and got myself a jesus phone...
heartily unimpressed.
it might be because I've used a "smart phone" for a while... but really the iphone is not exactly lighting my fire...
aside from the fact that it has a slightly bigger screen, and has built in GPS, there is pretty much nothing that it can do that my old phone couldn't do either just as well or better. (3 years ago, and the phone that I've just stopped using was old then!)
my old phone had a touch screen.
I had a separate blue tooth GPS receiver for my old phone, so I had navigation software on that. (in fact I had navigation software on my old nokia nGage (v1) -which I could also load different games and applications on...
I mean don't get me wrong, it's nice and shiny... but so was m other phone when I got it, and so was my ngage before that.
the ability to have GPS software on a phone is nothing new, nor the ability to load applications,
in fact I'd go as far as to say that my old pone was better in this respect as I could put whatever I wanted on MY phone. without the need for apple to say OK, we'll let you run that, we approve of that application.
in order to run what I want, I'll have to jailbreak my iphone, and that voids the warranty.
I'll admit that I've only downloaded free apps so far, but really, I only downloaded free apps for my old windows mobile phone... and I don't know why but it just seems that there were more/better apps available for windows mobile than there are for the iphone. (probably because of the way that apple police applications).
(which also had the ability to take memory cards, have the battery changed etc)...
I think that the thing that bugs me most of all about the iphone is the sim card...
my old phone, if I was going away somewhere, say camping for a few days, I could take a spare phone, and when the battery on phone A ran out I could replace the battery with a backup battery, or I could take the sim card out and use a different pone or a few days.
with the iphone I can neither replace the battery, nor take out the sim card, (without the use of the special little tool that came with the phone, or a paper clip).
my old phone also had a full hardware qwerty keyboard that slid away under the screen... though I am at least getting used to the iphones on screen keyboard
Is there anyone else who agrees with me that the iphone is a bit crap, and that there are better, cheaper, more fully functioned "smart" phones available from all suppliers, (not just locked in to one or two).
it's just that my old phone (when I first got it) cost me £50 up front, and the contract was for 12 months at a cost of £25 a month.
the iphone was £90 upfront, with a 24 month £35 contract,
for something that's costing me twice as much, and tying me to a contract for twice as long, I would have expected something at least twice as good.
damned thing can't even multi task.
heartily unimpressed.
it might be because I've used a "smart phone" for a while... but really the iphone is not exactly lighting my fire...
aside from the fact that it has a slightly bigger screen, and has built in GPS, there is pretty much nothing that it can do that my old phone couldn't do either just as well or better. (3 years ago, and the phone that I've just stopped using was old then!)
my old phone had a touch screen.
I had a separate blue tooth GPS receiver for my old phone, so I had navigation software on that. (in fact I had navigation software on my old nokia nGage (v1) -which I could also load different games and applications on...
I mean don't get me wrong, it's nice and shiny... but so was m other phone when I got it, and so was my ngage before that.
the ability to have GPS software on a phone is nothing new, nor the ability to load applications,
in fact I'd go as far as to say that my old pone was better in this respect as I could put whatever I wanted on MY phone. without the need for apple to say OK, we'll let you run that, we approve of that application.
in order to run what I want, I'll have to jailbreak my iphone, and that voids the warranty.
I'll admit that I've only downloaded free apps so far, but really, I only downloaded free apps for my old windows mobile phone... and I don't know why but it just seems that there were more/better apps available for windows mobile than there are for the iphone. (probably because of the way that apple police applications).
(which also had the ability to take memory cards, have the battery changed etc)...
I think that the thing that bugs me most of all about the iphone is the sim card...
my old phone, if I was going away somewhere, say camping for a few days, I could take a spare phone, and when the battery on phone A ran out I could replace the battery with a backup battery, or I could take the sim card out and use a different pone or a few days.
with the iphone I can neither replace the battery, nor take out the sim card, (without the use of the special little tool that came with the phone, or a paper clip).
my old phone also had a full hardware qwerty keyboard that slid away under the screen... though I am at least getting used to the iphones on screen keyboard
Is there anyone else who agrees with me that the iphone is a bit crap, and that there are better, cheaper, more fully functioned "smart" phones available from all suppliers, (not just locked in to one or two).
it's just that my old phone (when I first got it) cost me £50 up front, and the contract was for 12 months at a cost of £25 a month.
the iphone was £90 upfront, with a 24 month £35 contract,
for something that's costing me twice as much, and tying me to a contract for twice as long, I would have expected something at least twice as good.
damned thing can't even multi task.