Originally Posted by MaD_OwNeD

i agree!

1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That’s it.
So what? I have never used bluetooth for anything else.

2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.

Bullshit, 3rd party appz ftw

3. The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.

Again, bullshit, mine takes videos, has zoom etc etc..same as any other camera phone, again 3rd party appz. easy.

4. SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn’t look into it extensively.

well open your eyes next time, all its takes is a paper clip and about 3 seconds.

5. Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.

BS again...they updated the keyboard on one of the software patches, and i dont know why yours was slow, mine is just as fast at home on wifi as my PC, and the edge browsing is livable. Copy and paste is also easy now with a 3rd party app.

6. The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone “learns” you, as the employees said, but even then, it’s not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.

Hilarious, first five minutes you use it yes, but i had to borrow a mates phone the other day (nokia n95) and was shocked at how slow and crap the typing was. I type texts with my thumb often on mine, but to crank out at speed i use ..wait for it..two hands.

7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.

To be honest i have never tried, i have a 3rd party application that lets me send as much as i want, but i never send shit like that from my phone so meh.

8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.

Farken rofl. i lost count how many times i have changed mine.

9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.

Agreed.

10. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you’ll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.

Get a clue, thousand of themes, buttons, wallpapers etc. fully customisable. do a search for 'summerboard'

11. “Picture pinching” or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.

Yep, works well, people 'oooh' whenever i show them how it works. Good thing i have two hands.

12. No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your in an email.

You name it i can open it and edit it. Word/pdf/excel etc etc.

13. Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.

never bothered using it.


14. NO games. None.

You must mean aside from my NES/PSone/PS2/gameboy emulators with thousands of games, or the hundreds of games developed especially for the iphone by 3rd party applications. Thats like saying xbox/ps3 sux, they dont come with games built in.

15. No voice dialing.

Yeah, never used that on any previous phone either so meh. anyones phone actually do it reliably?

16. No speed dialing (which can be made up by the “quick list”, but getting to that quick list isn’t as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).

hmm. cant say it ever bothered me, one swipe and two pushes.

17. No video.

Not even sure what you mean by that one, since its an Ipod and plays as much video as it will hold, but again, 3rd party app and hey presto, the camera will record until your 16gb is done.

18. No MMS.

It does have a 3rd party app that will do it, but i havent sent one since i found out they are 90c each to send. Only ever recieved about 4 in the last 5 years so i sleep ok at night without it.

19. It’s still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600

I think you mean 8 an 16gb and yeah, for that price your other options for that kind of storage on a phone are????

20. It only takes around 2 hours to explore every menu without any options for expandability except to scrounge around for new web apps that will load slowly and nowhere near as smoothly as the native apps.

2 hours? in 30 seconds it loads a list of hundreds of these 3rd party apps which i keep mentioning, and i havent had a single fault with any i have downloaded.

Originally Posted by Blueraven

Had mine since september last year. best phone i have ever had, had it for nearly 9 months and it still amazes me with some of the stuff it does. Half my office has pre-ordered iPhones since they saw mine, and 5 bought them a while ago from the USA after playing with mine.

Originally Posted by Blueraven

Had mine since september last year. best phone i have ever had, had it for nearly 9 months and it still amazes me with some of the stuff it does. Half my office has pre-ordered iPhones since they saw mine, and 5 bought them a while ago from the USA after playing with mine.

Originally Posted by trainwrex

There is a much much better phone coming out Sony ericisson Xerpia X1. Can do all that the reviwer had gripes about and has a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Very fast processor, touch screen etc etc..

Originally Posted by trainwrex

There is a much much better phone coming out Sony ericisson Xerpia X1. Can do all that the reviwer had gripes about and has a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Very fast processor, touch screen etc etc..

Thats what ill be waiting for..