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- smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -8/+21I dont get how people can be sick of hearing about the iphone, if you dont like it filter it out.
- mattmcm, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12Hint: Profile -> Manage Topics -> UNCHECK "Apple".
Sorted. - Terc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why did you even bother coming to this page if you dont want to read about the iPhone?
Any reason at all?
oh, to be an ass... I get it. - karthickdoss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7functionality > looks
- skidmark, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Brilliant bonehead. That's like saying that if you already know how to drive a car, it would be useless to write or read an article about cars.
- skidmark, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Practice what you preach, troll.
- Terc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Erm... ooooh... THATS what titles are for!! You read the title, and then decide if you are interested in reading the article. Wow, titles are the coolest thing ever!
- TaeBoX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There aren't many multiplayer pc games more popular than Enemy Territory, and it's older than anything else anywhere near as popular.
- chrup, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I still don't get it. What's so revolutionary about this phone? It's a phone - it makes phone calls... Sure, they added a few gimmicks, like WiFi and a small iPod, but do I want that is a phone, in a device that I will replace once a year?
Also, when my current phones battery runs flat, I pop in a spare one that I carry with me on long business trips. Try that on your iPhone... When my iPod runs out of battery power, all that means is: no music - tough luck. When the iPhone runs dry - oops, no more communicating - and that's bad for business.
OK bury me :). - tsinbad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i'm patiently waiting for the "WAP resources are everywhere" story on Digg...
- TomFrost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're right. I mean, why doesn't *everyone* use the Apple-distributed unlockers and hacking apps that break through their own security systems?
Oh, wait. - MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't have an iPhone and for reasons stated elsewhere don't plan on getting one. Having said that, aren't most of these "resources" for making the iPhone do things it wasn't intended for the original product to do? I may as well be upset that I can't put a tent on top of my car that won't fly off a 60 MPH. If the iPhone doesn't suit your needs as it stands then don't buy one. I know I didn't.
- wevegotthejazz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I'm still very unimpressed with the current web "apps" available for the iPhone, most of which aren't apps at all (I don't consider an iPhone optimized version of a popular website an app)
c'mon Apple, WTF! GIVE US A ***** SDK!! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So iphone apps are basically webpages, hmm, so not really that exclusive to iphone now are they?
They just need to be connected via wifi to do anything worthwhile... hmmm sorry please give us native applications! - Terc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2its not "fair"
No one is paying any fares here. - locojones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It can, it's called the Meizu MiniOne, and its 1000x more functional than the iTurd.
- blackbrutha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Another good iPhone post. Thanks peeps.
- jkoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Steve, you seem sort of like a reasonable guy, but you're way off base on this one. First, if you bothered to read the article, there isn't a single "tutorial" listed there. It's a list of enthusiast blogs, reviews, web applications and hacker sites. If you can point me to these "thousands of tutorials" you think exist for the iPhone, you might have a point. Otherwise, the iPhone is incredibly simple to use and everyone I've handed mine to had no trouble exploring the interface and performing basic tasks.
Second, you suggest that cell phones shouldn't have touchscreens as opposed to physical buttons because you might be in a car accident, and in that accident your phone might get its screen cracked, and that might damage it enough that you are unable to make calls. First, that's a lot of "mights" and second any phone involved in a car accident might break to the point that it couldn't make phone calls, regardless of whether it has a touch screen. You might also read the Ars Technica review which subjected the phone to all kinds of abuse, and it took a lot before the touchscreen stopped working.
Finally, some people might buy the phone just to be cool, but a lot of people bought the phone because it does what they want, does it well and doesn't suck like 90% of the phones out there. From my own personally experience, coming from a RAZR, then a Blackjack, I can tell you that the experience of using the iPhone is far better. - estvir, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6There's an iPhone filter? I know there's the Apple category and as close as that has come to ONLY being iPhone stories and stupid rumours (I would say the amount is near 90% of stories) there are occasionally some worthwhile stories.
- jordan314, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Here's a free online PDF reader for the iPhone and other mobile devices - http://designtion.com/labs/2007/07/18/read-any-pdf-on-your-cell-phone/
- qwertygirl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I'll pile on. I found the 20 or so tech-recipes iPhone tutorials very helpful -
http://www.tech-recipes.com/apple_iphone.html - stevealford, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Goddamn comment system wouldn't let me edit and fix my typo on "equivalent." Fingers had a brainfart... kinda like the one the design team had when they were making the new comment system...
- mydave, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0yes this site for iPhone funs.
http://newworkspaces.net/discover_capture.html
http://sooslic.com/?id=383 - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1no they arent
- isaaccs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1see the thing is, digg users already control the content by voting. so if you see articles about the iphone, it's because people want to read them.
- chrup, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Oh pleez - anything but Windoze Mobile. There is no (sane) way to synch those with a Mac. PocketMac and MissingSync are not sane programs. Symbian OS is the only true mobile phone OS and it does synch with Macs via iSync (except those phones that don't).
- jkoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1experience > functionality
- crossers, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0iphones are leading today and thinageres like a lot iphones!
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - Avalontor, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6why don't you stfu about this, how do you filter iphone without filtering apple?
- martoon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1and then there's http://www.iphonenews.tumblr.com/
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6Wake me up when it can run linux, so I can play washed out old games that no one gives half a ***** about anymore. Oooh! enemy territory is the best game ever! hahaha
- MadModdr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Now if the iphone could only run windows mobile..... :P
- skidmark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Sweet use of caps lock.
- BentleyGT07, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Let me guess you don't have an iPhone
- stevealford, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2You guess correctly, but that has no bearing on the fact that there are thousands of tutorials for a product that is supposed to be amazingly simple to master using. I'm not insulting the iPhone, merely pointing out the counterintuitive nature of the situation. Either a)it's NOT so simple to use or b)many of its owners can't figure out something simple to use with just the manual.
I have an XP MediaCenter w/PD930 dual core, TV tuner and 3GB ram that I built last April AND a MacPro QuadXeon that I got last October, so I'm not a fanboy of either side by any stretch. Both have their strengths and weaknesses depending on the circumstance. I don't care that it's Apple's phone, I just prefer buttons on my phone... you know, in case of software failure or a cracked screen so I don't lose functionality.
Consider for a second that you might be in one of those classic "I need a cellphone" situations like a car accident on a deserted road in the middle of the night and your iPhone's screen got cracked in the accident, pretty much rendering it useless. I'll stick to a real phone that doesn't rely on software generated buttons and a touchscreen for my phone calls and use my iPod or PSP for portable entertainment situations.
I don't see a reason to buy one except for your image... and I have this nifty thing called self-esteem, so I don't have to spend $600 on a phone to be cool, I can just be me and use devices that I think fit my needs better than an overpriced, *****-network lock-in with 2 year contract, very nice looking status symbol. If you have one, more power to you, but don't look down on those who don't have one. It doesn't mean they can't afford one (the two-year cost is roughly equivolent to most providers w/the cost of a blackberry so it's easy to justify buying it), it just means they don't WANT one. - yingjai, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Everyone join the DUAiP (Digg Users Against the iPhone Posts) movement! Ok, I made that up.
- lunatiKo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Here you have a good one for all the web2.0 heads: http://iphone.valleycrunch.com/
- HairyPoter, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1AddFone
http://addfone.com
It is a search engine / directory for iPhone related applications. It has the largest list of iphone applications around (twice the size of the second largest list on the web). - Godlesswanderer, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Please, no more iPhone stories!
- stevealford, on 10/10/2007, -12/+7If it "just works" and is so simple that a two year old can figure out how to navigate and use it (article a few weeks back), then why do we need all these resources? What use is there for all these how-to's and blogs and tutorials if it's reduced its own simplicity below the level of even needing buttons to function? Honestly, how can the severe Mac supporters curse Windows for being overly complicated and non-intuitive, then sing the praises of an abundance of iPhone resources? That is indeed something that would least be expected given their list of grievances (just thought I'd spell that out before I said "irony" on Digg).
- Caleb666, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3I too am tired about iPhone stories. The iPhone might have "different" navigation/UI, but all in all it's a very lame phone. There are better phones on the market by Nokia and other phone companies that do do much more than the iPhone and are much cheaper. I'm surprised by how people are willing to shell out cash for anything that comes out of Apple.
Yeah, maybe it's a phone that has a touchscreen and no keypad but it's definetly not revolutionary. It's not reinventing anything and it's definetly not "4 devices in one".
What a load of overhyped ***** the iPhone is.... - whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -30/+24SHUT THE ***** UP about the iPhone!
- nicknottaken, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2"One thing about the iPhone. After nearly a month on the planet, there are already hundreds — thousands! millions! — of......."
..........***** articles about the god damn iPhone. - cyanide37, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8Dude, its ok you will have the money to buy it someday. calm down.
- zenlunatic, on 10/10/2007, -19/+10Just curious: if Apple products are so amazingly user-friendly why are there there "resources everywhere." It could be that the friendliest is a myth, or it could be that Apple users are some of the most inept folks around.
- cyanide37, on 10/10/2007, -16/+4Ooo my god!!! its about the Iphone!!! Digg this ***** upp!!!
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