Comments on: Goodbye Ol’ Faithful First-Gen iPhone. Enjoy Life With the Kids.

By: Walt Davis

Walt Davis — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:57:56 +0000

How do you make those deactivated iPhones into iPods?

By: hollottastuffis

hollottastuffis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:30:17 +0000

the phone has the ability t be activated, ONLY if you have a sim first of all, and yes the sim has to be recognized and validated by att, and on top of it they would be required to contact att, in either 1 way or anotther from what i understand to start a plan requiring them to steal information like ssn’s so… in so many words, HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLETS MOM AND DAD!!! :0)

By: Phil Lee

Phil Lee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:26:37 +0000

I’ve pre-ordered a 32GB 3GS here in the UK. It will be my first iPhone so I’m busily reearching the move away from Windows Mobile.

I really need to work on a good strategy for keeping my 2 Macs and the iPhone in sync. I have been using BusySync to sync multiple Google calendars between the two Macs and GooSync to sync the calendars to my Vario III. The Vario uses push email to my hosted Exchange server and the Macs access it via IMAP. The only thing not synching at the moment are contacts. This works well but costs me ~$10 a month.

I’m trying to decide between keeping my hosted Exchange account or switching to Google Apps for my email. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:53:52 +0000

Let me reiterate and say good points on Apple being a relatively new player in the phone business. Not sure about 70s engineering – that electronic handheld football game wasn’t much. ;)

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:52:43 +0000

Very good points. Sometimes I forget that.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:52:06 +0000

I’m on the fence. I too have a gen 1 EDGE iPhone. However, I didn’t get it at launch and that supposedly contract-free refurb phone upgrade (Blackjack 2) added 6 months to my term. So I’m looking at a May 2010 $200 3GS. Of course, I won’t wait that long. I’m getting a new phone this summer. It’s yet to be seen if AT&T keeps my business. If I’m paying $400 or $500, I can break my contract for less and get any other premium phone on other networks.

By: Alfredo Mora

Alfredo Mora — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:41:16 +0000

Thank you!

Great article, you make me smile :-)

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:28:55 +0000

I look forward to your comments on the “S” Kevin – as a nonfanboi ;)

I’m up for the subsidy in August and on the fence if it’s enough to move from my 3.0 updated 3G…

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:08:47 +0000

I’m getting a 32GB as well. As for my good ol’ first-generation iPhone, it goes to my daughter.

I’m letting AT&T handle my 3G S order. It’s a decision I may regret, but either way I’ll have something to write about.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:49:45 +0000

It’s absolutely no problem using a deactivated iPhone as an iPod Touch. I have two 1st generation phones that I gave to my kids when my wife and I upgraded to the 3G version. For my two 10 year olds, they love the device more then their DS’s. Plus, I can always be a hero, since it would take 50-60 $.99 to $1.99 game apps to equal the cost of a new DS cartridge for each of them.

In other words, I could buy them each a game every week – if I were so inclined, and it would take me half a year before I was up to the cost of a DS game for each.

The activation screen only appears when the device is turned off and then on, hard reset or the firmware updated. All you have to do is just slide the screen to on, and the message disappears. In other words, it is a total non-issue. Right now I am managing 4 devices through a single iTunes account and freely sharing and swapping apps through the various devices without any issue. It couldn’t be easier.

By: D9

D9 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:34:35 +0000

I’m going to hold onto my original iPhone. Something tells me this will be a collector’s item in a few years as a symbol of the “phone” that dramatically changed mobile communications.

By: John in Norway

John in Norway — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:31:41 +0000

I still haven’t found anything that could replace my Nokia E90. While I think it’s the best phone/PC ever, it does have one or two annoying ‘features’.

By the way, Quickoffice are offering a free upgrade to version 6 on E series devices at the moment!

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:01:38 +0000

I think it says more about marketing than anything else…and using a monopoly position in one market (Mp3 players) in order to enter another market. The iPhone is a flawed phone…especially in the area of email and calendaring…which are core capabilities of a smartphone. It has taken to version 3 before it even has cut and paste. Slowly they are adding features which have been available in other phones for a long time.

I have one for business and I often miss my old HTC phone. I hope that the OS 3 upgrade will resolve many of the current missing functionality.

By: Andy P

Andy P — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:28:14 +0000

Good Decision. I am still amazed that in 2 years that those big phone companies and their huge army of developers (you know who you are) have not come close to toppling a small company that never made a phone before. Simply amazing. I think that Apple still being on top says more about just how bad the majority of phone makers really are. There are just so many bad engineers today it is unbelievable, this was not the case back in the seventies when I graduated.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:22:47 +0000

We do have one central iTunes library now: it resides on a 320GB USB drive attached to my MB at the moment and it is shared. Tyler has a MBP where he lives with his mom, so his device isn’t my concern. That leaves three devices (2 new, 1 old) here, so we won’t bump into the 5 device limit. Unless we adopt more kids (or more iPhones) we should be safe for the time being.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:15:48 +0000

Once I put down the new iPhone 3G S after the Friday arrival, will do, Rick!