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Fair enough. To each their own. For myself, I like the approach Apple has taken. Also, another advantage to the on-screen keyboard is that, aside from tactile feedback, the keyboard itself can be altered, improved and enhanced in future software updates unlike a physical keyboard which can not change or even alter itself to fit the task at hand (like having a ".com" button sometimes and not others).
 
The Helios looks cool- cheaper and with 3G, plus Exchange support is coming for worker bees like me.

Edit: No contract, plus 500 daytime minutes and unlimited data for $65 a month.
 
shantyman said:
The Helios looks cool- cheaper and with 3G, plus Exchange support is coming for worker bees like me.

Yep. Nice mix of voice and data plans at reasonable rates as well. It has true GPS as well and a great mapping program to use it with. I think the iPhone will be better for mp3 and video play back, but the Ocean has it's own benefits. The reviews have been very good on them as well. I would have likely picked one up by now if I weren't waiting on the iPhone.

Edited while I was responding! :lol But yeah, that's the great plans I was talking about.

Also, anyone else see all the Halo 3 "Finish The Fight" artwork getting posted over in the gaming forum? Those are going to make nice iPhone desktops at the end of the week. :)
 
ant1532 said:
Heh, yeah everyone does but I think I am the only one who doesn't get it. I only tried it once but yeah.

I used to be like you. I was REALLY good at cycling through all of the letters and getting the timing just right for when I needed two different letters on the same key. One day I just turned on iTap - I had a Motorola at the time - for the hell of it; I wanted to see why the entire world thought predictive text entry was so good when it never did what I wanted.

Then I realized that it has some kind of weird training period. Once I got over that hump, I never looked back. It's even better on my Nokia. The default dictionary is much more robust and adding new words is much more transparent a process.

I don't even use that stupid shorthand shit anymore, like "ur", "2", etc. The prediction is THAT good that I can just type whole words and the phone won't jack it up.
 
Nash said:
It takes a bit of time to unlearn the old way of doing it, but you will save yourself so much time.

Just press each button once where you'd normally press more than once. The phone will do the rest ...

OMFG I just tried this. What the **** have I been doing for the last two years? Just tried setting it to T9 for the first time since I bought this phone. Worked great. I had no idea. But it's not infallible--I typed "home" and it thought it was "good." T9 am fail. Though I'm sure there's probably a way to correct it, I have no idea how.
 
SuperPac said:
OMFG I just tried this. What the **** have I been doing for the last two years? Just tried setting it to T9 for the first time since I bought this phone. Worked great. I had no idea. But it's not infallible--I typed "home" and it thought it was "good." T9 am fail. Though I'm sure there's probably a way to correct it, I have no idea how.

OMG. There are more people who don't use predictive?

Anyway, what phone do you use? For Nokias, if it comes up with a word you don't want, you can hit * (asterisk) to cycle through alternative words (things like 'of' = 'me', etc). Also, on Nokias, hitting# (hash) while texting swaps between -> Upper/lower/smart case predictive, and Upper/lower/smart regular texting. Holding down keys during predictive text will use numerals, and holding down # (hash) will change totally to numeral input.

Nokias texting is actually really, really, quick these days. On my new Nokia, switching between predictive is now a double tap on #.

And the home/good thing (and others) is just a * away. I type "good*" and it becomes "home". Funny story, I was at a female friends place, and I texted my flat mate that "I'm coming home now", except I forgot to change it to 'home'. Hilarity ensued.
 
xsarien said:
I used to be like you. I was REALLY good at cycling through all of the letters and getting the timing just right for when I needed two different letters on the same key. One day I just turned on iTap - I had a Motorola at the time - for the hell of it; I wanted to see why the entire world thought predictive text entry was so good when it never did what I wanted.

Then I realized that it has some kind of weird training period. Once I got over that hump, I never looked back. It's even better on my Nokia. The default dictionary is much more robust and adding new words is much more transparent a process.

I don't even use that stupid shorthand shit anymore, like "ur", "2", etc. The prediction is THAT good that I can just type whole words and the phone won't jack it up.

I'm so confused by the iTap method on Motorola phones. Maybe I'm too engrained into Nokia's way, but it just doesn't seem intuitive (not to mention there are like 3-4 methods of text input on a motorola, which defaults to different things depending on whether you're texting, entering names, etc. - though I think you can change them, but it doesn't do it globally).

Also, when texting non-predictively, instead of waiting for the timing, you can always just hit 'right' on the direction pad to advance the cursor. These days, I just routinely flip between both modes, and use them just as fluently as each other, though predictive is my preferred default.
 
mrkgoo said:
OMG. There are more people who don't use predictive?

I know a lot of people that use texting...and none (that I know of) know how to use predictive. Honestly, I didn't know it existed on my phone. No idea what "T9" meant before. I tried to use it once without explanation and that didn't go well.

Anyway, what phone do you use? For Nokias, if it comes up with a word you don't want, you can hit * (asterisk) to cycle through alternative words (things like 'of' = 'me', etc). Also, on Nokias, hitting# (hash) while texting swaps between -> Upper/lower/smart case predictive, and Upper/lower/smart regular texting. Holding down keys during predictive text will use numerals, and holding down # (hash) will change totally to numeral input.

I use a Samsung PM-A840 on Sprint. Pretty simple phone, few frills. The button for the next word is--very obviously (though I didn't notice it before)--"0," which is also labeled as "Next" on my keypad. I think I just busted open a whole new world. Too bad it comes *right* before the iPhone. Unless the reviews of the iPhone are unanimously and definitively terrible, it shall be exiled to a drawer soon.
 
SuperPac said:
I know a lot of people that use texting...and none (that I know of) know how to use predictive. Honestly, I didn't know it existed on my phone. No idea what "T9" meant before. I tried to use it once without explanation and that didn't go well.



I use a Samsung PM-A840 on Sprint. Pretty simple phone, few frills. The button for the next word is--very obviously (though I didn't notice it before)--"0," which is also labeled as "Next" on my keypad. I think I just busted open a whole new world. Too bad it comes *right* before the iPhone. Unless the reviews of the iPhone are unanimously and definitively terrible, it shall be exiled to a drawer soon.


I loled - knowing you just discovered predictive text, just before getting an iPhone. The iPhone must seem like such a huge step up from a regular non-predictive texting phone :p
 
I whipped up a transparent overlay so you can see what your wallpaper images "should" look like on the iPhone. I've done my best to approximate the levels of transparency of the main screen by hand. Just drop your image into a layer beneath the overlay. This is handy as parts of your image will be obscured by the stuff at the top and bottom.

iPhoneOverlay.psd - 630Kb Photoshop File

BTW, the font being used on this screen is Helvetica Neue.
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mrkgoo said:
OMG. There are more people who don't use predictive?

Anyway, what phone do you use? For Nokias, if it comes up with a word you don't want, you can hit * (asterisk) to cycle through alternative words (things like 'of' = 'me', etc). Also, on Nokias, hitting# (hash) while texting swaps between -> Upper/lower/smart case predictive, and Upper/lower/smart regular texting. Holding down keys during predictive text will use numerals, and holding down # (hash) will change totally to numeral input.

Nokias texting is actually really, really, quick these days. On my new Nokia, switching between predictive is now a double tap on #.

And the home/good thing (and others) is just a * away. I type "good*" and it becomes "home". Funny story, I was at a female friends place, and I texted my flat mate that "I'm coming home now", except I forgot to change it to 'home'. Hilarity ensued.


The only problem I have with Nokia t9 is that if you add a custom word, that always appears first in the list of suggestions.

So now, whenever I try and type 'you', it comes up with 'wmv' first. Same with some other often used words. I wish you could adjust the priority of spellings and erase the custom dictionary
 
ckohler said:
I whipped up a transparent overlay so you can see what your wallpaper images "should" look like on the iPhone. I've done my best to approximate the levels of transparency of the main screen by hand. Just drop your image into a layer beneath the overlay. This is handy as parts of your image will be obscured by the stuff at the top and bottom.

cjiphone.jpg


Neato!
 
mrkgoo said:
I'm so confused by the iTap method on Motorola phones. Maybe I'm too engrained into Nokia's way, but it just doesn't seem intuitive (not to mention there are like 3-4 methods of text input on a motorola, which defaults to different things depending on whether you're texting, entering names, etc. - though I think you can change them, but it doesn't do it globally).

Also, when texting non-predictively, instead of waiting for the timing, you can always just hit 'right' on the direction pad to advance the cursor. These days, I just routinely flip between both modes, and use them just as fluently as each other, though predictive is my preferred default.
i like it better on my SLVR than on my admittedly old Nokia. It recommends words as i type, and if while i'm typing, there's a choice of two or more possible words, you can select the the base word for it as you type the rest out. In the case that the word isn't in the dictionary, it'll try to recognize as much as possible, then it'll start offering character-by-character suggestions. It also automatically adds words to the dictionary if needed. The dictionary seems to suggests words based on how often you use them, which again typically works. Overall, i'm extremely impressed, and i think that it's an excellent compromise for phones that lack a dedicated keyboard. i just wish there was some kind of standard for predictive input because it's lacking on some phones with otherwise solid featuresets.

i thought a lot of heavy text users that didn't have cells with keyboards used T9 but i guess not. Even my own otherwise tech-savvy roommate didn't use it until i explained to him how it worked a few months ago. i can't stand getting texts from people in all caps and with texting shorthand ("R U GONNA B L8"). Maybe i should educate them on the magic of T9 as well. :)

Also, i found my phone. It was at work. :lol i've learned my lesson; i'm getting insurance on it later today.
 
Very interesting:

Doing dry runs with Apple's iPhone, the world's most anticipated mobile phone due out at the end of June, has been challenging. Tests of the iPhone had to be done in places frequented by wireless users. Under strict orders to keep the phone under wraps, technicians had to hide or disguise the phone when in public.

Most people lucky enough to snag an Apple iPhone probably will be quick to show it off to friends. Not Balsu Thandu. He got an iPhone more than two months ago and has been hiding it from prying eyes ever since.
Thandu is one of about 200 field technicians who have been secretly testing the iPhone and looking for technical glitches for more than 10 weeks and counting. AT&T routinely tests new devices, but the iPhone has been different, Thandu says. The technicians have logged more than 10,000 hours on the phone, including more than 5,000 hours of voice calls and near 5 gigabytes of data usage. Most phones, he says, get about half that much test time.

AT&T's scrutiny is understandable. The iPhone is shaping up to be the must-have cellphone of the year, maybe the decade if it follows in iPod's footsteps. AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years and hopes to use the device to lure new customers.

To win at that, however, the iPhone must live up to its hype. That's where Thandu and his crew come into play. "My job is to make sure the devices we sell meet the high bars we set for them, in terms of technical requirements and test specifications," he says.

Doing dry runs with the world's most anticipated cellphone has been challenging. Tests had to be done in places frequented by wireless users. Under strict orders to keep the phone under wraps, technicians had to hide or disguise the phone when in public, Thandu says.

The disguises took many forms: an iPod "sock" was sometimes slipped over the iPhone. Other times, he says, testers kept the device inside a newspaper or pants pocket and used a wireless headset.

For the actual testing, technicians frequented all the places where consumers go: office buildings, subway platforms, stairwells, elevators, crowded bars, sprawling suburban malls and congested city streets. They also showed up incognito at Apple and AT&T stores.

To test iPhone's durability, Thandu says, they doused it with water, dropped it on concrete and bounced it off sidewalks.

Thandu says he took the iPhone with him on long runs, sweating all over it. "We wanted to test the limits of it."

Techs also did a lot of walking. "Many people don't realize it, but walking gives you the worst channel conditions," Thandu says. Cell signals tend to bounce off buildings, causing interference, and background noise is a constant problem in cities.

Feedback from the field was relayed to Apple, sometimes hourly, Thandu says. Early on, he says, technicians discovered that the iPhone's audio was "not loud or clear enough." Apple designers quickly fixed the problem, he says.

Though "iTesting" will continue on an ongoing basis, Thandu says he is comfortable that the device is good to go. "For the launch, I think we are there."

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/The-Top-Secret-Apple-iPhone-Tests/story.xhtml?story_id=111006FEF2W3
 
aoi tsuki said:
i like it better on my SLVR than on my admittedly old Nokia. It recommends words as i type, and if while i'm typing, there's a choice of two or more possible words, you can select the the base word for it as you type the rest out. In the case that the word isn't in the dictionary, it'll try to recognize as much as possible, then it'll start offering character-by-character suggestions. It also automatically adds words to the dictionary if needed. The dictionary seems to suggests words based on how often you use them, which again typically works. Overall, i'm extremely impressed, and i think that it's an excellent compromise for phones that lack a dedicated keyboard. i just wish there was some kind of standard for predictive input because it's lacking on some phones with otherwise solid featuresets.

i thought a lot of heavy text users that didn't have cells with keyboards used T9 but i guess not. Even my own otherwise tech-savvy roommate didn't use it until i explained to him how it worked a few months ago. i can't stand getting texts from people in all caps and with texting shorthand ("R U GONNA B L8"). Maybe i should educate them on the magic of T9 as well. :)

Also, i found my phone. It was at work. :lol i've learned my lesson; i'm getting insurance on it later today.

I learned texting with T9 about 3 years ago from this girl I was dating, completely changed my attitude towards texting. Now all my texts look perfectly formatted and beautiful compared to friends, especially in North America.
 
AT&T's scrutiny is understandable. The iPhone is shaping up to be the must-have cellphone of the year, maybe the decade if it follows in iPod's footsteps. AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years and hopes to use the device to lure new customers.

Well, that just about does it.

Looks like I won't be getting an iPhone anytime soon. AT&T/Cingular is ****ing horrendous.
 
pringles said:
When is this coming to Europe? I need one. I need it bad.

European carriers aren't as enamored with Apple as the ones in the U.S., so Apple's having a hell of a time getting them to bend to their hubr^H^H^H terms.
 
xsarien said:
European carriers aren't as enamored with Apple as the ones in the U.S., so Apple's having a hell of a time getting them to bend to their hubr^H^H^H terms.

That's true. Apple's very "our way or the highway." I thought it was also rumored that other cell carriers in the US didn't want to work with Apple for similar reasons (and probably part of why the whole ROKR thing went kaput). They're obviously a very demanding company and cell phone carriers are very stuck in their ways, used raking in dough from people by encouraging them to buy their pricey ringtones/music/wallpapers/video etc. instead of making it easy or intuitive for the average person to do it themselves. Friend of mine has a RAZR, no idea how to make his own tones so he has me do it for him every so often.
 
SuperPac said:
That's true. Apple's very "our way or the highway." I thought it was also rumored that other cell carriers in the US didn't want to work with Apple for similar reasons (and probably part of why the whole ROKR thing went kaput). They're obviously a very demanding company and cell phone carriers are very stuck in their ways, used raking in dough from people by encouraging them to buy their pricey ringtones/music/wallpapers/video etc. instead of making it easy or intuitive for the average person to do it themselves. Friend of mine has a RAZR, no idea how to make his own tones so he has me do it for him every so often.

With AT&T and T-Mobile, it's a three step process:

1) Connect phone to computer.
2) Copy file to phone.
3) Assign file as ringtone.

Teach your friend how to use Bluetooth. :)


The issues that are coming up in the negotiatons are all financial in nature, not about locking the phone down per se. Even the CDMA carriers have devices that are pretty much sold "as is" from the manufacturer, minus some branding here and there.
 
xsarien said:
With AT&T and T-Mobile, it's a three step process:

1) Connect phone to computer.
2) Copy file to phone.
3) Assign file as ringtone.

Teach your friend how to use Bluetooth. :)


The issues that are coming up in the negotiatons are all financial in nature, not about locking the phone down per se. Even the CDMA carriers have devices that are pretty much sold "as is" from the manufacturer, minus some branding here and there.
Well you don't want a ringtone starting at the beginning of the song so he probably cuts em up for him.
 
ant1532 said:
Well you don't want a ringtone starting at the beginning of the song so he probably cuts em up for him.

Meh, songs as ringtones suck anyway.

My phone's setup?
Call: That 24 ringtone that everyone knows.
VM/SMS: Law and Order "dunk-dunk."
 
xsarien said:
With AT&T and T-Mobile, it's a three step process:

1) Connect phone to computer.
2) Copy file to phone.
3) Assign file as ringtone.

Teach your friend how to use Bluetooth. :)

I did. He still has me help him with that since his computer doesn't do bluetooth and he has no cable to hook it up otherwise. Had I not brought it to his attention that it was possible to make his own ringtones he would never have known.

Edit: And yes, he also has me chop up the songs to the right parts for use as ringtones.
 
Kung Fu Jedi said:
Current customers can buy and activate it at the same price as new customers, and you will start a new two year agreement. But if you're not planning on going anywhere anyway, then it might be worth it.


There are rumors that you can just re up your current plan, if I can do that then it's no problem for me. I just don't want a new contract.
 
omg rite said:
Well, that just about does it.

Looks like I won't be getting an iPhone anytime soon. AT&T/Cingular is ****ing horrendous.


Why do you say it's horrendous? I've been using it for a few years, and I don't have any complaints. Or is saying it's horrendous the cool thing to say?

Anyways, AT&T is going to get so many new customers from this.
 
xsarien said:
With AT&T and T-Mobile, it's a three step process:

1) Connect phone to computer.
2) Copy file to phone.
3) Assign file as ringtone.

Teach your friend how to use Bluetooth. :)


The issues that are coming up in the negotiatons are all financial in nature, not about locking the phone down per se. Even the CDMA carriers have devices that are pretty much sold "as is" from the manufacturer, minus some branding here and there.

You skipped about 40 steps, including digging through menus to enable bluetooth, digging through more menus on the host side to set it up, getting it cleaned up and getting the bitrate at a decent rate for the phone but not too large, then digging through more menus if he wants to set it up for any particular user.

Setting up ringtones on today's phones is *not* easy by any stretch of the imagination.

Which also makes the lack of discussion about how ringtones will work on the iphone doubly conspicuous. Rumor I'm hearing is that you won't be able to use your itunes songs as ringtones, only apple purchased ringtones. New version of iTunes that is coming out on the 29th will include a "ringtones" tab, so let's hope someone gets to hacking soon.
 
Five YEARS exclusivity with AT&T? Jesus christ... that's the first time I'd heard that.

Looks like I won't be getting an iPhone for at least five years...
 
GeMiNii said:
Setting up ringtones on today's phones is *not* easy by any stretch of the imagination.

And I that's gotta have been completely on purpose.

Which also makes the lack of discussion about how ringtones will work on the iphone doubly conspicuous. Rumor I'm hearing is that you won't be able to use your itunes songs as ringtones, only apple purchased ringtones. New version of iTunes that is coming out on the 29th will include a "ringtones" tab, so let's hope someone gets to hacking soon.

Hopefully they'll at least look at what songs you've already bought and allow you to use those as ringtones (that'd be awful charitable of them). There's a slide from back at Macworld that shows an iPhone hooked up through iTunes, and one of the tabs is "Ringtones."

Five YEARS exclusivity with AT&T? Jesus christ... that's the first time I'd heard that.

Looks like I won't be getting an iPhone for at least five years...

Bad experiences with AT&T/Cingular?
 
GeMiNii said:
You skipped about 40 steps, including digging through menus to enable bluetooth, digging through more menus on the host side to set it up, getting it cleaned up and getting the bitrate at a decent rate for the phone but not too large, then digging through more menus if he wants to set it up for any particular user.

Setting up ringtones on today's phones is *not* easy by any stretch of the imagination.

Which also makes the lack of discussion about how ringtones will work on the iphone doubly conspicuous. Rumor I'm hearing is that you won't be able to use your itunes songs as ringtones, only apple purchased ringtones. New version of iTunes that is coming out on the 29th will include a "ringtones" tab, so let's hope someone gets to hacking soon.

Meh. Screw adapting a song to fit - just either dump it in there, or get another ring tone. It's not worth the effort for something that one would get bored of after a few rings anyway. Just need a phone with sufficient storage so that an mp3 isn't too big of a deal. On my mac [;)], bluetooth is just a click away - and I've configured my phone to have a shortcut to bluetooth access - there's no real menus to be navigated.

So, setting up a ringtone is pretty easy, at least on my setup.
 
SuperPac said:
Bad experiences with AT&T/Cingular?

In my experiences traveling, each city has a different "must have" carrier. "Oh, AT&T's coverage sucks here, use <blank>."

Of course this will all be irrelevant in 5 years since by then there will likely be only 1 cellular service company, at this rate.
 
GONZO said:
There are rumors that you can just re up your current plan, if I can do that then it's no problem for me. I just don't want a new contract.

I can guarantee you that you will have to go back under contract. I don't know a cell service that will sell you a new phone and not put you back under contract. The iPhone is a bit different, but you know they'll want you under contract. Hell, Verizon recently called to get me back under contract, and until I said no, they didn't even start to offer me any deals.

And on my current phone, setting ringtones couldn't be easier. I'm not sure why others find it difficult.
 
GeMiNii said:
You skipped about 40 steps, including digging through menus to enable bluetooth, digging through more menus on the host side to set it up, getting it cleaned up and getting the bitrate at a decent rate for the phone but not too large, then digging through more menus if he wants to set it up for any particular user.

It depends on the phone. Some bury the Bluetooth option, others, like mine, let you just hold down a key, say "Bluetooth" in a calm voice, and it turns on. I didn't need to configure that, it came that way out of the box.


Which also makes the lack of discussion about how ringtones will work on the iphone doubly conspicuous. Rumor I'm hearing is that you won't be able to use your itunes songs as ringtones, only apple purchased ringtones. New version of iTunes that is coming out on the 29th will include a "ringtones" tab, so let's hope someone gets to hacking soon.

This actually isn't anything new. Most phones have a time and/or file size cap on ringtones. Personally, it's a good thing; I don't need to hear all of "Because of You" because your ****ing girlfriend is calling.

Kung Fu Jedi said:
I can guarantee you that you will have to go back under contract. I don't know a cell service that will sell you a new phone and not put you back under contract.

They all do, actually. The only downside is that you don't get the deeply discounted price.

White Man said:
In my experiences traveling, each city has a different "must have" carrier. "Oh, AT&T's coverage sucks here, use <blank>."

Of course this will all be irrelevant in 5 years since by then there will likely be only 1 cellular service company, at this rate.


Yeah, in NY/Metro Verizon is king, but when I moved west they went from "spectacular" to "mediocre." So I switched to Cingular and got the added benefit of rollover minutes and then-exclusive coverage in MUNI/BART underground stations.
 
Kung Fu Jedi said:
I can guarantee you that you will have to go back under contract. I don't know a cell service that will sell you a new phone and not put you back under contract. The iPhone is a bit different, but you know they'll want you under contract. Hell, Verizon recently called to get me back under contract, and until I said no, they didn't even start to offer me any deals.

And on my current phone, setting ringtones couldn't be easier. I'm not sure why others find it difficult.


Going back under contract with my current 2 year plan is no problem. I just don't want a new plan since mine is no longer offered. Also I don't need an extravagant data plan since i'll be wifi most of the time. The phone isn't being subsidized so I don't think you'll be forced into a contract you don't want in order to get the phone if your an existing customer. If your new though I think that's a whole other story.
 
Interesting.. this is gonna be one hell of a product launch, possible one of the biggest we will see in our lifetimes.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...tt_in_frantic_preparaton_for_apples_iday.html

Memos show AT&T in frantic preparaton for Apple's "iDay"

AT&T is taking no chances with the launch of the iPhone, and new information suggests that most staff will see their roles -- and their privileges -- turned upside-down to please customers.

While it's increasingly public knowledge that AT&T will temporarily close stores and is hiring crowd control to prevent chaos during the June 29th iPhone launch, the measures being taken to smooth out the release day -- known to AT&T as "iDay" -- are now known to be even more substantial than first thought.

AT&T guides obtained by AppleInsider reveal that the wireless carrier will pull existing staff from ordinary roles to streamline the anticipated workload. In many circumstances, the firm will ask even those that work the backrooms of its stores to temporarily fill new positions.

The corporate memo pays particular attention to those who will man the front lines of the launch. Besides bringing in the temporary workers hired just for the event, AT&T is recommending that its stores keep multiple existing staff available just to manage the queues expected outside of each shop. Marketing, sales, and regional staff will be added to the crowd control roster, even during the morning shifts. These same employees may also need to greet customers at the door, the note says.

Product experts will also be expected to shift their attention from ordinary duties during the crucial 3PM to 10PM phase. Marketers and floorwalkers alike should spend most of their time around the custom iPhone demo booths giving presentations to interested customers.

And unsurprisingly, extra care is being taken to watch inventory on the 29th, with at least one trusted staff member on hand at all times of the day to guard stock and deliver it to the front -- even if an assistant manager must fill in during a break, the company says. Third-party accessories are already beginning to arrive, as illustrated by photos below.

Moreover, virtually all employees will be asked to give up some of their typical comforts for the sake of the iPhone introduction. To discourage employees from exploiting their positions and buying iPhones intended for new customers, none of the discounts that normally apply to either devices or plans will hold true for Apple's cellphone.

Staffers will also have to accommodate Apple's characteristically high level of secrecy during this final week before the launch. Special updates, dubbed "iReady" messages, will reach company inboxes on a daily basis and will be necessary to keep tabs on last-minute launch details. Employees with cellphones will even have access to a special subscription that delivers brief versions of the notices to their handsets in off hours.

Regardless of the rush, all employees are expected to be in top form by Friday, knowing as much as possible before the device goes on sale.

"We all have a huge stake in the success of iPhone," AT&T says. "[We want] to make you a great ambassador for this game-changing product."
 
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