3G iPhone $199 coming July 11

[leemajors]

I don't know how or why, but itunes automatically split up all my music and album covers and dumped the mp3s into it's their own new folder using ID3 tags that I hadn't edited, thereby rendering the editing and organizing that I had spent hours and hours doing, obsolete.

It didn't seem to respect that I had my music set up where and the way I wanted it and expected me to use itunes itself as my default gateway into my music collection. It really sucks because I put it on my computer for about 5 minutes to help a friends ipod. I'm sure there is a way to get itunes to not do that, but it, itunes shouldn't even exist in the first place.

And I know you like it and all things Apple, that's cool, whatever works right? But it just isn't ever going to be my personal cup of tea.

i actually prefer PCs myself, i have been building them for the last 13 years. if i had a load of cash, i'd get a Mac Pro in a heartbeat though and run windows and MacOS on it. I've just been working there the last three years. Using MacOS every day changed my opinion of it. The only time i had iTunes "mess" with my music is when i used it to import cds into my library - it does have its own way of arranging stuff i don't like.

[DarkReign]

I should have said storage, not memory, my bad. If Apple works for you cool, I don't mean to hate, but here's my deal-

My music library is 100+ Gig's and for the same price as an iphone I prefer to keep it on a USB device with no software, a full web browser, enough storage to hold it all plus movies and wirelessly stream video onto my TV, etc from my network hard-drive.
http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5...global&lang=en

As far as itunes goes- First, it shouldn't be necessary to begin with, so I hate it on general priciple. Secondly, in my limited experience it has tried to think for me and thus it royally ed up a music library I had spent hours upon hours editing.

This dude sums up a fairly similar problem pretty well-

Ahhhh, now I understand. Yeah, I do know what you mean by iTunes "thinkg for you" by re-editing the song info and collectively organizing similar but different random tracks. I turned that off on the first day.

Proprietary software is nothing new and will only get more popular in time. I'll save my pitchforks and torches of protest when they start charging for said software, is all.

[Jimcs50]

I got 3 of them in March for $499 each when our contract was up....now you can get a 16 Gig for $299 each that is even faster.

[leemajors]

I got 3 of them in March for $499 each when our contract was up....now you can get a 16 Gig for $299 each that is even faster.

the 3G data plan is $30/mo, and I don't think AT&T's 3G networks is anywhere close to the coverage of edge. I initially wanted to upgrade, but i'm willing to wait for 32GB at the least.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I got 3 of them in March for $499 each when our contract was up....now you can get a 16 Gig for $299 each that is even faster.

Hmmm, that stimulus check really would have helped.

[N.Y. Johnny]

the 3G data plan is $30/mo, and I don't think AT&T's 3G networks is anywhere close to the coverage of edge. I initially wanted to upgrade, but i'm willing to wait for 32GB at the least.

x1

I agree with you too. I have no problem paying 30 bucks a month for data. I do it on a blackberry plan I have on Verizon easily. Verizon and Sprint for that matter blanket Texas pretty good. I have EVDO 3G speeds everywhere I go.

The original iPhone has a $20 data plan with EDGE. It works almost everywhere in Texas that I've been around here, even in the Hill Country so its useful and I have no problem with it.

I will not be told by AT&T to pay $30 SPECIFICALLY for 3G a 10 buck bump up FROM 20 only to not have 3G available where I go. Its pathetic, I drive past the Dominion and I'm just on EDGE after that. AT&T's 3G is mainly all along I-35 some places in San Antonio and In Austin. Outside of SA and Austin you're hit or miss or out of luck. The network is really pathetic, thats why I won't use a PDA on AT&T. Sprint and Verizon have the better data network coverage down here and I have no problem paying them because I can actually use them. Its not like once I leave San Antonio I'm stuck on 1xrtt speeds.

[Jimcs50]

Hmmm, that stimulus check really would have helped.

You got that right, Johnny.

Seriously, I always buy right before they either come up with an improved one or the price goes way down....my timing sucks.

[CubanMustGo]

Everyone who has ever been an Apple fan should know Apple's rule 1:

Early adopters of cool new Apple technology pay through the nose for the privilege.

[Dex]

Everyone who has ever been an Apple fan should know Apple's rule 1:

Early adopters of cool new Apple technology pay through the nose for the privilege.

True.

Although I would venture to say that the same goes for any new technology and hardware. Apple has just been making some significant changes and pioneering new technologies over the past few years that are, obviously, going to come with their own new set of problems to solve, i.e. Intel compatibility, OS X 10.5 (which, I'm sorry to tell you Windows users, is what Vista is trying to be), iPhone, 802.11n wireless spec, Time Capsule / Time Machine backups, AppleTV, etc...

The general rule with technology is that it pretty much only gets better, faster, and cheaper with time. There will virtually always be something new out that is better than what you're currently running.

[Avitus1]

I am getting this... I've already decided and I cant wait...

[Brutalis]

I could careless what these phones do now days. As long as I can text, I am happy with it.

Seriously people waste their money on such needless gadgets these days. You do not need all that crap come on nowwwww

[Heath Ledger]

I won a 16 gig itouch at a web seminar todsy screw the ipgone