"If anything it' the CDMA nature of most US cell phone companies"

Very true. The iPhone is the first locked phone I've bought in a while. I had a unlocked Treo 650 (not hacked) and a unlocked European Nokia N80 (not hacked). I liked the fact that I could swap SIMs out and such, especially when it came to going to other countries. As far as the OS? Yeah, they are crap. If you clicked on a contact in my Nokia, you could count to 6 or 7 before the info would even come up. They both froze a lot and had crappy battery life. I love my iPhone so far, but it still leaves some things to be desired, like Flash support, removable battery, etc. It's a damn good start though.

....Period. They are a very bad combo. That guy probably would have been fried even if he wasn't wearing headphones and a iPod. I was going to say you were picking on Apple when I remembered, who the hell jogs with a Zune anyway?

What a pain in the ass that you waited in line that long for something you intended to return. I love mine, and contrary to the Apple haters, it's not a piece of crap. (neither are my other Apple products)

Either way, a small correction: You can change wallpaper! I do it all the time. You can use the ones on the phone or from any photo on your computer.

I found this guy lurking around a Salon's Machinist page spouting nonsense and thought for sure he was a wing-nut:

Realname wrote:

"Does that shit talking mean anything Or are you just a shit talker? Seriously. So you don't like me? Bully fuck all for you, child. Now go bang your bong addled head against the wall, fuckwit. I=i'm sorry that I didn't drink your haterade but now piss off."

-- RealName

Permalink Friday, July 6, 2007 07:19 AM

My response to RealLame:

"Does that shit talking mean anything"

Yes, it does.

"Or are you just a shit talker?"

Nope. I was exposing you as one though. For example:

"I would fire the moron who over produced them" and "Who wants the first batch anyway?"

Do you live in a cave? It's well over 500,000 sold in a week. Even the RAZR didn't start with such a big lead.

"Seriously. So you don't like me? Bully fuck all for you, child. Now go bang your bong addled head against the wall, fuckwit. I=i'm sorry that I didn't drink your haterade but now piss off."

Hahaha...sounds like you did drink some haterade. For the record, I never said I didn't like you. It's also very amusing to see you call me a child while you're acting like one. Who is the shit talker now?

Btw, you write like an angry Republican blogger: Accusing someone of something you are guilty of doing, name calling, swearing, telling people to hurt themselves, rage, spouting non-facts as truth, etc. Well, I hope you enjoy reading Salon, even if it is bad for your blood pressure.

-- johnnyrandom

I think I smell an angry little troll. More postings from Real Lame:

http://letters.salon.com/71280fbf8b1642d7198259af2534904e/author/

Real Lame, do you have a job?

I haven't noticed any of the flaws/bugs listed on that site. I keep hearing about crashes, but I haven't had one yet. The only thing I noticed that annoyed me was that after playing a video, a prompt always asks if you want to delete it to save space. If you're watching lots of short clips, this becomes tedious. Other than that, it still blows away all of my past phones.

Besides, if you go to the link and see what they call a "bug", you'll see it's not. For instance:

"The phone vibrates when switched to silent mode (the Ring/Silent switch is located on the side of the iPhone), but does not provide audible feedback when exiting silent mode."

That isn't a bug. They just didn't design the phone to beep when switched back. The tactile feedback and the screen telling you it's switched back is enough. Either way, Farhad has to post "There are 68 iPhone bugs"...the iPhone bashing is getting tiresome, Manjoo. Why don't you compare this phone to the ones Nokia, Motorola and Palm put out? I had a Treo that would crash even when I wasn't performing a function, blocking incoming calls. My $600 Unlocked Nokia N80 was painfully slow and absurdly unintuitive.

The latest posting by Real Lame is literally coming out of a toilet. Washlet graphics!

If you read every letter about this article, you'd think the USA was the only country in the world! How are these issues dealt with in Europe? Japan? Korea?

...The little words in the backdrop: "slavery", "fear", "lies"...genius. Interesting how Fox Noise labels Republicans caught in scandals as Democrats or Obama as Osama Bin Laden.