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Apple iphone (pg. 10)
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| Ripped Bag |
As far as getting scratched goes just get Invisible Shield. I have it for my Ipods.. they use it on helicopter blades..
http://www.shieldzone.com/
And I'll be buying this after the 6th month. |
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| Hasneez |
Everything the iPhone CAN'T Do
Can't purchase/download iTunes songs over the air (or even WiFi)
Can't use the phone to get your laptop on the Internet from anywhere using your data plan (no tethering)
Phone doesn't show up as a mounted volume when you plug it in to your computer (no disk mode so it can't be used as an external hard drive natively in the OS).
Can't record video with the 2 Megapixel camera, even though you have some of the most advanced portable digital signal processing technology onboard, and the largest 8GB internal memory of any phone ever shipped in the US.
Can't surf the Internet or send/receive e-mail while on a call unless you are connected to a WiFi access point. The advanced multitasking displayed in the concluding MacWorld Keynote demo only works if you have both the cellular AND WiFi networks running simultaneously and both are within range. All functions do not multitask concurrently over the cellular network as the demo leads the viewer to believe.
No Adobe Flash in the web browser. It's convenient all the pretty demos have been of strict HTML-only static web pages. Try jumping out to the real REAL Internet and see how it looks sans Flash, Shockwave, Java, Embedded Quicktime, Real Player, or PDF. Even with the revolutionary touch interface, your browsing experience will still feel primitive when many elements on websites flat out don't work.
No "Message Waiting" indicator light. If the phone is sitting on your desk or nightstand and you walk out of the room, when you return you have to walk over to it, wake it up, slide the unlock slider, and load or look at the indicator in the mail app, phone app, visual voicemail app, SMS texting app to check for new e-mails, missed calls, waiting voice mails, or new texts-- EVERY SINGLE TIME, all throughout the day. For anyone who doesn't WEAR the phone 24/7, this is quickly going to get very repetitive and tiring after the first week of owning an iPhone, let alone after two solid years.
Web browsing is excruciating slow. In Steve Jobs' MacWorld demo, if you look and listen carefully it is conducted over a WiFi connection, and not the EDGE connection (Steve mentions this as he begins). Also notice how slow the screen takes re-rendering as he moves around the New York Times page while zoomed in partially. The processor is maxed out handling the full HTML renderings. The canned demos on the introductory website and the new commercials are just that: canned demos. Witness the lag from the actual product use in a real world scenario under best network circumstances (WiFi) clearly visible in both the January and more recent WWDC keynotes. Browsing and rendering websites on the iPhone is woefully underpowered.
No push e-mail for POP/IMAP. Imagine you have a device where it has a GSM cellular radio transceiver, 802.11b/g WiFi radio transceiver, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR radio transceiver, AND the device needs to be connecting, logging in, downloading, and closing the connection to your mail server EVERY TEN MINUTES THE ENTIRE TIME THE DEVICE IS ON. You can say bye-bye to battery life. Oh well, at least you can easily swap--oh, wait...
Can't use it without an iTunes Store account. Chances are this requirement isn't just to get people to more easily spend money with Apple-- I believe it's Apple's hedge to control any devices that are ultimately unlocked. I can't wait for the first person who is able to unlock their iPhone, take it to T-Mobile or a European carrier, only to find when they go to sync, download, or interface in any way with iTunes, Apple spits up some error on their screen saying "Sorry, this device is unsupported." Since the device will not mount as a hard drive, the only way any data is getting in or out is through iTunes, checking that you are a legit, paying at&t customer. |
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| leph555 |
| There is no IM :( :( :( |
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| Frenchie |
You all want your phones to do too much. What happened to simple calling in and out and texts? Or not even texts, just incoming and outgoing calls.
So WHAT your phone can't IM people or go on google maps while talking to someone...FFS get the map BEFORE you leave your house and say goodbye to your IMers as well. Heaven forbid you should go longer than 2-3 hours without it. |
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| Sunsnail |
| I used 400 txt messages last month, and 15 minutes of calling...mmmm |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
I used 400 txt messages last month, and 15 minutes of calling...mmmm |
i use 1200+ text messages a month. last month i used 900 minutes (600 peak) and 1462 text messages. for a while i was doing 2400 texts a month when i was with a former flame. i love texting cause its easily hidden and you can say things that you dont want to say out loud. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| oh and the iphone is gay anyway. its an overpriced pda phone that doesnt even have 3g! wtf. |
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| Frenchie |
| Did you manage to sleep? |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
Did you manage to sleep? |
of course. why wouldnt i? |
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| verndogs |
the one thing I really like about the iPhone is the visual voicemail system.
about ing time someone came up with this. |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
of course. why wouldnt i? |
*WHOOSH*
Twas kidding..duh. soo many texts... |
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