I’m seriously considering getting myself a G1 for Christmas.
Looking on eBay, the iPhones still seem to fetch quite a chunk of change. It may be that they could pay for the whole thing.
Getting really bored with the iPhone.
The good part about that is that I’ve got all the other phones I’ve had in the last few years in a box (well… in several boxes strewn about the apartment.)
I’m thinking about going back to a symbian phone, maybe the Nokia N95.
I’ve been seeing crap like this all over:
Long lines of disgruntled customers wrapped around city blocks across the globe today as Apple scrambled to fix a glitch in iTunes that prevented iPhone acolytes from activating the next-generation phones they had waited hours, even days, to buy.
from ABC News
It’s insane. People’s expectations are utterly foolish. I have no sympathy for these fools. I had the same issues. It was a little frustrating certainly, but it cleared up and worked within a few hours.
Entitlement culture ftl.
Ok, it’s up. Apparently it was just waiting to activate.
I’ve been able to download a few applications via wi-fi connection to my home network, so I’ve got Jott, Bloomberg, the google app and weatherbug at the moment.
I haven’t been able to get it to play nicely with the itunes store at all, but that’s due to the original server-side issues.
A couple thoughts on the device itself:
- The button is a little too soft-touch. The 1.0 had a nice definitive click, but this one feels a bit more flimsy. I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
- The “keyboard” is tough to get used to again. After a year with a normal 0-9 phone it’s going to frustrate the crap out of me.
- Sound quality is a little odd. It definitely sounds like there’s noise reduction and signal processing going on. That may prove to be effective, dunno. I’ve so far only had one call.
- It’s thicker and heavier than the 1.0.
But it’s a lot prettier.
I’ve played around with the accelerometer (you really don’t wanna know) and it’s much more responsive than my original as far as when it switches the interface on and off. That was my primary frustration with the 1.0 device.
I haven’t noodled with any of the standard applications much yet. But I assume they’ll be fine or marginally better.
I’m interested to see some of the “automatically post your pics as you take them, with geocoding” applications working. I don’t see a flickr one though, which seems…stupid.
The store is full of pretty interesting applications. Something close to 1000 of them. A lot of very useful looking ones are free and the price point of the others is from $0.99 to $10 for the lion’s share, with the predictable “and up” factor for some delusional vendors.
I’ll keep you updated.
