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Originally Posted by mores
It's amazing to see how many people rejoice the "freedom" they have with MS-based systems. I wonder what that "freedom" is when I think about what I call "freedom": free of hickups, restarts, quirks, nasty interfaces, virii, trojans etc.
The only thing I can't do with my iPhone that I could do with my symbian or windows mobile or linux phone is send photos with bluetooth to a photo print kiosk. Guess I'll just have to email it to the address that's printed on the kiosk, then, which might take longer.
What I can do is browse, email and text in a way that was previously unthinkable. Aat least for me, since the experience was horrible up until now.
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There are a lot more things you can't do with the iphone. You can't listen to music with stereo bluetooth headsets, you can't see internet video from a website (a serious shortcoming of Safari, no flash). You can't have an IM program open in the background, you can't listen to internet radio or TV in the background. You have no FM radio. You have no profiles, you have a very weak WiFi signal. You can't play many video file types with the ipod player. You can't turn off the accelerometer when lying in bed. You can't modify the interface to suit the way you work. There is a lot more.
How are e-mail and texting easier on the iphone?? I don't see it, unless you used to have a phone with a tiny 2.8" screen and an onscreen keyboard.... It is just as easy as it is on every other smart phone.
And I don't see how you can turn the "no expansion card", "no bluetooth file transfer" around and try to turn to them into an advantage.
Let us face it, the iphone is just another phone, with its shortcomings like every other one. It works well within its enclosed system that Apple sets up for you. But it has a serious lack of flexibility. That due to conscious decisions that Apple has made for the user "You don't need this and that". With the other phones the user decides, and that sometimes takes a little more effort with the possibility of things turning out badly. The iphone is a good phone for what it is supposed to do, but all the negatives mentioned by others are very valid points.
