Comments on: First post from iPhone 3G http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368556 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:02:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368556

tnkgrl, I am still with Verizon. I keep both carriers for reviewing all the different phones.

Mike, those books were purchased over almost 10 years.

]]> By: tnkgrl http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368557 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:05:53 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368557

Oh my James! You got an iPhone… Congrats :) What happened to your BlackBerry? Did you jump ship from Verizon?

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368558 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:36:08 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368558

How much $$$$ do those books represent!?!?

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368559 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:29:29 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368559

I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf. I LOVE reading books on the iPhone. :)

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368560 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:19:04 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368560

>>>several hundred books

HOLY COW!! How much have you spent there?! I’m just about to start a MASSIVE ebook post and this would be helpful info!

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368561 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:17:43 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368561

FIEND!!!!

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368562 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:08:22 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368562

txboris: for the moment, you have to purchase books on the eReader website. That puts the content in your online bookshelf. Click the Bookshelf button in the eReader client (and enter your eReader credentials the first time) to see your purchased titles. At that point, you can download them.

I suspect that a future client the Fictionwise folks told us about will offer direct purchases through the app, but for now, you have to buy from the website and then DL to the client. I already had several hundred books in my online bookshelf from the past five years, so I was able to pull down titles immediately.

]]> By: Jasen http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368563 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:36:27 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368563

I second the above statement.

]]> By: txboris http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368564 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:28:13 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368564

Okay so I’ve got eReader up and working on my iPod touch. Free books Last of the Mohicans and Tarzan of the Apes. Books load into the reader slowly compared to on my Axim.
Now how/when do I get books from eReader.com on my Touch?

]]> By: JimAtLaw http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368565 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:27:33 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368565

Yeah, I went to the store at the Grove here in L.A. at 1 p.m. and the line was egregiously long. I was told there were still people not in the store yet who had been there before opening time. I left and may or may not get one later depending on how the reviews play out.

BTW, can you use the “Wifi iTunes Store” when connected over HSDPA?

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368566 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:57:40 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368566

Oh, and should we expect your next post to be about how much better you are than the rest of us now that you have your iPhone?

:)

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368567 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:53:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368567

“I wonder if His Steveness recognizes the incredible aggregate waste of time he just caused.”

I was thinking the same thing as I read all the tweets from folks complaining about how much time they spent (wasted?) trying to get an iPhone. Wouldn’t surprise me if the 3rd quarter productivity numbers are down due to the fact that everyone was standing in lines all day yesterday

]]> By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368568 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:17:41 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368568

My Albino is sucking up 15GB of goodies as I type this. The 7 hour wait was BRUTAL on this category III cardiac patient but the Apple people told me chairs were not allowed on the waiting line.

And it isn’t just a phone: its a life saving device for me. First call I made, even before I left the store, was to 911. The operator got pissy with me and I told him the story of my adventures in the ER last week. He hung up! I calmed my tortured heart and called back, got the same operator. This time he was meek as a lamb and when I asked: did you get my GPS coordinates? HIs response was: yes sir, I have your GPS coordinates.

Yahoo! I instantly felt safer. Thank goodness Apple implemented this feature even if they couldn’t tell anyone they had (none of the Apple employees knew, or even cared ).

Someone volunteered for a tazering in front of the store during the long wait: tempers were getting short. They almost had to use the tazer on me to keep my heart ticking. It was a long brutal wait.

I was almost sorry we didn’t have a repeat of last years iPhone launch drug dealer big shot confrontation: “I sell lines, I don’t do lines!!!” :-)

Most of the folks were there for new phones, I had 2.0 loaded on my existing iPhone. I also had Texas Hold ‘em and was hoping for a partner to play a hand or two with but alas no one ever showed up.

]]> By: HG http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368569 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:13:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368569

Check your 3G iPhone. Some of them have a yellowish tint.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=516792

]]> By: Pam T. http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368570 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:45:47 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368570 If you want AT&T’s phone service, weezedog, you’re going to pay AT&T’s prices for it. They never offer “old” plans – if you have the plan and they discontinue it, you can still use it. But if you sign up for new service, you have to sign up for current plan pricing.

That’s the way it’s always been for me and I’ve been a customer of theirs since before they bought Cingular.

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-post-from/#comment-368571 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:24:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/first-post-from#comment-368571

7 hrs wait? Yikes! People, it’s a just a phone! And you might have been able to get it without much wait tomorrow, if these reports are right:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/11/apple-and-att-in-cahoots-over-fake-iphone-shortage/

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/11/att-stores-playing-nasty-with-their-iphone-3g-stock/

I wonder if His Steveness recognizes the incredible aggregate waste of time he just caused.

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