To Buy or Not to Buy: The iPhone

Posted by Emily Farris

 

Scanner readers, I need your help.

I'm considering purchasing an iPhone. 

I recently switched to AT&T after a seven-year abusive relationship with Sprint. I purchased a Samsung BlackJack which is fine, or was fine until it had a major malfunction. The company replaced it for free but, yet again, my email isn't working so well. I've been considering getting an iPhone, but I don't think they're as sexy as everyone else does (and I'm completely devoted to Mac products). I really like my little raised keyboard and appreciate the fact that I can drop my phone three times a day and it still, somehow, miraculously works. However, I lost my iPod at camp, so think it's rather silly to buy a new iPod when I could just get an iPhone for $50 more....right?

For those of you who have them, what do you think? How's the battery life? Is the email feature really as great as everyone says it is? Will it get me laid? (Just joking. I sadly know it won't.)

Now, before you go blaming me for asking such a ridiculous question on Scanner, one advantage would be that I could blog from anywhere. So next time I see a topless lady on the street, not only could I snap a picture, I could post it right away. So there. 

Help? Please and thank you.

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Posted Sep 12 2008, 03:20 PM
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Comments

D said:

Ok. This is the entire reason to get an Iphone. I will share it with you now. You will always know where the closest bar is. You just type in "bar" in it's little search engine and poof! the gps finds you, and the bars closest to you. Amazing.

September 12, 2008 4:19 PM

dippy_gumball said:

the email feature really is all that.

the battery life is fine.  i go two days without charging before it does.

D, omg, i had no idea.  i have just fallen in love with you for sharing that.

September 12, 2008 6:22 PM

rachel said:

good: app store, e-mail, finding bars/restaurants/businesses quickly and easily, music, video, internet (of course).

bad: dropped calls, e-mail not as fast as a blackberry, no cut and paste

overall: i love mine but if i were a big phone person (talking, texting is fine) the dropped calls  would really piss me off. it drops calls whenever it switches networks.

September 12, 2008 7:06 PM

blondage said:

overall I love mine, but I have  few complaints. Dropped calls is the biggie. I am hoping that the next software update will take care of that, as does everyone else, but we'll see... it sucks. No cut and paste also sucks, as well as no text message forwarding. Apparently there are hacks for the last two, but I don't have the time to figure them out. If you need and iPod, too, I would recommend it highly. It is likely that these issues will be addressed soon.

September 12, 2008 8:25 PM

vagabondgrrl said:

I don't regret buying mine and it really is like walking around with the most important parts of my laptop in my pocket.

September 12, 2008 9:49 PM

Monique said:

I love my iPhone and don't have any dropped call problems, but I live in San Francisco. We're just cooler out here. With better ATT coverage to boot.

September 12, 2008 10:37 PM

Taylor Snyder said:

Agree with everyone else, great product, has some bugs, but thats expected when its a totally out of the box idea. And apple jumps on that pretty quick. :-)

If your cool with at&t its worth it. Thats what tends to keep people at bay.

September 14, 2008 7:42 PM

thinkywritey said:

I've had mine for a year and I use the hell out of it. I rarely talk on the phone, so I can't speak to that. However, Pandora has a free app that I use like crazy, I sync 11 email addresses to it, follow all my podcasts from my car, and I've been swapping photos with a random stranger in Melbourne, Australia, for three days. My chief complaint, as you can probably imagine, is battery life.

September 15, 2008 10:19 AM

Baron Von Monkeychow said:

If you want to be a slave to a machine, then by all means get one.

It's worse than the crack cocaine we call the internet...

September 15, 2008 12:50 PM

Mandy said:

I wasn't even considering one, but now after reading these comments...

*Highly suggestible*

September 16, 2008 2:30 PM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

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