I want an iPhone 5 and I want it right now

centurion48 says:

07:38am | 07/10/10

I think the (next) “techo-gear-free” generation might be the one after Gen Z. Gen Y are funding my retirement with their spending habits. Keep it up girls and boys.
If you bought a Mac instead of some cheap PC cobbled together with parts that failed quality control then you wouldn’t need defrag either.
Oh, and the Mac has a spell-checker so you don’t another language similar to English as @angel seems intent on doing.

angel says:

07:37pm | 07/10/10

sorreeeee….. whatever “they’re” called if u must be pernickety.

Rebecca says:

08:08pm | 07/10/10

What a silly comment. Last time I checked I couldn’t make a phone call, surf the web, send an email, make a videocall, send photos to my grandma, watch videos or play music with a friggin piece of paper.

steve says:

02:51pm | 07/10/10

but if the new technology was made correctly you wouldn’t need to adapt, as controlling it would be completely intuitive.

Kordez says:

09:30am | 07/10/10

Quite possibly the most accurate description of “i” products today date.

Nicole says:

09:33am | 07/10/10

Zeta, I don’t think I’d look all that good with a ‘stache. I couldn’t even grow one if I tried. Now, my sister-in-law on the other hand….......

dancan says:

11:13am | 07/10/10

So very true Zeta.  So very true

fairsfair says:

11:19am | 07/10/10

my life is iPhone/iPad free and I am loving every minute of it! I refuse to be come one of them and allow facebook to advertise to my friends “fairsfair went to the can at 2:05pm”.

I recently got a new mobile and was laughed at when I said to the girl, I just want one that makes phone calls and texts. A dunga camera is acceptable - because I don’t use it (I have a camera for that). Alas, no such thing exists so I now have a “smartphone”. Dumb move.

I think the youth of today is missing out on the wonderment of advancement. When I got my first Ericsson flip-phone (it was green and the aerial didn’t need to be pulled out) I was stoked. I remember being amazed at the notion of “texting” someone.  Life’s great wonders - lost on the youth of today.

Irrespective of the advancement that is happening at the moment - I think something big will happen soon enough to make them all crap their pants, like we all did when the diskman was invented.

Zeta says:

12:07pm | 07/10/10

@ fairsfair - I know that exact Ericsson you’re talking about, the T28 had the small stumpy black aerial and when you clicked the button it flipped open. That phone was made of bro fist and win. It was my favourite phone I ever had. It just worked. It was a phone. It made phone calls. It could rattle around in the bottom of my school bag because it was made of metal. It was smaller than any phone on the market today and when you made a call you felt like you were in space.

dg says:

12:10pm | 07/10/10

zeta

Clearly you’re missing the point of all these products. Computing isn’t all about power, it’s about information. And these devices are designed to make that information available instantaneously and from any location.

That’s the innovation, and saying that these types of devices has held back innovation is quite frankly laughable. Look at Android, the Palm OS, Windows Phone 7,  just for examples of innovation in the mobile sector that was, let’s face it, resucitated by the introduction of the iPhone.

There will always be advances in computing power but even Intel say that Moore’s law is quickly going to become irrelevant as new technologies are developed.

fairsfair says:

01:16pm | 07/10/10

Zeta, if I also recall correctly, it was one of the first to enable polyphonic ringtones (that came presaved into the phone of course).

I think you’d be hard pressed to find a cooler kid these days.

[cue Babs] Misty water colour memories…......

Richard says:

04:17pm | 07/10/10

Actually dg, Apple really are stifling the progress of technology in the mobile device genre rather than advancing it, with their ludicrous policy of patenting every tiny little function regardless of if they had anything to do with designing it or not.

Take multi-touch on smart phone screens for example. How on earth can they justify patenting multi-touch? Next they’ll lobby to try and pass a law that anyone who doesn’t buy an apple product must have 9 fingers amputated to stop them from daring to press the screen on their phone in two places simultaneously. Thankfully HTC/Samsung/Motorola etc aren’t putting up with Apples shit, but for the lord’s sake, can we please move on from greedy grasping backwards Apple and move towards open-source collaboration models?

Gonzo says:

04:59pm | 07/10/10

Zeta and fairsfair: you should get a room.

ibast says:

11:53am | 07/10/10

You are right.  There hasn’t been a great deal of true breakthroughs in the past 30 years.  Mostly we are just exposed to marketing gimmicks. The marketers even just change stuff for no good reason and sell it to us as an innovation.  Blueray comes to mind.  It wasn’t that long ago they told us that DVDs were infinitely better.  Now the I-phone.  Haven’t we had phones with games on them for a long time?  Mostly that is all this device is used for.

BobH says:

01:22pm | 07/10/10

@who - good diversion, “best invention ever”  If you live in Melbourne under floor heating,  when your @rse is freezing off its got to be better than a phone that plays games and tells friends what a boring day it is.