04/18/2007, 7:55pm, EDT
Wednesday, April 18th
AT&T says 1m customers waiting on iPhone
"Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good," said AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson. "The iPhone is on target to launch in June."
While in Boston to speak at a Boston College Chief Executives' Club luncheon, Stephenson told Reuters that more than 1 million customers have said that they would like to buy one of the phones when they're available for purchase, but said he was not sure how many iPhones will be available at launch.
"We're sorting through that right now," he said. "We got a million people waiting to buy it so we're hoping we get a million."
AT&T is the exclusive carrier in the US, while recent reports indicate that Vodafone is mostly likely to carry the device in Europe.
Earlier on Wednesday, reports emerged that Sling Media has actively discussed the possibility of streaming media to its upcoming iPhone with one company executive saying that he would "love to support" streaming iTunes music and video to the cellphone.
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Maybe YOU are waiting for cost info (the article didn't qualify their statment; you did). But don't project your situation into everyone else's. Count me in as one waiting to BUY.
Easy. Buy one on the first day! Before you scream "Apple fan boy", remember this: Apple has released the first usable phone for the 21rst century, as far as I'm concerned. Well worth the cost.
This product can't come soon enough.
Don't know what you're definition of "usable" phone is, but my $50 samsung is certainly usable. I can make calls (hey, I can dial the thing without looking at the screen, try that with a fancy touchscreen) without any problem at all. It can stand up to the torture put on a cell phone. And it easily fits in the coin pocket in my jeans.
Get an iPhone, you'll need a case, you'll have to treat it with kid gloves, and exactly where can you carry it?
The problem is, the phones today (I've got a RAZR, bought years ago) try to do too many things they're not good at. All of these modern, 21rst century phones that do text, web, email, etc don't do them well at all. As a matter of fact, they flat-out suck at it. I've looked for alternatives that actually do phone calls plus all of those features of 'modern' cell phones really well, but there aren't any. Not even close. Not without getting into 'smart-phone' categories, and even they are..... ugh. Don't get me started.
iPhone is exactly what I'm looking for. Hell, it's more or less everything I'm looking for. And don't think I haven't thunk about the trade-offs.
It's just worth it to me.
Oh. There is ONE bad thing about the iPhone. When I get it, my gf is going to be pissed. She wants one, too. Hopefully she doesn't want one bad enough to kill me as I sleep. :)
You do a great job of describing the elegance of having a small phone in your pocket. But with that logic and lack of vision, you could argue that the Yugo was a great car. "It drives and fits in my garage!"
That is the genius of ignoring the big picture by myopically presenting limited facts.
The iPhone is not just a phone, it is a widescreen iPod and an internet device that runs OSX and Safari and can intelligently navigate entire webpages unlike ANYOTHER handheld device. If merely making phone calls was the only issue, then I'm sure you can convince all of the Blackberry users to give up their devices and that all households should return to phones with rotary dials.
Put that in your change pocket, nidget! The iPhone will be staying in my shirt pocket.