No iPhone For Me - Comments Page 2

I was going to buy an iPhone until I found out that it doesn't wipe you when you go to the bathroom.

Out of all the people that I have read about, no one seems to mention about the fact, it is very difficult to activate. Here is a really good reason why I would not buy a phone for this price. 600 bucks is what I make in two weeks. Why would any one waist that kind of money for a brick. You really must have money to burn. I sure don't. I rather eat then call someone.

I stood on line to buy my iPhone and I love it and and believe it was worth the money. I went to lunch with a couple of non-techie friends and handed the iPhone over to the 5th grader that was forced to accompany her grandma and I had a hard time getting it back from her. She played for a good 1/2 hour, never even making a phone call. She took photos, sent a text message and just played with all the "stuff." No one had to teach her how to use it.

Oh, and the above comment about activiation? Activation was a cinch. I activated it from my daughter's PeeCee and there was an email waiting for me when I got home to "complete activation," to link it to my Mac! And I played with it for hours before I ever got home.

Louise wrote: no one seems to mention about the fact, it is very difficult to activate. The initial problem with activation is no longer a problem. Going through iTunes the iPhone is very easy to activate. You are walked right through the process.

You got it Bob about 1.0 thats why i did not "buy" a computer until now. I don't care vista is great in my book.

Did you forget about the lack of text messaging? Not everyone has or will have an iPhone, and the iPhone cannot receive or send text messages other than by e-mail, correct?

EDITOR'S NOTE: According to the Apple website, the iPhone can "send and receive text messages anytime you’re in range of the cell network. If you can make a call, you can send a text message."

Unfortunately for you Bob, while you're waiting a year or two for the next generation iphone, I'll be enjoying the many things it does do well. If it didn't do anything well, then I could see your point. Maybe after the next generation iphone, you might find yourself waiting again for the even next generation. If you had bought Apple stock when before the iphone came out, you could have afforded to buy every generation iphone that comes out and still have extra change to buy a Mac computer too.

no sound,when recieving sms.must look at the phone every 30 minutes to see if someone texed me.