Is the iPhone Perfect ? What you might not know ...
Highly doubtful if you go by what is now beginning to leak out from those that would otherwise look for any reason to buy an iPhone. Apparently there is some momentum beginning to build behind the problems the iPhone is encountering. I thought this was a very interesting read from an Apple fanboy site you're probably already familiar with - www.gizmodo.com. Check this out ...
The iPhone 3G is infuriatingly buggy. It crashes. It doesn't get great speeds when it should, switching to EDGE in areas that have 3G coverage. Coming out of the subway, it takes minutes to find a signal again and stop claiming to get "No Service" in the middle of Manhattan, often requiring a restart. Requiring a restart to get service! What is this crap? And when I do have service, calls still drop and fail all the time. The keyboard lags so much that writing text messages is more annoying than using T9 texting on a number pad. The orientation switching when you rotate the phone is inconsistent at best. Backups take minutes, sometimes hours. Sometimes, the audio output dies and it needs to be restarted to listen to music through headphones ...
... but wait, there's more ...
I called Apple famed customer support to see if they had any solutions for these bugs. Their fix for my problem getting service when coming out of the subway? Turn Airplane Mode on and off. If there's a more ghetto fix for a problem than that, I'd like to hear it. Last time I checked the C train didn't have wings. As for when all of these bugs will be fixed, the guy on the phone said "Sooner or later it'll be working to its full potential ... If you're interested in reading the entire rant, check out http://gizmodo.com/5040593/cranky-windows-guy-apples-iphone-bugs-stopped-me-from-switching-to-a-mac.
>> In regard to Windows Mobile versus the iPhone, did you know ...
1. The iPhone has no physical keyboard. With Windows Mobile, you can choose a keyboard, a touch screen, or both! Your phone is truly personal.
2. Window Mobile lets you multitask, with two applications running at the same time. Only one application can run at a time on the iPhone.
3. Windows Mobile camera phones can take pictures up to 5 megapixels. The iPhone’s camera is only 2 megapixels with no flash, video, or optical zoom.
4. ... the iPhone can’t record videos? With Windows Mobile, you can, with up to 640×480 resolution and 30 frames per second (FPS).
5. The iPhone does not have an exchangeable battery. All Windows Mobile phones do.
6. The iPhone’s Web browser still doesn’t support Adobe Flash — if you visit a Flash website, all you’ll get is white space and error messages.
7. With an iPhone, you’ll pay extra if you leave the US— expect charges up to $20 per megabyte and no image downscaling or data compression.
8. Using an iPhone in the car isn’t really hands-free. No voice dialing and limited navigation and Bluetooth ...
9. The iPhone will cost more over the mandatory two-year contract than what its predecessors did, even with the lower price point.
10. Bottom line: the iPhone still has no removable battery, no voice dialing, no picture messaging, no video recording, no Copy and Paste.
