The iPhone 3g - a phenomenon on and off the Web
Friday July 11, 2008
In the past couple of weeks, I've watched with fascination as the frenzy for the new Apple iPhone - released today in 22 countries around the globe - has reached epic proportions. It's amazing to me that a phone; albeit a pretty nice phone with an iPod, Internet access, and all sorts of useful applications, can generate this much conversation. Here, have a quick peek at what I've been looking at:
- The official Apple iPhone 3g page, with all the information you'll need in order to possibly purchase one of these nifty little gadgets. I must say, I'm sorely tempted.
- The iPhone 3g gets dissected: Hmmm. I just don't know about this one.
- Live stream of the Apple iPhone 3g line at Palo Alto: Watch people in line for the iPhone 3g - more interesting than it sounds. Really.
- Free iPhone 3g apps in the iTunes store: Lots of free stuff available for this phone that will make it even more of an efficient little machine.
- International iPhone 3g hysteria: Great pictures of people actually camping out overnight for the iPhone 3g - looks like a lot of fun, actually.
- Techmeme's Apple iPhone 3g coverage: All the best technology blogs and sites in one convenient place.
- Dueling tech blogs Gizmodo and Engadget are both obsessively covering every twitch of the new iPhone 3g.
I would love an iPhone, but I live in the boonies and we still don’t have cell service, so I can’t justify the expense. If only I could get calls at my home!
I’ve had my Razr for I don’t know how long — since they came out. I’ve replaced the battery, but new or old, the best it ever got was close to 3 days and most of the time it’s been 2. I don’t think bad battery life is enough to deter me from the iphone when my T-mobile contract wears out.
I was at a local mall Friday around noon and could NOT find a parking place. I couldn’t figure out what was up…until I saw the enormous line snaking around the mall and traced it to the Apple store. Some of those people had already been in line several hours by the time I saw them, and the line was definitely not moving. At all.
Pretty amazing for a device that, according to many news sources, doesn’t work all that well.