It’s the weekend already, not that it’s been a short week, it just seemed to go quite fast. It’s only just dawning on me that I’m back working full time after 3 years and it’s only the first week back. But with that said, the first week is also over and it’s been quite busy. Of course, I’d tell you what I’ve been up to, but then I’d have to kill you, or is that they’d have to kill me? I can’t remember. :)
iPhone
Anywho, it seems my post yesterday about the iPhone rattled a few feathers and believe it or not, there are a still a few people who want to argue points with me. I feel there’s no better way to settle points than another bout of counter points so strap yourself in and read on…
The Extended List
I’m not going into any in depth analysis here, just the facts. You can make up your own mind…
- iPhone is locked to the network
- It can’t be unlocked
- No voice dialling, voice commands or memos
- It might claim to be OS X, but it wont run OS X apps
- You can’t add programs to it
- It wont connect to iChat
- No 3G capability
- It doesn’t have any games
- It isn’t ambidextrous
- It doesn’t have GPS
- The web browser doesn’t support Flash OR Java!
- The battery is not user servicable - I know I said no analysis but the is just comical. Didn’t Apple learn anything from the iPod?
- It can’t open documents (like Word or Excel)
- The camera doesn’t do video
- No VoIP support
- No iTunes store integration
- Gestures make one handed operation difficult
Okay, I think that’s enough.
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Gday Pant
You must understand that this is the first version, not even the 1.0 of the phone and they are OBVIOUSLY going change some things to suit different regions and countries. Your being very negaqtive about it all, you know you always wait for improvements on technology before a purchase.
It is locked to a network in America. Since he announced (in the keynote) theyd make a G3 version it also means open network possibilities. Why do you need voice dialing if you have such a simple address book? The idea of voice dialing is that you didnt have to fiddle in the phonebook. How isnt it ambidextrous its a rectangle? TOM TOM Gives you all your GPS needs and it DOES have google maps which does look like they do the job! And if you dont have a dock for your car, and a limited battery (for now) then why would you want to waste the battery on GPS?
You dont need itunes store support on the phone it syncs with itunes on your PC. Downloading on the run would only rack up those useless city WiFi bills you talked about and as for games and 3rd party programs with the limited space it starts with you’d be running on VERY little space anyway. REMEMBER how small the ipod HD’s started? Remember how big they got with development?
Battery, Space and Browser problems will be ironed out. It is still at least a year in the coming for us. Just give it time.