Apple iPhone 3G - user opinions and reviews
- Anonymous
- P%n
Anonymous, 01 Jan 1970Sorry to interupt your flood, in one of your points you complain about a lack of live TV then in that same point you complain about live TV being no good on a phone anyway...
...have you thought about seeking some sort of help for your condition?
Carry on with the obsessive cutting and pasting.
- Anonymous
- qb0
1. The Contract.
You have to purchase an AT&T contract in order to be able to activate your new iPhone 3G. In the long run, it turns out to be much more expensive than the original iPhone. All the $199 talk was just a marketing gimmick by Apple after all.
There are iPhones being sold without contracts but they are still very expensive at $599 / $699 and are locked to AT&T’s network anyways. So you still have to suck up to AT&T and choose from its crappy plans. Of course, there are other ways but we ain’t talking about them here.
2. The Camera.
After all the iPhone bashing, it turns out that Apple hasn’t yet learnt to consider customer feedback and has brought back the same crappy 2 MP cam in the iPhone 3G. Yea, no Flash, No Auto Focus and of course, No video recording. No advanced manual settings. It doesn’t even have a front facing VGA cam for Video calls over 3G.
3. No Multitasking.
With all that powerful hardware packed under that sleek body, OS X limitations still dont allow a decent Multitasking experience. Apple expects that all iPhone users are noobs who just like to RUN ONE APPLICATION AT A TIME. Great going, Apple!
4. A complete waste of Bluetooth.
You still can’t send your documents, media and other files over Bluetooth to other phones. You cant sync your files over Bluetooth. Add to that, the absence of A2DP. Apple expects you to use Bluetooth just for super cool & exciting tasks like talking on the iPhone using a Bluetooth headset.
5. No MMS.
You can’t send Multimedia messages through the iPhone just for the simple reason that Mr.Jobs thinks that no one should use MMS any more. So what if it is an extremely popular feature for media sharing and every 3rd person on Earth would like to use it. However this reason doesn’t hold out much anymore because email is becoming increasingly popular for file sharing on mobile phones. But having MMS wouldn’t have hurt, surely.
6. The Touchscreen keyboard.
The only way you can expect to use the iPhone’s Touchscreen keyboard accurately & efficiently is if you have fingers the size of Frodo’s or if you undergo surgery to make them thinner. It takes a bit too long to get used to tapping the keys on its virtual keyboard comfortably, in case you have normal human fingers. And there is no alternative as well. Also there is no option to select / cut / paste text yet.
7. No Flash support.
The Safari browser on the iPhone still doesn’t support Flash animations or videos. As a majority of the videos on the internet are in Flash, this means that iPhone users will miss out on a lot of content. However to watch Youtube videos you can use the Youtube App.
Bonus reason :
The iPhone 3G just adds more to the already overflowing pool of overzealous, annoying and idi0t fanboys. They want you to believe that the iPhone is the best phone ever and if you point out the list of features where it lacks, they just say that those features simply suck and no one wants them anymore. All iPhone features become super cool for them, even if they have been implemented by a gazillion other phones ages ago.
Adding to the above 7 reasons, the battery of the 3G iPhone cannot be removed. You dont get the dock bundled with the phone anymore, you have to buy it separately for $30. It does not have FM. The battery life is not too decent. Also there are many other phones that provide most of the features iPhone provides, in a much better way and are way cheaper than the iPhone 3G.
- yo word up fruity pe
- pJ2
oi oi got mine today its a mega phone i used to have a apple this blows it into the ground might get 2 as i deal in crack n97 forever
- Anal sexer
- ji{
Anonymous, 21 May 2009haha you said it..
nokias are like lions
iphones are tigers
and you dont know anything at a... moreI dont know what you are trying to convey.....BUT lion is king of beast .if it were not superior to tiger why people call lion king....
Why tigers dont live in africa?because tigers are afraid of lion as lion is strong and big..
Thats why tigers live only in india because lions dont live there.
Want anyother proof
- Anonymous
- 0pY
hey, is this the true that new iphone will be released July 17? any1 can confirm this? Thanks
- Anonymous
- wYI
Anonymous, 21 May 2009ok..iphone good in their application and touchable FEELING... nokia also good in other specifi... morespecifities??
- Anonymous
- 3I0
ok..iphone good in their application and touchable FEELING... nokia also good in other specificities too...
in other words, both phone has their own specificities and the best way to solve is to have both phone in hand..haha
- Anonymous
- UD{
@nal sexer, 21 May 2009Apple iphone is tiger.
Nokia n97 is lion.
Lion is bigger/stronger and is true kinghaha you said it..
nokias are like lions
iphones are tigers
and you dont know anything at all about lions and tigers dont you?.. haha LOL!!
lion is only called king in papers but the superior beast is the tiger..
see this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtr_T9mL52w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Yhm27GuA0&feature=related
just like nokias, better only in paper specs, but in the real world, its nothing compared to iphones..
hahahaha!! LOL!!!
- Anonymous
- M3g
@nal sexer, 21 May 2009Apple iphone is tiger.
Nokia n97 is lion.
Lion is bigger/stronger and is true kingThis lion of yours is not even born yet! LOL
I have a feeling that this lion will be like all other Nokia “lions” – that is fearless and terrifying on the specs paper but in real life nowhere near that.
- Anonymous
- P@Y
To Anonymous:
Thanks for that information..
I know that iphone is sucha good and elegant phone...
im not into games nor web browsing,,i'm after for the interface itself...i like the look nad GUI of the iphone..
I have two questions:
1. When i used iphone only for texting and calls,,,normally, how long does the battery last?
2. The version of the new iphone 2009 is OS 3.0 right? can this be installed to the current iphone also? you can now delete individual messages and forward sms?
- Anonymous
- P%n
Allan, 21 May 2009"who is AT&T"
You're kidding right?
It's a big U.S carrier that first started the iphone.Well, someone said you had to have a contract with AT&T?
I've got an iPhone 3G and don't have a contract with AT&T, I'm like millions of iPhone users who don't have contracts with AT&T, almost half of all iPhone users in fact, in over eighty countries.
See that's the problem when people cut and paste without thinking.
My iPhone is also unlocked through my carrier, I can use any SIM I want in it.
- @nal sexer
- ji{
Anonymous, 21 May 2009Who's AT&T?
I've got an iPhone and never heard of them.
Hey GSM arena, your servers are ... moreApple iphone is tiger.
Nokia n97 is lion.
Lion is bigger/stronger and is true king
- Allan
- Ikc
Anonymous, 21 May 2009Who's AT&T?
I've got an iPhone and never heard of them.
Hey GSM arena, your servers are ... more"who is AT&T"
You're kidding right?
It's a big U.S carrier that first started the iphone.
- Anonymous
- P%n
Anonymous, 21 May 20091. The Contract.
You have to purchase an AT&T contract in order to be able to activate your n... moreWho's AT&T?
I've got an iPhone and never heard of them.
Hey GSM arena, your servers are broken they are spitting out stuff from July last year.
OS 3.0 and most of these comments are worthless, all they do is highlight your ignorance.
- Anonymous
- qb0
1. The Contract.
You have to purchase an AT&T contract in order to be able to activate your new iPhone 3G. In the long run, it turns out to be much more expensive than the original iPhone. All the $199 talk was just a marketing gimmick by Apple after all.
There are iPhones being sold without contracts but they are still very expensive at $599 / $699 and are locked to AT&T’s network anyways. So you still have to suck up to AT&T and choose from its crappy plans. Of course, there are other ways but we ain’t talking about them here.
2. The Camera.
After all the iPhone bashing, it turns out that Apple hasn’t yet learnt to consider customer feedback and has brought back the same crappy 2 MP cam in the iPhone 3G. Yea, no Flash, No Auto Focus and of course, No video recording. No advanced manual settings. It doesn’t even have a front facing VGA cam for Video calls over 3G.
3. No Multitasking.
With all that powerful hardware packed under that sleek body, OS X limitations still dont allow a decent Multitasking experience. Apple expects that all iPhone users are noobs who just like to run one application at a time. Great going, Apple!
4. A complete waste of Bluetooth.
You still can’t send your documents, media and other files over Bluetooth to other phones. You cant sync your files over Bluetooth. Add to that, the absence of A2DP. Apple expects you to use Bluetooth just for super cool & exciting tasks like talking on the iPhone using a Bluetooth headset.
5. No MMS.
You can’t send Multimedia messages through the iPhone just for the simple reason that Mr.Jobs thinks that no one should use MMS any more. So what if it is an extremely popular feature for media sharing and every 3rd person on Earth would like to use it. However this reason doesn’t hold out much anymore because email is becoming increasingly popular for file sharing on mobile phones. But having MMS wouldn’t have hurt, surely.
6. The Touchscreen keyboard.
The only way you can expect to use the iPhone’s Touchscreen keyboard accurately & efficiently is if you have fingers the size of Frodo’s or if you undergo surgery to make them thinner. It takes a bit too long to get used to tapping the keys on its virtual keyboard comfortably, in case you have normal human fingers. And there is no alternative as well. Also there is no option to select / cut / paste text yet.
7. No Flash support.
The Safari browser on the iPhone still doesn’t support Flash animations or videos. As a majority of the videos on the internet are in Flash, this means that iPhone users will miss out on a lot of content. However to watch Youtube videos you can use the Youtube App.
Bonus reason :
The iPhone 3G just adds more to the already overflowing pool of overzealous, annoying and idi0t fanboys. They want you to believe that the iPhone is the best phone ever and if you point out the list of features where it lacks, they just say that those features simply suck and no one wants them anymore. All iPhone features become super cool for them, even if they have been implemented by a gazillion other phones ages ago.
Adding to the above 7 reasons, the battery of the 3G iPhone cannot be removed. You dont get the dock bundled with the phone anymore, you have to buy it separately for $30. It does not have FM. The battery life is not too decent. Also there are many other phones that provide most of the features iPhone provides, in a much better way and are way cheaper than the iPhone 3G.
- Anonymous
- qb0
someone has said it better:
"
No bluetooth music streaming and/or file transfers (video is out of the question)
No drag and drop file juggling
No Flash support
No Java
No copy and paste
No front camera
No video recording
No video calls
No user replaceable battery
No radio
No VGA resolution
No IR port
No physical keyboard
No external storage card support (Micro SDHC cards are up to 32 GB now, 8GB is NOT enough these days, especially for a media device)
No voice command (WM devices and even some "el-cheapo" phones have featured this for years now)
No MMS (it doesn't have phone-to-phone MMS, it has phone-to-air-to-phone picture sharing necessitating a data plan)
No Live TV (that doesnt require you to be connected to an app like Orb on your home PC, which defeats the purpose, why would I want to watch it on a dinky non VGA screen instead of just on my home PC when im at home anyways)
No camera flash
No camera zoom
Same old, subpar, 2 MP camera for that matter
No multitasking
Limited video format support
Limited picture format support
Limited file format support in general
"
you must know very little about the smartphone market or be a complete tool to buy this piece of junk for a phone
- Anonymous
- qb0
this is the
2 MP camera!
No video!
no bluetooth transfers!
no sms
uses itunes! (can`t transfer music back onto computer)
does the exact same thing as an ipod touch! except you can call someone on it :)
wait, this is a phone? most people would call this a cheap ipod with an industry low 2mp camera. or a better term is a piece of sh!t ;)
- Anonymous
- P%n
Mark, 20 May 2009Hi Guys,
Im planning to purchase an iphone 3G anytime nextweek and i'm a bit cofused on the... moreThe battery is pretty good for a phone, if you just left it in your pocket and didn't use it.
The trouble is it's such a joy to use it's very hard to put it down and the web browsing and games are so good you'll find you'll use it a lot more than other phones.
This is why people complain about the battery life.
- Anonymous
- UD}
Anonymous, 20 May 2009Wait for the 2009 version, which will come out in this summer. Iphone 3G owners will be as scr... morei dont think so kid.
OS 3.0 update is free to iphone 3G users.
will have many new features and applications.
it will feel like a new iphone 3G again.
i think it will be enough to make you wait another year for another iphone 2010.
- Anonymous
- nbu
Mark, 20 May 2009Hi Guys, Im planning to purchase an iphone 3G anytime nextweek and i'm a bit cofused on the... moreWait for the 2009 version, which will come out in this summer. Iphone 3G owners will be as screwed as Iphone 2G owners was in summer 2008...
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