I HAVE RETURNED... to the iPhone 3G! - Round Robin!

[Rene Ritchie]

Ha! Take that!

 

[berdinkerdickle]

I might have to get one for my wife
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/12/26/99-iphone-3g-walmart-refurb-att/

 

[smileyboy]

LOL you say that now. Jealousy will commencing in 1 2 ....

 

[chuazy]

interestingly enough... g1 is just out 2 months ago, and now ppl are talking about g2, g3.. but what what about iphone 3.0?? no news?

 

[smileyboy]

Apple doesn't do the rumor thing much unless they are close to a release. IMHO

 

[berdinkerdickle]

My wife saw the iphone commercial.
Is there a G commercial?

 

[Rene Ritchie]

iPhone 1.0 was June 2007. iPhone 2.0 was July 2008. Best guess is we won't see iPhone 3.0 until summer 2009 with that pattern.

 

[.m.e.]

God an iPhone 4G would be AWSOME .. ill be very curious to see how they can manage to improve it though .. save for the 4G speeds obviously ..

 

[combatdoc]

ill be very curious to see how they can manage to improve it though .. save for the 4G speeds obviously ..

Bluetooth Profiles for more than Headset
real MMS support
Theme support (non-jailbroken)
You know, all that stuff most base line phones have now..

Disk Mode would be nice too.
Usability wise with the UI though, it would be hard to improve on.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

ill be very curious to see how they can manage to improve it though

Slider maybe?

 

[3gmacattack]

You must be so happy Rene to have the best phone back in your hands!!

 

[chuazy]

iphone will be the only smart phone in the top category to not have native vid recording support after cupcake update for google in Jan...

 

[Touch Me]

G?

My wife saw the iphone commercial.
Is there a G commercial?

Do you mean the Google G1? Or, I guess more properly, the T-Mobile G1 with Google? There have been many commercials since September including the fun "Questions" ad. Search on YouTube. Also, the G1 is heavily featured on the NBA's T-Mobile Halftime show where there are some clever commercials for T-Mobile with Charles Barkley and Dwayne Wade. The iPhone commercials are boring by comparison. At least the G1 beats the iPhone in that regard.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

Do you mean the Google G1? Or, I guess more properly, the T-Mobile G1 with Google? There have been many commercials since September including the fun "Questions" ad. Search on YouTube. Also, the G1 is heavily featured on the NBA's T-Mobile Halftime show where there are some clever commercials for T-Mobile with Charles Barkley and Dwayne Wade. The iPhone commercials are boring by comparison. At least the G1 beats the iPhone in that regard.

Yea, that's what I meant.
I think apple has just flooded everyone with adds.
I know that's what did it for my wife - all the World Series Commercials.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

It's been a loooooong 4 weeks, with Apple dropping iPhone OS 2.2 just to make me extra homesick along the way! (Thanks for that!). So today I shipped the Bold back to Kevin, and dusted off my trusty little pocket universe denter... and immediately updated about 2 dozen apps! Yikes!

But I'm a stranger in my own land. Can I go home again? Maybe with YOUR help?

What else did I miss? Any killer apps released in the last month I should check out? Any super ninja tricks discovered? Does BadAsh have his own protocol baked into the device yet?

And what about those "other" editors, the ones who found stuff to gripe about in the iPhone 3G? How do we respond to them? Is it really a "stop and use" device only? Is it hopelessly closed as a platform? Does the lack of a Qwerty keyboard hobble it forever? If you've checked out Dieter, Casey, Jennifer, and Kevin's video previews and full reviews, can we get a little Samuel L. Jackson on them? I'm making one last video and review of my own, so can I get a little help? Can TiPb be allowed to RETORT?

And as if that wasn't incentive enough, remember every day you post on this thread, or any Round Robin thread, you're entered for another chance to win each site's signature smartphone -- in our case, an iPhone 3G!

I would assume that all you guys would choose the device you own as your favorite.
A BB user is going to choose BB as their favorite. Iphone user is going to choose Iphone.
What would be your second choice?

 

[berdinkerdickle]

I just noticed from the front page article that the iphone has a silent switch.
Has that always been on the iphones?

 

[shwy]

yes it has.

 

[scottymomo]

how easy is it to flip that switch with the phone in your pocket? on the treo's it's pretty fast and easy (although on the pro you can't hit the volume buttons to silence the ringer (can you do that on the iPhone?)

 

[shwy]

yes and very easy.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

Can it be changed from a 'Silent Switch' to a 'Vibrate Switch' like the Treo's?