| Re: iPhone 3G sour gripes
<any iPhone related subject comes up>
100 comments times "Oh for God's sake why doesn't it have a built in toaster, underwater snorkel and back scratcher!!!!!!"
Yes some other phones have a couple of features which the iPhone doesn't, but no other phone has the usability or great interface. The other day a N95 fanboy was ranting why the iphone was so bad, I asked him to check the bbc news site, check his email, then send a text message, I did the same and it took less than half the time on an edge powered iPhone - often a list of technical specifications isn't the best way to judge a phone.
My previous phone was an XDA exec, that had a front facing camera, video calling, MMS, and out of all those features I never used a single one in the year I had it. I occasionally used the web browser but pocket IE is so buggy and awful to use I didn't do it on a regular basis.
Sure the iPhone is by no means perfect, but lots of these things will get better with time. People's main complaint over the first one was lack of 3g, this is now solved. I think the true power of the iPhone will come in the applications developers start releasing over the comming months, a lot of the demos of the games etc. look pretty amazing so far.
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