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Anyone want to bet they messed up and slipped the YT prototype into the original "How it works" commercial scene?

AIM should work via AIM express or Meebo.com (which is lame, but coudl be worse).

There's also a way to do AIM via SMS, but I forget the process.

w00t, how about that

Last edited by Phydeaux (2007-06-22 4:28 pm)

ConnertheCat wrote:

I know from AIM, you can send an SMS by using the screen name "+1.800.555.5555" - and that user can reply.

Totally different. This is using AIM functions through SMS.

bratboy wrote:

I don't personally use it, but doesn't the phone have iChat?

Their SMS feature looks like iChat, but it isn't.

I WANT IT

So, no video using the camera, and no usage of iPod tunes as ringtones?  And is that a SIM-slot cover I see on the top...?

Rik wrote:

So, no video using the camera, and no usage of iPod tunes as ringtones?  And is that a SIM-slot cover I see on the top...?

I'm pretty sure it has a sim slot but have no clue if that is the slot or not.

The tour looked fantastic. I can only wait until iPhones finally come to Japan as version 3 or 4.

That said, my cell phone has stopped recognizing button pushes and has become useless so I went to the local shop to check out new phones. We're totally G3 here so streaming TV, e-mail, Internet, even phone calls, are pretty much a given on just about all the phones. One even has a 5 megapixel camera--2 to 3 is standard. I still want an iPhone.

A couple of things struck me today. Some of my students are saying they upgrade yearly. My present phone is only a year and a half old, but broken is broken. The one before that lasted 4 or 5 years. The one before that about the same. The one before that fit in a suitcase. I wonder what the iPhone will be like. Will people start keeping them longer?

Second, my first cell phone was a $1000+, all the others have been basically $0. This time I'm looking at $600+. Pricing has completely changed. Cell phones are costing again. In that respect, the iPhone still looks VERY, VERY attractive!

All I can do is wait.

Cheers,
ptervin...on the other side

mo' ron wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

ConnertheCat wrote:

I know from AIM, you can send an SMS by using the screen name "+1.800.555.5555" - and that user can reply.

Totally different. This is using AIM functions through SMS.

I know about AIM and SMS but I want to avoid network data charges. I would like AIM over wifi.

Oh, indubitably. The same here, I don't want to memorize a bunch of commands if I don't have to, but I will. The reason I bring it up is that all the carriers are really pushing unlimited text these days, so why not?

maleko wrote:

ConnertheCat wrote:

bratboy wrote:

I don't personally use it, but doesn't the phone have iChat?

Their SMS feature looks like iChat, but it isn't.

There are already several web based, iphone optimised services that can connect you to AIM.

I want AIM/MSN/Yahoo/GTalk running in the background WHILE I surf. Or do whatever.

It's going to be an aesthetics thing. We'll see if it doesn't suck.

I mean, my Blackberry can have AIM/YIM running in the background and send me a dialog box letting me know if something needs my attention while I'm composing email or processing a form on the company's site. Or even while I'm on speakerphone.

Point is, these applications launch and stay going so long as I have signal on my Blackberry; I hate to think that I'm going to have to consciously go into a web browser, pull up a site, wait to ensure connection and go from there. And if I drop signal, and with GSM that's VERY LIKELY, for me to go about the process again? And again? No thanks.

maleko wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

It's going to be an aesthetics thing. We'll see if it doesn't suck.

I mean, my Blackberry can have AIM/YIM running in the background and send me a dialog box letting me know if something needs my attention while I'm composing email or processing a form on the company's site. Or even while I'm on speakerphone.

Point is, these applications launch and stay going so long as I have signal on my Blackberry; I hate to think that I'm going to have to consciously go into a web browser, pull up a site, wait to ensure connection and go from there. And if I drop signal, and with GSM that's VERY LIKELY, for me to go about the process again? And again? No thanks.

Yeah, chatting in a web browser on a phone is pretty lame.  I would have thought Apple could have worked out a better way to put 3rd party apps on the iphone.

Oh, and for me to clarify it's "VERY LIKELY" around here. For me. Your mileage may vary. Especially if you're not out in smurf.