over and became the best phone i've ever had.
Anyway, wait out the year and i'm sure they'll have even better phones then since the tech moves out so quickly. No doubt they'll be an Xth iPhone redesign by then if you wanna go that route :P
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: D_Average on June 12, 2009, 10:08:15 AM
Multi tasking, custom apps & 5mp camera sounds good. I'm gonna have to look that phone up.
edit: I can't upgrade till 1 year from monday :(
Anyway, wait out the year and i'm sure they'll have even better phones then since the tech moves out so quickly. No doubt they'll be an Xth iPhone redesign by then if you wanna go that route :P
Exactly. Its always best to wait as the tech will be impressive and cheaper with the subsidy. Thats why I kept my 2G last year when the 3G was released. Now that I'm eligible for the subsidy the question is, do I bite now, or wait it out another year in the hopes that the next iteration will offer the long awaited hologram teleconferencing.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: Pale on June 12, 2009, 10:16:04 AM
I should be getting one....
But only after I see if I can afford the wedding and a house. =P
I have an iPod touch right now that I carry everywhere... I can't wait to not have to carry a phone to and not be tethered to the WiFi requirement.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 12, 2009, 01:38:09 PM
Multi tasking, custom apps & 5mp camera sounds good. I'm gonna have to look that phone up.
edit: I can't upgrade till 1 year from monday :(
That sucks. It's a horrible situation to be in when theres a nice new phone you'd like to upgrade to and can't bring yourself to just dump the kinda money they're asking for!
Anyway, wait out the year and i'm sure they'll have even better phones then since the tech moves out so quickly. No doubt they'll be an Xth iPhone redesign by then if you wanna go that route :P
Te phone Brandogg has is nice and its $700 to upgrade out of contract. Icurrently have the LG Dare and while it was a significant upgrade from the phone I had before, I wish it could do more. Besides the phoneis starting to lag between button push and phone reaction. its kinda annoying. Time to upgrade. Its gonna be another long 1 yr wait.
Multi tasking, custom apps & 5mp camera sounds good. I'm gonna have to look that phone up.
edit: I can't upgrade till 1 year from monday :(
Anyway, wait out the year and i'm sure they'll have even better phones then since the tech moves out so quickly. No doubt they'll be an Xth iPhone redesign by then if you wanna go that route :P
Exactly. Its always best to wait as the tech will be impressive and cheaper with the subsidy. Thats why I kept my 2G last year when the 3G was released. Now that I'm eligible for the subsidy the question is, do I bite now, or wait it out another year in the hopes that the next iteration will offer the long awaited hologram teleconferencing.
Yeah i've noticed on my search for a new phone (before i ended up with the G1 i have now). Before i didn't really care so i didn't mind having the cheap phone with no camera and lame ringtones (it was always on vibrate anyway). Once i came into a little more money and decided to upgrade to a more mature phone device, and started researching the type of phone that would suit my needs/wants i was floored at how fast paced this **** all is!
The phone i wanted was pretty good but one look at other smart phones in the pipeline and i knew i was better off just waiting. I've had my current phone since October and already there's at least 2 direct successors to it that I know will have me tempted whenever they're released (which will most likely be close to my 1 year mark, yet i have a 2 year contract grr!). I don't want to become one of those people that botheres keeping up with everything though, i'll upgrade my phone when i'm good and ready, and that means:
A. My phone is worn out to the core (which i've done before) B. My contracts are up and there's something attractive on the market worth getting.
It makes me glad console tech doesn't get utilized as fast as phone tech does.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 12, 2009, 04:22:43 PM
I've posted pics of one of my phones before, it was i think 2 upgrades ago. The top part of the phone was only held to the bottom part of the phone by a data cable, but still worked just fine. Now that is worn out, I loved that phone but was forced to upgrade.
The last upgrade I did was 4 months after I was eligible since I was waiting to see what new phones were coming out. Got the LG but now I wasnt that Samsung. My last phone b4 this ine was a samsung, and I wasn't impressed with it, but it it did have a really good camera for the time.
Now I'm just looking for something iPhone-ish thats not an iPhone.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: EasyCure on June 12, 2009, 04:33:21 PM
I've posted pics of one of my phones before, it was i think 2 upgrades ago. The top part of the phone was only held to the bottom part of the phone by a data cable, but still worked just fine. Now that is worn out, I loved that phone but was forced to upgrade.
The last upgrade I did was 4 months after I was eligible since I was waiting to see what new phones were coming out. Got the LG but now I wasnt that Samsung. My last phone b4 this ine was a samsung, and I wasn't impressed with it, but it it did have a really good camera for the time.
Now I'm just looking for something iPhone-ish thats not an iPhone.
Plenty of options now. Good luck finding one.
edit: BUT TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!
I was lucky that my phone worked out great, but it was risky that i paid for it and had it shipped to the house as a t-mobile customer pre-order, before ever getting to touch the damn thing in a store. It works great, so yeah i lucked out. On the other hand, i bought my girlfriend the Samsung Behold cuz she wanted a cool touch screen phone, wanted something smaller than my phone and didn't want the slide out keyboard my G1 has.
I bought it as a surprise present and played with it for a few mins before tricking her into giving me her old phone so i can swap her sim card out and i didn't really like the way the touch screen worked. I felt it wasn't controlling as smoothly as mine. She's fine with it, but sometimes it looks like she has trouble navigating a web page. If i had that sorta trouble with my phone i woulda been piiiiissed.
Title: Re: Iphone 3GS
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 12, 2009, 04:38:34 PM
I got 1 yr to wait, so I'm not actively looking right now.
