JamesX

What! James is unimpressed with an Apple product I hear you scream. Well for the record there are lots of Apple products I think are frustrating to use or cover such a niche that no one really cares, but this new iPhone really sucks… and not just a little bit. In fact, I’ll try to sum it up in as small a list as possible:

• The complete lack of storage space. I’m still bewildered how something so media-centric can survive with only 8GB (if you buy the upgraded model) of space. If you think about what this thing is designed to do - iPod, email, voicemail, photos, widescreen videos, applications, widgets and whatever else springs to mind - where is all this meant to be kept?
• The thing is huge. It might be thin, but it’s not exactly what I’d call compact.
• It doesn’t support 3G despite touting it as a breakthrough mobile internet device.
• The GUI looks like it’s designed for story time in kindergarden.
• Apple claims the phone is “revolutionary” stating:
  

  iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.

  Now can you please tell me what is so revoloutionary. Every phone I’ve owned in the past five years has had this functionality.

• WiFi is for laptops, not phones. If it supported VoIP natively, this would of course be a different story. All the WiFi serves to do is drain the battery and ring up endless wireless data charges in the city.
• Even if you wanted to, you can’t buy it in Australia until next year at the earliest, it costs almost $1,000 and even then you don’t know that a carrier here will even offer the product.

Is that enough to convince you? I’d be satisfied with a widescreen iPod without all the extras and a stackload of storage, and I wont upgrade until they release one! This whole phone thing, it’s been done before by every other manufacturer out there. The touchscreen, well my iPAQ had that. The only new thing here is Apple. It’s a waste of time, it could have been something really cool, but it isn’t… everyone please get over it now!