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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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Here's the thing: I don't listen to radio, I don't IM on the iPhone, I don't watch TV on the iPhone, I don't watch video on the iPhone, I don't use the iPhone in bed other than for reading (and Stanza allows me to stop the screen-turning thingie) and I am quite happy with the interface as it is.
Stereo Bluetooth is available, both on 3G and 3GS - I bought my wife some wireless headphones with integrated mic and they sound amazing.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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SLOOOOOOOOOOOW! That's what it is on ANY device I tried. Even my friend's blackberry seems a lot more sluggish when it comes to browsing and emailing, even selecting the email itself.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.  |
No, that was not my intention. I didn't even think of having an extra storage card to move files to and insert into the kiosk. You're right, that would be simple too. What I wanted to say was that there are other options, for me, to get around the lack of bluetooth-file-transfer.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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Agreed. Yet, strange enough, the iPhone is now the "basis" for all the new phones that come out. They try to imitate it, but still make techheads feel like they're in control. The result is the same old stuff with some kind of "iphone-like" front end app.
Sorry, I truly believe that the iPhone revolutionized the mobile OS sector as seen from a layperson. When it was introduced, I was just nodding approval at all the stuff they showed us; no stylus, multitouch, simple, easy to navigate, snappy ... everything I ever wanted!
Users who need more must either jailbreak their iPhones or just get one of those other phones and bypass the front-end app.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
again I don't own one, so not a fanboy.
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So anyone who owns one is a fanboy?
