2008-07-21 07:58:41
Underwhelmed and emptyhanded.
2008-07-21 11:10:19
Guest: justin
lol what he didn't high five you while he was at it ? It's all official iSpeak .
2008-07-21 16:40:36
Indeed it does promise more than it can deliver at this point. Now that 2.0 has been jailbroken it's starting to become more useful...such as you can now use it to connect a laptop to the internet...but it's still more potential than function right now. If I didn't need one for dev, I probably would have held off at least until Sept or Oct.
I was in the mood for a spur of the minute purchase and asked the shop assistant about what I had to do. "Come back tomorrow" is an executive summary of her advice. They closed off the queue about two hours ago and there's still two dozen people waiting to be served before the store closes in 2hrs time.
But it wasn't an entirely wasted exercise. I finally got to go hands-on with an iPhone. And, to be honest, I was a bit let down. It promises so much, but it just looked like and felt like a toy to me. I'm having second thoughts (again).
I asked if they had plenty of 16GB black phones in stock, you know - should I change my mind, to which the iSalesDroid(tm) replied, "The security cage is full of them buddy. Just head down when you're ready."
Buddy? WTF?! This is Australia, mate. ;-)