Giveaway: have an iPhone on us!
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 29th 2007 11:59PM
posted Jun 29th 2007 11:59PM
A few rules (yeah, there are always rules):
- You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and don't submit more than once, ok?
- The prize is open to US entrants only. It's not like you can use it overseas anyway!
- Contest is open until 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, July 1st.
looking forward to being the envy (or joke?) of all my friends..
surfing the web even if its EDGE technology... having my first smart phone (big debate btw this and the blackjack).. a brilliant display.. and skipping through voicemails, which i hate listening to.
Touch my iPhone in the most special places.
not having to stand in line and wait for one.
Oh yeah and not spending the equivalent of a car note on one.
Using MP3 player to loose my gut.
Impressing all the single ladies at the bars around here
Looking like a CEO with a device like the iPhone.
can't wait to sych with every damn program on my mac...
I wish to take one, sell it, and use the money to buy food for a needy family.
Something useful with a worthless phone.
I'm most looking forward to the ease of use of a touch screen web device.
oh man...being abel to watch movies, call people, surf the web...and oh yeah listen to music.
all at the touch of my finger tips...pssshhhh who doesnt want one?!
google maps!
I'm looking forward to all the hot ladies that are gonna be all over me and my iPhone....
Using it as a portable map with search capabilities will come in really handy on the busy streets of San Francisco.
Sounds NICE no lines to wait in!!!!
Sync, sync, sync,
sync with my mac. Oh how happy this will make us all
I have enough of a job not to be able to wait on line and not enough of one to get one without a contest...
would love one of these babies but of course the money issue
take it for a spin around the block, and play with the fancy touch screen
Showing off my new iPhone will help me get elected to the Mill Creek City Council!
I am looking forward to simplifying my gadget carrying - just wish mating my treo to my nano didn't have such a high price. Oh, and cover flow looks awesome.
You're right on. I do want one even if I tell everyone that I don't want one. Shhh... don't tell anyone.
I am most looking forward to the touch screen interface. I would like to see this option come to more Windows phones like the HTC (come-on Verizon, you need one too, right?). In the meantime, I am just thankful that apple is pushing this feature forward. It's about time someone did.
everything
I'm looking forward to using the damn thing already. Now, where do I pick it up.
Because I am to lazy to wait for the iphone mini, then the iphone in different colors, then the iphone slim, then iphone v 2.0, etc.
I told quite a few people I wouldn't be caught dead buying one of these things. However, it would make a great gift for my girlfriend, upon whom my tenuous hold is maintained through lavish and attractive gifts. Help keep a nerd and a hot girl paired up like so many bluetooth devices!
a cell phone that operates on a mac OSX level...not like the average cell phones still in old school formats. visual voice mail, slick OS, etc.
chris
Good to get one
I want it to complete my iDouchebag look...
im looking forward to actually looking good while i hold my iphone in my hand and then all the girls are like omg and then they think im cool and got money
i need this pleaseee my dudeeee
If you have to ask for a reason, you just dont understand the appeal of the iPhone. Its only 2.5G, can only play iTunes (im a Windows Media fan myself), doesnt have a removable battery, cant record video. There are so many reasons not to get an iPhone. I write for a mobile technology site, and just wrote an article on why I will not be getting an iPhone.
Of course, ill take anything for free, especially something that will make those around me think im a rich Apple fanatic.
Ilove the design.
I'd love to get my hands on one mostly for its interface. I'm a text/email heavy user, but I'd be willing to wean myself off of it since I carry both my Dash and an iPod nano. It'd be nice to combine the two devices. Not only that, the interface is nice, and I find the multi-touch to be innovative. Whether or not I would call this device "revolutionary" is up for debate...I doubt it would be revolutionary, but it certainly is a huge jump for user friendliness on a cell phone. I'm not a fanboy nor am I a hater: I'd jump at the best product available no matter who makes it.
I plan to scratch its shininess off through regular use then breaking it and cashing in on the replacement warranty then selling it to support my raging meth addiction.
surfing the web!
I've got two reasons why I'm looking forward to my FREE* iPhone
1. Not having to pay the insane price.
2. Not having succumb to the Apple hype machine.
Having an all in one device that i can take with me everywhere.
would love to have one!
Oh, rejoice in having an iPhone and still make a house payment.
~Don
Like everybody else already said.... not having to wait in line
Will come in handy to keep up on the RSS feeds on my 4 hour commute each day
I am not excited to be the three-thousand-six-hundred-and-something-eth person to respond to this. Nor am I excited about admitting that the 1 to (currently) three-thousand-six-hundred-and-something odds of winning still seem worth it to me. I am, however, excited by the idea of replacing this RAZR-taped-to-an-iPhone. Oh, and having a pretext to end my Verizon contract isn't a bad thing, either: I miss my goddamn bluetooth functionality.
I want to be cool too!
Word on the street is that the iphone will give you cancer AND chemo theorpy!
Not waiting in line
Getting a smartphone that is actually a smart phone and not a phone with latent tendencies to deliver bad data
Using a real email client on my handheld
Using a real browser, totally complient
Watching YouTube
3rd party web apps
Oh yeah, syncing FLAWLESSLY with iTunes
making calls
I will use the iphone to make news in my business office and keep it displayed as a means of strengthening my contact list. It sure beats a book on the coffee table or an old pewter beer stein to generate conversation.
Loving it more than I love my child.
I'd be pretty excited to get a free to add to my collection of free Apple products. I have a 3g iPod and a video iPod and i haven't paid a dime for either. This could be the trifecta.
Im most looking foward to watching youtube when Im not supposed to. But first I have to reply to this guys comment which will send another email notifying him that somebody replied.
Well, it would be great to upgrade from my Newton at last!
Watching nemo on the screen saver
I'll enjoy owning my first smartphone. I haven't bought one yet because none has been worth my hard-earned dollar. This one looks like the cream of the crop, and it'll sync with my MacBook.
I have always wanted a true converged device acting as a Music player, internet/data/email/pim/internet radio device as well as phone and all for free...sign me up.
Get personal e-mail, which is verboden at work.
I sure would like an iphone! And today is my birthday!
Hotness!!!!
I'm looking forward to finally being at the forefront of technology....being poor sucks!!! I have no other chance of getting an iPhone.....
I can't wait to download several hundred songs onto my iPhone and then play them with such a unique device.
for the excuse to switch carriers and get a new phone.
Mmmmmm, the lovely UI is what makes me want to get one. I have had every revision of the Windows Mobile OS and many of the Symbian ones as well and they all look so substandard next to the iPhone's UI.
coverflow with fingers, and not having to feel guilty about waiting or not for the 3g network version
I'd love to have it. I'd give it to my wife.
Not being able to check my corporate email on it, so I can actually have a life at home. At least a life outside of work.
The thing I am looking forward to the most is not having to buy one for $600. After all the other Engadget stuff I have "had" to purcahse it would be nice to actually get one gadget for free. Nice contest!
I can't wait to be lost in New York city somewhere at 2 in the morning, be hungry as hell for some calamari, and then just whip out my iPhone, type in "seafood" and the nearest intersection, and then have my little baby show me exactly where I should be...
*le sigh* :)
Filling the iPhone-sized hole in my heart.
Filling the iPhone-sized hole in my heart.
I want one, but its not worth waiting in line, especially when they haven't sold out in lots of places yet...
Wow, almost 11,000 comments, I guess my chances to win the iPhone are not that great :)
I really want to get into the OS and see what makes it tick...and see if i can add more applications.
Oh, and make calls. and watch movies. and listen to music....
My best shot at being a cool kid...
Sure, I could stand to receive an iPhone. Not sure what I would do with it. Might have to find a gadgeteer here with Cingular. Surely that can't be too hard.
the iphone looks really awesome, but im still undecided if i want 2 get right now. Cuz just like the ps3 hopefully the price drops.
Of course I want one... right? I do want one...
Why would I want one? Because it is a fricking iPhone!
Winning this iPhone would totally clear up my incredible case of "shine envy" that is plaguing me until I can somehow save up $600.
Here's to hope!
I'd love to have an iPhone. The data plan, remarks about ATT's slow network aside, seems very affordable -- but the phone isn't. So if I could manage a free one, I'd be grateful. I'm an independent journalist in Washington, DC ... so I've got my fingers crossed.
i never win anything
to harness the power of the sun
i need it to impress all the dudes at my office obviously!
i can't wait to eye the iPhone
Amazing if I won one contest in my life. :)
Yeaa. PLayed with one today at the Apple Store. Too cool.
I need one!
Because my sister really deserves one!
I would love to finally have an Apple product. My mp3 player has been broken since last August and I just haven't had any money to buy a new one. So, this would be great to double as a phone and mp3 player. That and I just switched to AT&T last week!
I will gladly take your eyephone thank you.
having girls actually talk to me
I want one.
Well its not like i will win anyways.
this would complete my conversion from the PC world into apple's
you probably could use iphone to propose your gal ;)
Looking forward to controlling my home X10 system with my new iPhone. The current feature set doesn't include this functionality...but just wait!
I'm looking forward to having one... just because I need a new phone, nothing more. My last phone was eaten by my 7 month old child.
To hopefully have a ipod and phone in one device with a screen that doesnt scratch!
Nothing =P
I'm most-looking forward to the shiny aspects of the iPhone.
I'm looking forward to being treated like an Apple employee, except without the paycheck or health insurance, but with the geek-magnet status.
i look foreward to my freedom in the public whilesit listening to my music, without having to remember my phone. (I always forget, but remember my ipod)
Looking forward to a speedy and pain-free activation *if possible*
It's shiny, It's new, It's a device (Thank you Engadget for part of my answer within your question), It's an Apple. [/contest]
I'm starting a business in media relations, and hoping to drum up some business in the exploding music/entertainment industry. I try to impress people with my Treo (my biggest investment in the biz lol)... it does almost everything, from taking phone calls to sending/receiving faxes (emailed in PDF form, lol), emails from multiple addresses, the works. But it's dated and not as impressive anymore, and impressing people is the name of the game in PR. I'm thinking of buying a new Treo at some point, but that's some $$$$... an I-Phone would allow me to do just about everything I can do with the Treo, PLUS show off music in a really attractive feedback. I was pondering whether it would be worth the expense, and when I saw this I thought... gotta try for it. :P
I am looking forward to the browser.