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What does one of these things cost today? Like $600. So you figure for $600 you'd get a phone that simple just works. But NNNOOO Apple and AT&T have had to bugger the whole concept of a smartphone up. Instead what you have is a really expensive thing that drops calls, and you get your voicemail/emails late. Whatever. These 10 reasons are in really no particular order. They all should be number one on the list.
1. Battery
Ok when you have the cool features turned on like WiFi, GPS, and 3G the battery will drain faster then a sink. See Ephman's not even a big phone talker but by mid-day he's starting to get worried that his piece of crap iPhone is going to run out of juice. Oh ya to make things worse you can't even swap out batteries (typical Apple)
2. AT&T
Yah, great move Apple. AT&T sucks worse then you. Ephman could be having one of his famous heated debates with his wife, and then DROPPED CALL. Which now has just made Ephman's living situation worse. She's thinking he hung up on her, and now he's got to explain how AT&T sucks.
3. Linux Support
So the iPhone obviously has an operating system right? (that is a rhetorical). Where do you think they got that operating system from? Darwin. Which was an open source POSIX compliant OS. DUH, you'd think then there would be at the VERY least NetBSD support. But no.
4. The Button
You can be in an application doing your thing, and then you want to go to your homescreen. No problem right? So you click that button and click and click and then start getting frustrated and click click click... Then it's just forget it.
5. Drop It
Go ahead. Drop your $600 thing. Better yet, see if you can drop it screen down. Just make sure you're wearing goggles. That glass screen will just explode like a TV set. Seen a few of them at the Apple Store around the corner from where Ephman lives.
6. Ringtone
The thing is basically a fancy iPod stuck on a cell phone. So why can Ephman NOT pick a song to be his ring? Is there some kind of crazy impossible programming job that will take 1,000 monkeys to do? Come on Apple this should have been like basic iPhone 101.
7. No Multi-Tasking
If you knew Ephman well you'd know that he can't do one thing at a time. This iPhone can't even run two things at a time. And they have such a great interface to be able to just slide from program to program. Ephman thinks the reason is that the battery life that sucks already will suck even more.
8. Speed
In this case speed does not kill. This thing is slower then a brick, on so many different levels. 3G is like a crawling 9600 bps. Moving from application to application takes forever. Starting, stopping, resuming, it all seems to take like forever. Makes that Youtube icon there basically useless.
9. Keyboard
Damned if you do... damned if you don't Ephman guesses on this one. So they FINALLY allow you to go landscape typing in email mode. BUT you can't see anything more then just one line at a time. And still just can't get used to not "feeling" a click. Sure they have a sound, and show the letter pop up. Maybe a little vibration, for what's lacking in a physical sensation... Oh yeah that won't work, THE BATTERY SUCKS ALREADY.
10. Sucks
Ephman is totally convinced that his iPhone sucks because somethings just suck. And the iPhone is one of those things. If you can figure more reasons leave a comment below and maybe that'll make number 10. And as a friend says unlike a flat stone it's hard to skip it across open water.
UPDATE:
Ephman went ahead and FINALLY ditched his iPhone. He replaced it with Google's Nexus One (and you can read the review here)
Comments
Very unhappy with the new I-phone.
Had a LG Voyager for 5 years no problems no dropped calls ever.
Internet was slower than a slug. Guys at work were making fun of me using my antenna. I got an I-phone March 1'st . The first call I recieved was dropped ! It seems every other call gets dropped.
I do alot of ebay bidding and it was actually easier with the Voyager.
The texting and auto correcting spelling is a pain. I text about alot of deep technical things. I hate having to send another text because the phone miscorrected me and I didn't catch it. It makes me look like an a-hole in front of my clients.
I am a city firefighter and just dropped two important calls from work. I am aware of the how you hold the phone issue and bought a slip on cover that's supposed to help, all to no avail.
I still am pissed because I lost an item last week because my bid didn't go through. I could have made several hundreds easily . There was a glitch, now I have another ebay app and that seems to be working.
It seems like they forgot it's supposed to be a PHONE . It's more of a computer or toy than a phone.
I also hate the fact that I can easily call someone by accident just by touching the screen when I'm looking at missed calls. There should be a prompt.
I hate not having a seperate inbox and outbox for texts. It's also more steps to delete them. The LG Voyager was 1 Button.
I had 2 Extra batteries for the LG . It would go for 24 hours on 1 extended life battery with some battery life to spare most times. I went up Skiing for 3 days and brought an extra battery for the Voyager and never took it out of my bag ! All this without charging the phone.
The flip phone is also much more discreet when someone sends you an innapropriate message . I can't control what someone sends me. On the old LG phone it didn't group all the messages together , I could be more selective of what was on the screen. I'm Ready to throw it through a wall !
I recently got an iphone and
I recently got an iphone and have to say it is a pleasure to use when compared to the tiny horrible keypads found on Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones. The OS is simply and easy, Much nicer than the before mentioned brands.
Now the iphone is far from perfect and here are the reasons why,
1. Signal is lost randomly. 1 min you have no service next min you have full bars
2. Multi-tasking yep it just doesn't do it.
3. Battery life is poor because it is such a pleasure to use you will use it unlike the unpleasant SE and Nokia phones.
4. I agree ringtones sms email should allow you to customise outside buying ringtones from itunes or buying 3rd party software to hack the phone.
5. The contracts are overpriced as is the device.
However when you compare the OS to symbian which the Nokias and SE use the iphone is a god send. i work for a mobile phone company and have to say until Nokia and SE drop Symbian from there phones i will never purchase one. The OS has a mind of its own a crazy one.
misleading advertising
I hated it when this phone was being advertised as the best phone. All journalist were praising this thing. This just tells me that these many journalist were ignorant afterall. Blackberry, HTC, Nokia, etc have been around doing multitasking, long lasting batteries, great phone signals, video calls, email, chat, internet even before this thing came around. The battery sucks and you can't even carry a spare. The phone is so thin so it required an even thin battery with a big screen that sucks battery even more and the OS is not designed to save on power! serious engineering problem....yet advertised for stupid fashion gay conscious people who are so ignorant about what makes better smartphone devices.
Ha... The iPhone is made by
Ha... The iPhone is made by HTC, dumbass.
But it copies and pastes
They really tweaked my gourd when they started advertising that revolutionary cut and paste feature.
Say what you will about Windows Mobile, but I've been able to cut and paste and multi-task and customize my interface and download thousands of apps since my first Dell Axim x5. And to be perfectly honest, my Treo 750 was the best phone I ever owned. It actually did this amazing thing called "make good phone calls". As if it was meant to be a phone or something.
Android?
Totally dig where you're coming from. Ephman's seriously thinking about an Android 2.0 phone. He can't run any Microsoft products. So he's thinking about the Motorola phone.
I hope apple goes out of buisness.
I had one for six months. I was stoaked, it was the first really nice phone I was going to have, and apple lived up to the same expectation I held about its PCs. It crashed totally twice, Battery smoked (and I mean that litearly), the last one had dead pixles on the screen. I told apple to cram it, and AT&T that they owe me for dealing with that phone. I now have a Blackberry, it works, has worked for a year now, and I have the feeling it will work for years to come. This thing has been soaked with rain, and dropped more times than I can count, not once did I ever drop my iphone. So if you buy an iphone you are ignorant, or in desperate need to be part of some pathetic fan club where you and your "gay for the iphone" buddies can grabass and love each other. If you have a lick of sense about you, you will buy a Blackberry, Droid phone, or anything but an Apple product. Remember, the sell a lifestyle, not a quality product.
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