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I will buy two iPhones as soon as it is available.

I will never buy a Prada Phone.

more iPhone "killers" announced .... one from T-Mobile .. believe it or not ... wonder if MDN is gonna post it or not ?

MW ="yet" ... it hasnt happened "yet"

What is it with Corporate Leaders?
Their answer is something that looks the same?
No wonder we've lost our competitive edge.
Everyone thinks it's only about looks and not the substance.

Competitors are announcing iPhone "killers" before the iPhone is even released. There is fear in the air...

No near-term competitor will come close because:

1. The iPhone touch interface took years to develop.
2. The OS is OS X.
3. It's an iPod.

Since no one else can offer 1, 2, and 3, Apple has once again put itself in a position of owning a unique product, in a world where everyone else competes on price with me-too products.

I am currently a Verizon customer. That relationship will end this summer, though, when my contract expires. The reason: Verizon doesn't carry the iPhone. Too bad, because other Verizon is good.

So, it's goodbye Verizon, hello AT&T;.

Note to Verizon: Your claims of "It's the network" no longer apply. The device you use matters, too. Give Steve a call. Maybe he'll let you in.

Remember the old Ford Granada commercials: "Looks like a Mercedes..." First of all they didn't, but more importantly it wasn't the looks that made a Mercedez a Mercedez and a Ford Granada a Ford Granada.

I've said repeatedly that these twits sound like the Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". As for the author of the article, he proves himself to be a gullible idiot.

The good thing about reading articles such as this one is that one may safely cast aside as FUD the criticism of fools.

I heard that Verizon and MSoft were going to anounce the
VeriZune very soon

this is the best

Verizon can stem some of the defections if it has its own supersleek iPhone imitation.

you are right, an imitation

is it just me, or do we all feel small and insignificant?

It's not just you Jim - TIV. My fonts have an inferiority complex too.

Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeensty land!

First just cause the iPhone is great does not mean Verizon is a bad company. In most cities Verizon is the best cell phone company. One person I do tech support for is a cell tower tech who goes all around the country fixing them and he says Verizon has the most towers that cover the most area in the major cities hands down. Now with most things YMMV so if you want an iPhone better hope you are in a good Cingular area.

Fake Steve on this news:

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/05/verizons-iphone-killer.html

The Prada looks like iPhone, just like Zune looks like iPod...

Yeah.... sad bulky copy

MW: late. All the other phone companies are little late to the game, Apple already has >200 patents. That's gonna restrict the innovation (copying) done by others

i've used an LG Prada Phone, not good. Unresponsive touch screen, slow, and very poor battery life. Too bad i'll have to wait even longer for the iPhone as i live in England:-(

This guy is truly a dope. The stockholders ought to bury this guy for passing up the opportunity to work with Apple.

A customer servoce rep at Verizon told me that they passed on Apple's offer because they wanted to control their own mp3 player capabilities. How stupid is that and this guy is a COO.

"They are working on an answer to the iPhone that is supposed to be pretty good"
In this case, "pretty good" is not going to be enough.

@Apple Employee

You're right on with your comments. I just left Verizon after 10 years because I am buying iPhone. Their service coverage is excellent. Since switching to AT&T;I have experienced dead spots and some dropped calls and I travel in eastern PA, NJ, DE, MD and VA - just enough to be a little annoying. I think that AT&T;will fix that over time.

However, the iPhone will work in Europe where Verizon won't. On our trip to Italy last year I was unable to use Verizon's service and had to use a Verizon credit card which was loaded with hidden costs that they never disclosed. they tried to charge me over $500 for a series a 1-10 minurte connection and 5 missed connections. I had ti literally fight for a $400 credit. This is one of the reasons that I am glad to have switched. I had to fight with Verizon when I switched carriers a few months ago - they tried all sorts of gimmicks to keep from leaving from billing a $350 early termination fee for my expired contract to sending unauthorized new replacement phones which I refused to accept from Fed Ex - if you accept the package you're automatically tied in with another 2 year contract. When we refused the package, the Fed Ex driver made a funny but accurate statement. "Verizon are a bunch of Nazi's"

I am glad that I'm rid of that crappy organization. OK, now I'll get off of my soap box.

iPhone Bitch!!!

This fall, good buy VW, hello ATT (plus a bonus, since my company was acquired by ATT, I get the discount now!!!, and no, we don't have VW recycling box)

The GOOD news for Verizon subscribers will be that Verizon will actually let some of the functionality stay in the phone (like bluetooth transfers, etc.) instead of ripping it out so that they can nickel and dime their customers. This will lead to a wave of other carriers also de-crippling their phones.

Thanks, Apple!

Shouldn't they be saying "and ours will have an in-built radio!"?

Wouldn't it have been easier to just go with the iPhone in the first place, rather than having to try to figure out how to compete with it?

As I have said befor LG makes crap phones. I'm never getting one again.

"Remember the old Ford Granada commercials: "Looks like a Mercedes..." First of all they didn't, but more importantly it wasn't the looks that made a Mercedez a Mercedez and a Ford Granada a Ford Granada"

and now that ford owns Jag, the Jags still look like Jags, but run like Fords.....

thus the reason MS can't buy their way into the search biz.

...and the reason Apple will make an incredible phone.

"...they're doomed." -- Hey, didn't they say that about Apple in the 90s? Yeah, right, Verizon is just going to fade away despite being ranked at or near the top of Consumer Reports for the last several years. I don't like my LG phone that much either but I use Verizon because the service works where I work and play. And for me, the iPhone isn't what I was hoping for by a long shot. Too big, too much geek, too expensive. I was looking for a bitchen little phone along the lines of a Nano that could slip discreetly into a shirt pocket. Instead, Apple is giving us a phone that out-dorks a pocket protector and says "hey, look at me, I'm using an iPhone! And I just pee'd myself!"

@ pyeman
Re: Unresponsive UI

I've noticed that on some of the videos I've seen. It looks like they are trying to *emulate* multi-touch and doing it badly. I saw that one guy demoing it had a hard time making the scroll bars work, but I haven't touched one myself. Are they very popular on that side of the pond yet, or more (as I suspect) a fashion phone?

"First just cause the iPhone is great does not mean Verizon is a bad company. In most cities Verizon is the best cell phone company. One person I do tech support for is a cell tower tech who goes all around the country fixing them and he says Verizon has the most towers that cover the most area in the major cities hands down." —Apple Employee

Nevertheless, Verizon is most definitely a "bad company." Their customer service is frequently infuriating and dropped calls are a daily fact of life even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the largest urban markets. However, AT&T;appears to be no better. In fact, the entire cell phone industry has the dubious distinction of being one of the most complained-about types of businesses in the U.S. What to do?

I wonder why, if Verizon is a bad company, Apple went to them first?

@Figurative

Damn good point apple knows Verizon is the best north american cell phone provider and that is why they went to them first. Now that is not to say Cingular is that far behind but they are behind

Yes, I've heard that Verizon is the best. Will selling an inferior LG phone be just as good? Hopefully AT&T;will feel a need to improve.

Again, I hope that all of this income from the sales and service of an iPhone will be added incentive for AT&T;to invest in building more cell towers and improve their support for their paying customers.

alansky, if you're in the BA the best way to go is Sprint.

Masa: "The Prada looks like iPhone, just like Zune looks like iPod...

Yeah.... sad bulky copy"

No.

Wrong.

Prada phone is no iPhone, but it's no copy. It was released (or announced) at nearly the exact same time as the iPhone.

So you're wrong about it being a "copy."

What about it being "bulky"? Well its SMALLER THAN THE iPHONE.

Wrong again.

What about "sad" ?

Okay, maybe I can give you sad.

Have you all forgotten about the impending Palm upgrade to Linux OS?

Its very possible this super secret phone is the Treo 800p.

MDN Magic Word "carried" -- you are all getting too carried away with this. iPhone will not change the planet, just your pathetic lives.

And YES, the network does matter. When your iPhone craps out and can't get service, I'll let you borrow my Verizon Treo.

Homerpyle,

Thanks for stopping by to add your troll droppings.

Verizon network sucks too, you apparently haven't traveled enough to find out. There's no good networks in this country that are reliable everywhere.

At best, Verizon can be said to be "slightly less crappy" than Cingular/ATT, and that's rather subjective IMO, and depends where you are.

The iPhone doesn't need to change the world, but it does need to change the shitty cell phone industry, because they make crappy products. Apparently you're too used to them to notice, but they suck. If you don't want an iPhone, I could care less, there'll be millions of people who do.

And even you using your inferior phone will eventually benefit as every other phone manufacturer is forced to step up their game to compete with Apple, so even your future non iPhone device will be better because of Apple, you ungrateful bastard.

Oh, and you're welcome.

I really like LG products, they're feature-cost-quality is very competitive.


With that said, I'm going to buy a iPhone...well, the second release.

What till the iPhone has a problem and Apple is controlling the replacement and fixes, not AT&T;as your provider. Its funny no one is looking at issues that will surface with the AT&T;network comes into play. SLOW SLOW SLOW