Like many others waiting in line around the country, we finally laid hands on our iPhone. As we work on the review we'd like to provide you with some shots of the unboxing process, as well as some initial feedback on use with other SIM cards.
First off the bag and tiny box that the phone comes in:
The box itself:
The back of the box indicates its contents, as well as the activation policy. Note the important part: "minimum new two-year wireless service plan with AT&T required to activate all iPhone features, including iPod features." You don't have to activate the phone at the Apple/AT&T stores, but if you want to use it you'll either have to wait for it to be hacked or submit to your new overlords at AT&T.
Inside the box you've got the gem:
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Zak - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - link
Most of the iPhone shortcomings will be eventually addressed with software updates, except one: AT&T. Even if they were giving free iPhones away with each account I'm not going to switch to AT&T. And it is really slow, REALLY slow, I've seen a few today it really does take a minute sometimes open a simple webpage, dialup-like speeds, seriosuly. WTF were they thinking?Googer - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
sprockkets - Saturday, June 30, 2007 - link
10. Agree9. Not really Tiny, and I'm happy with the 1GB microSD card in my phone as to how many songs I need on my PHONE.
8. That's opinion.
7. Because going with the only very few CDMA people on the planet sucks, and the other GSM provider does not have as good as coverage.
6. UMTS + HSPDA works great, it's the iphone that can't take advantage of it.
5. Well, if it can play YouTube, it has to have flash, right? Can't say anything about Java support. Do you mean Java script or Java? Because you can live without Java.
4. Yep that royally sucks. Once sales are poor, perhaps Apple and ATT can lift that restriction, but they probably did this so as to be the sole provider.
3. Will let others speak for me on that.
2. Konqueror works fine, but it's Apple, so yeah, we had to use OSX on something that clearly shouldn't be running it.
1. Whatever.
The whole catch 22 with the exclusive agreement and having to use some bizarre activation scheme is utterly ridiculous and goes against the simplicity of using SIM cards, so it is stupid that they would use ATT. That kind of activation fits more into Verizon's way of doing things for sure.
aliasfox - Sunday, July 1, 2007 - link
Actually, the iPhone currently doesn't have support for flash - all of YouTube is being re-encoded into h.264 in the next couple of months.Griswold - Saturday, June 30, 2007 - link
Funny enough, even though it was meant as a joke, he is dead on with most of the (albeit often exaggerated) points.But in the end, all the effort was in vain, considering that it wasnt a sell-out show so many expected and the queues rather quickly disappeared too at many apple stores and AT&T spots.
Looks like this time around, the hype exceeded the (still somewhat high) demand.
I will probably wait for the next incarnation of the iphone without all the shortcomings and above all, hopefully without a gag&bag contract attached to it.
AlexWade - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
iPhone, iDon'tCare. This article and author is right, it is too big. I tried out a Treo 650 for a month. Other than the fact that it had a critical flaw Palm never bothered to fix, I didn't like it because it was too big. And this thing is just as big.And it does cost too much. I paid $250 total for Sony Ericsson W810i. I get 4GB of music, get to do most of what the iPhone does without the fancy interface, and at a small size and price. I did get a $100 rebate, but not a rebate check (which really burns my hide), so I don't count that into the price. Half-price, half-size, all music. Where is the downside?
Finally, Cingular, er AT&T Wireless, isn't universally bad. No cell carrier is good everywhere and no cell carrier is bad everywhere. Be sure to take advantage of the 30 day trials. I've had AT&T since before they were Cingular. In NC, they are very good, never had any problems. My brother in Florida does have problems with AT&T.
JAS - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Wow, Anand ... That was fast!About 5:30 this afternoon, I went to a local mall that has both an AT&T outlet and an Apple Store. There was an incredible frenzy of activity going on. Crowds of onlookers applauded as each happy new iPhone owner emerged from the store. It was an amazing, memorable scene.
I'll be interested to read of your experiences with the Apple iPhone -- but I'm inclined to wait for the next model before jumping in. I would not be surprised if Apple does a rev for the holiday buying season.
gospastic - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Is it just me or are the pics really blurry?sprockkets - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
So I guess those that are current ATT customers under contract need not apply? Have you tried putting in a valid SIM from ATT?Just that alone sounds like too much DRM for me, but it seems some do not care. Kinda like if you want all the advanced features of Vista, you have to take the advances in DRM as well.