I've heard a lot of anti-iPhone stories from Japanese websites ever since the launch of the phone with Softbank. Y'know, that the phone is doing dismally, that they have to give it away for free, etc. Well, Danny Choo just brought up that students at Aoyama Gakuin University's School of Social Informatics will get a free iPhone for "attendance reporting, lecture podcasting, and having online examination."
The students will have to pay for the service, with the school subsidising the cost of the phone. I'm assuming this is partially so Softbank can tout higher numbers of iPhone users in Japan, as well as hope that the students who really like them will get their friends to buy them through word of mouth.
Dale and Colette have been regular iPhone users, but I could never get quite into them. I think my heart is leaning towards the Android G1 from T-Mobile. Are many of you iPhone converts, or do you refuse to/can't afford Apple's phone?
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I want the Android soooooo bad, but I really don't want to switch companies from AT&T to T-Mobile. Oh well, my Pantech Slate will have to do for a little while longer.
The damn required data plan halts me from getting an I phone. I really like the Tilt, or rather the upgrade of it whatever it may be called... I really hate that the I Phone doesn't have a keyboard as well. ._.
I can never convert my Blackberry love. It's my everything, especially with the microsd and such. I luff my Curve.
And I never liked the itouch. I like having my qwerty keyboard that's actual buttons and not touching... the screen. I hate the fingerprints and stuff on screens that you can touch; it bugs the hell out of me.
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