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That’s right. Boxcar M-F’ing Pete. I need to see about getting him on the Podcast.
I toyed with the idea of unlocking my current iPhone and eBaying it to some far away land where they aren’t actually available so I could afford an iPhone 3G. Then I started seeing reviews and articles saying, “The 3G data is pretty cool, but what you really want is the 2.0 firmware! It’s like a robot with laser tits!” Since my iPhone can have said tit-bot firmware for free, I’ve opted to postpone any possible upgrade scenario for now.
I updated iTunes and downloaded the 2.0 firmware (a day early since I’m such a cheeky monkey), and got my App Store on. I grabbed some of the free apps that looked useful (Twitterific, AIM, a flashlight thing, and Remote). Remote is an app from Apple that let’s you control your iTunes through your phone. I don’t want to go into a long review, but it’s freaking awesome. You can browse your entire lib(r)ary, view album art, etc from your phone. The communication was almost instant. I have bluetooth turned off, so I assume it uses WiFi or dark wizardry.
My advice: hold on to your original iPhone for now (or, if you never bought one in the first place, pick one up used from a jumpy upgrader sans contract). Wait for a significant update, like 32 or 64 gb’s. The apps really do make this a new device with a lot more potential. I want to buy Band, but I’m waiting for Josh to be my guinea pig.
UPDATE: They’ve already cracked the new firmware.
Tags: apple, boxcar pete, hoboes, iphone, iphone 3g, mac, tech
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February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
hmm, this whole 3G thing had me hankering for an IPhone. I don't even know what it is. I just know I want one*
*I do know, 3G is like, faster internet or something, right?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Current iPhone data speeds are like fast dial up. 3G is like slow DSL.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Ah the iPhone… I live in australia and it got launched today. Like the first iPhone. We've never seen them before except for on the interweb thingy place. Anyways, i swear this is relevant to the comic… So an Optus store across the road from my work, had a line starting at 6.15 this morning. If you can call 1 person a line. He was joined by another 3 people in the next 5 minutes. 4 people shuffling around in the cold, waiting for the store to open. I think the final count when the store opened its doors was 12 people. This store had a velvet rope barricading its entrance, security guards (yes, plural) and an employee out the front taking names and giving out information. For 12 people in a line. Strangely, they sold out of iPhones by 9.30. i wonder how many they had in the first place and also if perhaps they overestimated the popularity of the iPhone in the po-dunk town of albury-wodonga. Anyway, sorry to rant on your comic page, but it was relevant.
I think.
Who are you…?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Haha, I didn't even know it was out here yet, I'm quite happy with my Nokia which is already years ahead…
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Aah, yes apple and his good old dark wizardy, their lies their secret!
Man, that band app looks awsome! It makes me want to get an iPhone actually, the first iPhone never appealed to me, but latly it really has me wanting to get one.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"Slow DSL" – isn't that redundant?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
BoxcarPeteBoxcarPeteBoxcarPeteBoxcarPeteBoxcarPete!
I treasure his appearances.
Also like Josh's thumbnail sketch of himself in panel 1.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'm afraid to know what that mysterious red blotch on the checklist is.
And w00t!!11! Josh is the same age as I am.
Boxcar Pete rox!
As per having my own iPhone, will it ever happen? Who knows? Knowing me, I'll buck the trend three years after the fact.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Gravy, Steve Jobs and his easy to use electro-heroin products. You mean it delivers the same high, only faster, cheaper, and with GPS! Lord almighty, let me toss this Nokia methadone out the window.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'm so stoked about my iPhone 2.0 upgrade, this new firmware is sweet, I've got this awesome iTunes logo on the top of my phone screen, and there's even a cable graphic on the bottom. But that's not the bets part, the 2.0 firmware has this awesome new feature where you can only make emergency phone calls. And I don't know what "error code 9838" is but I think it means I won something, cause I see it every time I plug my phone in to my computer. I can't believe we only had to wait through 6 months of hype and marketing for this upgrade, it was SO worth it.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You'll be able to pick up a 1G iphone used prety cheap now. Id say $100 or less.
Oh, and its most likely hobo blood. Who's? I cant say.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
And hey we need to get some of those nice dressed hobo's in Vancouver… sure ours have knive to but we could realy add some class by throwing them into top-hats and bow-ties…
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Your Apple logo looks like an old Pac-Man with a feather in his hair, gummy mouth (no dentures) and Saggy Butt Syndrome. That is all.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
My roommate works at Apple and he had to go in at 5AM this morning to deal with people camping out. They got there last night around 9PMish with tents.
He also had the new software on his iPhone and proceeded to show me every single application to me over enchiladas. No matter how bored I managed to make my face look, he would NOT shut up.
I get it. It's super cool. Heck, I own a Mac and love it to death but I just can't care about the iPhone. I tried really hard. But every time Apple comes out with an even more integrated piece of whatnot, I can't help thinking we're getting closer and closer to Cybermen from Doctor Who. And I was in the process of telling him this when his iPhone crashed and he almost started crying. And I rested my point.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'm glad to see Boxcar Pete back. The sad thing is this comic isn't too far from the truth. Down around the Plaza and Westport back in my old home of Kansas City I heard plenty of stories about people paying the homeless to wait in line from them for various things (concert tickets, game consoles, etc.).
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Well heck, if you were still here (in KC, that is) we could've had a Fancy Bastard meet-up. Where did you move to?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You know, if anything exciting happened in Richmond that was worth waiting in line for, I already know a few bums I could give $10 and 40 oz of malt liquor to wait for me.
But lo, that opportunity will never come to pass.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
haha awesome!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
You've got some pretty snappy- dressing Hobos where you live! Ours just wear stained flannel shirts and sleeping bags, but you guys have a homeless poulation with some sophisitcated tastes! The hat set at a jaunty angle, the rakish haircut, the bowtie that speaks of a certain je ne sais quoi that so, so many lack. Versace has found its new poster boy, and the fall collection should be out any day now… Derelíct!
I own a tracfone, and the only one who calls me on it is Mom.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
The Denver Area in CO. We still might be able to have a FB meet up in the future. I'll definitely be visiting KC a few times a year.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Anybody else seen Hellboy 2? Just asking.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Im probably not getting an iPhone ever, because I would never use it enough to make up the cost. I'm not a "mobile" kinda guy >.> infact I just got my first phone with text and picture taking capability last summer
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Boxcar Pete harkens back to a time when it was appropriate to appear gentlemanly no matter what your income
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
He could certainly teach the current generation of hipsters and socialites a thing or two.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Might I add, 200 bucks worldwide was the biggest lie of the year…
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I want a picture of an Aborigine with an iPhone.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Years ahead? Feature wise, yes. Marketing wise? 10 years behind. The reason people are treating the iPhone like its the first smart phone ever is that its the first non-intemidating smartphone ever. All of motorola's and nokia's offerings have been geared towards the business class. Apple wants the smart phone to become ubiquitous like the iPod.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
It already feels like ive got a new toy, so I feel much better about holding out for the upgrade. Band might be the one thing I have to fork over $10 for.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Josh's "elevator pitch" was twice as long but I couldnt fit it all. I IM'd him to ask what sign he was and he got very suspicious.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I tie off with white earbuds.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
hmmm… mine works perfectly.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Pete comes from a classier ring of hobo society.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
thats what I get for freehanding it. Also, "NAH UHHHH!"
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'm going to choose not to stoke this fire…
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I get this mental image of an Apple general barking orders at his troops moments before tossing them out the airplane.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
According to Colbert, this is a pretty common practice for political lobbyists.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
But you have to give them the 40oz later. Otherwise they fall asleep in line.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"Listen to your friend Billy Zane. He's a cool guy."
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'd like to see it this weekend but Im not sure if the start will align for it. If I do you'll hear about it on the next HE castcast.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I would say to pick up a 1G used but the monthly and data is still pretty expensive.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I cant believe the outrageous dataplans. It was already too expensive in the US. Everyone else is getting super screwed.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Oh yeah, here in Aus, we have almost the same dollar value as you guys at the moment. But wait, where did that extra 600 bucks come from?! Stevesy definitely bent us over and aimed for penetration on this play…
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I'll pull some cigarette butts out of the ashtrays outside of 7-11. The buzz should keep 'em going for a while.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Suspicious? Just because you ran a personal ad for him in the comic? You should probably embed a link to his LJ in the first panel for good measure.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Poor guy came home last night at eight PM with a glazed look in his eye, walked quietly into his room and shut the door. I didn't see him for two hours, when he finally emerged for food and companionship.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
"1 rectal breach comin' up!"
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Woot! Denver in the house! How about a Denver meetup?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I kind of think of Josh (as defined by the first panel in this comic) as the stereotypical Mac user. Is that wrong?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
He is. So, no.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
ZOMG Josh is gay? no way! there is no clues in the other comics!
also, t-shirt idea:
Stay away from
(Boxcar Pete picture, as in the last panel)
MAH STABBIN' RADIUS!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
No clues?
http://hijinksensue.com/2008/03/27/hes-a-maniac-a...
http://hijinksensue.com/2007/10/25/not-that-there...
http://hijinksensue.com/2008/05/23/i-bid-one-doll...
http://hijinksensue.com/2008/05/26/hes-wed-jim/
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
so what about the t-shirt of boxcar, like the idea?
February 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I would like to do a Pete shirt. Not sure if there's much interest in it though
June 10th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
[...] Josh must be meeting him in a dark alley way to make arrangements for BCP (yeah, you know me) to wait in line for him on iPhone 3GS launch [...]