Will you buy the new iPhone?

Where is the NO I will not every buy that phone option?

Theres an "No, I have no interest in the iPhone" option to select. But come on, would'nt you get this if it were $200 or less?

will ichat be installed (or any IM client for that matter)?

I'll get one. But after they are on the market for a little while.

I'll be ditching my treo 700w for it.

ANd what the hell is with the storage size. WHeres the 80G?

I'd totally buy it if offered through t mobile.

I want it so badly. It's almost an addiction to wanna get one. I hope some how they can unlock it to other carriers.

Nope. I'd love to see it but I just recieved a Sprint Samsung A640 for Christmas. I already have iPods anyway...

Personally, all I use my phone for is calls. I've tried to use it as an MP3 player, among other things, but just can't do it. I use my phone for calls, my camera for photos, and my mp3 player for playing mp3's. Unless the price comes down, and there is compelling reason to switch, I won't be purchasing one any time soon.

I want to buy it sim-free and unlocked...

ASAP copping one as soon as Jobs releases thicker iPhone 100GB HD model.

RCA output iLuv-style bottom pack would be official too.

I'll probably buy it if it's AIM compatible. If it's not I think that would be the breaking/selling point for me. The internet's all fine and dandy but not having AIM would definitely suck. It's the thing I use the computer for the most. I mean, I go on forums and myspace and facebook and all that junk but AIM is really my number one priority. If they don't have it I'd totally be alright with just getting a sidekick or something. I have the SLVR and I'm due for a new phone sometime soon anyways. I HATE that the gigs are so small but whatever, there's no use complaining. We KNOW it's not a lot. I have 20 gigs and I hate rotating music say if I borrow my father's nano (my iPod just broke.) But I guess I'd be okay with an iPod and an iPhone. It'd be better if it were two in one, but hey whatever. It'll happen soon.

No...

1. Cingular...they are the devil and I have no interest in going back...When a national comercial advertises free mobile to mobile for "all" customers but then customer services says "no" you must upgrade your package to over twice your current plan payment to be eligable I told them to go back to the hell they came from...not to mention frequent outages...crazy billing (my card was charged 4 times one month which took forever to un do) and hour or more waits for customer service...HELL NO...never again

2. Price...sure I can afford 600 dollars...but thats more than my car payment...or the rent on my first apartment...10 years ago...I just think of 100 things I would rather own at that price point other than a phone...it makes the ps3 look reasonable which is insane

3. small size hard drives...what the point of full screen if you can fill it with movies?

4. I have a sidekick...its pretty nifty in its own right...it doesnt have video, but other than that it rocks...tmobile is great...it works everywhere...my plan is affordable...unlimited data is 20 a month...the internet is quick and it has the qwerty keyboard...

As much as the iPhone looks.. interesting, I won't be buying it. I'm perfectly happy with my nano and cell phone, and won't be buying anything different unless they break. Even then, I'm not going to spend $500 for something like that. I barely ever use my phone so.. spending that much money on something that I will more than likely only use for the music and sometimes the int. (when I could just as easily get a labtop with a bigger screen to read things on) is not something I will be doing.

That and the fact that I wouldn't have enough money to spend on something like this.

You'd think the screen would get all fingerprint-y, as well. I haven't read up much on the iPhone, though, so if there is something that prevents fingerprints getting on the screen, sorry that I missed it.

I am assuming they would have one of those touch-screen pointers along with it, however.

You took the words right out of my mouth

I won't buy the iPhone until it has 80gbs flash, is available on something other than cingular (prepaid preferably) and has a decent price

Short answer: no.
Long answer: nnnnnoooooooooooo...

Seriously though, a phone that costs $500-600 on top of a 2-year contract?
I only took my current phone on an 18 month contract because I'm getting cashback that makes it free for the first 9 months and the phone came free as a part of that too.

Also, what sort of rip-off price is it going to be sold for in the UK?
I mean, $500-600 is ~250-300 but in never works like that. Things are never the same price as they are in the US< they're always more expensive, so how much are we going to be talking?

I have a 60gig 5g ipod and Sanyo M1 and i dont even use the M1 MP3 player...Needless to say i wont be going to cingular just for the IPhone.

I see this phone being hot on it intial rollout but after that Splat, I dont see it even making it to X-mas 07.

I'm not sure what I am going to do yet....If I start saving now, I may get. However, I do not want to leave T-mobile just for a phone. Being it's on Ging, which is GSM...Maybe after a while I can buy an unlocked one and use on T-Mobile.

The iPhone could be very worthwhile, but I'd be loathe to commit to anything until I saw what changes Apple makes by the June launch. The software will be expanded and possibly work a bit differently. The price could also be less.

Approximately 22% of respondents are going to buy the iPhone regardless of the disadvantages. However, a total of about 56% of respondents would like to buy it but most of them have specified certain conditions.

What struck me: about four times as many respondents who will buy it have chosen the 8GB version over the 4GB version. I guess the extra $100 is worth it to those who probably want to store video as well as audio.

Price must come down at least $100 for me to consider, and ideally larger HDD sizes and better battery life would also be included. 5 hours is just.too.short.

Psh, no I don't need it. I got a phone and an iPod so there isn't a need to buy this thing.

Good luck unlocking iPhone. Counting on that may lead to disappointment.

i am , 8 GB :)

I've got a phone, a nice Motorolla W22o. its just a phone and i like the way it is. do apple need to turne verything in a multimedia machine, listening to music, videos and internet and phone does not go together, expensive because phones usually have small memories. ipod is ok, but not the iphone.

I want one, I simply don't have the money to afford it. I was going to just go for it and buy it anyways when it came out, but then I realized that I'm far more attracted to the iPod portion of it more than anything else. I can buy a PSP to browse the web... and play games and play mp3s. The 8 gigs isn't a problem with me: most average joes who purchase the phone after being persuaded by a rep will probably think 8 gigs is a lot of space. Look at how well the nano sells: that just about says it all.

So the money, along with the cost of enabling fucntions (it may be next to nothing, or a bill with decent minutes and data access could run well above $100 dollars per month) have me changing my mind. I'll probably just wait for the rumored video iPod and hope it has similar functionality as the iPod portion of the iPhone.

Yes, I'm getting the 16 GB iPhone for $599 :) Which means I must wait a bit--and thus, I might gain 3G support into the bargain.

If the data plans are too pricey, I'll just get voice--and do my mail checking by WiFi at hotspots.

I will be unlikely to buy the iPhone because I have a two year contract to Verizon for my existing phone. Why would I want to pay penalties in order to change carriers?

In addition, while I love the idea of a widescreen iPod, what good is it with a mere 8GB of memory? I want a true iPod, with at least an 80GB hard drive, on which I can watch the movies and TV shows I regularly download from iTunes.

I really believe that the iPhone will fall flat because too many of us are locked into our current carriers for some period of time.

ummmm I am 57, a little old for peer pressure. I like my new razr phone, but then I am not one of those folks who's always glued to the phone, I just use it as a convenience.

I also am curious about another problem. I am sure a lot of folks are like me, they fly a fair amount and use their iPods on planes. When the plane takes off, there is always an announcement to turn OFF cell phones. So combining the two devices makes one of them inaccessible in the air, when it would otherwise be fine to use.

Admittedly I am a bit old fashioned, but it just seems to me that many companies are trying to combine devices that don't necessarily belong together. I could never figure out why my new phone had to have a CAMERA! And it has an mp3 player which I've never used.

I also never bought one of those toasters that cook hot dogs...

ummmm I am 57, a little old for peer pressure. I like my new razr phone, but then I am not one of those folks who's always glued to the phone
Oh, well yeah, then yr not in the iPhone's primary market group.

Combining - yeah, the implied rational is, so one doesn't have to carry multiple devices. This sounds good until reality sets in. Again, the target market. You and I own real cameras, the teens don't and if they are able to peek-snap their friends, they'll gobble it up.

I WANTED a camera in my phone, always wondered if I happened in an auto accident (knock wood, it's been 15 yrs), a camera would come in handy for documentation. Or the other day, I was late for work, so I attempted to snapshot the freeway signs that said "Accident ahead - blah - blah), only to find that my &%^$ cell-cam has unacceptable performance (can't make out dark sign in bright day light). So yer right, half of these features are for teens to shed their $. Dunn get me started about trying to combine my iPod and cell into one, gave up.

BUT if u do use an MP3 player, and u DO get online wif your cell alot, or u like to write quick notes, the iPhone may bring that seamless experience Apple is famous for. Any company, hey, I'm wif ya 100%. Apple, like their Ads says, is DIFFERENT.

Well, in my experience, devices that combine too much functionality end up doing NONE of it very well...as you discovered with your cell phone camera. I have used my cell-cam exactly once, to take a snap of my cat which I use as wallpaper for the phone itself.

The iPhone clearly already has problems in that area. Why on earth market something with a fancy widescreen video and at the same time limit it to 8 gigs? Even a company like Sony, with its paranoia regarding copy protection, markets devices that accommodate memory cards (albeit in a proprietary format).

When Apple combines the nice widescreen display with the existing iPod's abilities to store and play back audio and video in many formats, I'll be there with checkbook in hand to buy it. I already own several iPods (4? 5? can't remember for sure), I am a true 'early adopter geek', but I can not think of a good reason to buy an iPhone.

U seen the newly released Razr2 yet?

Nothing revolutionary, just the usual, bigger screen, more pixels, thinner blah-blah, and not even *that* aesthetically pleasing to me, and yet people over the phone forums are going ga-ga over it and are ready to ditch their newly purchased phones for the newest and greatest.

That's the young market for ya, ez-sell, no wonder....

um my new phone is a KRZR and I like it a lot. But mostly the phone is used for my husband to call me and say things like 'When are you coming home? I'm hungry! What's for dinner?' hee hee

Not sure I'd want to do that with a cell phone though.
Precisely.

Unless Apple comes up with something nobody else has thought of, they GOTTA make the iPhone's battery user-replaceable. Jobs doesn't like that 'cuz it mars the look of an otherwise thin & streamline unit (the man likes thin). But user-replaceable batt, like the everybody else's, u carry a second batt wif u. First one runs out, away from AC, remove batt#1, slap on batt#2 and keep yaping.

I still predict (2nd time now), the streamlined iPhone II (no smart features) just a regular phone+iPod, will sell like hotcakes like the intro of the iPod-mini following the full size iPod. Assuming the iPhone1 doesn't run into some serious unexpected boo-boos.

Any phone and plan is over 1000 dollars for two years. You care gonna have to pay for the plan regardless of if you have a free phone of an iphone, and the iphone plans are not gonna be premium because you have an iphone, you are gonna get to choose fromt he same plans as everyone else. This is a stupid arguement that a lot fo peoplea re making.

start a boycott against this impudently sale strategy.
Ahhh... u said the magic word, BOYCOTT. That means u still want it!

Where there is want, there is demand, demand=sales. Resistance is futile, u cannot escape the evil capitalists. Woooohhaahhhhaa!

No Because the Price from over 1000$ (Phone&Plan for two years) is to high. I hope that not buy so many people the Iphone with a Plan and start a boycott against this impudently sale strategy.
And where in heck do you think you are gonna get the phone and 2 years of voice/data/txt for $1000? 24 months of a fairly cheapo plan will costs you $2000, add the phone and you're up to $2500. A plan with, say, 600 minutes will end up costing you more like $3000 for 2 years including the phone. I have Tmobile with 300 minutes, 400 txt, and unlimited data ($20 half the price of VZN, I think ATT is 30). Costs me $75 with tax. Add 'em up!

How about not? whats with all the people who insist on being an IT industry analyst? Since when does the consumer factor in 2 years of service, premium phone, monthly costs, rebate factors, etc? I have a hard time with everyone justifying every last penny this stupid iphone will cost.

Whatever happened to the good old fashion rule of thumb that works for most economically sound individuals:
$600 for phone = too much
x>$50 service plan = too much
trying to justify why the iphone is so worth it before it even has been released = too much

When you look at most phones which the iPhone would be in competition with, such as the LG Prada, then the iPhone is competitive. So in that sense the iPhone can hardly be called overpriced. Since when are new products ever cheap anyway? The first iPods were far from cheap (400 for my first one), 2.5 generations later and they are half that price.

Moreover, I know people who are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money in the first place then each month to get the latest phones. These people are likely to save it from a pre-mature death and enable Apple to go on and create future generations at more reasonable prices.

When you look at most phones which the iPhone would be in competition with, such as the LG Prada, then the iPhone is competitive. So in that sense the iPhone can hardly be called overpriced. Since when are new products ever cheap anyway? The first iPods were far from cheap (400 for my first one), 2.5 generations later and they are half that price.

Moreover, I know people who are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money in the first place then each month to get the latest phones. These people are likely to save it from a pre-mature death and enable Apple to go on and create future generations at more reasonable prices.

The LG Prada came out after the iphone to compete with it not the other way around. I think we may come from two different worlds. Obviously, you are in the UK and I am here in the states. No offense, but if I do so recall you guys over there on the big island like to spend big money on cell phones. - Not so true in the U.S. Sadly, the iphone will not be introduced in the UK right away so it is a moot point. I don't care who you are, $600 for a phone and two years of service is quite ridiculous and only helps these companies such as Sony and Apple push the pricing envelope to see how far they can drive the price up even if to ungodly heights.

The data plan should be no more than $20. Im sure more sk3 been sold so far than any newer model treo.

To reiterate:
Sounds like u saying your opinion is based on other's posts here. We know what we said, we rather hear yours.

i really need a new phone, so i'm getting one of these. I dont need 3G on my phone right now. Also i dont see the iPhone as a mass media storage device. I will just take the music, videos, and movies. i want to watch currently. No need to bring your entire library (besides my entire library doesnt even fit on an iPod lol)

As cool as iPhone looks, I'm holding back to see what the other phone companies do. Nokia, Motorola, RIM and Palm are mature companies with a ton of experience building hand sets. They're not going to take iPhone lying down. Chances are good that a few short months from now each of these companies will have products that are as good or better than iPhone. Also, as an owner of every generation of the "flagship" iPod, I'm inclined to wait until iPhone 2.0 comes along before I buy into it. The launch version is bound to look pretty pathetic within a year or so.

I do not think that we will see mobile software as cool and easy-to-use as Apple's "OS X mobile".

Why not? I don't see any reason why other companies can't come up with similar interfaces. Look how Microsoft emulates Mac OS X all the time. As much as I dislike Windows, the fact of the matter is that it's not that much different from Mac OS these days. I really think that it's only a matter of time before other companies launch similar hardware/software combinations to compete with iPhone, assuming that iPhone is a success.

Because a copy isn't as good as the real thing. We can see that in Vista.

Vista isn't as good as Mac OS X. That's true. But from a functional viewpoint, it's virtually the same thing. There are no vast differences in the way you interact with Vista over the Mac OS.

And when the Leopard comes out - the average user can really see the difference again.

The Leopard preview looked pretty good but far from revolutionary. I wouldn't say it's a very great leap forward.

I can still see a difference between Tiger and Vista, and i think that Tiger is a whole lot better than Vista because it has:
1. No viruses

Not really true. There are fewer viruses on the Mac OS because of its smaller market share, not because it's invulnerable to them.

2. More stabile

Depends on the hardware.

3. A lot more easy to use

Purely your opinion.

4. A lot more useful applications (iLife)

You'll get some MAJOR push back on that statement from virtually any Windows user. Most of them see iLife as a fancy toy, not a hard core suite of applications.

If a OS has to compete against "OS X mobile" it has to be original, and not just a copy.

I didn't say copy. I said similar. Palm OS is similar to Windows Mobile. They're different but similar. Same with the iPhone interface. There's absolutely no reason why other companies can't follow Apple's lead and design something similarly useful. In fact, it's not a matter of IF they'll do it but WHEN. RIM and Palm aren't going to take iPhone lying down and they're not some rookie companies who can't compete with big bad Apple.

And remember that iPhone has over 200 patents in it which also can make it hard to make a copy.

That's not a very compelling argument. Patents are nice but there are always ways around them.

Look, I'm not here to defend Vista or any other mobile or not mobile OS. All I'm saying is that a number of very large companies are going to (already are actually) throw a ton of money and resources towards catching up to and surpassing iPhone. The idea that it will be forever the gold standard is silly.

After thinking of getting an LG Prada phone, I think I now see the great value the iPhone offers me being able to connect to my Mac & being very slim and sexy, plus I need a slim phone that can fit my overloaded pockets.

If it does come out on Vodafone in the UK, then hopefully it will be a done deal for me. :)