“Like many other technology junkies, I waited in line on Friday to get an iPhone 3G. By now, you’ve probably seen other reviews (here is PC Magazine’s and also those from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today), so I just thought I’d give some personal experiences,” Michaal J. Miller blogs or PC Magazine.
Here are five things Miller really likes:
• The new applications
• Faster browsing
• Integrated GPS
• Wonderful music/video player (iPod)
• Safari Web browser
More love here.
Here are five things Miller hates:
• The Hype About Speed
• The lines to get one
• The iTunes installation (Windows)
• The Camera
• Limited options
More hate here.
Bitch bitch. It’s the same thing as the 1st gen one except for the 3G and the GPS. I’m perfectly happy with mine 1st gen. I’ll wait until the 4G one comes out……..with the 8 megapixel camera and thought controls.
But someone will find something to bitch about with that one too….
It’s not minty fresh either.
Agree with all the “Love” items.
My comments about the “Hate” stuff:
What hype? It’s faster in 3G and the same as the old one in EDGE. I don’t spend all my time surfing on my phone, but I can do it acceptably well when I want to with my 3G iPhone.
The line was fun. I stood in line for about 3 hours and had a great time chatting with those around me and trying to talk the young lady next to me up from 8G to 16G (didn’t work in the end)
iTunes for Windows; well, it kinda goes like all Windows apps. Everything is more of a challenge on Windows.
The camera is OK for a cell phone. I don’t expect to take a lot of photos with it. I’d be OK if they’d left it off. I take pics with my G9 and photos with my 5D.
Non-replaceable battery – keeps batteries out of landfills and I think that’s great! I can buy an add-on battery pack for more time. (And yes, I DO travel with my iPhone, quite a lot).
Lack of an expansion card slot – haven’t filled one up yet, so it wouldn’t do be a bit of good.
Update on camera;
I might PREFER it without the camera. Every had to visit a manufacturing facility that will not allow cameras? You have to leave your phone with security and be without as long as you are there.
And some COUNTRIES ban cameras in specific locations, so carrying your iPhone in to a restroom, for example, is against the law.
I kind of think that phones shouldn’t have cameras – makes it too easy to violate privacy.
My biggest gripe: Missed calls because the phone doesn’t beep at you at periodic intervals when you’ve missed a call or message.
I’m supposed to check my phone after I’ve been away from it to see if I’ve missed a call? That’s not what I had in mind when I bought it. It’s supposed to remind ME, not the other way around.
C’mon Steve, gemme a beep.
“limited options”
Don’t get too specific now …
What lines? I walked into my local AT&T;store across the street, purchased a 3G, ported and transferred my wife’s phone onto my old iPhone, and 20 minutes later I was back in my office.
Whether you agree with him or not, he backed up his gripes on iTunes, the camera, and limited options. But speed and long lines? Come on, it’s like he ran out of things to complain.
Speed is a function of the network too. iPhone supports 3G network, that’s it. iPhone can’t make servers go faster. If the data throughput is not good in his area, that’s not an iPhone problem.
Long lines? Really! I don’t know if Apple touted waiting in line as a feature of iPhone 3G. FWIW, the long lines happened because of the pent up demand. It’s not going to be a permanent issue and it has nothing to do with how iPhone 3G works.
I’d love to be able to have one to gripe about; closest Apple Store is 3+ hours, and the AT&T;stores “don’t know when they’ll get more… maybe next week.”
Ugh.
Why couldn’t I buy one at the Apple Store online and activate with the local AT&T;thugs?
The thing I hate about the iPhone is that it is all anyone writes about anymore. I want some Mac news. Come on Apple!
Yeah, yeah, I know, the iPhone is a teeny little Mac at heart.
It’s all about trade offs. If you want a better camera or a removable battery you have to have a bigger, less beautiful phone. It’s OK to criticize specific aspects of the iPhone so long as you explain the price that needs to be paid to fix the problem. Sometimes the feature is not worth the price.
Saying that you want the iPhone to have a better camera, a removable battery, etc and for it to remain small sleek and elegant is saying that you don’t want reality to exist. It’s not fair and it’s not going to happen.
whatever you guys
1st gen 2.0
perfect all the way
quit complaining and get a job
really
Oh, no…iTunes! OMFG!!! Blah blah blah
The camera is fine is fine. It is better than the majority of cell phone cameras. I wouldn’t mind 3 megapixels or a better lens. There are better smartphone cameras, but hardly something to “hate”.
“The iTunes installation (Windows)”
So get a Mac.
@Sir Gill Bates.
So, Master Bates, what’s new in the Mac world?
If you want a goddamned camera, go buy one!
I keep looking for a phone of any kind on my 5MP Sony F717 camera and have yet to
find one.
One of his problems with the iPhone is STANDING IN LINE TO GET ONE???!!!
The in-store activation was required by AT&T;because AT&T;is paying Apple a subsidy no matter where you buy the iPhone, not because Apple was jealous of the lines at AT&T;stores. I’m sure Apple would have loved to have sold twice as many iPhones with no lines, but when supply (of iPhones, floor space in stores and sales associates) is far less than demand, lines form.
If you didn’t want to stand in line, wait a week, moron. I think you probably saw the line as you were walking up to it, and you could have avoided the line by buying one this weekend instead of last.
That’s not a feature, limitation, or anything else except bitching for the sake of bitching.
The iTunes installation == Windows? No, you misunderstand. It is very Mac like. The single icon is a package. The package contains all the necessary files to run the application. Also Mac like is the uninstall – hold icon until it wiggles, then click the X.
Boo-hoo. Someone had a blog to fill. That’s the problem with blogging; some people feel compelled to post something, even when they’ve nothin’.
Just like I just did
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Some of my gripes:
No MMS
No Cut & Paste
No Video Recording
Other than that is the best phone on the market.
Ah Wingsy… The thing i LOVE about the iPhone is that it doesn’t beep at me continuously until i respond to a message or missed call … The HATED Motorolla was so annoying the way it beeped incessantly.
I agree byronic,
nothing worse than the person in the cubical next to you leaves their phone and it keeps beeping and beeping..
Seriously, people need to get over the excessive idolization and glorification of the iPhone. It may just be the best phone on the market, but it is a long, long way from perfect. Few if any of the countless other phones on the market bring together the level of ease of use and functionality that the iPhone does, however this does not mean it isn’t curiously missing some of the most banal functionality present in many other such devices.
In addition, just because someone points out what he thinks is missing, doesn’t mean he’s an idiot, it just means that he sees room for improvement, of which there is much.
I pretty much agree with SP above, on what he sees missing. I’d sure like to have video recording on mine, but it’s not a deal breaker.
I also want MMS, but that’s not a deal breaker.
I don’t understand why we can delete multiple mail messages, but not multiple text messages… still not a deal breaker, just peculiar.
I’d like to connect the iPhone to my computer and be able to drag files back and forth the same way I can with an iPod.
The iPhone may be running an abbreviated version of OS X, but it is so protected from me, I don’t really care. I can’t use it. It could be Windows Mobile underneath for all I care as long as the presentation and functionality was the same.
If this is OS X, why am I limited to only one type of video playback from the web?
Why do I have to connect to a freaking iMap server to create a folder? Just create a folder and store stuff… I’m not asking for the oil supply and demand problem to be solved by the iPhone, but I would like to store documents there, and maybe even (gasp) password protect those documents.
At this point in time, the iPhone is a great phone, but the people calling it a new computing platform are more than a bit ahead of themselves.
ron,
“So, Master Bates, what’s new in the Mac world?”
A lot of sticky and messy situations ron. They are a real handful.
Yeah really, give me a break with all of the hoopla about camera phones.
One poster says, “The thing I hate about the iPhone is that it is all anyone writes about anymore.” Really, I want to hear more talk about the iPod Touch. Who give a crap about another annoying phone that saps me of my monthly life’s blood. Jeepers, you’d think nobody’d ever heard of a telephone before.
Let’s talk about hand held computers – You can tell you grandkids you saw the first ones hit the market.