Buying an iPhone

[KhaOZ]

My point is, everyone has different needs. Till the iphone gets a better Camera, it doesn't come close to meeting mine, so for my needs, the iphone sucks. Besides, I'm not going to pay out the asshole to get some retarded Data plan like iphone users have to get to even use half that shit.

And wtf is up with all the simple features found in basic phones these days, not being put on the iphone?

Things they need to improve on:

The battery. How do they get away with releasing a phone that you can't swap the battery on? With 3G, you're pushing it to make it through one day, and if you forget to charge it that night, you're fucked. So you want to swap to your backup battery.... wait. You can't.

Can't hook the phone up to my laptop to use it as my 3G modem, and save ass tons of money instead of having to have a seperate 3G modem. The AT&T Tilt does this as well as other phones, why not the iphone? That's like $800 a year they could be saving me.

No cut and paste? Seriously? wow...

They claim this thing is part ipod, yet it has no stereo bluetooth option. The tech has been around a long time, why hasn't apple caught up?

Still no flash player? Why is this? No voice dialing? No mobile TV? No microSD card slot?


All in all the iphone is a great little machine other than its shitty camera, and I'd get one as i've said if they had a decent camera and video capturing option, but there is a lot of room to grow from what apple has now. Maybe the iphone 4G will improve on many of these requests. It would be nice. Either way though, it's a good phone and a good start in a fun direction. They took the LG Prada touch screen phone and made it fun and simple for the American masses. I can't wait to see what the future holds for other prada clones like the iphone, or for smart phones in general.

[eighteesix / Killya]

win some lose some

i really dont care about a swappable battery. laptop id care.

[KhaOZ]

edited my last message a lot.

[KhaOZ]

The iPhone 3G may be a must-have gadget for some, but for other people, it's got one big catch: the AT&T contract. Even though it will be possible to buy prepaid iPhones this time around, the handset will still be physically locked to AT&T's network. While AT&T has a terrific phone selection and a very speedy 3G network, the carrier hasn't fared well in our annual reader surveys, with respondents citing Sprint and T-Mobile as offering better prices and Verizon as featuring better network quality.

Both Sprint and Verizon have recently debuted direct assaults on Apple's phone. And while these new entries might not exude the sheer sexiness of the iPhone, they should satisfy the cravings of touch-screen lovers who don't want to make the carrier switch.

LG's new Dare VX9700 for Verizon is better than the iPhone in some ways. Take the camera, for instance: It's a 3.2-megapixel shooter with a bright flash that can take full VGA, 640-by-480 videos. The Dare also supports subscription music from Rhapsody. And you can use it as a 3G modem for your PC, unlike the iPhone.

But most important, the Dare, like Apple's phone, is fun to use. It has all sorts of interesting little interface touches, such as a Favorites screen with photos of your contacts, which replaces boring old speed dial. And like the iPhone, the Dare just works. The touch screen is accurate, the accelerometer rotates the screen as expected, and the applications run quickly and smoothly. We were so impressed with the Dare, it's our new Editors' Choice feature phone for Verizon.

-PCMAG

Good little read for people who like the iphone but may not want to deal with ATT, or maybe ATT has shitty coverage in your area etc.

[eighteesix / Killya]

those other phones arent multi touch though. cant pinch, flick, swipe, etc.

also, who the fuck needs copy and paste? i havent even thought about needing it.

none of apple's ipods have stereo bluetooth, so naturally the iphone doesnt either.

how many phones actually have mobile tv?

[KhaOZ]

The dare does have multitouch and allows you to flick, swipe etc, it just doesn't have the software for pinch yet, but that could come in an update. The picture viewer works exactly like the iphone where you flick one way or the other to move side to side.

[eighteesix / Killya]

then it doesnt have multi-touch. i described it incorrectly. multi-touch is where you are actually using more than one finger (like pinch), but flicking and swiping is just one finger.

[KhaOZ]

Originally Posted by eighteesix / Killya

then it doesnt have multi-touch. i described it incorrectly. multi-touch is where you are actually using more than one finger (like pinch), but flicking and swiping is just one finger.

It still does multitouch as people have been saying online, it just doesn't do pinch cause pinch isn't part of the software. You can click to things at the same time with 2 different fingers though, so it could do punch if they'd just program it in.

[lhurgoyf]

I've been considering getting an iPhone... it is a drastic change from a Razr on shittastic Alltel. Almost double the monthly price... But what has got me interested is the wide array of Apps that can be got as well as the functionality if I were to jail break it. I find myself listening to Pandora all day long at work and then have to switch to my iPod in the car or anywhere I go without a computer; having that on my phone is pretty much a killer app for me.

It's a lot to pay for a flashy new phone and I will probably end up waiting till the end of the year to see if they do a price cut on it like they did the first one. Either way, even after hearing people complain about At&T, I somehow doubt how it could be any worse than Alltel.

[eighteesix / Killya]

no price cut. its already half of what it was.

also, you wont be able to jailbreak this one, or so they say.