iPhone deal breakers
So the iPhone is coming and I don’t really care. Sure it looks like a great product at first and then you see the price and the 2 year contract from a company that is notorious for helping the government illegally spy on their customers. The amount of hype for a touchscreen cell phone with 8gb of storage that plays mp3s and has average call quality amazes me when the features it offers are lack luster when compared to other music players and cell phones.
iPhone is a worthless iPod
It’s supposed to be an iPod with video but its not.
No headset jack
This thing is supposed to be the iPod 2.0 yet you can’t plug in some ear buds and listen to music. I’m supposed to blare this thing like a radio? You have to buy an expansion card just so you can use any run of the mill headset to listen to music. Back to feeling like they are trying to take every nickel they can from me. Don’t believe me? Look at the 360 view and see if you can find a universal headphone or headset plug. It’s also been reported that it can’t stream to bluetooth headsets, so its not wireless. If you want wireless you’ll need another expansion card.
No music ring tones
I bet that this is the deal breaker for most people. You can’t even make your own ring tones. People will get sick of getting nickel and dimed after spending $1700 on just the phone+contract. You’ll probably have to buy ring tones off iTunes or get them free with song purchases. Either way, all that old music you own from iTunes or CDs will cost you more money if you want a ring tone.
No iTunes
You cannot access iTunes to make a purchase and download a song while you aren’t connected to your home computer. Everything has to be sync’d to the phone. It’ll feel like having an old Palm Pilot. It’s kind of baffling that they don’t allow impulse shopping.
Sub par cell phone
It’s supposed to be the ultimate cell phone but it skips out on very basic features.
Limited text messaging
You can’t send picture messages. It has a camera and you can’t send people photos? Also instant messaging is disabled. So you are SOL if you were like me and avoided paying 10 cents per text message and used AIM. You can’t use AIM/MSN/etc. Being reduced to using AIM Express/Yahoo in a web browser isn’t an option when you have to sign in every time you navigate away.
Average users will probably have a huge problem texting. When a all professional technology reviewers say it took them about a week to be able to type on the keypad without errors you have to know that 25-50% of the general populous will never be able to do it. I still meet people that can’t type T9 words to save their life. If a geek has a problem with it then the average person will be frustrated and confused.
No games
No games or 3rd party developers? What a waste of a display. All I can use this for is the web and YouTube. Forget flash game websites. The iPhone internet browser doesn’t support flash. I think they are afraid of giving people to much repayable content. Once you’ve watch the crap on youtube what are you going to do? Probably buy a movie or a song.
Other things
- No GPS, ok so access to google maps is basically me typing the current address every time I’m LOST.
- No Unlocking, if I want to sell the phone I’m limited to AT&T customers. Everyone either owns an iPhone already or is a new customer and can buy version 2.0. Basically the only market is people who have broken their phone and want a replacement.
- No voice-recognition or voice-dialing capability. Ok, my phone from 1997 had this.
- Only IMAP email support. I kind of understand not supporting pop3 but you basically cut out all the refugees from blackberry and windows mobile.
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