INSTANT REVIEW: iPhone
Tom Kraemer
card for my Dad's iMac, and wow there were plenty of iPhones on
display. I played with one for a while, and yes it's a really cool
and really slick device. They'll sell quite a few of them, I'm pretty
sure.
The nutty bit was that nobody actually realized that all the display
units were actually usable as phones. I called my Dad to double-check
on his exact model of iMac, and once I said "Hey I'm calling you on an
iPhone!", the dozen people who were playing with the other iPhones
decided to call some other people and say "HEY I'M CALLING YOU ON AN
iPHONE!!!"
Then I paid for Dad's AirPort card and went to Best Buy and picked up
the Invader Zim DVD set. TEH ENB.
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Lots42
> I popped into my local Apple Store today, because I needed an AirPort
> card for my Dad's iMac, and wow there were plenty of iPhones on
> display. I played with one for a while, and yes it's a really cool
> and really slick device. They'll sell quite a few of them, I'm pretty
> sure.
>
> The nutty bit was that nobody actually realized that all the display
> units were actually usable as phones.
Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
fired for allowing the calls.
Glenn Knickerbocker
>Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
>fired for allowing the calls.
Either-or? Your ignorance of prevailing business norms is showing.
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Lots42
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:34:08 -0000,Lots42wrote:
> >Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
> >fired for allowing the calls.
>
> Either-or? Your ignorance of prevailing business norms is showing.
>
You're right. I dimly remember a recent fark.com news story where a
company crafted a performance award to give to a dude they fired last
October.
Tom Kraemer
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:34:08 -0000, Lots42 wrote:
>>Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
>>fired for allowing the calls.
> Either-or? Your ignorance of prevailing business norms is showing.
Hey that sort of reminds me, one of the really cool features on the
iPhone, something that I've wanted on a phone since the days of rotary
dialing? It has a BACKSPACE KEY. Well it's more of a touchscreen
button, but anybody who's ever fucked up dialing a number twice in a
row will appreciate the utility of a backspace key.
For all I know, cell phones might have had a backspace key for years
now, but since I've used cell phones maybe three times in my life, it
was a pleasant discovery.
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Polarhound
> Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:34:08 -0000, Lots42 wrote:
>>> Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
>>> fired for allowing the calls.
>
>> Either-or? Your ignorance of prevailing business norms is showing.
>
> Hey that sort of reminds me, one of the really cool features on the
> iPhone, something that I've wanted on a phone since the days of rotary
> dialing? It has a BACKSPACE KEY. Well it's more of a touchscreen
> button, but anybody who's ever fucked up dialing a number twice in a
> row will appreciate the utility of a backspace key.
>
> For all I know, cell phones might have had a backspace key for years
> now, but since I've used cell phones maybe three times in my life, it
> was a pleasant discovery.
>
My last three 1337 Virgin Mobile phones have all had back buttons...
Tom Kraemer
> My last three 1337 Virgin Mobile phones have all had back buttons...
Did they also have hyphen keys and parenthesis keys? Because most
phone numbers these days include hyphens and parenthesis and SPACES
sometimes! Does your fancy elitist phone have THOSE? Well DO THEY,
punk?
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David DeLaney
>Polarhound <polar...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> My last three 1337 Virgin Mobile phones have all had back buttons...
>
>Did they also have hyphen keys and parenthesis keys? Because most
>phone numbers these days include hyphens and parenthesis and SPACES
>sometimes! Does your fancy elitist phone have THOSE? Well DO THEY, punk?
So now you can dial _emoticons_?
Dave "yeah, my phone number is <-<~:-) " DeLaney
>
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> - Gene Spafford,1992
>
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Nick Bensema
Tom Kraemer <tkraem...@world.std.com> wrote:
>Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:34:08 -0000, Lots42 wrote:
>>>Either someone got a raise for allowing the calls or is going to get
>>>fired for allowing the calls.
>
>> Either-or? Your ignorance of prevailing business norms is showing.
>
>Hey that sort of reminds me, one of the really cool features on the
>iPhone, something that I've wanted on a phone since the days of rotary
>dialing? It has a BACKSPACE KEY. Well it's more of a touchscreen
>button, but anybody who's ever fucked up dialing a number twice in a
>row will appreciate the utility of a backspace key.
>
>For all I know, cell phones might have had a backspace key for years
>now, but since I've used cell phones maybe three times in my life, it
>was a pleasant discovery.
Backspace keys are pretty common; usually it's the hangup button or
there's a "clear" button that does it.
I notice that each new phone I get is a little harder to dial.
My cheap-as-free phone from 2001 had voice dialing. I'd press a
button and say "Papa John's" and it'd call the pizza dude. Now
I have a cheap flip phone that makes me go into the menu to try
and dial people. Soon I'll have a Blackberry and I'll have to
unlock it to call anyone because it's a little more stealable.
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Mark Edwards
No cluons were harmed when Tom Kraemer wrote:
>Did they also have hyphen keys and parenthesis keys? Because most
>phone numbers these days include hyphens and parenthesis and SPACES
>sometimes! Does your fancy elitist phone have THOSE? Well DO THEY,
>punk?
Hah! My Treo has an *asterisk* key so that I can *emphasize* numbers. And
it has a pound key, which is admittedly not a BLAM! key, but the technology
is getting there.
Mark Edwards
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Polarhound
> Polarhound <polar...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> My last three 1337 Virgin Mobile phones have all had back buttons...
>
> Did they also have hyphen keys and parenthesis keys? Because most
> phone numbers these days include hyphens and parenthesis and SPACES
> sometimes! Does your fancy elitist phone have THOSE? Well DO THEY,
> punk?
>
My phones don't need those extra keys.. They are smart enough to KNOW
where to put the symbols!