iPhone 3G
The short comings of the new iPhone 3G :-
(1)No 3G video calling even if you are over a 3G Network. (Though you may not yet have 3G in India, but even at a later date it’s not worth the 3G tag when you can’t do video calls)
(2)Blue Tooth functionality is only limited to headset use. (You can’t do any file transfer over Blue Tooth)
(3)Absolutely no camera settings - it’s just like some ancient digital camera which does only point and shoot functionality.
(4)The camera doesn’t has autofocus and even does not have a flash. So it’s more like a fm radio,namesake camera.
(5)The worst thing is that you cannot forward a SMS message!! Don’t tell me I am foolish, but really your iPhone 3G can’t forward a simple SMS. You’ll have to retype an SMS and forward it.
(6)There is NO copy / paste functionality. So you need to remember the texts and type again as you go.
(7)A very Mediocre camera - it’s just a 2Mega-Pixel camera. But it’s been a very pathetic 2MP one to hit the market. Photos taken in the iPhone’s camera look like they have been taken off a VGA camera. For a lesser price tag, Nokia N95/Sony Ericsson k850i sport a 5 Mega Pixel camera as also full screen video recording and TV-out(only in N95).
(8)The iPhone 3G has a Plastic Outer Casing (Earlier it was Metallic casing - looks like inflation has hit iPhone too).
(9)This piece has no FM RADIO. FM radio is even available in phones that just cost a fraction of the iPhone 3G’s price.
(10)The iPhone 3G has no option for video recording. So you can’t record videos on it.
(11)The iPhone 3G is simply overpriced in India (Costs almost twice the price as in US)
(12)It’s in built Safari web browser does not support Flash as well as Java. Yet it boasts to have a full screen browser. Most e-commerce sites aren’t gonna work without Java and most entertainment sites without Flash.
(13)There is No option to sync between Notes & To Do’s. Guess Apple’s engineer’s haven’t heard about Syncronization before.
(14)There is No office document editor. Most Nokia’s come with in-build editor’s for Word / Excel.
(15)The iPhone doesn’t has AD2P on the Bluetooth - which means you can’t get stereo sound via Blue Tooth headphones, that’s a big damper for the music fans.
(16)The iPhone doesn’t has a Removable battery. Yes - you cannot change the battery yourself. Apple expects you to send the phone to an Apple Outlet to replace the battery. Now if you travel too much - what are you gonna do? Look for an Apple Store to interchange the travel battery?
(17)iPhone doesn’t has an option to send MMS. Forget about MMS.
(18)You cannot use the iPhone as an external storage device (16 GB is of utter waste).
(19)You can’t share ANY (mp3, images,videos) files via Bluetooth.
(20)You can’t use the iPhone as a wireless modem. Though you’ll end up paying ridiculous data charges to activate internet on your iPhone, but you simply can’t connect it to your laptop and browse on the go.
(21)Though you can’t sent MMS - You can’t receive MMS messages too!
(22)The iPhone lacks proper support for Flash websites.
(23)You can’t set your personal songs as ring tones!
(24)It only allows for a maximum of 1 picture to be attached to each e-mail you send!
(25)You cannot save documents on it. The documents can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your e-mail address - but no option of saving onto phone.
(26)No Voice Dialing on the iPhone 3G.
(27)You can’t send your contacts as a business card.
(28)The iPhone’s screen is not Finger Print Resistant. Since the iPhone is a touch screen phone so it is bound to get your finger print’s each time you touch so it gets dirty very easily.
(29)You can’t pair it with a stereo Bluetooth headset. That’s really funny inspite of the iPhone being touted as a music phone yet it does not support A2DP protocol needed by stereo headsets.
Well, that’s all i can think of. And yes people, I do have a shiny new iPhone 3g. And although I like it, there are still lot’s of things that need to be fixed.
Some readers have written about jailbreaking: well i dont want to void my warranty. I simlply don’t want to brick my iphone when apple releases a new update. Hope apple will fix a lot of theses shortcomings in upcoming firmware update.
Have you used other touch screen mobile ? Like HTC Touch ? If yes, then can you please let me know how it compares to iPhone ?
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September 12th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I’ll buy your 3G iPhone from you and you can get a Blackberry or better yet, a Windows Mobile device.
Some of your complaints are laughable (I feel sorry for your spouse).
PS: Third party apps allow some of the features you complain about. There are about 3000 of them on iTunes (not sure if available in India).
September 12th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Despite all its supposed shortcomings, I love my iphone. I think the reason why is that, though it lacks features (as outlined above), I don’t miss or never used a lot of the ‘features’. For example, I never ever changed my battery on my Treo (although I did buy one - waste of money!). I never used a stereo bluetooth headset before. I don’t like FM radio (!). And have you EVER tried to transfer files to/from a cellphone suing bluetooth?? It is clunky, slow and unreliable.
And I think daytime pics with the camera look great (lack of flash does suck for night time ones). Java does work on the iphone (though not flash).
By the way points #15 and #20 are the same! And so are #2 and #19. And so are #12 and #22! It’s almost as if you were trying to increase the number of negative points. It does not seem a very balanced approach…..
My feeling is that the overall user experience trumps the lack of some features (the ones I miss are MMS text, copy/paste; forward texts; video recording). The iphone simply brings a smile to my face when I use it. For me, user experience trumps long feature lists I guess. So its probably best to actually use one for a while and then decide if it is for you.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Two Words: Jail Break
Two MORE Words: Cydia, Installer
Half your reasons are dumb and most endusers wouldnt even use. FM Radio? Its an MP3 player. Reason for nout using MP3’s as ringtones is there are alot of barries from music companies to do so so they charge you 1$ to do it OR you could just google a way to do it yourself like I did and viola MP3 ringtones. Its a very simple process. Convert to AAC, select 30second segment, find converted file in music folder and rename to a .m4r filetype. SIMPLE. Hell iTunes can do all those steps minus the rename to .m4r filetype. Your just to lazy to try and figure these things out on your own. Stop complaining they already have your money.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Best Comment: “Some of your complaints are laughable (I feel sorry for your spouse).”
Really dude, its a litany of complaints. A few of them stand up, most can be resolved with a bit of searching and re-configuring. Or here is a suggestion: join a group and write a piece of code to solve one of your desires.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:35 am
yeah, this list is pretty lame. if you remove the duplicate entries (2 & 19, 15 & 29, 12 & 22, 17 & 22 should be combined, 3 & 4), you’re down to 24.
now let’s remove the ones that are just lame: 28 (how do you propose a fingerprint resistant screen made of optical glass? why don’t you just buy a print resistant shield?), 4 (how many camera phones have a flash? or auto-focus? i know there’s a few that do, but come on…), 8 (the plastic casing was added for reception. the old case was plastic on the bottom half so that the antennae could receive signals. they’ve added 3g and made the whole back plastic for better reception), 11 (come on, the fact that it’s expensive in India effects you somehow? lame.), 17 (isn’t that what email is for?), now we’re down to 19.
since the iphone is extensible and made to be extended through 3rd party apps, let’s remove the complaints that are solved through 3rd party apps: 3 (though we already removed this one earlier so i won’t count it), 9 (pandora’s even better), 10 (several options for video recording exist), 18 (there’s datacase and many other solutions for this), 20 (yes you can), 23 (yes you can), 25 (yep), 26 (yeah), now we’re down to 11.
yeah, this list sucks. but you’re right, you can’t send your contacts as a business card i guess. maybe i will take mine back.