iPhone 3G

[Grandmaster]

Dudes, whatever. Just a poorly handled product launch - not the END OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

 

[madmatt]

not the END OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

Yes it is.

 

[Sazar]

Yes it is.

Concur.

 

[LordOfLA]

well over here, O2's credit check and contract system died. Itunes was very laggy so it wouldn't suprise me if there were more than a few timeouts. I think I was lucky in the fact I activated at 10am BST when america was still asleep and itunes was still working

 

[Xie]

so who was to blame at&t or apple - loads or rumours floating about but very little fact, some say at&t servers couldnt handle all the activation requests others say it was apple as itunes server fell over as people were trying to get 2.0 firmware

I'd say phone company (AT&T, O2, ect) as I could get on iTunes, buy Apps from the Apps store and such but just couldn't activate my phone.

 

[Sazar]

Activation was on iTunes as well though wasn't it?

 

[Geffy]

Probably had to talk to the providers systems too, maybe a **** up in communication between the two

 

[Dark Atheist]

prob just sheer load on all systems

 

[Xie]

Probably had to talk to the providers systems too, maybe a **** up in communication between the two

Yeah, that is my guess as the iTunes store itself seemed fine (at least to me).

 

[ElementalDragon]

anyone else find it funny that for both versions of the iPhone that were released..... BOTH had a sh*tload of issues when it came to activation right off the bat? Makes me glad i never bought an iPhone.

 

[Sazar]

Well I got my order confirmation today for my 16GB Black

Sooooo... now I just have to wait.

 

[NetRyder]

I was planning to get one this week, but I'm seeing a significantly large number of reports about bad 3G reception and data speed issues.

Have you guys seen these threads?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1602608&tstart=0
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397833

I figured I should go see for myself, so during the last few days, I've been to three stores here in NYC - the Apple store on 5th Ave, the one on 14th St, and an AT&T store on 96th St. Data speeds on all of the display iPhones I tried were abysmally slow - worse than the EDGE speeds I was getting on T-Mobile with my HTC Wizard.

Not sure what the problem really is - AT&T network congestion? iPhone 3G hardware issue? iPhone 2.0 firmware/baseband issue?

Whatever it is, I hope it's fixed soon, because I really would like to get one... =\

 

[madmatt]

Hardware. I have no issues with my TyTN II or Touch Dual.

 

[Sazar]

Matt, are you on AT&T as well?

 

[madmatt]

AT&T (Cellular One, Cingular, and now AT&T) for the last 10 years.

 

[LordOfLA]

I get flawless 3g here

better than my n95

 

[Vanquished]

Ended up buying a regular Iphone locked to ATT, with the new iphone 2.0 software. I have to say, I'm not disappointed. The way I see it, if I need gps or 3g, I've got my 8925/Tytn II and I can use that whenever, but the Iphone is a nifty little toy to have. I must say though, without the new apps availability, it must have sucked...

 

[Geffy]

Two things so far,

1. iPhone doesn't yet support S/MIME email, though neither does windows mobile afaik and its a $200 upgrade for Blackberry
2. iPhone doesn't work with the SmarterMail Windows mail server software, neither does Mail.app annoyingly

 

[Not Bman]

Ended up buying a regular Iphone locked to ATT, with the new iphone 2.0 software. I have to say, I'm not disappointed. The way I see it, if I need gps or 3g, I've got my 8925/Tytn II and I can use that whenever, but the Iphone is a nifty little toy to have. I must say though, without the new apps availability, it must have sucked...

I was thinking about getting an older one, but thought about it and my problem is the price for the phone, its the data plans that I have to pay for.

 

[Vanquished]

I was thinking about getting an older one, but thought about it and my problem is the price for the phone, its the data plans that I have to pay for.

well, if u already have a smartphone, the plan cost wont change, I had my smartphone set up with a 20 dollar a month unlimited internet plan. and when i activated my "old" Iphone, that plan rolled over to the Iphone.