Quine

Quine

JCtheMC

flxrms

It's a great feeling to know that in Japan you can get a cell phone and plan for no more than 1000 yen/month (around $10) and it does more than a $600 iPhone. And if you want an 8GB model, just stick in an 8GB miniSD card. Apple definitely missed the mark here. All they had to do was visit the SoftBank homepage and compare, but that might have forced them to redesign the iPhone.

spanko

regateir

You can always do their little trick to exclude all iPhone news when you go to their site (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not:iphone), but it will probably be a blank page x)

DeadPlasmaCell

SomeRandomGuy

All day Wednesday is in Barker Hangar for me, but because the show floor opens at, like, 1pm, I don't know how much free time I'll have there to just wander.

Thursday and Friday are in the hotels; I've got some gaps, but I don't know if I'll be able to use any of those for Barker Hangar. Thursday, mebbe, but Microsoft swallowed the rest of my Friday with last night's bookings.

Just one to go, though. Light at the end of the tunnel!

jallen

I nominate the above for this week in quotes.

Jonathan in Kichijoji

Come to Europe and Asia to see real advanced phones. You guys in america have been starved with your Treos, crackberries and motorolas for too long.

joncoffee

The phone is $600 with a 2 year contract.

okenny

Also, am I the only one who would rather have a separate PDA and phone like I do now? I can use my PDA for internet, music, etc and now worry about my phone dieing in a few hours when I really need it. The best part with the iPhone is that if you are using it, it won't last the whole day and you can't even swap the battery or get a high capacity one because of Apple's insistence that their customers are too stupid to actually do anything themselves with their products.

Darkest Daze

I've actually sworn off of Giz and Engadget for a few days to see if they come to their senses.

If they don't, it's a big internet.
Plenty of places to explore still.

strider_mt2k

Yea, the Giz site starts sucking during an event that has to do with Apple.. Unless you're an iFanboy, then their coverage is probably the tits.. I mean come on who really wants to see 500 stories about "watch us unbox our iPhone" or "Watch us use our iPhone #58" or "Download our audiobook version of the iPhone manual" Hopefully the iFad will die down sooner rather than later so we can get some other tech stuff reported on.

DeadPlasmaCell

That site is shot in the ass for anything else anymore.

KEEP IT REAL KOTAKU!!

strider_mt2k

Overlord44

@Padriac: Maybe in the US, but the N95 can cost as low as *free* with a one year contract here in Europe.

@TonyRockyHorror: Welcome to the do it all phone club (not)!

I've been doing that since like 2004! Including surfing Kotaku on my phone full HTML. Maybe once your phone gains MMS, video call, copy & paste, video recording, GPS, replaceable battery...

JonC

I mean honestly, if you want an mp3 player, buy an Ipod, or a Zen Touch. I know theres more features then just music, but it all seems a bit much for me. $500-600 a pop for a phone? I just use mine to call people, and thats it.

It does look pretty nice tho, I will wait till the price goes down, or at least wait for a later model. Just like the Ipod, I'm sure the first generations will have problems.

BenLinus

After the hype your bill wil be looking really fat and your stuck with no 3G and no dicount for a 2yr contract plus how ridiculous is it that you have to use your laptop to get music and video. iPhone 2? Can you hear me now.

stennex

William "Killer" Shatner

You know what, $500 doesn't sound that bad. Are iPhones still available?

Padriac

Aah, the typical fanboy response: "My opinion is fact and if you disagree, f-off"

DeadPlasmaCell

jleizer

Wish I could say the same thing, I still have a few that I'm trying to round up. If I don't get them I don't think it'll be such a big deal since I can check out what they'll be offering in the Hanger.

Going to definitely be an interesting few days, that's for sure.

Nintendo Gal

I, too, am among the happy ranks of journalists who believe (fingers crossed) that the booking of appointments is finished. Now if only I would receive one of those Killzone 2 invites, I'd be set. I suppose I shouldn't be greedy though. After all, I am required to write something about almost every game I get my hands one.

jleizer

Interesting post. You cautiously defend the product from your point of view by saying it's worth every penny to you, and no one can convince you otherwise.

so far so good.

Then you drop on f-bomb on a guy for having his own opinion.

Don't be such an ass.

FlapjacksAreTasty

You two kids have a lot to talk about!

FlapjacksAreTasty

ROFL_Copter

OMG! Ponies!

Scrapple

I wonder if I'll be able to exchange the PSP skin for an iPhone skin in PS3's Home navigator? :P

okenny

blu-ray would massively increase the size of that thing. It'd be an iPhoneBooth.

jallen

Seriously, what's the battery life on this thing?

okenny

I'm a full-time OSX user, at home and in the ofice. I have an extensive collection of music in iTunes, I don't do a lot of texting on phones, so the virtual keyboard is a non-issue; I don't need 3G as I'm pretty much near a wifi hotspot all day anyway, so I'll take the improved battery life; as i said before, I've been with Cingular/AT&T for more than 4 years now, happily so with no problems in the entire time, and I saved up the money for it; it allows me to carry one device instead of a RAZR and a nano(my previous setup); and the software and browser on it are extremely responsive and polished.

So yeah, worth every penny to me, and no amount of facts and figures or some jerkoff's negative review can devalue the iPhone's usefulness and elegance vis á vis my needs and situation.

In short: Fuck off; you don't know what you're talking about.

TonyRockyHorror

I'm just about done with my own scheduling. Got one company that's offered slots and I've responded, just awaiting confirmation, and got another that I'm not to the 'slots' stage yet.

Got my invite to the Nintendo press briefing today, though. Yay.

jallen

Worth every penny?? hah

DeadPlasmaCell

It fits all of my needs and wants. So keep on hating all you haters. I bought mine after careful consideration and planning.

TonyRockyHorror

A $600 phone. I always thought it sounded like some kind of joke, personally.

Do Kesubei

1. The logo is too small.

2. There is too much space inbetween lines of text.

whitehawk

xerxes7

Gamer Named Tim

sectionz

PaulLev

All of this hype for a freaking phone? I don't care how cool it looks, it's a goddamn phone people...And it isn't even a 3g phone, which means there will be a new one shortly. We all could wait for that...And the other yearly revisions.

heretrix

@Sabre_Justice: I agree with you I have never owned an apple product and now that I take time to think about it this is the reason why.

@Atheist Jew: Yes when it comes to communications, phone or internet, Japan has the united states beat down.

Heihachi.vs.Kazuya

Heihachi.vs.Kazuya

Jeez. THIS is why I don't have an iPod.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

-Spirit-of-

Me, ill save it for the PS3 when I can afford it.

Hand_O_Death

Atheist Jew

raison

DaveKap

Also, work on the battery life so we can get 3g instead of edge.

AlcoholicZombie

Nickatiah

TheJordanator

SomeRandomGuy