New phone

[Electrofreak]

Sweet. posting from my new Verizon Voyager phone. Touch screen, flips open to a full keypad. Apple can keep the iPhone IMO.

[Baneblade]

I hate touch screen phones...Dash ftw.

[Kyonye]

Gz One for the win.

water proof
dust proof
shock resistant

nuff said

[Rbstr]

I have a Samsung sync. It calls people. I'm happy.

[Electrofreak]

The touchscreen makes browsing 10x easier since you can actually click links and scroll... then when you need to do text entry it's nice to be able to split it and type on the keyboard.

it's actually easier than it is on my Pocket PC with the stylus and transcription. Granted it's a few years old and touch and writing recognition have both come a long way.

Either way, this is a godsend because now I have a way to forumwhore while at work. Damn DoD secure network...

[Infernus]

It's a candy bar phone with a touchscreen on the front locked into Verizon.

Yay?

[Rbstr]

change Verizon to AT&T and it describes the iPhone perfectly.

[Infernus]

Not true.

The scene factor of the iPhone > the scene factor of the Voyager.

[Electrofreak]

Sorry to rain on any Apple fanbois, but I paid half of what I would have paid for an iPhone, and the voyager does a better job of what I need it to do than the iPhone does.

Iplayed with the iPhone at an AT&T store, and wasn't particularly impressed. Sure, it does a good job of looking pretty, but when it came down to actual functionality, the Voyager offered more. I needed a phone that could play music, browse the web when I'm at work, provide GPS navigation when I'm driving, and quickly send text messages and IMs.

The Voyager does it all and more. For my purposes, I would never buy an iPhone.

IMO, if you want a flashy iPod that makes phone calls, get an iPhone. If you want some of the same features with more functionality, get a phone like the Voyager.

I'd like to see someone on an iPhone make a post like this in under 3 minutes...

[Giovanni]

I think the arguments were against the whole flashy phone scene in particular.

I for one need a phone to make... phone calls... MAYBE text messages.

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by Giovanni

I think the arguments were against the whole flashy phone scene in particular.

I for one need a phone to make... phone calls... MAYBE text messages.

I use the camera on mine occasionally.

[Rbstr]

again...the camera on the iphone really isn't any better than anything else. My phone-camera takes pictures of the same quality.

Apple makes some nice looking stuff, most of it is nice stuff on the inside too.

But the ipone really is inferior to a number of other competing smart phones. The only thing it really offers is all that flash storage for entertainment.

Hey, it does look a good bit better than my dad's Treo I guess.

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

again...the camera on the iphone really isn't any better than anything else. My phone-camera takes pictures of the same quality.

Apple makes some nice looking stuff, most of it is nice stuff on the inside too.

But the ipone really is inferior to a number of other competing smart phones. The only thing it really offers is all that flash storage for entertainment.

Hey, it does look a good bit better than my dad's Treo I guess.

I liked it better then most of the other smart phones i've used (mind you that has only been two different palms). I like the safari browser it has on it, and I could definitely get used to only having one device in my pocket when I'm walking around. I could see the nice screen and the video playback being nice for the long and boring car rides to Pittsburgh, maybe. That having been said I do not believe that the iPhone is anything particularly My main issues with it are that it lacks 3G networking and it's locked into AT&T (This goes opposed to everybody else's main issue with it - the fact that Apple can make extreme profit off of a "sub-par" handset, but that is neither here nor there).

I was never making it an argument for the iPhone, I was simply making comment that the Voyager was an iClone (which to some people can be seen as better and to others can be seen as worse). I use a sumsung A-something-or-other that you get free from Verizon with your contract. But because I use a Macbook Pro and can see how the iPhone could remotely appeal as "cool", I must be an Apple Fanboi. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go kiss the ground that Steve Job's iProduct-making-feet walk while jacking off into black mock turtle necks. I will leave you with this little hint though, you can make as great a product as anything on the market - but if it looks like an 80 year old twat no one will buy it.

[Rbstr]

I'm not saying that your an apple fanboi at all. I'm not saying the iPhone is bad and that people that use it are idiots. I appreciate apple's design. It just isn't particularly special. It is appealing on a number of levels.
The iPhone does have "cool" down and that is a valid reason for owning one. But people that are looking for smart phone capability, especially the business types, are better served with other products.

If your looking for a single entertainment device + phone thing. Then yeah it's good. Though I'd personally rather have my $20 flip-phone and a larger storage classic ipod or widescreen Zen.
I prefer one device that does it's job well, over a single device that does them adequately. Part of it has to do with me carrying a pack a lot of the time. I don't like taking pictures with my phone, I'd rather carry a compact or my slr with me. Same goes for the MP3 player, gimme the dedicated thing that can store most/all my mp3's and a considerable video library at once.

[Electrofreak]

I suppose many people are happy with a phone that just makes calls and text messages. Given where I work (and the lack of any real web-browsing ability aside of CNN.com and :shudder: Foxnews.com), I need something I can reasonably browse with and make posts from. Since I don't have an mp3 player, it has to be able to fulfill that functionality as well.

Some of you can carry around several different devices for your different purposes. I don't tend to carry around a back-pack, the pockets on my coat aren't very deep, and unless I have a single device to keep track of, I have a tendency to lose things. You don't want to know how many bluetooth headsets I've lost or misplaced, not to mention that my latest casualty has been my coveted PSP. /mourn. It's got to be one device that I can clip onto my belt or put into the inside pocket of my coat; I'm just too absentminded to reliably keep track of more than one device.

A nice Pocket PC or Blackberry certainly beckoned. I have a Pocket PC but it does not have WiFi or Bluetooth integrated; it's probably about 3 years old.

I couldn't afford (or really justify) getting something that sophisticated, and I wanted something compact enough that I can clip onto my belt without feeling like my pants are going to end up around my ankles if I jump up and down. Honestly, the look of the phone means little to me. I don't buy a phone for style, I buy it for functionality. Whether it looks like an 80-year old twat or no, if it works great and I'm pleased with how it operates, I'd buy it. I'm not into the phone fashion show. A slick looking device is just icing.

I will give Apple and the iPhone this: for the sake of the industry, it had to happen. Technology develops the fastest under tough competition, and the iPhone did set somewhat of a bar for new high-tech phones. Take the Japanese for example, they've been watching TV on their mobiles, messing around with touch-screen tech etc, and have all sorts of nifty mobile technological advancements that we've just started to look at. When it comes to compact high-tech electronics, they have us beat in many ways. We NEED things like the iPhone to spur us forward.

Granted, LG (the Voyager) is Chinese, so it's not like it is American technology making a forward leap here, but with Apple introducing new ideas into our high tech industry and everyday life, people begin to expect more out of their mobile devices, and the competition for that top market spot really makes tech development take off.

In short, Apple forced carriers like Verizon to bring a more advanced phone to market to compete, instead of releasing yet ANOTHER RAZR variant (now in Obnoxious Green***8482;!). That, I can be thankful for.