Trillian Astra provides iPhone interface to IM

I have both a Sidekick III and an iPhone. I won the iPhone, so I'm not planning on complaining about anything..except the whole, not being able to IM thing. I was on IChat earlier today on my iPhone, and I got a call, and it came right on through, and I wasn't aware of the internet shutting down like it does on the Sidekick ( There's a little G, and when you make a call it goes away. ) ..Not sure what I'm accomplishing by saying this, but there it goes.

Yeah, you guys are right. I guess I really dont need to be able to actually take calls on my phone. Apple made the right decision about this.

I havent purchased my iPhone yet. Its more than I have other priorities to attend to, but when I am clear I will get one. I think the most important thing the iPhone brings forward is that is a 1st generation of an awesome way to envision your phone in the next 5yrs. I mean if this is now, imagine where things will be in 5 yrs. Second is, that this is a 1st generation phone, its going to have somethings that needs to be ironed out. But do you have to go as so far as if you don't get a call because you are browsing your pr0n you are not going to buy it? Screw that... that is why there is voicemail. If you miss a call check who called and call em back, i am pretty sure they will understand you were watching someone's titties on the internet rather than talking to them. Thirdly, the iPhone is not a brick, meaning which those people who know how Apple is fidgety with OSX, we see updates coming and going all the time... Same will happen with the iPhone, and the fact that it doesnt include 3G initially, I am pretty sure that will be a software lock that apple will be lifting soon.

Its been 2 weeks and you guys want your phones to transform and bring you the frigging newspaper? Maybe you should work for Apple then and help them bring the nextgeneration yesterday... because today is too late its just going by.

To the rest of the people waiting for some reason or another to get the iPhone, get it if you are going to trully use it as the device its envisioned to be. Mobile Computing in your hand. If you look at Pocket PC it looks like its an atari 2600 (except the fun), compared to how Awesome the iPhone looks. And the mobile computing is solid, you can use any intermediate app to access docs on the internet like google apps... and again its been only 2 weeks since it was launched and there are already several apps that make the iphone be amazing... has anyone tried the google app that lets you access your mac from remote? Dude in my work tried that and it was wowing.

Is the iPhone perfect? No. Its doing what it was intended to do. Is it worth $600 I don't know.. I think its expensive, but hey this is technology. Am I going to get it even if my calls get sent to voicemail while I am browsing over edge? Hell yeah... if you don't like it, leave me a voicemail.

call me a fanboy all you want but i really don't feel that it's so "horrible" to just call someone back. iphone lets you know immediately when you have a voicemail. good luck on a recall. haha that's the price we pay for early adoption. if they release a 3g phone in 6 months to a year I will stand in line AGAIN for 8 hours to buy that just as I did for my 1st generation iphone

...however i havent had a call try to come through while on edge, so i cant speak for that argument.

Theres alot of talk in here... but having used Meebo for instant messaging over EDGE quite a bit at this point, I can say its not bad at all. In fact there is barely a noticeable lag. Maybe a couple seconds at most. And the connection never drops.

The way I see it, there should be an option that tells the iphone which one has priority: phone or internet data. And according to user prefs the phone will either stop internet usage when receiving calls or the opposite. What's more, if the iphone hits Europe with no 3G they will soon realize there are sooooo few WiFi spots that its EDGE mode will make people suffer.

A phone is for taking calls when on the move and limiting this basic function by (poorly) implementing other features is to me a show of bad design. If there was no way around it then maybe I could live with this but as the competition has in many cases handled it successfully (in the past) then there are no excuses.

So, its pretty clear that if you're browsing with EDGE and a call comes in it goes to voicemail. I could deal with that.

But can I access the internet (safari, google, mail, etc) while on a call(and not in a wifi spot)?

That may kill it for me if I can't =

I have a sidekick 3 and it uses EDGE, my AIM is always connected and I am constantly using the web browser and all my calls still come in, so im pretty sure this is not a problem for the iphone.

Someone needs to slap steve jobs n ask him wut he was thinking when he didnt add ichat. I rather have ichat then some useless youtube app that will keep me busy for the 1st few days.

yeah, that's wack. you should be able to pause a data session to take a call. what did Steve say about this thing and phone calls? wasn't there some dig at other smartphones? huh.