[sw00p]

Excellent article; heavy on the facts and low on fluff and hype. Thank you.

[derbazooka]

Companies sell DIY battery replacements for the iPod - I imagine they'll help us out in this areas as well. I'm looking forward to the first adventurous soul who pops out the memory from their iphone and clones the content onto a larger card.

[Jason Snell]

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Wow you guys are really whipping yourselves into a frenzy over this one hey? Pages and pages on a product that already has pages and pages devoted to it, endless circles of the same information over and over...

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Yet you clicked on the article and then clicked through to the forum. Nobody forced you, you know.

[pdmarsh]

I hope the AirPort Settings area allows us to enter/save AirPort network names and passwords. Saving passwords in your keychain is important, but closed networks are invisible to the network and require entering the network name to access them.

[Mergatroidal]

Streaming the iPhones video over a NYC Public Library T1 ethernet, with a Titanium G4 667MHz w/512 MB, ... and my puppy gurgled a few more vocals before I terminated.
[image]http://homepage.mac....ges/iPhone1.jpg

I'm now downloading the video ...

[image]http://homepage.mac....ges/iPhone2.jpg
and one hundred plus seconds later the 170 MB are in ... though all my ram is gone too.
[image]http://homepage.mac....ges/iPhone3.jpg

So it goes.

The moral of the story here is: make alot of money. and upgrade!

The Leopard wall paper is ...? blase. Try these:
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant1.jpg
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant2.jpg
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant3.jpg
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant4.jpg
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant5.jpg
[image]http://homepage.mac....s/weeds/verdant6.jpg+
Enjoy, and keep up the good work at MacWorld ...!
P.S. If this post of mine seems out of place, ... well, I want to practice all the new functions I have on Graphic Converter. And I'm bored.

[newyorkrebel]

I have Bluetooth connectivity in my car for my present cell phone, and an iPod jack for my iPod that requires use of a cumbersome cable.
The iPhone is Bluetooth enabled, so will I be able to play music wirelessly through my car stereo via bluetooth connection??
I suppose the same would apply to bluetooth headphones for the iphone/ipod.
I think this is one of the potentially best features of the iPhone. But no one seems to be talking about it? Am I the only one who cares?

[ElianGonzalez]

What happens (I wonder) if you buy an iPhone, go home to activate it and you don't pass AT&T's credit check?

[PSM]

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But from what I hear, it seems to be true that it can't be used as a modem for your laptop and that is a shame.

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Can't be used as a modem? Argh, I was actually starting to consider being an iPhone early adopter again, as I'm in a very bad mood with Verizon right now. But saying it can't be used as a modem is as serious as saying it can't be used to make phone calls to me. In fact I'm sure I use my cell phone more as a modem than as a phone in any given day.
It's not just as simple as needing to send e-mails from my computer or something. What if an app running on my Mac needs to get online, to register itself or download an update or something? There are many situations where downloading something to the iPhone and then sending it to the computer won't work. And no, thanks, I don't want to buy and maintain a separate account for a broadband card which will then be sticking out of my MBP and complicating things. I have tethered with every phone I've owned in the last four years, and the majority of them were not even "smart" phones, but next to the iPhone they look like geniuses now.
Oh please, please, let there be an iPhone for serious users in the pipeline somewhere. I want to like it so much.

[TeaEarleGreyHot]

(1) I agree with others that not being able to use it as a modem is a drawback, but even more valuable would be if it could be used as a FAX/modem. As a totally unwired professional, I have no way to send the occasional facsimile to agencies which might require a FAX. The only way seems to be via internet services, but at present I'm unwilling to trust their confidentiality or reliability.
(2) I'm even more annoyed by the environmental specs. on the iPhone I just got from Apple's website:

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Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C)

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For goodness sake, it can't operate at ambient temperature on a hot day in Los Angeles????? 95 degrees Fahrenheit is NOT very hot, and many MANY people live, work, and recreate in those temperatures. Come on, Apple, not everyone spends their lives in air-conditioned cubicles!!! What about people living in the Northeastern US? Entire months go by in winter where you're lucky if it warms up to 32 F. So Bostonians or Buffalo residents can't use their iPhone outside in a snowstorm??? That's downright unsafe--people rely on phones for emergency communication. And I guess Alaskans can forget about the iPhone totally. And a non-operating limits of -4 F and 113 F are similarly ridiculous: a phone ought to be able to survive being locked in an automobile parked in San Diego on a summer day!!! Or being left overnight in a car in Minneapolis in January! These specs are TOTALLY outrageous!

[davidtrpt]

To answer my own question, "Yes!" The iPhone allows me to do essentially everything that I can do on the iMac to interactively use Safari to monitor accounts, make purchases, check into forums that need account information to join, etc. Of course, I need to be mindful of security problems, but the good news is that I can do what I need to be able to do.
After joining the line at our local AT&T store, my wife and I walked out slightly more than 2 hours later with an 8GB iPhone - the last one the store had in stock! And everything works as advertised! Happiness!
Dave

[newyorkrebel]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it is built in BT. This is a feature Apple needs to take advantage of. Getting rid of the plug between the iPod and car stereo (any stereo for that matter) by using a wireless connection IMHO would inspire a whole new wave of iPod/iPhone sales.