Apple shows off iPhone 3G guided tour
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jul 1st 2008 9:36AM
posted Jul 1st 2008 9:36AM
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Arrrgh! Anyone else hate his flappy hands?
Aye, it's as if he has to wind himself up or something.
Highly annoying.
Hey, don't speak bad about Leonard McCoyd!
flappy hands such, but why does every single apple product have to be done by a guy that looks like a total douche. i mean, all black shirt w/ the wire frame glasses.
Ha ha. That bugged me so bad in the original iPhone vid that I had to cover the bottom half of the video to keep from getting distracted
Actually Synthaxx, I always presumed that it was the iPhone which was controlling him like a puppet.
Hey Jobs...if you are going to make us watch a long,boring video, at lease put a HOT Woman in there with TigOBitties!
they guy looks kinda like oung version of steve lol
LMAO!! I like the demo of a copy paste feature where someone dubbed him and animated a pic of him, at the end the person made him say "I love you". Hilarious!
sweeet
Wonder-device! The Apple logo does all the wonders you'll ever need. w00t!!1!
P.S. forgot the customary "non-Apple devices suck!" comment.
"non-Apple devices suck!"
You might want to check out other brands like Sony / Nokia.
I both agree and disagree with this. Apple doesn't do as much as I'd like for them to do for many things, and they block you out of a lot. However, what they do they do EXTREMELY well.
P.S. I own a Macbook Pro.
iphone is going to be a failure
what bothers me is the fact that everyone want this piece of jewelry and now wih the price so low many many people buy this thing - so its not special anymore, like the old ipod or other apple products and apple even want to go more mass market, that kills their philosphy...urgghh
Anyone remember when the RAZR was huge? Now I think you can get them in happy meals at McD's.
And really, a guided tour of a slightly upgraded phone? really? shenanigans.
iPhone 3G will definately not fail. Hell, I got a Zune and 3 PCs, never owned a Mac, but I'd love to have an iPhone.
Your comment, on the other hand, did fail.
failure = EPIC SUCCESS
Dammit dude, if the iPhone's a failure (less than 1000 people on line July 11th), I'll whip my whang out in front of the Apple Cube store for all the international media to see and film. Hell, I might do it anyway to show what the iPhone 3G can do for a person's libido.
You think anyone would stand in line for a LG Dare, HTC Touch Diamond or Samsung Extinct. No EFFING way.
The iPhone 3G release will be a bigger event than the pope coming to Manhattan and rightly so. The pope may rule Vatican City, but the iPhone 3G will rule everywhere.
You know what Greg? You are a failure. You are mean. You just can't recognize how awesome apple is and all of apple's products. You just don't understnad apple's greatness.
why?
Because, the iPhone dude likes to hear himself talk, so they taped it and put it on the internet.
Have we heard if you can talk on the phone and surf the web on the 3g iPhone?
How the heck could you do that unless you have an eye right under your ear? Next I'll hear that some Palm user used to do that on his 3-year-old Palm Treo or some crap like that.
You'd better just settle for driving a car and surfing the web on your iPhone at the same time.
Yes. From Apple's iPhone 3G page: "Surf the web, download email, get directions, and watch video — even while you’re on a call."
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/wireless.html
Obviously, you'd do this by using a headset or the speakerphone.
If he could just stop waving his hands like a complete tool for a moment..I might just watch it all! I wonder how many times his hands actually moved in the whole video...and how much they hurt after...or maybe he's just a puppet?
Do we know if we can talk on the phone and surf the web at the same time on the iPhone 3g?
You can while on the 3G network, yes.
I thought you were joking around, but you can do both simultaneously:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/wireless.html
One thing that was missing that they actually added was being able to save pictures from the browser.
Still no MMS messaging, Video recording, or sound recording.
I'll stick with my Tilt thanks.
Don't worry, there will be third-party apps for that stuff.
you can do MMS through email. phonenumber@carrierMMSserver.com send an email it should work. This is also a good way to get free texts.
Bob Borchers, ladies and gentlemen!
Dunno about all the tours, but this guys voice got a whole lot more annoying than i remember. And if he says "iPhone 3G" again i'm gonna kill myself.
you've only been on here a couple of days ( at least with this identity) and everybody already low ranking you.
@ Steffen Jobbs
My question is legitimate with a headset. On the first iPhone, you could not talk on the phone and surf the web over Edge. With 3g this is possible and I was wondering if both could be done at the same time. I know that more than myself have asked this question.
Its a legit Q. Now you can do both together, because 3G works differently than EDGE.
The BEST part of this being that... if you are using the web/email on 3G and someone calls you, it won't send them straight to voicemail as it has in the past on EDGE. Which is a great improvement.
Nice how they cut away just as they are about to confirm/not-confirm turn-by-turn directions.
Makes no sense.
i noticed that to.
i heard tom tom had something in the works and were negotiating with apple, but i havent heard anything in a while.
Has anyone else got news on this front???
super monkey ball = $9.99 in the guided tour... is this new news?
nm...
I thought it was, also that AIM is going to be free, and from the looks of it probably available at launch.
The black sweater look is getting very annoying.
I couldn't watch the video. They wanted me to download some kind of software called "Quicktime."
I don't download stuff I don't trust.
I totally agree. The last time I installed QT a couple years ago, it stole my file associations and would not give them back. I changed the MIME settings and still had no luck. Everytime I clicked on a MP3 link in a webpage, QT would play it with their embedded player instead of Winamp. Even the QT forums on apple.com confirmed this "bug". Ever since, I refuse to install QT on my work or home machine.
Out of curiosity, did Apple ever fix this?
go to options/preferences, file associations, uncheck the boxes. sorry, don't know the exact menu names, but this is a common thing to do in any media playing software.
Why in gods name would someone DRIVE from Brooklyn to midtown just because they wanted a pizza?
But it insists on using QuickTime if you want to view it, and I value my PC's stability too much to load QuickTime, oh well.
The iPhone 3G tour was heck of a lot more interesting than watching The Incredible Hulk. It darn sure made more sense than a 160 lb. guy turning into a one-ton monster. iPhone 3G tour is definitely Academy Award material.
The reason that guy talks using his hands so much is because he's probably part Italian. They're a very expressive group of people.
So this iPhone tour has sealed it for certain that the iPhone will replace the electric lightbulb as the most important device to mankind in the last 200 years. Amazing. Absolutely amazing that one device can do everything even better than a djinni in a bottle. Touch it a few times and all your wishes come true with unlimited wishes as long as you can afford carrier charges. I'll take two.
All Mac adverts have people moving their hands, it's nothing new. Infact, Maddox even talked about it at length, http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Including the video - "Mac morons can't talk without using their hands." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tq7yykR-DM
ABP.
I hate this guy! He thinks he's better than me!!!
He probably is!
They should actually get some real models to do this for a change :)
If that were the case, no one would be paying attention to the iPhone ^_-
did anyone else notice the things that looked like screws on the bottom of the phone when they showed the speakers? Could this suggest replaceable batteries or sim cards?
You can already swap sim cards on iPhone, just need a paperclip. I'm really surprised those screws are there, but It's been said battery is not replacable.
You know, Vidit, for somebody who hates Apple (and everybody who uses Apple products and anything to do with Apple at all) as much as you do, you sure do comment in Apple-related threads a lot. Why is that?
Oh and I love how you were sobbing... actually sobbing... in the Bill Gates' Last Day thread. Wow. You actually have the balls to call ANYBODY else a fanboy of ANYTHING?
Just... wow.
Hit me on my iPhone, my-my iPhone.
Ok, he has awkward hand gestures; but, I don't find him creepy. He seems like a thirty-something lawyer dressed in Apple garb.
I wonder if they are creating Steve clones over there. With every single video, same or similar Steve's Keynote speech outfit. And I must add, it is not cool what so ever especially if you're presenting something to that many people. They gotta pick it up a notch and stop the thinking of "World should follow us" thinking at least when you're coming short.
This dude's head is mad big for his body in the video....
Vidit - I look through the Apple threads because they're of interest to me. You go through them (and post stupid things in them) because you're a troll. Can you see the difference there?
Sure you're not an Apple hater or a Microsoft fanboy. Suuuuure. Actually sobbing at Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft... wow. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. If you've ever praised Apple for anything, I certainly haven't seen it. Every post you make in Apple-related threads is a troll post, just like this one.
I like how you think "I is" an Apple fanboy just because I call you out when you say stupid things. Maybe I'm an intelligence fanboy, did that ever occur to you? To prove my point, you actually think I don't use anything other than Apple products? I mean I thought you were dumb before, but this is really extraordinary.
But sure, keep making assumptions about the products I use and what you think my opinions are on things. That'll prove how smart you are, right? Seriously, if you want me to stop picking you out of a lineup then you need to stop saying stupid things. It's that simple.
Well, it looks cool. However, simple functionality like a clock seems to suck on the iPhone - it is stuck at 9:42 AM...
Has any one noticed that his head seems a little bigger?
Mallet the hands!
Wow he's doing a Steve and wearing the same clothes twice
Admittedly I do that too just not like Steve...
Although thinking about it they probably are different black jumpers and one-size-too-big jeans that Steve wears...
as much as i like the iphone, this is just abysmal marketing.
count how many times he says iphone 3g in the first 3 minutes, it's unreal. And whats with the hands? it doesnt make it more interesting to watch it makes it annoying. I wish they would stop referring to the email and internet as "years ahead", "the best experience on a phone" and "revolutionary" - precisely what are they comparing it to? it doesnt even have flash which is a MAJOR part of the internet, and thus instantly rules it out as the "leading" phone for internet usage.
it is a great product, and it does perhaps work in the most mass marketable user friendly way, but i really wish apple would shut the fuck up, just sell their products and let people decide for themselves, instead of putting out public information films about how their products are AMAZING, trying to convince you they are your geeky buddy and convince you it will change your life
Meh. The MacBook Air guy was better.
This is a funny video about what what people think about the 3G iPhone. People were interviewed as they were leaving the Apple store about what they think of the 3G iPhone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuQmZYbzK4
I like what the iPhone does. However I feel the whole Apple style of design is like a one note song. Sick of hearing about iThis and iThat too.
The whole Apple following is turning cult and border line religion, right down to the fitted black long sleeve shirts. Count me IN!!!
I've always wanted to belong to something! Tomorrow will be a new day for me. I will buy a VW, a Mac, and an iPod. Then I will hit every overpriced clothing store I can find, except Hot Topic that's sooo PC.