Lets assume everyone can get there hands on one for simplicity. State you carrier and a yes or no on whether you would switch to the iPhone.
Verizon
Yes
Verizon.
I might buy one as an interesting platform to develop applications for, but I don’t even use the cell phone I’ve got for more than 20 minutes a month so I wouldn’t buy it because I want a new phone. I hope that clears things up 
US Cell.
Not buying one.
Sprint…not likely
Bernie
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AT&T, no wait it changed to cingular, oh yeah cingular is the new AT&T, and no I will not be buying an iphone.
Verizon Treo 700w.
Will be buying one but after the first few week rush.
I’m with Tmobile, but i get a discount on ATT service. I am tempted to switch b/c of that and b/c the iPhone is soooo fricking cool!
Blackberry 8800 > iphone unless you really want to listen to music on your phone.
(AT&T here).
from today’s WSJ:
“Two-thirds of mobile-phone users who are interested in purchasing the iPhone aren’t AT&T customers but would be willing to switch carriers to obtain the device, according to a survey in May of about 11,000 cellphone users by M:Metrics Inc., which tracks wireless industry trends.
The carrier with the most to be concerned about is T-Mobile USA, according to the survey, with 12.5% of its customers expressing a high interest in the phone; followed by 8.1% for Sprint Nextel Corp.; and 6.7% for Verizon Wireless. T-Mobile is seen as especially vulnerable because it has a high share of users in the 18-to-24 age group.”
I’m not interested in the iPhone. However, the iPhone 2.0 is something that I would definitely buy. For me, this is pretty much the ideal device. Right now, I have a cell phone, an iPod, and a PDA in my pocket all at once. I want to have all of them at once, but it just takes up too much room. Having all of these in one device is something that I’m really looking for. However, the current smart phones don’t quite have all of these features. Also, I think the interface on the iPhone is pretty damn slick as well. Plus, it has high speed internet on it. Well, one thing about the iPhone 2.0 is hopefully that it’ll have UMTS which is a high speed wireless protocol for cell phones. Right now, most high speed Internet access on cell phones is EDGE I believe which is a lot slower than UMTS.
TMobile
Hell yes! I need to see when my TMo contract is up. I have everything else Mac.
You don’t have Apple in the list of stuff that rocks in your sig.
I’m on Cingular/AT&T and I use a Mac and an iPod and love Apple and all that stuff, but I won’t be buying an iPhone. The cost is a little sttep, plus I really only need a phone that actually calls people. I don’t particularly need all that extra stuff, although it looks pretty cool.
I agree that for my personal life, there is no reason to have a phone this fancy. But for work, it would be so convenient to have an iPhone. I review a lot of things that come to me on links - oftentimes video or audio links. I also use a Blackberry for any out-of-the office type communication, and this would blow that away. A lot of the emails that I send or receive contain attachments, and Blackberries just suck with attachments.
It would also make my work life a lot better if my co-workers had iPhones… I lose a lot of time waiting for people to be able to get to a computer to review a PDF…
You don’t have Apple in the list of stuff that rocks in your sig.
Fixed it for you.
And I agree w/austin79–Blackberries and attachments SUCK!
And I agree w/austin79–Blackberries and attachments SUCK!
Have you seen any real-world reviews of how the iphone does attachments? I agree that BBs don’t do attachments well (especially pdfs and excel files).
But without a Blackberry server and BB email I’m not sure how meaningful “being good at attachments” will be for the iphone. Yahoo and gmail clients are nice at all (I have them on my BB as well) but enterprise BB server is the bomb…
Also, the gps in the 8800 is pretty sweet. I’ve seen the iphone commercials showing off the google maps app. Well, thats already available and the version with gps (no avail on iphone) shows you exactly where you are as opposed to being just a “dumb” map. Kinda nice when you want to get somewhere from wherever you happen to be.
No Cell Phone.
So ah no
I’m a little out of touch with some of the technology stuff now a days. I pretty much use my cell phone for calls and that’s about it (although I do like to use the handy tip calculator mostly because it drives my wife crazy!). Are you saying that people actually try to open .pdf files and similar on their phones? I think that would drive me bonkers trying to read something like that on that little screen.
Bernie
iPhone screens are maybe a little bigger than a business card or about the size of a deck of cards - not nearly as small as a cell phone screen. the screen has a sensitive touch panel that allows you to zoom in easily (so they say) to see parts of the website up close. if you rotate the phone 90 degrees, the screen automatically reformats to show your webpage/photo/whatever in a more horizontal format. Apple has some pretty cool animations on their website of how it works.
I’m on Alltel and use a PPC-6700 (I’m posting from it now). I tried Cingular a few years ago when they bought out the old TDMA sevice I was on then and returned the phone the next day when I found out how poor their service was around here. No switch for an Apple toy for me.