The iPhone Thread

[Baserape>]

do you still have to convert your mp3 files to aac format?

btw i'm typing this message using my uber cool pda that destroys the iphone at half the price!

/pats bAck

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Is there another smartphone out there that can compete in terms of interface and capability for a similar price point?

Nokia makes good Symbian-based smartphones. Check out Xpressmusic 5800, a very good iPhone clone, and e71, a cheap smartphone with full QWERTY keyboard.
e71:

and 5800:

edit:god i feel like a nokia salesperson

 

[Tyguy]

the iTouch is great, I use it everyday.

 

[pomegranate]

do you still have to convert your mp3 files to aac format?

btw i'm typing this message using my uber cool pda that destroys the iphone at half the price!

/pats bAck

To my knowledge, you've never been required to convert mp3s to use on any iPod or iPhone so wtf?

 

[xcellerate]

edited: nevermind.

 

[smwScott]

Explain? Because you're sounding like you're holding apple to higher standards than everybody else. Like it's okay for dell to dish out uninspiring laptops with gigabytes of stupid software you never wanted, but unless apple creates a laptop that runs off sunshine and has a deca-core, 40Thz, Skynet based processor they are stupid and simply stylish machines.

edit: the only recent product I can think of is the 'air', but somebody had to create the world's thinnest laptop and it's not like if dell did it then it would come with a blu-ray burner and 14 USB ports...but for some reason people act like it.

I was referring primarily to their OS and iPod products. Their OS is extremely limited and cumbersome, and from my experience with school computers it crashes FAR too often to be considered reliable. The iPod is a fine mp3 player, but there are others that have a far more impressive feature set at a lower price point.

Their hardware might be fine, but from what I've seen you're generally paying considerably higher prices compared to what you'd pay for a comparable PC.

Basically Apple seems to bank entirely on the "hipness" of their product, similar to how clothing companies like Hollister or Abercrombie can sell shit at a 300% markup just because it has their logo on it.

Gordon Man - thanks for that, I was looking for something along those lines. My current carrier, Sprint, has a smartphone but it just doesn't seem as capable as the iPhone or the ones you listed.

 

[Qonfused]

I love my iTouch. I don't really play many games on it, but I do watch movies on it from time to time. Plus that whole music thing, you know.

 

[xcellerate]

I was referring primarily to their OS and iPod products. Their OS is extremely limited and cumbersome, and from my experience with school computers it crashes FAR too often to be considered reliable.

What OS and macs are you running? Because I work in the IT department of a building that's 90% apple and I think the OS is quite powerful. The machines I have in my office (most notably my work machine + deploy studio server) are left on 24/7 and hasn't crashed a single time. Of course I restart it every once in a while when updates are released, but it's left on the rest of the time.

The biggest problem we have right now is this program a few people need that crashes constantly on our intel-based macs, but works perfectly on the powerPC's. That's their problem though, for building bad software.

There's a ton of neat stuff OSX does as well, like if somebody brings in their macbook because they dropped it and broke the screen but still want their data...pull the hard drive right? Nope. Start it up and hold 'T', this boots it in target-boot mode. Then I just plug it into another mac and the broken macbook's hard drive pops up on the desktop like a thumb drive. Drag and drop the files, then disconnect.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I barely use my cell and mp3 player. Actually, all my mp3 use is indoors anyways

 

[Xendance]

Precisely what the iphone is about. A bad phone with useless extra functions marketed as "fun".

We're still waiting for your reasons for why it's a bad phone.

 

[Baserape>]

To my knowledge, you've never been required to convert mp3s to use on any iPod or iPhone so wtf?

My bad, I thought you had convert wma tracks etc. On a serious note I love dragging and dropping my xvids etc from my pc to my pda.