UPDATE***********
6-9-08

Today was the worst nightmare that could have happen to all other cell phone companies not named at&t. And the death of some gadgets called the instinct. The iPhone had confirmed 3g speeds with gps and FINALLY push email, contacts, and calenders through .mac accounts support
all on a $199 iPhone. That’s right $199!!!! Talk about killing the comp. There is no reason that anybody in their right mind would pass that up. Play your commericals now sprint instinct!!!

Man June could not have come quick enough for me. The long awaited conference for apple is going to happen this month. This coming almost 1 year into the iphone release. And as it stands right now we have everyone from Blackberry to Sprint trying to push out their version of what they call Iphone Killers. Sprint with their Instinct which they are putting 100 million behind advertisement for it to take on the current Iphone. And Blackberry rumored to be getting ready to push out it’s touch screen blackberry( or maybe not, according to other people). Bottom line is the fact that all these companies have already lost. The reason why is that they believe the iphone as it is right now is the bar to shoot for and they are right but what they don’t know is that the bar they are trying to exceed apple has already exceeded and will be showing the fruit of it’s labor soon with the Iphone 2. I honestly feel so sorry for all these companies basing their strategies on a iphone that will no longer be the top of the pentacle of all cell phones. But yet all the stories and all the news are all focused on how or what to focus on to defeat the current iphone. This is typical for people every time something new hits. Case in point is the Instinct by Samsung. Most don’t know this but this phone has been out in a different format for a while and each time one version doesn’t get the 1st place metal they scrap it and create a new version. To date there is at least two different versions of the instinct that never really took form or did well. The same look, the same os system. But yet there will be people that have sworn to it being some kind of NEW phone that is truly revolutionary and never been seen before. My favorite is a video posted on youtube that showed someone taking the phone and starting a mp3 song while they surfed over different apps/main screen claiming that the iphone can’t do multi tasking like that???? And this guy even had a Iphone. That showed me that he was either a complete dumb ass or just wanted to see something that wasn’t there. But I guess I’m not surprised that people flock to new and forget old. The same thing will happen again when the Iphone 2 comes out, only this time everything will be old when compared to it.

PS= And if i know apple you can bet that they give the current Iphones a little loving with a upgrade or two.

I believe in the truth and responsibility and even though information I give to you was from other sources and not mine on this account I still stand by my pen, or keyboard strokes. I would first like to say that some of the information that is on the net about Sprint’s New Instinct is wrong at least to my knowledge. I myself have talked to some people that have some inside knowledge on the subject and this is what I have found out….

1st= The Instinct will have more than one plan. They will have a internet plan that is for 69.99 and not $100.

2nd= The plan WILL include the tv connection app, the Gps app and all that they have shown up to this point for no additional money( This is great news for the fans out there).

3rd=Sprint will be getting the free push email through Yahoo as well( big )

Now with that said does this make this a Iphone Killer, I still say no. Is it a good attempt, I say yes. However the biggest steps to overcome will be the Battery life and the Memory when compared to the iphone. And the biggest question will be what will they do with the commercials and ads when the iphone 2 comes out with better features? Only time will tell but I do say that this phone is the best runner up that Iphone has had to date. So there you go, not even I am safe from mistakes and having my ass handed to me by listening to others instead of looking it up for myself. I think I will go put my head in the sand now. Talk later!

#1. The biggest is 5 hour talk time for instinct vs 8 hours, 200 standby time, 6 hours of internet use, and 24 hours audio playback for the iphone ( a huge win, because battery life is everything)

#2. The second biggest thing is the fact that this system doesn’t have the memory, in fact it has nothing close the the memory given to you by the iphone(8gbs and 16gbs phones).

#3. Iphone complete screen is used for the internet, The instinct only shows 1/3 of the screen(that is already smaller than the iphone physically as it is now) and the rest are all these buttons all over the place. And As Intro Mobile put it after reviewing the phone…”Network is fast, but the browser’s not there yet”. They also go on to say that there were websites they couldn’t even pull up( I wonder what good is the speed if you never get to the site, or can see very well).

#3. The instinct is handicap with a forced sideways keyboard as the only way you can type. So what does that mean for you when you looking up stuff on the internet and the keyboard is taken up most of the screen if not all (ex: Google when you typing in the search box), not very friendly or smooth.

#4. NO WIFI!!!

#5. Sprint didn’t tell you that to have all the features of the Instinct you have to pay extra, unlike the iphone where everything that the phone does comes with the internet package. So you could very well end up paying $100+ just to have a low talk plan and the option to use everything that you’re suppose to be able to use with the phone.

#6. Make no doubt about it, sprint will not be upgrading your phone features like apple has twice so far (for free might I add).

#7. No free Push email

#8. No itunes( the greatest and biggest music download store in the world )

#9. No connection points to internet and maps for phone # and dial outs( when you look up a location I can call right away without having to copy down the number or leave that screen)

#10. And INTERFACE. The instinct interface is so out dated when compared to the Iphone. You would think that the interfaces would be the exact opposite. In most screens, especially the internet and phone screens, they look like they had all these left over tabs that they just had to put somewhere and they did.

P.S= The phone comes with a stylus?? You know why!! Because the buttons on the screens,I just got through talking about, are going to be too small to push with your finger accurately !!!

NEW iNFO
**** Ok newly found info on the instinct shows that it does allow for vertical typing. But the keyboard form in vertical positioning isn’t very friendly and very weird shaped. Which explains why they never show it vertically. So I retrack my issue with it not having a vertical keyboard and will leave room for this product to show what it is all about when it is released since most people that have saw this device say that it had a lot of bugs that they are having to hope that samsung works out before the release of the phone. It will be very interesting to see what their angle will be when iPhone 2 comes out at 3g speeds and more. We will see just how good it it stacks up with the real world. If It handles itself better than the iPhone 1 or 2 as a whole I will be the first to congradulate them but if not I’m going to rip them a new one( they asked to fight with apple so they better be able to back it up).

****An interesting thought is that with a 5 hour talk time the time is based on you doing nothing but talking , so if you do more you won’t make the 5 hours. And with things like force feed back with a Evdo signals this doesn’t equal to a very long life. Mark my words the battery life will come back to hunt them like it did the 1st Moto Q.

Now, not sure I should tell apple this but I have a theory about why this is happening. I might be wrong but I think that these bubbles happen from drops over time. The reason I say this is because I never had bubbles in my screen prior to the week I dropped mine 2 times the day after I spoke to my friend about his. And when I asked my friend he also confirmed that he had been dropping his too just before the bubbles happen. Now if this is the case Apple really should be exchanging phones for bubbles if this is what is causing them, but hey what do I know? I’m just happy I got a new one.

Ok “Simon says be a phone”. Check. Ok,” Simon says respond to touches on screen”. Check. Ok, “Simon says hide your keyboard”. Check. Ok, now Simon says have a Mac OS operating system”. Umm, sorry I can’t copy that. Oh, well sorry you loose. This is how I look at the market nowadays. Everyones throwing their hat into the “Iphonekiller” box thinking they have the answer by simply putting a touch screen on the phone. It doesn’t work like that people. The iphone is so much more than a touch screen phone. And it all starts with the amazing OS. Case in point, this girl that use to work with me went out and got her a Verizon Iphone want-to-be. Not long after that she quickly realized that the touch screen really doesn’t work well at all and asked for me to allow her to play with my Iphone so she could feel what it really is suppose to be like. And within seconds she felt the difference and throw hers down on her desk in anger saying how pissed she was at the Verizon attempt at making the iphone and how unnecessarily the touch screen was just put into the phone and not really allowing for a more fluid experience but only a “I have a touch screen too” moment. And I thought that was so like every other phone out there that is copying off the Iphone. They don’t really understand the balance of technology. Everything has to work in sync with each other ,not just work for the sake of working. Thats why the Mac OS was so important to place into the phone. But I fear this will never be over, it’s just part of being the best.

       The long awaited time has passed guys. I am back from the dead. Feeling better being back from my trip around the world in 200 days. Saw nothing, missed everything, but at least I had my iphone! The bell rang and I was released from my classes for summer vacation and then I went out to eat after I graduated from college. OK, none of this happen and none of this really kept me from you guys:( I just have not had time to do anything but raise my son and be a husband to my wife. Go ahead and call me lazy, I am. I feel bad for all the visits and no updates but I really thank all of you for being more faithful to the blog than I was in these last couple of months. But the fun is back. Lots of Iphone stuff out there and lots of people to write about both good and bad. “King of the moment” to you all. 

Have you noticed lately? The pebble that was dropped in the pond has now started a wave effect that is hitting all over the world. That pebble being the iphone of course. More and more when I go to stores and watch people as they go by, the first thing I notice more and more is that iphones are becoming regularly see in most peoples hands. In fact it’s becoming to big that the once thought rival of the iphone, Google, is making more and more updates for the iphone and will include them in even more updates for there browser. I don’t know about you but this doesn’t sound like a company that is in these to exclude apple but rather include them in their plans for this new software for mobile phones. And you can’t blame them they are one of the most researched internet searches in the world and continue to spread it’s way through the internet as a the next “it” item. Something like the ipod was to mp3 players. You know, how people use Ipod in place of mp3 players instead of just saying mp3 player. Well this is starting to happen to cell phones. People now, only compare cell phones to a Iphone, not Blackberries, not a Treo’s or any other type of phones. And if Apple needed anymore proof of this wave, just last week their stock hit $190.00 a share( considering that fact that the night before the Iphone release their stock was at $67 a share). The highest it’s been during this time of the iphone. All, this and they aren’t even finished releasing it worldwide. Scary thought!

Here it is folks the answer to the iphone. All you iphone owners out there should run for cover. Oh, did I mention all you sidekick owners should too. Because this is exactly what this phone is. A very poor excuse of a attempt from two companies which ones of them swears that it’s not worried about the Iphone. And the reason why I mentioned the sidekick is because they bit more than the apple tree in the garden they ate from another tree too, the sidekick. Look closely, this phone is a melting pot of the iphone and the sidekick( and their flip out phones), although it really never copies either well. This phone is a direct attempt to copy what the iphone created in it’s interface. In fact if you look over the internet this same interface can be found at least a hundred times in china. Where they put out cheap replicas of the iphone hoping to trick their customers. Congrads Verizon you are the very first US company to put out a swap meat version of the iphone software in the states. “You Momma would be damn proud of you, boy”! In the real world I just look at you and see a pathetic excuse of two companies that thought little of the people and a pretty desperate shot in the dark.

***Follow up****

Well the news has hit and now maybe all the people that want so bad for apple to loose their hold on the cell phone world can look for another dream. All the talk about google making the best phone is now over. Google, people aren’t making a phone! They are going to make a software package for cell phones. So guess what. They won’t be creating the next iPhone killer in fact if the software is really all that it is possible to add it to the iPhone. So if anything the google software will help all not just the wantabe iPhone killers. But keep dreaming folks it may happen one day:)

This is the newest promised rival to the iphone, the Seranata.   Now don’t let the good looks fool ya(lol!!), this fat baby not only make calls but look great on your tv remote stand. Hell, in fact that what it is, a remote! At least that what it looks like to me. Is it just me or is everyone gone crazy lately with all this rival this rival that stuff ? Frankly I’m sick of it. When is everyone going to learn that the next rival to the Iphone will be the Iphone 2. But as far as this piece of junk, rival it is not.  I really do think Samsung needs their head examined if this is best thing they can come up with to dispute the Iphone surge.

Here we go again. Its been a on going story about how Many of the hacker pushed iphones have locked up after downloading the new update. I for one have never understood why people have to hack everything. Just because you buy the product doesnt make it ok to do whatever you want with it. Yes i know that may come to many as a shock but this is true. In the iphone case such things are called product lic agreement. And when you break the rules people this is what happens. Crap! I’m for one am glad that apple is trying to make hacking a headache it helps to control the purity of the product. But if you give them a day or two the hackers will find a way around this too. But at least they know apple is not just going to let people damage what they worked so hard to put together. Keep fighting apple!

One of the news articles of late that I’ve seen kind of fits what I went through with my screen. There are reports that talk about the touch area of the screen below or on top failing. Now its not one of those xbox 360 failure rates but it is enough to make headlines. Me myself wonder if these people also bought the invisible sheild. Because i know for sure mine went out from the sheild.

Another article of late that I have read is the complaints about the bill and the amount of pages it is. Come on folks! Of all the things that are so great about this phone you want to complain about the amount of pages on your statment? Help me here? What the hell does the pages on your bill got to do with the iphone itself? And on top of this people tried to say that because of the iphone their bill was big. People its the first bill. Which means even if you went with a free flip phone you would have a larger bill because it includes prorated issues and activation fees. This has nothing to do with the iPhone. Get a life people. If you don’t like your iPhone then get rid if it, plan and simple.

Ok after my ordeal with Shieldzone I really for the first time in my life wasn’t really worried about the outcome of the expensive product that failed. For some reason I knew that apple would take care of the situation and make what seemed to be a nightmare a 911 rescue. Well let me start of with how empressed I was with apple when they kept me up to date with the status of everything. I got an email telling me the moment the iphone I sent to them arrived. This was equally followed up by how fast the product was shipped to me, both my loaner and my iphone arrived at their location in 1 day. I got my loaner with the box to send mine in and next day air was already paid for mine to be shipped off to them. The instruction and the box to send it in was very easy and secure and fed ex returned to my house the same day they dropped the package off to pick up mine that was to be repaired. Now fast forward 1 day ahead to Saturday morning( not Monday, but Saturday morning). And I get a knock at the door. Surely this could not be my iphone repaired already. I thought to myself umm, maybe it’s being shipped back to me because I forgot something or maybe they decided not to cover it. Nope! My dear friends, inside this box was a brand new Iphone! WoW(now I don’t have to look at that ungly scratch on the left side casing that I caused on my first drop)! And inside the box a note telling me what I already knew, that the iphone could not be repaired and required a replacement, but the most important was that it was covered under the warranty(lucky for ShieldZone). This was awesome but I hope everyone out there reads this and avoids using Shieldzone for their Iphone before it cost them more than 3days and loaner.

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES THAT THIS HAS NOT HAPPEN TOO THEN UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS GOOD FOR YOU BUT THIS HAS HAPPEN TO ME AND NOT SURE HOW MANY OTHERS. NOW AS I WROTE DOWN EARLY I WAS WAITING ON MY 2ND SHIELD BECAUSE THE FIRST ONE WAS DEFECTIVE. ONCE I GOT THE 2ND ONE I IMMEDIATELY PLACED IT ON THE IPHONE AFTER PULLING THE 1ST ONE OFF(WHICH WAS HARD IN ITSELF). I FOLLOWED THE SAME INSTRUCTIONS AS BEFORE AND USED THE CARD LIKE ITEM TO PUSH THE SOLUTION OUT FROM UNDER THE SHIELD. WELL THIS TIME THE SOLUTION AT THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE SHIELD DRAINED INTO THE IPHONE HOME BUTTON AND DAMAGED THE SCREEN. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN THE SCREEN CUT ON AND STARTING TO BLINK BACK FORTH THRU ICONS. I HAVE SENT SHIELDZONE A EMAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE AND THEY ACTUALLY WANTED ME TO SEND THEM MY IPHONE SO THEY CAN LOOK AT IT(WHY IN THE HELL WOULD I DO THAT. A=YOU’RE NOT A QUALIFIED APPLE TECH AND B= HOW DO I KNOW I’LL GET IT BACK OR THAT YOU WANT DO SOMETHING ELSE TO IT TO GET OUT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITY). OF COURSE I DECLINED TO DO THIS AND WILL SEND MY IPHONE IN TO APPLE. PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME AND LISTEN TO COMMON SENSE AS WELL( BECAUSE IF I DID MAYBE I WOULDN’T BE MISSING A IPHONE). NOTHING THAT YOU HAVE TO SPRAY TO GO ON ANYTHING ELECTRICAL ISN’T SAFE. I DON’T CARE WHAT THEY SAY OR PROMISE YOU. WATER AND ELECTRICAL ITEMS DON’T MIX, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. SO DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY AND PUT YOUR $600 PHONE ON THE LINE JUST BECAUSE THE COMPANY SAYS IT’S SAFE.

For those of you who have the guts and want to get rid of your fears about the battery for the iphone there just might be an answer. Iphonefaq posted a article(http://iphonefaq.org/archives/97217) about a new aftermarket battery that claims they have the answer. They say it’s the last battery your Iphone will ever need. They state that this battery while lasting just a long as the iphone battery(daily) last now has a 10 YEAR GUARANTEE. That’s right folks 10 years of battery life. The battery itself only runs about 25$ but you will have to find someone to put it in for you or you can trust them and send it off to them(ipodjuice.com) and for an extra fee they will install it for you the same day the receive it and ship it back off to you. If these claims are true and these company can be trusted then this is a great option for all Iphone users out there. Now keep in mind this will most likely kill your wrnty with apple, so you have to weigh your options and go from there.

7/26/07….Well the numbers are in from Apples point of view. They say they shipped and sold out of the iphone at 260,000-270,000 units. This number well conflicts with the numbers given by AT&T with their 146,000. But then again 146,000 was only the phones activated, but then again it’s hard for me to see that 124,000 people could not activate their phone and or only got it to hack it or sell it. What could AT&T gain for lying? The answer is nothing. Then that leaves Apple. Are they lying about the numbers? One would think so. But as one reporter reported the numbers even at 146,000 are very impressive still because these numbers reflexs #1 a period of 30 hours ONLY of sales. And #2 show a 40-46% switch rate of new customers that left other service providers to go to AT&T for the iphone which is bigger than any recorded # in cell phone history( there has never been a 40-46% of switchers signing up within 30 hours of any other cell phone.). And it seems that all the investors have started seeing the same thing because Apple upon the release of the first #s drop 6 points to 134.00 a share but closed today out with 146.00 a share, which is higher than it’s been before the release and after it’s release of the iphone and this all on a day the stock market had it’s worst recorded day since it dismal day back in Feb. Way to go Apple. Way to go.

This is the video that really made me want to buy the Invisible shield. It was not for the protection of the scratches, though. It was merely for the smudges and fingerprints that my Iphone receives because it is a touch screen. So I started to look into all the different solutions to help protect it from so many. And here we have one. The Invisible shield. Now I didn’t know if it would help protect against fingerprints from this video. I had to do a little bit of reading around, seeing how others felt about the invisible shield. And once I saw that it helped cut down on the fingerprints and smudges I was sold mostly. Now I did run into the protective covering by Box-wave that cancels out fingerprint period but it didn’t seem as clear as this the shield(at least the one that stops fingerprints, not the crystal boxwave, because it doesn’t stop fingerprints). Another reason I didn’t pick it is because I remember having this for a pda of mine and it laid down well but at corners spots it would come up and you would have to always make sure you pressed it down so that no lint or dust would be trapped. So needless to say I wanted to try something different, even though I was 90% happy with box-waves screen protector. So once it came in I applied almost just like he did in this video( I sprayed both sides like the instruction told me too, but on this video he didn’t). And let me tell you it truly is easy to put on. Now I did have some concerns about the spray liquid draining down inside the iphone from the edges when you pushed out the bubbles but that was quickly taken up by me and a paper towel. Then just like the video it only took about 5 minutes for it to dry on. But you should allow it to at least dry overnight before you put it through any real hard usage and test, just to be sure. But once it did dry you saw no bubbles and the shield effected NONE of the touch screen responses which is the key for any overlay you put on a pda or smartphone that has a responsive screen. So, all the love was in the air until I went on line (with it’s white background) and saw the embedded scratch lines that reflexed the light from the Iphone and produced these red lines shrinks through the screen. In this video the guy never turns on the iphone so I couldn’t verify if this is common or not. I did buy my wife a shield too but she is not here for me to apply it to hers to verify if this is something common or just a rare defect. Now is it unbearable?NO! But should it be something that one should have to deal with? NO! So I called invisible shield and they assured me that this is not how the product is suppose to work and it’s not suppose to show these lines. I then was instructed by their customer service department that I will be shipped a brand new shield next week(because they are sold out right now) for free and all I have to do is put the old one on a piece of paper and send it back off to them. This was cool of them because most companies (like box-wave, because I had a similar issue with them) would require you send it back to them first and then they will send you a new one. So this alone gives me high hope about Shieldzone and how speedy they reacted to this with no question and no hassle. Once I get the 2nd shield or whenever my wife gets back in town(which ever comes first) I will post a follow up to confirm the Shield!

7/28/07.. Ok my wife returned from her long trip up to her mothers and now I have applied the Invisible shield to her unit now as well. Bad news is that the lines and scratch marks are inside her shield as well, but in different areas. What are the chances? I don’t know! But this doesn’t vote well for Invisible shield. I’m starting to think that I should have went with boxwave. But I did call Shieldzone again and informed them that my wife’s shield is also needing to be replaced. They said they would send a replacement off for her as well. We have been waiting and still haven’t seen them come in but as soon as they do I will follow up on the findings on the 2nd batch of shields.

I have of late been seeing some people talk about the different experiences they are going through with the Iphone battery power. Some people have wrote that they don’t have the battery life Apple and other have experienced. While myself and my wife both experience battery life’s 2nd to no other phone we have used(in most cases going 2 days completely without recharging), I understand, as should others, that there are some iphone that may a have defects. This is the case with all products that are made by man. But it’s the percentage of the units that have this problem is what determines the success rate of the product’s creation. And it is in this that I say that based on the amount of people that I’ve spoken to and have seen in forums there is a huge 80+ success rate of the phone that have no problems with battery or otherwise. This is very successful in my opinion. Another statement that has been brought up about the battery is everyones fear that the battery will not work anymore after a year or so. Ok people, just to relax everyone here is the deal and what apple really said. They said #1 that it will last anywhere from 300-400 charges BEFORE it STARTS to loose efficiency. START to Loose Efficiency doesn’t mean that the battery just stops period. It basically will start to loose power a little quicker each month or months from that time on. So with it having the ability to last 8 hours of talk it will stop at 7, then 6 , then 5 . And each of these drops will have its own amount of time that it will stay constant before it drops lower. So it’s not 1 year and done period. And even this depends on how many times that year you actually charged the phone. I know with me and my wife we are at every other day so this will most likely extend our time tremendously. Another way to help this out is by turning off the phone while at home. You have your emails on your computer and you have your home phone to use while there. So why use the Iphone? With this way you can cut you charge days down even lower than mine(this is something I’ll probably need to adapt myself). We might even make for a solid 2-3 years this way and by that time the iphone will need a upgrade anyway and if not let not act like once it’s battery needs to be change out that this is it for the phone. They will replace the battery for a charge and you can rent one until yours comes back. So it’s not like all goes to shit when the battery needs to be replace. So why are so many trying to make this out to be a big deal or like your phone needs to be thrown away once the battery needs to be replaced? Because it doesn’t .

Now let me start off by saying that most speeds may in my experience be effected by a lot of different things. Some the location, some the phone itself, and some just based on the amount of people using it at the time(so I’m told). Now I live in memphis and my experience with the edge network has never been bad. I’ve used it with cingular before the Iphone, I’ve used it with Tmobile. And through it all I never really got what the big complaint was about once the evdo and the 3g started making headway. Now, I did have evdo speeds before when I had the Q from verizon and at the time I was always looking for ways to really test the speeds out vs a edge network because I was told it was this big advantage but based on my memory I didn’t really see that big of a jump on most sites. My thoughts is that the evdo and 3g speeds aren’t noticable on all pages and even then they are at best a couple of seconds faster if that. Now fast forward to today with the Iphone and the edge network adjustment some believe have taken place compared to the speed of the evdo we just might have a even greater difficulty finding a real reason to go with the evdo over the edge network(at least when it comes down to the iphone). As shown below the edge actually beat the evdo 3g speeds of the treo and as I stated below my speed on my iphone was even faster than edge speeds on the iphone that the reviewer had. So maybe the speed in Memphis have been upgraded and this was what AT&T hinting to earlier before the release of the iphone. So maybe later others will see the same speeds I’m getting in their city. But all and all the bottom line is that here in Memphis my iphone speed on edge has just as much speed as the evdo and 3g in most cases and this my friend is good enough for me.

****AND JUST A NOTE…MY IPHONE LOADED THE CNN SITE IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS FLAT*****

I don’t know about you but I am getting so tired of people making the iphone to be this “Only with this product” bash. First you hear about how people don’t like AT&T sound and network. Well tell that to the millions of people that signed up with them. I think someone likes them, wouldn’t you say? And need I remind everyone that the Iphone is not the only exclusive phone to AT&T but this hasn’t effected the other phones review(i.e blackjack). Then you get that they don’t like the price of the phone(look at the prada ,look at the almighty brick nokia n95). Then we don’t like the fact that they want 59.99 for the lowest plans when all other phones are at least $10 more for the exact plan. And finally the dumbest statement that is thrown around is “Wait on the next Iphone, it will be better”. I’m I the only one that doesn’t get why people say this. Come on you can say that about everything. Wait on the next Batman movie..don’t go see the 1st because the 2nd one will be better????? Wait on the next Mac computer because the next one will be better??Wait on the 2nd coming of Jesus because this is the most important coming??? COME ON PEOPLE! If I wait on the next product I might as well wait for the product after that one because the 3rd one will be better than both the 1st and 2nd one and so on and so forth. Pretty soon I’ll never get anything thinking this way. If you want it and you can afford it, get it people. Me, my wife nor anyone else that I know of that has the phone regret one single $ spent on the unit nor 1 minute spent waiting in line for it. Don’t let people rob you of this great product with foolish ideas.

Ok, the numbers are in and the Iphone has sold 700,000 units in the days it’s been out. This is mind blowing people. You tell me when the last smart phone you have seen or heard of for this price( hell, at any price) sale this many units in a couple of days. I can very well tell you that you won’t find one. Well I guess that the price really didn’t stop the sales now did it. And of course you still had the false reports stating that the iphone didn’t sale that well. When will people get tired of printing false stuff just to get people to read their articles? To every word that I’m hearing it’s been a complete sellout and some stores got mulitple shipments in and still weren’t able to keep them in stock.

Today I went to the apple store just to see how they set their store up being that I got mine from the mall. And when I got their i was impressed by the layout. Two very big Iphone replicas that actually placed in both windows in the store and a complete wall with nothing but demo after demo of the phone on the desks with monitors playing video of it. And of course a group of people just licking their lips at the demos and the info given by the employees their. It felt nice to have mine on my hip with my music going just low enough to hear them talk and wonder if I really had one or not. But all and all the reaction to the demo’s are the same wherever I’ve been. “Oh, my God…I’ve got to have one of these” seems to be the on going statement I keep hearing. I sure hope everyone that wants one get’s one, I really do.

Lets get this out of the way shall we! I see some of those internet articles on how the Iphone could have been better( so could humans!). And How people aren’t happy with little stuff. How some try and place activation issues on the Iphone itself(this is on AT&T as we have found out of late). Lets get this stuff corrected now. Now the last article about me enjoying the iphone or the struggle to relax and commit to the enjoyment of it has nothing…I repeat NOTHING to do with the product. If you haven’t gotten this yet from all the articles and all the true reviews out there, then here is your last notice. THE IPHONE IS AT LEAST 40% BETTER THAN ANY, I SAY AGAIN ANY PHONE ON THE MARKET TODAY. There is no comparison! All others can try and have some of the same features but never can complete the package. I am so sick of seeing all the haters out there try and compare stupid bulky phones like the Ocean to the iphone just because it’s 3g.This doesnt make it on par or better . There is no phone that has the battery life, the memory (even if you add a card to it they still wont reach 8gigs), or the OS system that is as efficient as this phone. And touch screens, come on folks! There are touch screens and then there are TOUCH SCREENS. Just because a phone has a surface that can be used as a touch screen in CERTAIN areas or spots doesn’t make it anywhere in the same league as the Iphone(i.e htc). Don’t get me wrong these phones deserve their spot on the shells and may be good phones, but by no means would I even try and fix my mouth to say they have taken the same quality of steps the apple has in their product. I bet you can’t drop 70-80% of the SMARTPHONES out there on concrete like the video below showed and it still works and don’t even attempt to talk about the scratches on the screen on all of 98% if not more would recieve if keyed. I’ve said this before and I’ll continue to say it. This is the single greatest invention in the last 15-20 yrs. Well Done Apple, Well Done!

Life with the iphone hasn’t been too shabby I must say. Even in the business type (at times anyway) of environment I work in, with all the straight faces, “too cool to show emotions” hard asses, and the all important “I make more money than you” high looks, they all fall under the smoothness of the Iphone when they see it. People gather in number just to see the touch screen and then walking away with a oath to buy one day. Will they? Only time will tell. But even with all this going on I still haven’t really got to the where I can proudly say I own the Iphone. I guess it’s been a lot of things going on and a lot to take in at once, but I still wonder why I can’t just set down and relax and enjoy myself and my new gadget. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been all over this thing and at least tested every feature at least once if not more but with this kid of mine and my $ guilt it’s no wonder why I can’t just enjoy this moment properly. The bad thing is, this was how I felt when my son was born too. It took months to just enjoy the moment of being a father because I was too wrapped up in responsibilty . ONE day, one day soon I will learn to relax, sit down and enjoy, at least I hope.

Ok, First off I will have to say after all the unboxing video’s and all the video reviews on the net of the iphone I have decided not to do a video
review of it now. Sorry for those looking forward to it. But I don’t think that another video review is needed at this time but I will give you a video. I think you’ll agree that this video can finally put the last of the lies about the Iphone to rest finally and we all can relax. No more scratch stories and no more “it’s to slippery, it going to break as soon as you drop it” cries. Thanks to PCWorld for have the balls to do this to the iphone and at the same time post it. And in my opinion, and I think you will agree with me, that this video is all the review video anyone needs to see to finally prove that the iphone is just as well made software wise as it is physically.

With end finally here, the news and rumors finally reaching the true, and all the liars now having to now push things that are true about the phone we all can now begin to see what was really behind door #1. Me myself have gone through a lot even at the location I got the phone from. I was faced with racism, jealousness, and made fun off. All this for a phone, you might say. No not just a phone but a jump in technology. Yes, I can confirm that the iphone is a must have “IT” gadget. It has all the hype and backs up at least 90% of it. Is it perfect no. But why do we ask ourself this question when it comes to any gadget or thing. There is no perfect gadget or human (at least left on earth right now) period but yet when reviewing we as reviewers always have to make this statement. So forgive me. But while not perfect it is far closer to being perfect than any other smart phone or gadget in it’s own field than anything I’ve seen. The phone was just well build and smartly put together. There are always those who wish it had something else but to be honest to have all the options this phone has and how they went about completing everything shocks even me. They really went above and beyond putting the iphone together and deserve a standing ovation.

THE +’S

The phone is as it is advertised, the thinnest phone ever. The battery life takes battery life to another level for phones. I heavily used it for 12 hours straight and still had a little bit over half of battery life left. This after watching 20 minutes of movies, listening to the ipod, talking on the phone for some hours, and sending emails galore. The keyboard is exactly what the reviewers say over the net. At first it will not be fun but after (a day for me) 2-3 days of using it the iphone will be better at typing than regular smartphone keyboards. I enjoy every single time I have to type something. In fact I look for reasons to send a email. And speaking of email, I was finally able to confirm push email through yahoo as being available for the phone but first must warn you first that this option won’t be spelled out to you when you get it. It won’t say it in the instruction on how to set it up because there is nothing you need to do other than putting in your yahoo email address with password. That’s it! The Iphone does everything else for you. No signing up for anything(as long as you already have just a regular yahoo email account.It doesn’t have to be a specific one) no downloading anything extra to your computer or iphone, IT JUST WORKS. That my friends is amazing. And just like the email stuff the wifi and how it just switches is so cool and smart too. It just knows when to do it. You don’t have to tell it anything. Youtube was simply amazing as well, I love having direct connection to youtube without going on the net and for the most part all the video play in a fairly short amount of time(almost instantly while connected to wifi)and play in a nice resolution for the most part. But you do have some that are just plan bad in quality. Another nice little niche is the timer and world clock features. I’ve never had a phone that had these features on it. I can see this becoming very handy at work for breaks and lunches. You also have a note section to jot down notes or details on anything( a needed feature for me at least). No real need to talk about the Ipod area really, I mean it’s the ipod thru and thru. I guess the only real stand out point is how perfect the movies look on the screen. I used my old Zune PQ software to convert my 3 dvd’s over to Mpeg4 and then set them at half the space a quality and it still played perfectly on the Iphone. You couldn’t tell that the quality was set at only a half of what it could look like. Can’t wait to see what a movie looks like set at full quality. And the last + thing which to me is one of the more useful ones is the Maps , traffic and satellite feature from google. This will be my most used feature because I am so bad when it comes to getting around my city. And then having traffic updates present will avoid a lot of headache for me. The whole software program was put together so perfect that I can’t imagine how it could have been better unless it was gps. But then again I wouldn’t have paid extra for gps so what good would that option do me.

THE -’S

Now on to what I found to be the hard pills to swallow. Top on this list is the activation problem everyone seems to be having. Even though I went through without a delay in activation I have been reading about people having this problem and hours later still not being able to use the phone. This is a shame and I feel bad for these people. The problem might stem from Apple’s jump into cell phone activations. In my opinion having a phone is enough. I don’t think apple should have gotten involved with the activation through Itunes bit, because it seems that it’s lack of knowledge in this area of the cell phone business is costing people some needed time with their Iphone. But once again I don’t know the percentage nor do I know for sure it’s on Apple’s end or AT&T. The next biggest issue hit me and this is AT&T lack of notation in their service department. A couple of years back I purchased 2 phones for me and my wife and returned and canceled these phones with in 15 days( And we all knew that they had a 30 day no cancelation fee policy). Well AT&T charged me a cancelation fee on both phone lines totaling up to $300+ regardless. So they told me that this was taking care of some years ago but once I got up to the counter to buy the Iphone they told me it was still on my report on my credit. Now you take a $300 balance for 2 years with the same company you are trying to get credit from and where does that do to your credit score. It kills it. So needless to say I had to get on the phone with them just for them to keep me on hold for 40 minutes and then finally removing the fee’s. But when I got home with the iphone I could not sign up as a 2 yr contract post pay line. I had to sign up as a Pre paid account. Now this in some eyes is better because you don’t have to pay a activation fee nor do you have to sign a 2 yr contract however what you do get is a message through out the whole day telling what you balance is even if your not using the phone. This gets old after a while and down right frustrating. I have talked to 3 different departments and either most don’t have the pre-paid contract or it really dumb luck because my wife’s phone does the same thing (remember I had to get two). Only one of the departments say that they were made aware of this and would be looking into a resolution. So all and all if you look at the trade most say they would prefer it this way over the 2 yr contract with activation vs dismissing some messages that pop up. Me, I won’t be happy until they can at least make sure the messages don’t come through until after I get off a phone call and no further.

So there you have it in a nutshell. Add up the positives and subtract the negatives and you still end up a winner. Hope this helps someone make up their mind or confirms them at least. Video review coming soon. Thanks!

Well I guess the first would be Hate or Haters for those people that just could not go to bed until they found something to hate about the Iphone. But what I like about the “H” is that it also stands for Hypocrites. Here is what I mean. You and 20 or so people are setting line waiting on the Iphone inside a mall talking and enjoying themselves. Then just like clockwork you get the H’s that see the line and just have to come up and ask the stupidest question “You guys aren’t in the line for the Iphone are you?”Um, being that we are lined up outside in front of a AT&T which big butt signs in the window saying Iphone to be released today, not to mention the most obvious fact is that you have already heard about it and knew about it because if you didn’t you would have not come over with a direct question toward the line or name of the product( it’s not like the name “Iphone” is used to describe anything else at this time). Then after answering this question a thousand times over you get the next statement…”IT’S JUST A PHONE”. We know this, thats why we are buying it dummy. What do you think we are buying it for, to go play golf with? To me this is the most stupidest statement to say. Not to mention the fact that this same dummy was in line not even a year before now camped out for a playstation 3, or a wii , and some time before that with the xbox 360. “Remember it’s just a game, Right”. Oh yeah I hadn’t forgot about the same people will stand in line for a movie(like say starwars)…”It’s just a Movie”. And then we have the people that will bust their but to get a Cigarette of all things, “Its just a cancer stick” and last but not least and the ones that will wait in line for hours just to be seated at a restaurant or let into a club. If you hungry why wait in line just go across the street and get food from a gas station or Burgerking? “It’s just food”, right? My point is this just because you don’t get it doesn’t make what thousands of others doing weird or wrong. Maybe you should look at it this way. You seem to be the minority if thousands of others are doing something that doesn’t cause death and isn’t hurting anyone and somehow you don’t get it. Maybe the weird person is you!

My wife and I have finally gotten back from a Iphone victory. But let me tell you it wasn’t without it’s bumps, hang ups and down right frustrations. I will be posting my video on this very soon so stay in touch but for now let me tell you how it all started folks. First off we get our son to daycare around 7:30am on the 29th. We then bypass going to the Apple store(who already had 5 people that camped out overnight the night outside before friday) and two other Corp. stores along the way(outside line stores too) just to arrive at the Mall. Now you would think that the mall would have been any smart person’s choice because you get to wait inside instead of outside. But I guess we were the only smart people in Memphis. We got there with nobody in line. So we decided to wait on the bench in front of the mall which was about to open first for the walkers and then at 10 for the shopping. You would think this wouldn’t hurt anyone but no the flash light cops at the mall had to pick with us and tell us that we couldn’t wait o/s but yet when another couple (which were a different race than us) sat in the same spot the Security person let them in. Now I found that very strange and then when we walked in behind these people the sucurity lady tells us that we can’t take a portable chairs in, we can’t stand out the door of the store and we can’t form any kinds of lines. No granted the AT&T manager already told us that we could but they said they were pulling rank and now telling us that we couldn’t. Bottom line we had to get the Manager and District Manager to get on the security people to shut up and leave business to business people. Then once the 11 hours passed we had issues with AT&T services telling us that we had to pay $300 for a past cancelation of 2 phones we only had and returned within 10 days( remember they have a 30 day return with no early termination fee). Even there computer show the times that the phone was activated and the time the account ended but yet somehow they still didn’t get this straight for 40 minutes after the store opened up to sell the Iphone. Needless to say I thought I was going to loose the one I was going to purchase. I was first in line and last to leave the store thanks to all this. Bottom line I was not happy with this or their company and if it wasnt for the Iphone I would have walked away from this all. Does the phone make up for it. Well you will have to wait for the video review coming soon.

Well folks only a few hours left for a possible celebration! I have my glass ready and the wine in the ice box. 5 reviews are in over the net. All five give the Iphone a 4 out of 5 or a 3.5 out of 4 . These scores even though not a perfect score give the iphone it’s just do. They all same the same thing about the unit. The unit is truely a next generation gadget with only one real complaint. That it’s for AT&T. They #1 say the internet was a let down for speed compared to the 3g speeds and the evdo speeds. Even though I haven’t tried the phone yet I’m a little confused about how this was a let down if you and all the rest of the U.S have known for months and months that it was a AT&T phone with edge support only. Did anyone think that just because it was Apple it was somehow not going to be edge even though they informed the hold world that it would. At first I thought they were saying that the speed of the Iphone’s(not the edge)internet software was to blame but upon reading more reviews they are complaining about the EDGE speed as if it was a shock that it was slower than the 3g’s and the evdo’s speeds. I’ve had the Dash and think that it is the best phone out there(next to the Iphone of course) and this was on edge to and I had no complaints about it’s internet speeds. So if the iphone can recreate these speeds I will be one happy customer. I only fear would be a slower speed than the Dash had. But tomorrow will answer all those questions. I have my bags almost packed. My wife and I have our chairs and hopefully memphis will end up like it has always ended up. Not very demanding on phones and slow when it comes to crowds for big ticket items. So far there is only 5 people lined up at the apple store and none anywhere else. So this leaves me with 5 confirmed location to go to tomorrow at 7am. “May there be two” for us!

It seems the more time goes by the more info is given to make some smile and cry. Ok the bad first. New york times writer David Pogue received his Iphone and have posted his thoughts on the product. For confirmation on status on replacement battery is now a clear “no”. There is no way to replace the battery unless you send your phone off. I can only hope this doesn’t happen till after you have upgraded to the new version of the Iphone some say is coming out next year. The 2nd Bad is the fact that the Internet speed is awful per David Pogue. It doesn’t seem that the Upgrade that AT&T said would be ready for the release of the Iphone is ready yet and maybe never will be. The only thing that wasn’t clear was if the “awful” referred to AT&T speed in general or was this something with the iphone making the internet even slower than all the other AT&T smartphones. And still no confirmation on the Yahoo Push email option.

Know onto the good. The first and obvious + is the fact that David said he has walked around with the iphone in his pocket for 2 weeks and no scratches only smudges which come off with the flick of a shirt. 2nd + is the fact that the Iphone is first bought then you go home and activate it with Itunes. So no waiting on people to get signed up and having to wait till they get off the phone with AT&T to activate the phone. It seems the plan will be to buy and go( which kind of raises some questions in my mind about how well this will work in the end) which will if nothing else save time. Another thing was the Wifi. David said it was a joy to use the wifi as far as speed goes. And the biggest + is the fact that the Iphone plans with unlimited data plans will cost you $10 cheaper than all the rest of AT&T smartphones(not the blackberry) plans. So basically you will be charged $59.99 for 450 minutes with 200 text messages and unlimited internet use instead of $69.99. Thats really good if you ask me. I never figured out why AT&T would charge $10 less for the blackberry’s internet use w/phone planes being that they still run at the same speed. Personally I think this will reach across the board for all smart phones for AT&T in the near future.

Well today I have some possible bad news that’s a little hard to believe but none the less it’s what I have noticed. Now, those of you who have read and read my articles on the Iphone know that I’m a big fan of it but at the same time I’m fair when it comes down to pointing out any flaws it might have. Such was the case with the multi-tasking issues I pointed out in “Chink in the Armor” article below. Well I have another one. This one has not been confirmed yet but there is some evidence missing that doesn’t point very well for Apple. The missing item or info I speak of is the lack of info on the PUSH EMAIL from yahoo. There hasn’t been anything mention since Macworld about this and what really got me to wondering was the lack of info about it after the update on their site. No where does it mention Push email and this was suppose to be a big item that was suppose to set them apart and give Blackberry some headaches. And if this wasn’t bad enough the new 20 minute demo video shows, at the end of it, the email settings and it only had settings for Manual, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and every hour as it’s choices. So then for those of you wondering if the .mac accounts “every minute” option would be available the answer seems to be NO. So if Yahoo push email has been done away with, then apple has compounded the issue even more by taken away the ability to set you email to be checked under 15 minutes. This is going to make a lot of people upset if true and will most definitely give the people who wanted to hate apple and find a big enough flaw to down it all the ammo they will need. I can only hope that this isn’t true and that somehow all this will just be one of those close call moments, but only time and my Video Review will tell. Stay tuned!

7 days to go people until the Iphone! It’s been a long time, at least in my eyes. But really it’s not that big of a wait when you think about how long one must wait on a new movie or videogames system to hit the shelves. I remember when the xbox systems or playstation systems would hold their introduction shows, one would normally have to wait a year or so before getting your hands on one of the systems. Not the case with the iphone. I know it’s been a project for last 2 years but nobody ever saw it until the Macworld conference. I think the videogame consoles should follow suit and not make people wait so long after they show the system to have the system. Waiting a short time is good, but waiting too long isn’t. But that’s just me.

****Just a note to all who my not know this little bit of information…The Iphone will only be sold at the Corporate stores only. So for all those people that are planning on going to those hide away spots for Cingular or AT&T you better make sure that the store is a Corporate store and not just a outlet sister store. *****Happy Hunting****

I guess it really not a good idea for people to doubt apple these days is it? With only days left before launch reports are springing up all over the internet about Apple latest release of specs for the Iphone. As it stands 5 hours of battery life and 16 hours of ipod playback is the latest in apple’s “under promising and over delivering” strategies. Today apple now states that the Iphone will have around 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of internet use, 7 hours of video playback, 24 hours of audio playback, and almost 10 days of standby time(250 hours worth). And on top of this they have upgraded the surface plastic glass to optical high quality glass, which better resists scratches and provides a even more prettier screen. Oh my God, are you people really getting this? The Iphone was already the most earth shattering phone anyone has ever seen or heard of but now with these new spec’s they have outright sealed the deal. I dare anyone to say anything about this phone in a negative sense. Anyone who even tries should be whipped with belt and put back into pre-school. People you can’t beat this, it’s not possible. This is the single greatest invention the world has seen in the last 20 years or more. And believe me when I tell you folks, THE PHONE IS WORTH EVERY PENNY OF $499 OR $599, IF NOT MORE!

I’m sure you all have heard how Steve Jobs stated that the Iphone will go on sale at stores on the 29th of June, but then followed up with the statement that it will take place at 6PM that day. Well most of us took it for what it was, a joke. But it seems that the joke is on us because AT&T actually are going through with this. Someone at AT&T either took too much into Steve Jobs statement or Apple had a temparary moment of stupidness by actually going with what seemed to be joke and making it something serious. I can’t tell you how stupid this is. In the past I’ve managed stores during big releases of items like video games and consoles systems and let me tell you the best type of release is a midnight release. The way Apple is doing this doesn’t make sense at all. They are going to open up the store as usual on the 29th but they claim they won’t sell the Iphone then even though it’s the 29th. But what they will do is kick everyone out of the store that is in the store at 4:30pm and then reopen the door at 6pm to sell to first come first serve. So you know what that means. There is going to be people that were waiting outside the store that are going to be lined up and then the people that get kicked out of the store will wait there thinking that they are to be first and then once the door opens the mayhem begins. AT&T has never opened up their store to a high demand item and trust me folks it won’t go pretty. Just ask Walmart and Ebgames about poorly handled lines and strategies upon the release of a big ticket expensive item. Another thing is that they have yet to address the issue of one person buy multiple Iphones (family plans and things like that) which in it’s self can cause a bit of madness. This is going to be ugly folks trust me.

I guess life would not be complete unless you find faults in everything no matter what it is. We all can’t be surprised because as long as we are humans then whatever we create will have flaws. Something flawed can’t create something perfect. So why should the Iphone be any different. Now aside from the “I’ll never be satisfied” customers and the “I hate apple” people, the flaw(not a big one but one none the less) I speak of is Apple’s own doing. In the Keynote presentation of the Iphone Steve Jobs did a example of what the Iphone could do as far as multitasking. He had his Ipod music going and a phone call came in. He then answered the call and then proceeded to go on line while on the call to look for movie listings and then while still on the phone, he sent a email to the person he was speaking to. And finally ending the call the iphone returned to music spot it left off at when the phone call came in. This followed by a uproar of support for the people after seeing this. “True Multitasking” you would say if you saw it yourself. But hold you approval folks. It seems that a Iphone guide book was given to AT&t stores containing info about the iphone not yet verified by the public. It seems that the Iphone can only do what was shown if you are in the present of a wifi connection(makes sense but this wasn’t the impression given on stage). In other words, sending an email and going on line while on the phone in your car or out anywhere where there is no wifi that you are connected to will be impossible. Now I know this is not a big issue but I do wish this was presented a little more true to what really is needed to be present in order to do this type of multitasking instead of dropping it on the public that way, making some believe the Iphone could do this regardless of wifi. Steve just forgot to mention this was only possible this way while he was on stage. Now, was it on purpose, probably yes, but is it a blow that will do any creditable damage? NO. But for those who want something legit to complain about, there you go.

****Just a little note folks: One big but tinny thing was confirmed for me at least and this was the fact that the Iphone will have a Vibration feature. This really was the only thing that would really hurt me if it was not present because of the type of Job I do. It would almost be a deal breaker if it didn’t have one.

I’ve touched on the subject of true innovation and how it is reflected in the mobile world. Today is just another example of it. To every type of true innovation comes the copiers. You have the mother of the idea that gave birth to the original design and then you have the unfaithful father spawning out other designs with others that look like the original design but just not in the same way. There is always something missing or because there are so many attempts the attention is taken away or it’s looked over as just one of those “here we go again” concepts. I would say the Blackberry, Razr,The Q, and HTc(side slide phones) are among the first born in which all the other phone makers have copied off of. This is what makes the Iphone so amazing because it is a first born product as well in which all the other companies will copy off of. Thats probably why Apple had to file for over 200 patents on it. Now I’m sure your heard of the new HTC touch and the Prada. Both of the products trying to capitalize off the buzz around the iphone touch-screen. But what they don’t understand is that it’s not just about a touch screen. The software and the ease of use is what is important and completes the iphone. Both of the fore-mentioned phone have touch screen that are smaller than the Iphone and have smaller touch areas and are cramped together. Both of the other touch screen phone don’t even tip the scale of memory that the iphone has. None of them have the multimedia capabilities that the iphone has and yet at least one(The Prada) is more expensive. It’s no wonder why I see the future of cell phones surrounded around the design of the iphone. So don’t say you didn’t hear it here first.

With the date thing out of the way we now return to the people that cry a bunch about nothing. The subject that has been at hand of late has been the price of the Iphone. People act like the iphone is the first and only expensive phone out there. In reality they couldn’t be more far from the truth. In fact the iphone is really in the middle line of smartphones one could say. We all know the normal $ amount for a smartphone is around 200-300 dollars but what people really don’t bring up while they are trying to bash the Iphone is that there are tons of other phones who don’t even touch the surface of the things the Iphone does that are being set a price range over the iphone, even double the amount on some phones and sites. Some brands worth mentioning is the newly released Nokia n95. It looks like a big camera with a cell phone glued to the back of it. It doesn’t have the all mighty 3g support either, it doesn’t have even a normal battery life capacity, and its cheaply built(screen wobbles) and yet they want 800+ dollars for this phone. There is nothing about it that stands out folks. It looks like all the other silver sliding smartphones. Nokia even makes 8800 which is going for $1300 on amazon. What does it do…nothing! It’s a standard looking phone that has a slide down cover, that’s it. There is nothing that stands out about this phone and yet they want over $1000 for it. Nokia continues the tread with other phones that they have priced at $700-$800 but I’ve had enough of talking about them. We can now move on the LG Prada phone at $850. Umm…Lets see, it has a touch screen( a washed out looking touch screen) with a tiny layout and a caveman like interface theme( almost reminds me of Dos vs Windows and Mac’s Gui’s) its very generic and old looking when compared to the Iphone. The music sound is bland at best. And it also has no 3g support. Which brings me yet again to the question to why is it ok to charge $700-$1300(it’s not because it’s 3g) for phones like these with the little features they have while Iphone comes out under all these prices and gives you all of their features with features yet to be seen inside a mobile device, along with a better design, better battery life, stronger software packaging but yet it’s too much(??). Help me here! I just don’t get it!

The 29th folks is the date. Looks like my source at the Store was correct. Training for the Iphone ends on the 28th and the phone will be in stores on the 29th of June( the Link to find the Comercial is http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad2/. I know everyone is finally glad we have a official date for the release, at least I know I am. The Comercial that shows on the link above gives you a date of the 29th to finally kill all the false rumors out there. I guess they finally understood that we needed a date to take off work for. Now the only thing left is the waiting which could be even harder on the supporters than not knowing when. But reguardless the next step is completed and the vale has been lifted.