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10 Febbraio 2007
Who wants an iPhone? Why the Apple iPhone is NOT amazing at all (and you should never buy one)

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I think the iPhone is great, but I just can’t stand some stupid limitations of the pre-release product presented @Macworld 2007.

10. Who wants a carrier locked phone? [iPhone can be used only with Cingular and there’s a required 2-year contract]
9. Who wants an Apple iPod-phone without the click wheel? [Steve, we love the click wheel!]
8. Who wants a Mac OS X based device you cannot install any third party software on?
7. Who wants a 3,5″ display if you cannot do video calls?
6. Who wants a video iPod with only 8GB of memory? [2 and a half movies? come on…]
5. Who wants a multi-touch screen if the only thing you can do with it is zooming your pictures? [you can do almost everything else even without multi-touch]
4. Who wants a smartphone which cannot sync with Outlook/Entourage?
3. Who wants a 2 megapixels camera when there are 3 megapixels cameras on many mobile phones out there? [cellphones a lot cheaper than the iPhone]
2. Who wants a 4GB 499$ hybrid Phone with iPod functionality when you can have a 8GB iPod nano for half the price? [and it’s smaller]
1. Who wants a slow GPRS phone, now we can have H3G and HSDPA?


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8 Commenti a “Who wants an iPhone? Why the Apple iPhone is NOT amazing at all (and you should never buy one)”

  1. K scrive:
    10 Febbraio 2007 alle 01:47

    I do

  2. Eugenia scrive:
    10 Febbraio 2007 alle 02:10

    >6. Who wants a video iPod with only 8GB of memory? [2 and a half movies? come on…]

    This is a complete fallacy. The iPhone comes with h.264 support. Encoding a movie in the native resolution of the phone with h.264, it will yield a filesize of about 500 MBs. Therefore, you can fit about 15 movies in the iPhone. And if you are encoding 45-minutes TV episodes instead ad a bit lower quality and QVGA size, you can fit about 70 of such episodes in there.

    >1. Who wants a slow GPRS phone, now we can have H3G and HDSPA?

    I don’t know where you live, but in USA, where the iphone will first launch, does NOT have 3G on most places. In fact, the iPhone is NOT a GPRS-only phone, it has EDGE support. Where GPRS maxes out at around 5-6 KB/sec, EDGE maxes out at 21 KB/sec. So, no, it’s not a useless phone. 20 KB/sec is more than enough for VoIP for example, and even one-way 176×144 video-calls. It will also be good enough for YouTube videos when it hits the mobiles.

    Personally, I never buy phones that don’t have EDGE, but 3G support pushes it a bit at this point and time, in USA. It’s not a must-have feature YET. It would have been a must have feature IF the iPhone was coming to a Sprint or Verizon network, but not on USA’s GSM yet.

  3. Eugenia scrive:
    10 Febbraio 2007 alle 02:13

    Ok, I see that you live in Italy. Yes, Europe has better 3G support than USA, but remember, the first model that will ship with USA’s Cingular does NOT have to be the same model that will ship in Europe in late 2007. I am pretty sure that the European model will have 3G, so, your No1 problem does not hold water as of yet.

  4. Dave scrive:
    10 Febbraio 2007 alle 02:18

    I do you dumbass!

  5. Valentina scrive:
    10 Febbraio 2007 alle 10:21

    Non ci posso credere…

    Paz ma che ti sei ammattito?

    Scrivi una cosa contro il tuo guru Steve Jobs?!

    Dillo che è una maialata per rankare su google…

  6. Roger scrive:
    21 Febbraio 2007 alle 19:57

    -2. Who wants a 4GB 499$ hybrid Phone with iPod functionality when you can have a 8GB iPod nano for half the price?

    I’m not even going to answer that it’s such a dumbass question

    -9. Who wants an Apple iPod-phone without the click wheel?

    Wtf? yeh lets have a scroll wheel on every apple product ever to be released… eerrr no.

    - 4. Who wants a smartphone which cannot sync with Outlook/Entourage?

    The iphone is a software device, apple may choose to add whatever they like whenever they like, it might not be able to now but 6 months is a long time numbnuts.

    -5. Who wants a multi-touch screen if the only thing you can do with it is zooming your pictures? [you can do almost everything else even without multi-touch]

    Yet another completely dumb ass ill-informed question you total fart knocker, only zoom in on pictures eh? Lets look at what you can only do with multi-touch: swiping pictures, Flick scrolling, double taps, these are all part of multi-touch. the only thing you dont use mutli-touch for is single icon touches like regular touch screens.

    7. Who wants a 3,5? display if you cannot do video calls?

    I do, for looking at pictures, emails, websites, episodes, movies, the list is endless really.

    1. Who wants a slow GPRS phone, now we can have H3G and HDSPA?

    Finally, a half intelligent question. The problem is 3g isn’t available throughout the us…yet. They’d be shrinking their potential market group. As Jobs said in the keynote, 3g iphones are on the way.

  7. pasquale scrive:
    27 Febbraio 2007 alle 23:56

    I don’t mind if US is not 3G ready, here in Europe we’ve got HSDPA and from my point of view 2G is just old school.

  8. » Ecco perché non comprerò l’iPhone - dal blog di pasquale borriello scrive:
    11 Settembre 2007 alle 23:22

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