http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
Maybe less clicks will open their eyes.]]>Jun 19th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
GO TO ANOTHER WEBSITE....]]>Jun 19th 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
did you know that engadget gets free apple gear when it comes out?]]>Jun 19th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
My beef is that, these articles need not be written or at least be limited to engadget mobile. I would be okay with it if they covered other smartphones with the same passion that do the iPhone. For example, the N97 came out last week. Engadget mobile had an unboxing article on it with a promise of a review to come: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/06/09/nokia-n97-nam-unboxing/

Its been a week and a half and still no review. The iPhone 3Gs came out today. They were able to post their review up two days ago.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
If you could buy a phone today, regardless of carrier, what would it be?

iPhone 3GS
Palm Pre
Nokia N97
T-Mobile G1
BB Storm
Windows Mobile Device
I love my Razr!

My personal prediction is >50% will be 3GS, which is why Engadget whores itself out for the iPhone. Fanbois are blind to the fact that the iPhone is nothing special with an apple on it, much like the rest of their products.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
STFU FTW]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
The problem is that all those phones you listed below the iPhone all have something wrong with them, whether it's crap interface, non-existent or poor application store, terrible clicky screen, bulky design, etc etc. You can do a mix and match game with those faults and phones above.

The reason the iPhone works so well, and is so popular, is that despite these limitations which haterz always bang on about, and which no one really uses much (MMS - yes, that's been a global massive success hasn't it, cut and paste - come on, I can't think of a single time I'd have used that), it all just works. It's got a smooth good looking interface which works, a good application store, etc. There's nothing to really hate about it, other than if you are a) anti-Apple in general, or b) put off by hype.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
On the radio, they keep talking about the new iPhone and people buying them. When the Pre was first on sale, it wasn't even mentioned. Any reporter worth their salt would cover what's interesting news. The iPhone is news. More important than N. Korea launching a missile to Hawaii. They'll probably fail like Microsoft failed with Vista.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/She may be a pig, but you love her and that's what matters!]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
So when my iPhone keeps telling me there are updates to apps but hey guess what, I've already got the updates, it just works?

So when my iPhone sits there forever trying to determine my location in the middle of a city while outside, it just works?

So when my iPhone doesn't allow me to unlock it because it doesn't detect the swiping motion of the unlock slider, it just works?

So when my iPhone can't look at webpages because it will not run flash which MANY websites use, it just works?

So when my iPhone can't be turned on because it hasn't been charged in a day and the battery is of course dead, it just works?

The iPhone has MANY problems with it, don't kid yourself. I'm not saying it's a bad phone, I'm saying it's not perfect. Get off the Apple crack. These problems are not just localized to my phone, look around on the Internet and you will see MANY people have these same problems.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
Okay, so you've had issues with yours, but most people don't. Also, those are all issues which can happen with any modern phone, be it the Pre, Storm, G1, etc. Listing issues such as those and slating the phone because of it is like branding OSX a complete joke because it once had a kernel panic on me, or Windows is shit because it bluescreened on me in 2007, or how Mercedes are terrible cars because mine ran out of fuel last year.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
I should add, can and DO happen on any modern phone.]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
How bad? I'm waiting for that day to see him walking around in NYC so I could punch him in the face ]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
"The iPhone has MANY problems with it, don't kid yourself. I'm not saying it's a bad phone, I'm saying it's not perfect. Get off the Apple crack. These problems are not just localized to my phone, look around on the Internet and you will see MANY people have these same problems.""

You make it sound as if the iPhone "just works" but then when I give you a list of examples of issues with the phone you dismiss them and start comparing them to issues with operating systems? Keep believing it is the perfect phone without problems if you want, but it's not. Most people have had these issues with their phones..most people are not blind fanbois like you appear to be..and most people are not going to come here to post about their issues, they just get on with their life because they know in the end it's a phone.

I find it funny how before the iPhone nobody even thought about an application store or cared about it, now all the Apple fans keep ranting about how other phones don't have it? Do you really use the app store that much? Does it really change your life that much? If it does, I feel sorry for you. I look through the app store on my iPhone and I see fart app upon fart app and more stupid little things that make me say, wtf? Why do people keep paying for these crappy apps?]]>Jun 19th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
Besides that, all of the haters who come in here and just bitch and moan over coverage of a phone they don't have or want need to relax and hit the other stories that cover tech they are interested in. Coming in each iPhone story and crying because you don't think it deserves attention is just stupid. You may not like the phone but millions do, therefore it deserves the attention that the userbase drives.

Christ, it's not like the iPhone is responsible for mass murders and child stealing, its a damn phone. Let people use it without your incessant whining. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
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Oh but the nokia is the best selling phone, blah blah blah, if anyone gave 2 shits it would be all over all the tech blogs and its not, cause it’s a 700 dollar piece of shit. Tech blogs cover apple news because people care to read apple news, look at both of the smart phone polls and gizmodo and engadget, both are >50% iphone. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/I think a lot of phones are good, and if I had not gotten this Pre I would probably have been happy with an Android phone or a Nokia.
I think the iPhone is okay I just don't want to "jailbreak" a phone to get it to do those extra things.

The fanbois of Apple are just irritating. It is very cult like and creepy and obnoxious.

I mean I know its just a phone or a laptop, or an mp3player, its thopse other fuckwits that talk about it like everything else everyone owns is inferior.

Who wants to hear from these morons that even though your Nokia N97 can do a hundred more things than the iPhone, it is still inferior.

Why? Because the iPhone "just works." What a load of horseshit.

No these Apple fanatics made their bed and need to sleep in it.]]>Jun 19th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/When the Pre was ramping up for launch there was just as many stories about the Pre everywhere. The same with the G1, the same with the PS3, Wii, Xbox 360. You see a pattern there? They were pretty big news stories so they received more coverage. And the more places you search around for news, the more iPhone stories your going to run into today.

Some of you guys whine more then my GF's whiney, bratty kids do.

And who wants a site filled with robots and future tech. I can't buy either of them. Some stories on it is fine, more then a handfull and you've transformed from reading a news site to reading an outline for a sci-fi novel. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
Paul A. Chapel
P.A.C. Man
Jubeil
iPhonerulez
iKirk Mark5



And many others, that routinely go to non-Apple stories and do the same stuff. Please dont lie and say they dont.

They pretty much invite this backlash.]]>Jun 19th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
Wake up and smell the Starbucks friend, because quite frankly in spite of the massive efforts of companies such as RIM, Palm, Nokia, Sony, Dell, Microsoft, Palm, Samsung, HTC, Google and countless others to glean a bit of Apple's mojo, no one gives a F*UCK about these companies. They could all drop off the earth tomorrow and people wouldn't give two SH*TS!

Do they make good products? Meh. More importantly, who cares.

Have any of the companies above taken a tremendous chance and actually accomplished something great?

The answer is no.

Apple has scored four times. The original Macintosh. The Newton. NextSTEP & OS X. The iPhone.

Sure, the Newton was a failure. But they took a chance and built it, setting the stage for the Palm Pilot, which got it right.

Don't like it. STFU, build your own company, lose the company, return for a $1, change the world, and get back to us.]]>Jun 19th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/Jun 19th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
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What's that Lassie?
The trolls have put out their "Engadget loves Apple bait" again...?
Boy, that Timmy never learns...]]>Jun 19th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
can someone tell me how to cook waffles?]]>Jun 19th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
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Omg look what the iPhone Apple people invented today, they call it Copy and Paste! They also just innovated the way you send text messages by allowing you to send a picture from phone to phone!! I also heard theyre gonna do the unthinkable in the next release by allowing you to run 2 programs at the same time!! oomgg what would we do without the apples?!]]>Jun 19th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/19/apple-unleashes-iphone-3g-s-on-well-prepared-public/
@shaunisadirty --- nice, I've had those exact issues with my iPod touch. It just works!

@bombgigitty --- dead on. I uset to read gizmodo, but it went the way of the apple fanboy and I never go there anymore. Engadget really used to be a fair site, but now its so clearly in the tank for Apple. ]]>Jun 19th 2009 2:43PM