Do you have an iPhone? If so, what do you think of it?

I was just wondering. I bought my iPhone 2G early last year, and have replaced it with a Sony C905. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the iPhone, but it just felt "lacking" at times?

My reasons for ditching the iPhone:

1) Signal strength was poor. Really, this was a weird problem. In places of maximum service for other mobile phones, the iPhone was displaying about 50% service. To make it worse, when other handsets were displaying a weak yet usable signal (about 2 bars say), the iPhone would show "NO SIGNAL". Incredibly irritating over time

2) Text messaging was great, but there were no delivery reports, no copy paste, and no options to forward text messages.

3) No MMS messaging. This was only a minor minor annoyance to me, but I thought i'd still put it down.

4) The built in 2mp camera was rubbish. It wasn't bad outdoors with LOTS of light and more landscape views, but it gave blurry images about half the time despite my best efforts to keep the iPhone perfectly still while taking the picture. Taking images indoors was a waste of time.

5) No video recording. Weird oversight? Gigs of free memory, yet no way to record video? Weird

6) No custom text message or ringtone sounds. The default sounds are poor.

That's pretty much it really. Nothing major, and IMHO the iPhone is a good phone, I just found the above too irritating to continue using the iPhone as my main handset.

 

You CAN have custom ringtone sounds, or at least that's what I've been told - in fact, you can theoretically have any ringtone from any song, if you buy the ringtone from iTunes.

 

Uggg it's not a iPhone 2g it would be the iphone 1G while the current one would be 2G. I'm sorry it just bugs me that people call it that.

 

Well, technically the first gen iphone is iphone 2.5G and the current one would be iphone 3G. But a lot of ppl refer to the first one as iphone 2G, which i think is kinda acceptable. However, the current one is definitely iphone 3G.

 

I think they call it 3G because of, well, 3G high speed (well faster).

2G, to me, refers to the edge network (2nd gen).

Then again, I guess I don't care what people call it as long as I know what they're referring to....ah well.

And there is SO much to like about the iPhone. I have a 3G 16gb, and gave my 8gb 2g to my daughter. But your complaints are totally valid. The camera on the phone is a complete joke. The lack of MMS is beyond annoying when you want to send an already usually lackluster picture to someone phone to phone, not an email of sorts. The lack of copy/paste and forwarding is also a major hang up. My text buds have mostly Windows Mobile phones and they laugh at the "multimedia" capabilities of the iPhone because they are very poor in regards to capturing, recording and sending. It's great for playback, but content generation? lol, mmmkay.



There's plenty of how to guides on how to make your own ring tones, but yeah, even my 4yr old Sony P900 could play any MP3 as a ringtone.

Apple got SO much right, yet some of the core functions people use daily they totally shanked.

I find myself looking at the Blackberry Bold more and more due to the lack of the MMS, poor camera, no video recording (who would want to on that poor camera anyhow?), and other mentioned issues. Before buying an Iphone 2g in 2007, I was a diehard blackberry user.

 

2.5G? what?

I'm waiting until July to see if they come out with a new iphone. By then my plan will be up and MAYBE Rogers will suck less (yeah right )

 

3G phones have better signal strengths..

you can make a ringtone of any song you have with itunes, dont need to buy it from the store.. just google it.. if you dont find it, ill post simple tutorial

camera sux, i agree,videorecording, you can download stuff from cydia that works pretty well..

problem with normal phones is that they lack in web browsing, its so hard to zoom, pan, and etc..

i came from a k800i and i loved that phone to death, had over 2000 pictures.. its probably the main feature i miss from my phone (the cam)

 

I wanted one, and was poised to get one in March once my contract with Verizon expired. However, after messing around with the Blackberry Storm and utterly hating the touchscreen keyboard, I tried a friend's iPhone. The feeling was the same - hated it. So the iPhone is out for me. Looks like I'll be sticking with Verizon and my faithful Blackberry 8830

 

I had the iPhone 3G for awhile, I loved it. The app store was incredible and innovative and you could do so many things with it. Although ATT service is very poor and I really do not enjoy working with that company. Now I have a BlackBerry Storm, it has some bugs, and no app store yet, but it's just as good as my iphone was. =)

 

When did you get rid of your Storm? I had it on release day, OS was very buggy, slow, and had many problems. It's come quite the long way tho with the OS upgrades I absolutely adore mine now!

 

Oh the phone itself is phenomenal; I dont have any complaints about it in general. Its typing on the touchpad that I dont like. I had to test it for work last week, in case some of our exec's wanted it. I had it over the weekend and turned it in to the telecom guy. I do a LOT of typing on my Blackberry for work, and it just slowed me down with that touch pad.

 

Thats very true, although I am an excessive texter, my friends can wait the few extra minutes for me to get it out!

 

I've had both the first gen iPhone and second gen iPhone (3G) and loved them both.

My 3G has never had any major issues, and the fact my corporate discount applies to the plan makes the deal even sweeter.

 

besides the rubbish camera and poor battery w/ respect to the function of the iphone; i find it meeting my need.

my girl friend is in a kingdom far far away and we can only talk on the phone sometimes, iphone provides a easy way to voip(than nokia)

being a illiterate i would often listen to podcast than reading the newspaper

stock quote is always nice, and easy, so is currency exchange

fieldrunner is great

large screen although i would love a qwerty to accompany with it.

easy sync with google calendar

easy sync to most of my emails

pdanet is handy to fido off once every so often on their "goodwill" of 6gb/month

ps. i waited 2years until when the softwares arrives and if there weren't jailbreak/unlock/crackolus, i would ditch it and go for BB bold or wait a little for n97, iphone itself isn't all that great; it is near-perfect with all those hackers/crackers' help though; i voted 8/10 because it took outsiders to polish a product.

 

I've had almost every brand of cellphones there are, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung etc. And I will never go back to them

It's not just my fanboi-sm, but I really love the iPhone. The gmail-like SMS texting, the very slick and responsive UI, and I'm satisfied with the battery life (for such a big screened device).

I have the 1st generation iPhone and looking into buying the 3G.

 

I have 2g and i ll rate it 8/10.I like everything except copy/paste and the fact that you can't send/receive anything over BT!

 

Had a Touch, brilliant product until 2.0. I modded the crap out of it, and restored countless times and life was good. But after that large firmware update, everything made a turn for the worse. Safari couldn't go 5 minutes without f***ing crashing, apps took 4-6 seconds more than usual to load and battery life was heavily reduced.

My iPod Touch is now dead and broken and I'm looking forward to a very nice Archos 5 120GB.

 

I gave a 10 outta 10.... but reality is it really is a 9 for me. Its by far the best phone I have ever owned... and although the camera is crap, its heaps better than what was on my old samsung phone. The copy/paste issue has annoyed me about 2 or 3 times in the year I've had one.. so for me its not a huge issue. What I would really like is a password manager a la "keychain"... this would be super helpful. The only other thing I would really like is turn by turn gps software.
But otherwise the iphone has been the best phone/ipod/gaming device I have owned to date.
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ps had the original 2g which I gave to my wife & I would give that phone 7/10, but the above comments are about my 3G 16Gb... which has been a much better performer and less glitchy.

 

I have a 3G 8 GB and I rate it to 10/10. The needs I have for a phone is well exceeded in this machine. Allthough I do miss being able to send/receive something via BT too.

 

Not until the latest update has the iPhone been fairly solid software wise... took some time, but now apps don't crash nearly as much. The iPhone is good and handy, but FAR FAR FAR from perfect, many features have yet to be implemented, but it is a step in the right direction.

 

8/10 for me. I bought a first generation iphone for both my wife and I about a year after release (so we've had them about a year or so). We both moved from Blackjack 1. It is okay and makes a nice phone (and finally able to get corporate discount from ATT which they took away when I first went to iphone), and a nice software phone, but like many complain, the keyboard sucks (and the fact it won't go into landscape sucks even more, since landscape would allow for much larger "keys" and fewer missed keystrokes).

Probably another issue for me is that living about central Texas, 200 miles West of Dallas/Ft Worth, there is no 3g. No matter what carrier, it seems there is a corridor down the middle of the US where 3g access is just ridiculously lagging behind...

I'll be waiting to see what happens this summer (iPhone "nano" rumors"). If there aren't significant changes, I foresee me moving to the HTC Fuze or something similar...

 

ehm,sorry?

 

The iPhone is a very nice device. Capacitative touchscreen with a nicely designed interface (even with the main menu 'stolen' from another smartphone manufacturer). And a dedicated following with the App Store.

Why do I not have one? Because you can get something better. That's the whole thing. At the time of it's release, 3.5G HSDPA, which is much faster than your standard 3G, was in operation around the world. Also, it's internal components aren't as fast as the competition, and you also have those standard complaints about copy/paste, MMS and the camera.

There are many Windows Mobile 6.1 phones out there that have a GUI nicely fitted over most of the OS to compensate for it being stylus-oriented. Many of those phones are in many terms superior to the iPhone. With the release of the finger-friendly 6.5 Apple will have big pressure on to quickly fix the biggest gripes about the device.

 

i dont really use mms nor copy and paste.. so i dont really miss those features.. honestly, the best WinMo devices out there imo are the HTC TouchHD and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, and none of them are as fluid as the iphone in terms of interface.. mainly due to the fact that its its window mobile.. also.. no window mobile phone have decent camera like the SE C905 or even k800i, because its a software issue..

plus, no one can beat the "ipod" experience and interface..
this is why the iPhone has been selling more than razors..
it keeps things simple.. obviously you could get a N96 and do all sorts of crazy stuff, but i never really needed all that crazy stuff..

the only contender that i see in the near future is the Nokia N97, which looks very promising

 

don't own a cell phone I think I'm the only person in the world who dosen't
My brother has one and he likes it
Lynn

 

I've had an iPhone since nearly the beginning. First a "2g" and now a 3g. I love it. Yes, there are things I miss. Mostly MMS. But there is give and take with most any device, and where the iPhone lacks, it more than makes up for in other areas. No phone I've ever seen even comes close to browsing the net as well as an iPhone, and that is huge for me, and the AppStore is nothing short of revolutionary.

I used to want a new phone every 4-5 months. I no longer have that desire.

 

I've never had an iPhone before, but when my Sprint plan expires next year, I might look into one if AT&T lowers their monthly cost, because the current data plan is outrageously expensive for what you get.

 

Liking it or not liking it, iPhone is still in the top 3 out there as far as touch phones concerns. And with the rumour that Video Chat about to be implemented in the next version, it will always stay cool as a must-have gadget for many.

cheers ...

 

The fact you can't text in landscape. My daughter (who averages 4-5k texts a month), complains about it religiously. I wouldn't mind it either with this neanderthal hand mitts.Would make it a smidge easier.

 

ah,I see!

 

All I'll say is: Opera for Windows Mobile. It's as fluid and comfortable as Mobile Safari, but it's a little nicer and features Java and Flash.

The iPhone advertising is misleading... "real Internet in your phone". So... you can browse properly rendered pages in an older S60 phone, and there's no Java and Flash handling (Flash is coming, but in a while).

 

I want one.

 

i think that he meant scrolling and zooming into pages.. not the actual page rendering itself... which i agree.. is one of the weaknesses of the iphone