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Take that, Steve and Bill. ]]>May 31st 2007 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 19th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 2nd 2007 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
But really, is this bit of info worth the cyber-paper it was written on?]]>May 31st 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
I was excited to see the iPhone when it was first announced because I knew it would push all other phone makers to do something different, and better. However, I also knew it was not the phone for me: closed platform, Cingular only, extremely expensive, and a bit too simplistic (I consider myself more of a power-user that will put up with a less than ideal UI if it means access to new capabilities. And I want to be able to install, and even write, my own applications for my phone).]]>May 31st 2007 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
i bet steve won't give him one because he doesn't want schmidt to pull a gates and steal the tech for the google phone.]]>May 31st 2007 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Funny how the claimed features of the iPhone are assumed to be great while the apparent liabilities we should give Apple the benefit of the doubt on. The iPhone has no keyboard and virtually no controls other than touchscreen. It will not be a good text device as no phone like it ever has been.

A pretty UI is not a good one when it can't do its job well.]]>May 31st 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
The real question is what exactly do people get out of the constant Apple, mac, and iPhone pep rallies? Of what benefit is it to anyone to constantly immerse themselves in Apple propaganda? Why are so many willing to believe the marketing speak of a company with an agenda? Why aren't you willing to look critically at an Apple product?]]>May 31st 2007 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Hey, moron, they meant ERIC SCHMIDT'S net worth. Sucks to be a smartass and lose, eh?]]>May 31st 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Umm, how ironic. Unless I'm sadly missing some sarcasm, you just incorrectly called out someone for incorrectly calling out someone. Net worth of $480B, eh? So he's worth more than Google and several Bill Gates combined? Hilarious...

For the record, I don't believe the iPhone will be that great either, but I read these articles because I keep checking to see how wrong I might be.]]>Jun 4th 2007 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
http://www.wcai.com/700MHz/papers.htm
http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/700mhz-explained/

Thou doth protest too much Mr.Schmidt]]>May 31st 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Of course, no one here has ever touched the iphone, but the marketing has been exceptional (alike the ipod). Apple has proved itself great at UI's, while MS has made software and allowed many corporations to build devices to fit with it, leading to problems. Many people firmly believe that the iphone's "flexible" interface is the next big thing, and many companies have jumped on the same bandwagon. Let's just wait and see. Plus, if you hate the iphone so much, don't bother commenting on posts like this.

By the way, I do criticize apple at times, as well as MS. I try to stay as unbiased as I can, but I have to admit that the Iphone is extremely intriguing. I'm sure everyone here at least wants to hold it...]]>May 31st 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Since when is the iPhone's interface "flexible"? Since when are its competition's interfaces not "flexible"? What companies have jumped in the iPhone "bandwagon"? Who said I hated the iPhone so much? Why shouldn't I comment in on posts like this? Are forums reserved for Apple lovers?

Why is it that people insist on attributing greatness to the iPhone when it doesn't even exist yet and consistently ignore its clear weaknesses? Why is it that valid criticisms are dismissed as "hating" and "closed mindedness"? Why is it the strengths of the iPhone are taken for granted while we are supposed to "wait and see" regarding its faults? Could it all be because it's coming from Apple?

The iPhone is not a new cellphone concept, it's simply a large touchscreen phone without a keyboard. It may be the best ever device of that type but it doesn't change the fact that those devices haven't done that well because they don't meet the needs of many users. Apple may do a good job minimizing the weaknesses of such a design but they haven't, so far, done a good job of playing to the devices strengths since they've ignored the obvious needs of high data rates and integrated GPS. The iPhone will be a curiousity and status symbol for the nondiscriminating until at least the second version. We don't need to "wait and see" on that. Cellphones are a mature market and there's plenty of experience to draw from.]]>Jun 1st 2007 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 1st 2007 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/May 31st 2007 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
This post is like asking why Rick Wagoner doesn't drive around in a prototype 2010 Chevy Camaro. He probably needs something just a bit more reliable than that.
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people like you are called flammers... ¬¬]]>May 31st 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
Why? Because if we are sick of reading these types of posts we have a right to complain. The more we complain the more likely iEngadget will stop kissing Apple's ass and include decent "reporting" rather than wasting time posting crap non-stories like this.

Moron. And learn how to spell.]]>Jun 1st 2007 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/

Look at this guy, hes a dork! Millions would start to ponder if they too would look like dorks with an iphone...millions of potential buyers lost....it be tragic...so no phone for him.

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Honest and Passionate.. if he's honest about the iPhone, and passionate about the iPhone, he has done nothing wrong. Kthx.

There are a lot of articles on here I am not interested in.. you know what I do? I scroll past them and ignore them. It takes no time at all to scroll past a story, and you spend much longer than that wasting time telling everyone how it's not an engadget-worthy post.

It happens daily. It's happened for a long time now. It hasn't changed. Quit wasting your time commenting about how an article shouldn't be on engadget. No one goes to your websites and tells you what you can and can't write about.

James... if you are sick of reading this type of post, scroll past it. Seriously. You knew exactly what it was going to be about before you clicked the link. It's like banging your head into a wall repeatedly while saying "I'm sick of banging my head on the wall." THEN F(*$^#% STOP! Easy.]]>Jun 1st 2007 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
I will personally make sure that once the iPhone is released my private army will kill anyone who does not have one. That's the least I can do to improve the quality of mankind.]]>Jun 1st 2007 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 1st 2007 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
As it stands, the iPhone could be a turd or an awesome device. No one knows. Close-mindedness is not only the one's who blindly accept it, but also the people such as yourself that blindly criticize it. Until you try it yourself... or at least read honest reviews by people who have, you can not say that any aspect of it is good or bad.

Some of the people that are attributing greatness to it are basing it on features it posesses. These features are fairly simple to implement and the chances that Apple will get them right is essentially 100%. The only real criticism that people have feature-wise (Other than maybe the lack of features) is the keyboard. I could see it working. It's equally as possible that it will not work. Look at the Wii... the whole motion-sensitivity jazz has been tried in the past... And it pretty much sucked. By your logic, the Wii would suck, but apparently that is not the case, considering it is quite a success.

Criticisms are great! You can say "It may not work", "It will unlikely work", etc... Your problem is that you refuse to admit that there is a chance of it working. Your comments have been "It will suck." That's not a criticism. It's a prejudgement that makes you no better than the people that are blindly accepting it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software]]>Jun 1st 2007 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 1st 2007 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/Jun 2nd 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/31/somebody-please-get-eric-schmidt-an-iphone/
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