I see every geek in South Africa is jumping on the very-delayed iPhone-bandwagon. It’s kinda strange to see this kind of mass pants-creaming now, when the first Android phone’s been launched. Thanks Vodacom, but shove it up your ass.
On a related, but much more exciting note, Canada’s to ban SMS fees.
PS. That picture is blogjacked from somewhere. Apologies.
17 responses so far ↓
1 Charl Norman // Sep 26, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Fair enough, you have a point
But who uses mms and video call anyway?
No video recording is a bummer but the iPhone makes up for that with thousands of apps and the slick Apple OS
Changeable memory cards? Dude, it has 8 or 16GB storage ..!
I got the V2
http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/05/29/iphone-16gb/
2 Wogan // Sep 26, 2008 at 2:27 pm
So i worked out, on the talk 500 package over 24 months, plus the initial fee, you’d be paying over $2500 for the iphone. Given Vodacom’s CRAPPY 3g offering, there is absolutely nothing else in the iPhone to make it worth the money spent on it.
True, no one I know uses MMS and videocall. But a lot of people I know surf the web from their fucking desktops, on ADSL lines. Alot of them also like doubling their phones as music players, and you need a lot more than 16gb to hold any decent amount of music.
I’m also willing to bet you can’t easily sync it with anything but iTunes.
Newsflash: You have to pay for those marvelous iPhone apps. And since ZA doesn’t have an Apple online store yet, chances are you’ll need a credit card. After that $999 app saga, no thanks.
Plus, many people like getting fast phones and hooking them up to their laptops ‘n shit to surf the web when mobile. Can’t do that with the iPhone, sorry.
And: Released phones in the US are already cracking, peeling and warping. Touchscreens become greasy and unreadable. Batteries (non-replaceable in this case) lose their life over time.
Is there any logical reason to fork out money on this thing, apart from the Apple religion?
Red, far as I’m concerned, Vodacom can shove Apple up their ass.
3 gmk // Sep 26, 2008 at 2:41 pm
The Iphone can suck balls? I might buy one then
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Mike
// Sep 26, 2008 at 3:17 pm
@gmk: Ahhhhhh… NOW we know why all the Apple fanboys have an iPhone.
5 Yasser // Sep 26, 2008 at 3:31 pm
hehehehe, i like the perspective!
okay, it’s official, the iphone3G is sexy for nothing!!
6 Cape Town's Favourite Son // Sep 26, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Ja, the whole iPhone craze is lost on me too. And I don’t care much for all the fancy gizmos on these new fangled cell phones either.
For me, a cell phone is primarily used for answering calls, and cracking open the occasional beer quart.
Anything other than that is just a decadent luxury.
7 Chris M // Sep 26, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I, peronsally, think that for the price they’re selling the device for and relative to the other amazing phones being launched, I certainly wouldn’t recommend buying the mobile, it’s just not worth it. I can’t believe that it only comes with a 2MP camera as well, that’s quite lame!
Look, it’s a nice looking phone and all, but some of the new HTC’s are looking just as great, take a look at the Omnia for example, stunning device!
I do agree with @Charl about video calling and MMS, nobody uses those features, well not me nor anyone I know
8 Marcel // Sep 26, 2008 at 5:11 pm
If you luv Apple, buy the iPhone.
IMHO, it’s a fantastically marketed doo-dad.
And the functions that “nobody” uses? Well, I sent my first MMS the other day to my Dad (the first pics of his grand-daughter) because that’s the only technology that he kinda understands. Boy was he chuffed! He can’t type an email, but he can use his ‘phone to send/receive photographs, use the GPS & talk on car handsfree kit.
If you’re a non-geek/n00bie, then the iPhone isn’t for you - too much to try & figure out & the unique design advances will be lost on you.
But if you ARE a geek (like me), then the lack of Bluetooth, video & camera are ridiculous. Handsfree? Nope. Dial-up through cellphone? Again, no. And I still need to carry a camera. No thanks.
… and yet Apple are selling millions of them. What an amazing Tour De Force; they’ve got people “irrationally committed”.
IMHO the iPhone is just a status symbol: that’ll wear off in +- 6 months.
I’ll stick to Nokia thanks.
9 Wogan // Sep 26, 2008 at 7:09 pm
And this is where you blogjacked that picture (or at least a slight variation):
http://techlife.co.za/2008/09/the-iphone-rocks.html
~ Wogan
10 Jayx // Sep 27, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I was actually quite keen on buying one, based on 1.) initials rumors about pricing and 2.) the fact that we wanted to develop some apps for the device.
Turns out that 1.) it’s way too bloody expensive and 2.) we’d need to buy a mac as well (unless someone knows of dev kits for PC - I have found nada…
… and I can pay for a lot of ball sucking with that sort of dosh @gmk
11 Jamaaludeen Khan // Sep 28, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’m an Apple fan, I use a MacBook, but I’m also very realistic.
The iPhone is very over-priced, and lacks too many essential features that I want in a handheld device. One feature in particular that it lacks is the ability to send one sms to a group of people. This is a must-have for me. I’m huge on sms, and there’s no way I will spend a chunk of money on a phone that can’t do that.
I’ve always been a Nokia user, and I’ve stayed with my N80 waiting for the iPhone. But now that the iPhone reality has hit - I think I’m going to give HTC a try.
12 B // Oct 1, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I am not sure which version of iPhone you were aiming that statement at Red.. But the ones I saw cant suck anybody’s balls.. not too mention yours..
I mean they couldn’t even fit a simple modem in the unit or a mms function…what made you think they would’ve added ballsucking to their list of features?
Maybe they will consider it for the next version if you email your request to them ..
Let me know how it goes all the same,
13 Mandy de Waal // Oct 9, 2008 at 7:44 am
A small omission here. You can throw stones at people and they don’t break.
14 Pu-239 // Jun 12, 2009 at 11:55 am
Touch Viva by HTC is the phone to have.
Highlights:
-2.8-inch touch screen.
-Next generation TouchFLO™ user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures.
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity.
-2 megapixel camera for quality stills and video.
-microSD™ slot for expandable storage.
15 LUCKYSOCKS // Aug 4, 2009 at 4:38 pm
news to all teh circle-jerkers: buy a cheap SE phone and then get an iPod touch like i did,
instead of showing the world you have the style and panache a dickless sheep rapist.
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