how come it seems like nobody bother with the 4gig Iphone?

[andylawcc]

I mean, are the feature exactly the same between the 4gig and 8gig?

I really don't see myself forking an extra $100 for the 8gig.

however, everyone gets the 8gig.... am I missing something?

 

[bigrash]

I have the 4gb, but the only reason I bought it was because the 8gb was sold out where I bought it. I think the extra space is worth $100

 

[loup garou]

Probably because they don't sell it anymore.

 

[intogamer]

ding ding ding... the 4GB is discontinued from the production line. You might be able to find it at a store or something.

 

[JohnAn2112]

I got the 4gb right when the price dropped. I figure $300 for a 4gb iPhone is plenty enough for me.

 

[andylawcc]

oh, no wonder.


well, I was at an ATT store, and they still stock the 4gig

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: bigrash
I have the 4gb, but the only reason I bought it was because the 8gb was sold out where I bought it. I think the extra space is worth $100

what did you guys (bigrash and other) cramp in so far?

 

[pm]

Yeah, the Apple online store has been sold out of 4GB for... at least 3 weeks, if not more. And our local AT&T store here in town sold my friend the last one that they had and haven't had more in at least 3 weeks as well.

I bought the 4GB - 4GB is enough for me and I'm glad to save the extra money. I have about 2GB set aside for music and then enough for 2 full length movies ripped into Handbrake's DVD2iPhone converter. That works for me. If I had more space, I guess I'd put more music on, but find that I only listen to a small portion of the music that I already have on...

 

[Raduque]

Honestly, I've never been interested in either iPhone.

Why, when I can get this for $100 to put in my $50 Wing, and have the same amount of storage and a more capable device?

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Honestly, I've never been interested in either iPhone.

Why, when I can get this for $100 to put in my $50 Wing, and have the same amount of storage and a more capable device?

Link doesn't work... I'm assuming SDHC Card? That is subsidized price for the wing.. with the memory card it is $350~

I've owned the wing before, you could argue that you can get a more capable device.. but I can argue that the iPhone has more qualities in the things it is capable to do.


Its only capable if you mod it, if not it is just a completely sh1t device.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: intogamer

Originally posted by: Raduque
Honestly, I've never been interested in either iPhone.

Why, when I can get this for $100 to put in my $50 Wing, and have the same amount of storage and a more capable device?

Link doesn't work... I'm assuming SDHC Card? That is subsidized price for the wing.. with the memory card it is $350~

I've owned the wing before, you could argue that you can get a more capable device.. but I can argue that the iPhone has more qualities in the things it is capable to do.


Its only capable if you mod it, if not it is just a completely sh1t device.

Link worked yesterday. But yes, it's an 8gb microSDHC card. The only thing the iPhone has going for it is style. All flash, no substance. Take away the Apple Marketing Machine and it's an underwhelming half-n-half with a neat interface.

In my opinion, the Wing is a far more capable device, even straight out of the box.

 

[pm]

The only thing the iPhone has going for it is style. All flash, no substance. Take away the Apple Marketing Machine and it's an underwhelming half-n-half with a neat interface.

I don't watch TV and don't pay much attention to print ads, I'd never even seen an iPhone TV ad at all until I last week when I read on Engadget.com about the Saturday Night Live parody of one and decided to go see the real thing on Apple's website. I don't think the Apple Marketing Machine has anything to do with it - it certainly didn't affect my purchase of an iPhone.

My neighbor showing me his and letting me play with it for about 20 minutes was all the sales pitch that I needed. I don't understand how it's "all flash and no substance". It works fine as a cell phone, a video iPod, and for web browsing. I don't see how this is a "half-n-half". It hits on it's three main features just fine - with a nice interface as well. It's the most impressive web-browsing cell phone that I've ever used... and I've played with a Nokia N95 as well.

I understand that a lot of people don't like the iPhone - that's fine, plenty of people like things that I'm not too impressed with... like baseball. Each to their own. But to pan it as some sort of lame gizmo that only half works doesn't make sense to me. It's expensive, it's locked to AT&T - carrier that many detest (myself included). it's missing a bunch of features that many of us would like, and it's been ridiculously utterly rampagingly over-hyped. Plenty of reasons not to like it. But I don't understand what's the complain about it's function... it does what it's supposed to pretty well. Surprisingly well given that it's Apple's first try at a cell phone.

Raduque, I don't understand the half-n-half comment, nor the "all flash, no substance" - could you clarify?

For what it's worth, I think there are plenty of better smartphones out there than the iPhone. I like a lot of the HTC phones, and I think the Nokia N95 is better than the iPhone in most respects as well. So, my comments above are not along the lines of "the iPhone is the best", but more along the lines of "the iPhone isn't just some kind of crappy marketing thing that doesn't do anything well."