The iPhone is like the bacon-wrapped scallop of the mobile world. Both are quite visually pleasing relative to their peers, easy to use, and generally liked by the masses. Spend a little too much time with either, however, and you start to see the flaws. With the scallops, the grease and animal fat that was oh-so delicious on the way down begins to clog your arteries and slow your saunter. With the iPhone, the interface that seemed oh-so-polished when it first met your fingertips begins to show signs of oversight and imperfection.
We’ve been using the iPhone for just a few months shy of two years now, and a few things that once seemed trivial have come to drive us up the wall. You’ll find no mention of the glaring faults (The lack of MMS, Copy and Paste, etc) in this list – we’re talking about the stuff that we just can’t believe made it through Apple’s user experience team.
1. Long text messages are auto-split without any indication or character counter
Not too long ago, I sent someone the following text message:
I think you’re already on 802.11n, which is what provides the range they’re claiming. Can you wait till 14th? I’ll fix your network up in As a thanks for taking me to the airport
The response:
king me – wtf?
See, text messages (all phones, not just the iPhone) only support up to 160 characters. In the message I sent above, everything before the “king” in “taking” got sent as one message, with everything after being sent separately. Unfortunately, the seperate parts of these messages often arrive out of order – and occasionally, they just don’t make it at all. The only message my recipient got was “king me to the airport”, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Maybe if we were playing some sort of odd location-based game of checkers?
Most phones only allow you to input 160 characters, while others will let you type more than 160 characters but indicate in some way that the message will be split – and nearly all phones have a character countdown of some sort, letting you know when you’re close to the limit. The iPhone doesn’t do any of this. It just lets you type away until your fingers get sore, with no acknowledgement of the limit whatsoever. Not only does this lead to all sorts of confusion when the messages only make it over partially or out of order, but it’s bad for your wallet, too: each block of 160 characters counts as a separate text. If you’re not on an unlimited texting plan, that’s a quick way to gobble up your allotment unknowingly.
2. UI Inconsistencies: The Jumping “New” button
In the Calendar application, the button you press to add a new event is in the upper right. In the SMS application, you press the button in the upper right to start a new text message. In the email app? Bottom right.
Sure, it seems trivial – and it is! But it’s also ultra sloppy on Apple’s part. A consistent UI is a strong UI, and this subtle inconsistency keeps the user from being able to train their thumb to know that new item = upper right. When you have to glance around the screen with each use because you can’t remember where the button is in this particular app, something is wrong.
3. No search in email
On a slow day, my work inbox usually gets nailed every 7 or 8 minutes. On a crazy day, such as during a trade show, this shoots up to once every 3-4 minutes. I don’t mind so much about the rate – it’s easy enough to tell if an email is important or not from the subject line and the first few sentences – but the noise makes it almost impossible to find something I need if its been more than a few hours since it hit my inbox.
Things would be a whole lot easier if the iPhone email client had even the simplest search functionality – but it doesn’t. Want to find that email your boss sent you a few days ago? Nope. Know a keyword or two that’ll filter your mountain of mail down to 2-3 important ones? Thats nice. Have fun hitting the “Load more messages” button and reading every subject line until you find what you want.
4. No attaching pictures from within an email
Wow! You managed to nab a cute, candid picture of your kid in which they don’t have spaghetti sauce, mud, or any other junk on their face. That’s unheard of! You better send this one to Grandma to prove your kids aren’t horribly dirty all of the time. So, you type up the email – just a paragraph or two telling her what’s going on, how things are. You know, the standard stuff. You go to attach the image, just as you’re used to doing on any other email client.
Yeah, you can’t. You can only attach images to emails by hitting the “Email Photo” button within the Photo app. Once you’ve started the email the traditional way and done your typing, you’re out of luck. You either get to retype the whole thing, or send a separate email just for the image. Pft.
5. Inconsistent gestures: Where’s the swipe?
Apple likes to make a big deal about their gestures. They’re simple to use, and simple to explain – it’s a killer thing to pitch in a commercial.
Thing is, Apple doesn’t really use them very often – at least, not as often as they could. If you want to swipe between photos, sure – you can do that, which they’re happy to show you in every iPhone advertisement ever. Want to swipe between days on the Calendar? No. Notes or emails? Nope and nope. The latter are all things that are often viewed back-to-back – why make me click out and then back in if you’re trying to prove to me that swiping works?
6. No way to add home screen shortcuts for Airplane mode, WiFi, Blueooth, or 3G toggling.
Battery life isn’t exactly the iPhone’s strong point – and this is especially true with the iPhone 3G. It improves significantly if you flip the WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G radios off if you’re not using them – but this gets real old, real fast. Toggling WiFi takes 3 clicks, and toggling 3G takes 4.
I know what you’re saying. “What the hell? Is he really complaining about 3 or 4 clicks?”. Yes, yes I am. The 100th time you’ve flipped the switch on 3G to make sure you’re still juiced up and the end of a long day, that 400th click feels like the millionth.
We’re not saying everyone needs (or wants) quick toggles on their home screen – but for the sake of us road/airplane warriors, it’d be a nice option. Apple made it possible to add shortcuts to websites to the home screen – why not do the same for the more commonly accessed local settings?
7. Arranging applications sucks something terrible
As long as we’re only moving one or two applications around the homescreen, we’ve got no qualms with the way Apple’s set up App management. Hold an icon, wait a second, and drag it wherever you want. If you want to organize a bunch of apps by their functionality (or worse yet, alphabetically), that system is a pile of hot garbage. Ten click-hold-drags later, you’ve probably moved on to something more interesting, such as ironing all of your underwear or counting the specks of dust on the nearest TV screen.
While we can’t think of a better solution while staying within the device, YouTube user svdomer09
conjured up the above concept video showing an absolutely awesome alternative within iTunes. It’s the best solution we’ve seen yet, and we’d sing a song from the top of the tallest mountain if it were made real.
8. No custom themes without jailbreaking
Since the App Store launched, the number of reasons to jailbreak your iPhone has dwindled. What’s left:
- Passive-aggressively sticking it to the man
- Running apps that Apple inexplicably won’t allow, such as video recording/streaming stuff.
- Illegal stuff we won’t talk about here
- Customizing your theme.
Apple can’t help you with the sticking it to the man part, their App Store acceptance polices are a whole different (and long winded) topic, and they probably don’t want to help you with the illegal stuff – but the lack of theming support and basic customization is just silly.
We get it, Apple. You’re proud of your UI and your Human Interface Guidelines. You like things to be standard and uniform. (We’ll go ahead and ignore Brushed Metal, for now.)
But I’m tired of staring into the void. Apple provides a means of setting a “Wallpaper” – but it’s only shown for the half second between waking up and unlocking the handset. Then it’s back to the void.
The enthusiast community has already proven that there are a huge number of people who want to customize. Hundreds upon hundreds of themes (of varying quality) exist – why not allow the user to put a bit of fun in their device whenever they grow tired of the same old look? Even if, unlike the jailbreak-only themes, application icons were locked from modification for the sake of a consistent user experience, the user should be able to change the dock and the background. Hell, they could even add themes to the App Store and sell’em for 99 cents a pop.
The iPhone is still one of a handful of devices we’d call favorites – but it’s not perfect. Got any iPhone nitpicks of your own? Voice’em in the comments. Go ahead – it feels good.
I hear ya, those things stink about the iPhone
how did you not focus on the battery life? It’s a killer. I get 2hrs of actual usage–a few calls, some surfing and apps–which means my phone lasts roughly 5hrs before it completely dies
You should get your phone’s battery checked out, because I had a friend who was only getting that much before they had the battery fixed. I’m getting about 2-3x on that on average for the 3G, but I still miss the amazing battery life of the 2G model.
I turned off the 3G (you can do it in the network settings) so it relies on the “regular” AT&T network, because I wasn’t getting 3G reception in my apartment on the waterfront of *downtown San Francisco*.
What I discovered is that turning off the 3G extended the battery life to 2-3 days instead of a half a day.
The most obvious explanation for such a short battery life (aside from physical/hardware problem) is that you have ‘push’ enabled for Fetch New Data.
in terms of cell service, as a verizon wireless customer thats now on att because of the iphone, coverage seems pretty much the same.
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I think it’s annoying that Apple completely censors adult content. I mean really, who doesn’t want to strip hot chicks naked on their iPhone? As long as you’re over 18, it’s all good!
Reason #9: AT&T phone service still sucks.
The single biggest reason I didn’t buy an iPhone two years ago, and why I’m still not buying. Apple, if your listening, open up to Verizon.
I believe Apple went to Verizon first and then the CEO of Verizon told them no. Which is the most stupidest thing they could have ever done. I loved Verizon… but I love my iPhone more.
My ideal phone… Verizon service and an iPhone with direct connect (like nextel), ability to tether to a computer.
Reason #9 for the iphone suckage… the speaker phone is not loud enough. I can barely hear it when I’m driving.
Verizon has to many restrictions. Everything is locked or you have to pay for stuff that should be free. T-mobile is the best, you can even use an unlocked iphone on t-mobile but who would want that when you can have the g1.
hahahahaha
oh man
so you’re saying Verizon has too many restrictions for the IPHONE?
apple is the lord and master of restrictions bar NONE
if anything the iphone is too restricted even for verizon!
I asked my Verizon rep when they were getting the iPhone when the first announcements came out. She told me that Verizon refused to partner with Apple for the iPhone because of the level of control that Apple wanted of what should have been their joint customers. Essentially, Apple wanted iPhone users to be Apple customers, with Verizon just supplying the cellular service. iPhone users out there, who do you call when you have hardware issues? If I have a problem, whether its my phone or my service, I call Verizon.
exactly
in terms of cell service, as a verizon wireless customer thats now on att because of the iphone, coverage seems pretty much the same.
try going out of an urban center and you’ll see what we mean – I use verizon so I can live in comfort knowing that when I go mountain biking I can call an ambulance for myself with my verizon phone.
try going to Europe. I go to Ireland every year thank god I don’t have Verizon.
The funny thing is that the Storm does a lot of these things, and with an upgrade to one of the leaked firmwares, it functions pretty well.
I disagree. I’ve had Verizon and Sprint in the past and most recently Verizon. I switched over to ATT for the iphone and can completely tell the difference. Verizon has a much better network for voice. I drop calls now all the time and I live in downtown Chicago.
I’m with ya with most of those, but I am jailbroken, so 3, 4, 6 and 8 are solved, luckily. Some of the others might be to, but those are the ones I use all the time. I, for one, don’t even use the jailbroken part for anything illegal (though my unlocking and using on another provider lies in a gray area here).
I’ve had the iPhone for 2 days and I hated it….Maybe because I came from a Blackberry and was really curious on what the hype is all about with the iPhone. Within hours I dreaded my decision. One of the worse things about it is that I have to go into my email box and wait for the auto update to see my emails. Also I want to see my text message and emails in one inbox which I can easily do with BB but nope, not iPhone….So after 2 days, I’ve had it and exchanged it for the Blackberry Bold and all was well again – back in business!!
did you divorce your wife after two days too?
lol… comparing a gadget with a human being… only an apple fanboy can utter that.
What are you talking about? I use Exchange on the iPhone, and don’t wait for my new messages when opening it.
Wow, you gave it 2 whole days?
Good thing it was that quick, otherwise you’d have gotten used to the amazing web browser in iPhone, and the cool 3rd party apps, and you’d be stuck in the terrible, horrible Mail app that doesn’t include text messages…. uhh
I lasted 4 days. I did a whole writeup, which you can see here: http://tr.im/gRG0 . Really hated that you couldn’t run more than one application at a time. That’s my biggest problem with the iPhone by far.
Get the g1 anything is possible with open source!
“You can tap into the limitless power of the community” LOL
You know, Apple has this thing called a “retail store” that lets you try out products before you buy them. You should try it.
#1: iTunes
#1: I would have liked to be in the meeting where it was decided that SMS messages would just pop up on the front of the device. Is there a person alive who thinks that’s a good idea? Of course not so how did this happen and why hasn’t it been fixed?
#2: When podcasts are finishing playing the iPhone should not play the next one. Who decided that it should? Who let that happen?
I actually love the fact that podcasts are now treated as playlists, earlier versions (2.0 I think) didn’t do this. This saves me the time getting the phone out of my pocket and telling it to play the next podcast. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t like this functionality.
One of the things I hate is the fact that I can’t hook up the phone to another computer and put music on it. If I want to load one single mp3 from another computer onto my phone Itunes will first completely delete everything that’s on my phone … now WTF… I know that Apple is in bed with the music industry but this is ridiculous.
I don’t like the functionality since if I’ve got a bunch of saved podcasts then I want to choose the order in which I listen to them. I often only have time for one podcast for a given train ride and I’d like it to play it to completion (so that it will be erased on the next sync) but not chose some other random podcast to play so that by the time I can shut it off the iPhone now shows that podcast as partially listened to.
If Apple weren’t so concerned about a clutter free UI they certainly would have added a simple switch to control this behavior so you and I could both be happy. But style won out over substance once again and they simply changed it.
Ummm… me? I like the fact that messages popup on the lock screen. Allows for quick reading on the go. If you need to reply, you unlock and go….
That being said, maybe an option to de(activate) it would be nice, but whatever….
the iphone is a gift from god. damn you for speaking out against it. may you burn in eternal flames for such blasphemy. i only pray St. Steve takes pity on your soul.
I’ll add one to the list with the hope that the Apple iPhone guys read this post. When someone calls who’s not in your address book it shows the number but it should also show the city/state of the caller. The iPhone shows the city/state of the phone numbers under ‘recents’ but it’d be much more helpful to see that information when the phone is ringing.
My biggest issue from business usage perspective is that phone numbers are not “linked” within calendar entries. It takes forever and half a dozen flips from calendar app to phone app, just to dial a number. If you’re driving, it’s next to impossible.
Phone number shortcuts icons would make dialing easier when driving.
no phone links from calendar is really bad.
deleting messages sometime just doesn’t identify swipe.
Deleting multiple images could be nice.
Not being able to cop files without paying 5 bucks for an app sucks, it should have been built in.
Stop using your phone when you’re driving!
There’s an app for that.
Even worse than that, as a business tool, now way to add attendees to a meeting, wtf!!!
sorry no way to add attendees to a meeting!!!
How did lack of landscape keyboard in email and notes fail to make this list?
That’s an issue that’s been talked about since day one, which is why it was excluded.
Just no having a physical keyboard sucks. I know its trendy to have no keyboard these days but it is a lot more practical.
and the lack of landscape orientation for texting !
How about when you are on a phone call and you get a text message. You ignore the message, but then you realize you can’t end the call without closing or replying to the text! Doh!
Now that one really sux!
The whole notification system sucks… Can’t wait for the Pre…
The same problem when your battery is low.
You want to end the call, but there’s this box saying there’s only 10% battery left.
I would like to add sound quality to the list. The sound quality is not great in general. But what is extremly annoying is that the iPhone has that cheap Voip and abroad calling center digital sound problem. You want to hear some background noice so that you know that the other person is still on the line. But the iPhone shuts down the noice 100 %, which was common in early voip solutions.
And people still defend Iphone OS against Android. Neither of the 8 is a problem for me.
Android has a long way to go to compare, IMO. It’s not just about the most features, people want a device that works, works well, and works intuitively. Most people also care that the interface looks good, not just because it’s pretty, but because a well designed interface makes for a better user experience. You can keep all of your features if the OS still looks like a piece of garbage.
Dude, have you used Android? True that it doesn’t offer as much in the way of eye candy the iPhone does, but it’s very intuitive. And in the 6 months it’s been out, in my mind it’s already surpassed the iPhone in terms of functionality (turn-by-turn GPS anyone?).
If you check the market, you’ll see many popular iPhone apps have either been directly ported to Android, or have very comparable alternatives, most of which are FREE.
You can have your bling I’ll keep my G1 which is more functional and practical.
Tough to live without copy paste…
True that, now way to copy a text message and paste to an email!
This is a race that Android will win, it is so obvious that all the little apple fans can enjoy singing and dance in a closed venue; while the rest of the world will have variety of experience but the best OS. The manufacturers will be bringing out some pretty cool phones (pls god soon!) and that will give the snowball some real inertia.
The Japanese know sht when they see it.
Well said, Apple is for retards. They bring out a crap phone that looks good and everyone buys it. I will never buy an Apple product. G1 with Android and Vaio laptop with Ubuntu. I have complete control of both.
If you jailbreak your phone and install SBSettings, that’ll give you a quick access screen to toggle airplane mode, wifi, bluetooth, 3g. Works like a charm.
http://sleepers.net/2008/10/28/goodbye-bossprefs-hello-sbsettings/
9. Being so clamped down by the hand of Apple that the concept of “open source” is no existent.
Getting our story ideas from Ask Metafilter now, are we?
Gads how can you possibly not include the modal dialog box when you click on a link that opens a new window and you already have 8 windows open? That drives me batty.
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Good list but aside from copy/pasting which was mentioned , I can’t stand the lack of background apps.
I won’t jailbreak for it, but I can’t stand the inability to record quick video… something my previous $29 samsung clamshell could do 3 years ago.
svdomer09 wins for that app sorter concept. Apple will listen to that one. My app arranging has “settled” because I cannot stand arranging them anymore. it’s just less important apps “in the “back”, home screen/page 2 for what’s used most.
Wut? You dare question the staff of Apple Trek Engineering? They invented cool, and they know it!
I agree, my iPhone always reminds me why I don’t like Apple, too propriety, secretive, closed, conceited, snobby, and just not as good as they think they are.
I still am waiting for 3rd party push. I want to be on gchat 24/7 plz.
I’ve got another 18 months or so left on my iPhone plan, but I’m pretty sure I’m switching over to an Android phone when I can. The iPhone is a nice phone but I can’t stand Apple’s stubbornness when it comes to a lot of these issues.
It’s kinda of like having a long time relationship with the love of your life. It’s great most of the time and we keep him/her around even with all the flaw because the good stuff is reeeeeallly gooood and as the years pass by, it gets better.
I like the improvements over the past 2 years. I agree there could be more options, but jailbreaking does solve many of the issues listed and many that aren’t listed. I was so stoked when I found a video cam app – b/c I had been bitchin’ about it forever – and have used it a total of ZERO times since…hahaha.
Here’s to progress and future improvements!
ARE YOU GUYS NUTS ?
you can have 6 text messages combined perfectly on ANY blackberry, Windows Mobile, Sony….
I suspect that your carriers really dont have a clue in the USA about SMS… and hence a iPhone is terrible at it
NO MMS ??
(thats a chargable service only apple could miss that out and operators accept it everyone else puts it in because it EARNS MONEY…)
NO SMS Forward ???
(how do you forward jokes… clearly again USA dont really get the whole txt thing…)
NO Themes ?
(operators add their own themes and branding… not on the iPhone… so you can not either…)
Cant compose message and add photo ?
( i.e. No attaching pictures from within an email mostly this is MMS in europe i.e. look at what just happened… insert slides into show… or movie )
NO BLUETOOTH
(honestly I want to connect to my car etc without any wires… you could even say not music just voice and phonebook etc… I want to connect to my heart rate monitor… Nothing no API… hardware is already inside… )
they really really need to take a look at blackberry…. but they never are going to succeed here since blackberry log calls and provide PBX integration and apple does not do server… they never really understood anything beyond SME…
(remember apple used to do server storage look what happened when it started to work with windows… )
what they should target is the GPS market tie up with Tom Tom (call it Steve Steve) and home Automation (lights, heaters, AC and washing machines)…
would work nicer and i would be happier (even if the keyboard is not real…)
regards
John Jones
iPhone has bluetooth…
Agree, Tom Tom is THE killer app for iPhone…
Calendar drives me nuts. Too many taps. In month view, tap on a day and it should come up in day view. You can only tap + in day view and THEN tap 4 taps later choose a time. Why can’t I tap on 3 PM and it pull up Add Event *with the time already picked*? Then I have to tap title/location to call it something. In notes I can just tap on the screen and start typing. Once I didn’t enter enough info, turned of my phone, and totally lost the event because I didn’t tap “done”. I would love to go back later and fill in the details, and just set an event quickly as needed. Isn’t that one of the points of a mobile?
Yeah, coming from the Palm, PDA really feels like something of a 2nd class citizen on my iPod Touch. The original Palm developers went to a lot of trouble to minimize the number of taps required. That really is key to a good interface. Plus, you could always pick up where you left off.
Calendar clearly needs to be streamlined. The iPhone has so much to offer, but even basic functionality is obviously still a work in progress.
Another glaring example is the lack of a full search function in contacts. I can’t even search by phone # to see who’s calling me!
The search functionality to look up by # is there. Go to the Phone, keypad, dial the number.
If it’s in your contacts it will tell you who it is.
I am HUGE fan of Apple products, indeed. And iPhone is not the exception …but this article is, IMHO, is the best iPhone critique ever, add up copy/paste and (probably mms ) critique , and you have got solid 10 points apple should pay attention to. Kudos to the author , thank you very much for making voices of many fans visible.
Ill go one step further on the wi-fi/bluetooth/3g toggling from home screen. POWER USAGE PROFILES FROM THE HOME SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
None of those things bother me, and I’ll take it that they don’t bother the mass market either given its success.
And I have yet another list, all different, right here:
http://clivesiphone.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-my-old-windows-phone-still-beats-my_16.html
The lack of search in email is simply astounding. It’s as though Apple didn’t test the iPhone with any Blackberry users. I’m _this_ close to chucking it and going back to the Curve — it’s half the personal computer, but four times the business tool (which is the only reason for expense reimbursement).
The ability to have a home-screen toggle of Wireless would definitely be convenient. Though for me the cut-and-paste issue remains my #1 complaint.
8 points that drive me nuts on a daily basis.
The other one is that Contacts is not a Contact Manager. I CAN’T add my contacts to groups on my phone? WTF?! ARGHHHHH!
But, hey… it’s shiny!
no. it is perfect. seriously. y’all just need to evolve.
If ‘evolve’ means ‘become dumb’ I’d agree.
The majority of iPhone users are people that have used nothing but dumbphones in the past (and there are plenty still pissed that it doesn’t natively support MMS or video capture).
The iPhone is great for introducing ’smartphone’ functionality to the masses, but falls short to the tried and true smartphone lovers that have been using smartphones waaay before the iPhone came out.
Don’t get me wrong – it’s a great device. But please don’t use such a blanket statement like the one above to make people accept it (smartphone or dumbphone user alike).
I love mine, but it is NOT perfect.
1. No way to Mark All As Read on your email inbox. What’s the point of having an unread count if you can’t set it to 0?
2. No MMS. I mean, still?? Ridiculous.
3. Why does Safari chose to refresh when you switch browser windows? Just give me back the page I was looking at before.
Totally agree on 3.
You nailed these perfectly. My biggest peeve is that there are a number of jailbroken UI changes that can do these things, but Apple somehow can’t fit it in.
I think I’m gonna dump the iPhone she the palm ore arrive, that is if everything the we saw is true!
When in silent mode, I want it to be completely silent, not even alarms should ring.
Agreed, this REALLY bugs me…
Theoretically, you shouldn’t be setting alarms for times that you need it to stay silent…
My wallet’s too small for my 50s and my diamond shoes are too tight!
You people have got to be kidding.
Let’s talk about Brushed Metal now; that has got to go Apple please change the f**king color any color hell pink, black, clear, white are all fine just get rid of the damn brushed metal/gray/silver its just boring now.
I completely agree with 6, 7 and 8
Sometimes you might want to turn airport mode, wifi, 3g on/off real quick, is it real that hard to come up with a way so that it takes 2 presses and a swipe at the most.
Just come up with an easy and quick way to arrange apps.
How about adding 2 or 3 more themes they don’t have to be drastically different just little changes, or better yet let apps that do it be in the store, stop being so stuck up thinking your product is the s**t when there are things people want that you don’t deliver.
HTC touch pro for all of the complainers… yeah you have to modify a few memory settings so its not so sluggish. other wise it is a true joy, on verizon as-well (looks best on verizon to).
How about a way to tell if the phone is in silent mode from the main screen. Can’t remember how many times I have forgotten to flip the silent switch off. Maybe they fixed this with the 3G.
How about the ’send’ button being to close to the keyboard when writing a text-message. I’ve send a lot of half-finshed messages as result of fat fingers…
You forgot the most important issue for a shizzle dizzle high tec 3g shiny bla phone:
no thethering.
this annoys me the most.
people laugh at me, when my dsl fails and i have to remove my simcard from my iphone and put it into a 3 years old k800 from sonyer. thats really shit!
You really hit the spot with this list. Well done.
My only gripe is the horrific battery life. It really sux. For those on the go, you cant even swap out the battery…always running around with charger looking for an outlet. When I got the 3g it was horrendously worse. As an atty constantly tethered to email and phone, I got 4-5 hours max before the inevitable hurried chase for a charge. So I went to an Apple store for recommendations. The apple ‘genius’ said…and I quote…”Well, if you don’t use the phone, the battery will last a whole lot longer.” I replied, “well, then, they should have called it the ‘i’”. I enjoyed the iPhone, but I returned to a BB curve which has a 4-day (heavy use) charge, swappable battery, and true push (no more waiting 45 minutes for urgent emails). I simply couldn’t do my job with a mere ‘i’.
tell me about it – the ‘geniuses’ at the genius bar didn’t know what an amp was and had to call over an ‘expert.’ The ‘expert’ was still confused – so I said ‘Amplifier’ and all he wanted to sell me was an iPod dock.
i almost soiled my pants from laughter.
for people on the go
don’t choose apple
they have NEVER and probably will never have removable batteries.
Company run by, and followed by apes. I swear
Mmm.
How about
1. Shit blue tooth support, no printing, no stereo, wireless syncs to desktop and on and on. Fucking embarrassing is what it is, or well should be but clearly 10 firmware updates later they still don’t care.
2. Shitty calander views.
3. Shitty email box setup (endless drilling out and back in).
4. No nag fucntions for reminders or waiting data. The phone is complete failure as a PIM the only function that is even slightly useful is the timer.
5. no data waiting notification when it’s on the cradle. You could have 10 texts and a emergency voice mail waiting and have no clue that it’s there without having to get hands on with the phone. WTF, who did the usability testing what vacuum do they live in?
6. No ability to save or load files (say that PDF you can’t print) without sticking in the email, that you can’t serch. Sigh.
7. real spell check
8. Drum roll, CDMA noise bleep blop noise EVERYWHERE. Not a wit of shielding to be found.
Then there is a much longer, uglier list for fist shaking at AT&T.
CDMA noise? DTMF, perhaps?
What a whining article that was.
I got 77. (7 points for tethering on their end) And 5 points for email (full 5 since there is search in everything else as well) and 5 for being able to attach a photo to an email.