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Dave
July 4th, 2007 at 8:26 AM
HE HAS JOINED TEH DARK SYDE!
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Pauley
July 4th, 2007 at 1:53 PM
“Join the Dark Side. We have cookies.”
– Pauley
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Kirsten
July 4th, 2007 at 8:55 AM
OMG, you are about to discover the tender mercies of being a Cingular (now AT&T wireless) customer…
Good Luck! (you’ll need it!)
(Hot tip. They use GSM for a digital transmission medium, it’s basically TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) with Spread Spectrum band-width tacked on. If you are in a weak signal area and have to make a call, shut the phone off, wait 10 seconds or so, switch it back on to force a re-synch with the time-base of your local cell tower and it will work MUCH better!)
(knowledge gained through much use of T-Mobile’s network which is also GSM based and works way better than anyone else’s network on the East and West Coasts…)
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Pauley
July 4th, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Oh, I know all about GSM v. CDMA (switching from Verizon). But thanks for the tip.
– Pauley
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Ross Karchner
July 4th, 2007 at 9:07 AM
hate.
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Pauley
July 4th, 2007 at 1:58 PM
Love you too, buddy.
– Pauley
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andy
July 4th, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Since you don’t need that clunky old Treo anymore, you should send it my way. Free.
;p
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Pauley
July 12th, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Sure. Shipping will be $150.
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K4
July 6th, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Why?!?
That is a serious question. I do not understand the hype or why it sold 500 K the first weekend. It’s a nice phone, but it seems to me that there is a good number of unknowns and also a lot of things that it should have and does not.
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Pauley
July 12th, 2007 at 12:53 AM
True, there are a lot of unknowns, but more information is coming out all the time as people explore the phone. I got mine in large part because I didn’t have to pay for it (Thanks, Yvonne, I love you! ;)), and also because the monthly bill will be about $20 cheaper.
As for the overall buzz… I think a lot of people are interested in having the all-in-one device, and having it just work. More often than not, Apple hardware does just that — it just works.
– Pauley
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Yvonne
July 12th, 2007 at 3:17 AM
You’re welcome.
As for the buzz, most companies sell products. Apple, on the other hand, sells feelings. No, I’m not crazy, but unfortunately I don’t remember where I found the article that explains this. Feelings…digital experiences…even fashion statements, lately they certainly know how to make good products and market them successfully. The fact that they can make people intensely crave something that doesn’t even exist yet is pretty amazing.
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K4
July 11th, 2007 at 10:35 AM
The iPhone: Will it blend?
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
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Pauley
July 12th, 2007 at 12:40 AM
Wow… it kept running for a while, too… I’m curious what happened to turn it into such a finely ground powder… battery combustion?
– Pauley
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Dave
July 12th, 2007 at 9:56 AM
My guess would be the LiIon battery. Having witnessed plenty of controlled destructive tests of LiIons, I can say with certainty that (upon combustion) they definitely release enough energy to cause this result!
When a LiIon is catastrophically punctured by a conductor (in this case, presumably by the blender’s metallic blade or some metallic portion of the phone’s frame) it rapidly enters thermal avalanche. The reactants deliver a very large localized instantaneous current to the short, causing heating of both the cell material and the conductor causing the short. The rapid temperature rise results in combustion of the cell, starting at the puncture point and flash-expanding radially.
What amazed me was that the combustion appeared to consume all of the phone’s materials except the metal frame - including the plastic shell, the LCD and glass, the components, copper traces, and the printed circuit board substrate!
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K4
July 16th, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Also for reference: http://www.applehound.com/node/104
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Pauley
July 16th, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Cool, thanks for the link. Bookmarked.
– Pauley
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Chris
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 PM
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Pauley
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Heh, yeah, no images in comments, sorry.
– Pauley
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Chris
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:48 PM
Bummer!
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Chris
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 PM
ZOMG! U GOTZ iPHONE!
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