"Seven iPhone Disappointments"

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The iPhone recently came out with its, incredibly anticipated, 3G networking upgrade, featuring GPS!  The price also dropped down to $199, which front up sounds a lot better than the previous price of $399.  It did not take long before people started crying about the apparently hidden fees in the AT&T, 3G price of $10 a month.  Since then there have been a plethora of rants, raves, Digg’s and Reddit’s about this subject.  I cannot claim to post brand new information on subjects of this matter, I am not America, nor am I an iPhone user.  That being said, this is my response to the list in the link shown above.

• The Cost: as said before, the customers are paying more because of an incredibly faster Internet service.  I do not see how this simple fact can be so blatantly ignored.  You flamers are so damn picky.
• No Flash: I am not extremely well versed in the ways of camera phones, but I did have a really nice BlackBerry Pearl.  There are much nicer cameras out there, but I really, really needed my camera flash.  It was a great picture if you had the right light.
• No Replaceable Batteries: this point surprises me in the sense that… well, it is an Apple product, they just don’t do batteries.  Apple claims the iPhone has 8 hours of Talk TIme.  Even if those numbers are false, that is not bad at all.  And with the popularity of the iPod/ iPhone, it would not be hard at all to buy a third party charger.  A battery would be nice, but… it aight.
• Video Recording: considering what most of the Macintosh computers are used for, video, it is surprising there is no iMovie integration in the phone.  The biggest surprise here is just that every damn phone has a video camera any ways… not quite generations ahead here, eh?
• No Cut-and-Paste: one of the best features of the Facebook app for the BlackBerry was the fact you could copy numbers straight from their profile.  I do not know if the iPhone is completely lacking all copy-and-paste function, but it helps a lot, especially when compiling an address book.
• No MMS: I am actually completely indifferent about this point, I have never seen a reason to use MMS.
• No Voice Dialing: I have not used much of this feature as well, but if I was using a touch-based phone (especially one with Apple’s fingerprint-bait-surfaces) I would, ironically, try to touch it as little as possible.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/20/iphone-disappointment-features-tech-wireless08-cx_bc_0620iphone.html

Tags: Apple, iphone