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7+1 Reasons Why the New iPhone 3G Sucks |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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This is the iPhone that all the late adopters have been waiting for. It promised
to address the deficiencies of the first generation iPhone, but does it really?
Here are some reasons why not:
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1. Too Expensive to Own |
| Apple and AT&T may have shaved a couple of hundred dollars off
the price but they will more than make up for it in monthly fees. If you take
into account the regular monthly fee, the data fee, the text message fee which
used to be free, and the $99 annual mobileme fee you could end up spending over
$1,000 a year to own an iPhone, that’s 200 gallons of $5.00
gas. |
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2. Can’t Use the GPS like a GPS |
| Forget about getting turn-by-turn voice directions in your car
from the new iPhone 3G. The iPhone SDK makes it pretty clear it’s not allowed,
“Applications may not be designed or marketed for real time guidance.” Yes it
will superimpose your position on a Google map, or show you the closest pizzeria
but what about getting real-time route guidance? There’s a rumor that TomTom may
be developing a guidance application but you have to wonder how they’ll get it
past the Apple police. |
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3. Can’t Tether the iPhone to Your Laptop |
| Want to save $60 per month for a 3G card for your laptop and use
the iPhone instead? Not going to happen - not allowed. Although there are plenty
of phones, including AT&T’s Tilt, that will allow you to use your 3G phone
as a high speed modem for your laptop, the iPhone won’t be one of them so you
can add the cost of a 3G card for your laptop at $720 a year to your total cost
of ownership. |
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4. Still No Cut and Paste |
| Cut and Paste has been around on Apple computers since the
earliest Mac Plus computers. What’s the big problem with implementing it on
iPhones? Why is cut and paste so important? Suppose you’re browsing a web site
and want to capture some text or a URL, or someone sent you an email and you
want to grab some text from it and send to someone else. Not possible on an
iPhone. Speaking of email, where’s the spell checker? Predictive typing is fine
but spell checkers are everywhere else but here. |
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5. Wimpy 2 MP Camera |
| In the world of 5 MP Smartphones and 10 MP point and shoot cameras
why is the iPhone still stuck with a measly 2 MP? That’s so 2003. While we’re at
it how come we can’t record video, afraid the non-existent SD card might fill
up? The iPhone should be able to stream video by
now. |
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6. No Stereo Bluetooth |
| We thought the iPhone was supposed to be part iPod. At least they
fixed the recessed headphone jack flaw (and called it a new feature) but the
A2DP stereo Bluetooth standard has been around for a while and is missing from
the iPhone. |
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7. The List Goes On |
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Still no Flash player for rich media content (what grudge does
Steve Jobs hold against Adobe). Still can’t send pictures in MMS messages, still
no native voice dialing, no mobile TV, no replaceable battery, no flash memory
card, and on and on.
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The above 7 reasons were taken from Retrevo. Now I would like to add in my 8th reason. I believe the main reason is sucked is because being a 3G phone which incorporates video call, and even Steve Jobs bragged about the duration of 3G video calls which could be made on a single battery charge - does not have a front 3G camera? Are they trying to save cost by using the old parts from the first generation iPhone?
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 June 2008 )
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