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sabret00the
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hey guys I'm still alive,well about the iphone - 1st thoughts it looks very good -typical apple - well if it works exactly like a mac then we might have our usual lemon - but time will tell soon...
Anyday I'd prefer a Creative to an IPOD and a PC instead of a MAC well....shud make sense by now....
Anyday I'd prefer a Creative to an IPOD and a PC instead of a MAC well....shud make sense by now....
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CINTEL ENTRINO
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or Cowon to a pod....
cowon is making some really useful products...... nowadays
or Cowon to a pod....
cowon is making some really useful products...... nowadays
Sukhdeep Singh
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gx_saurav said:
And just checked on Ebay...it costs 125$ with 2 yr contract....
hemant_mathur
-- No Easter Eggs here --
Here's the short list of dissapointments:
1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That's it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
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.
4. SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn't look into it extensively.
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.
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.
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14. NO games. None.
15. No voice dialing.
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).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
19. It's still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
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.
This device looks like it was aimed at the general consumer who has the money to spend on such a flashy device, but it leaves so many basic features behind that it's almost impossible to consider it a success as a mainstream device. It encourages the advanced user to move away from MMS and into email to send images, but leaves out any advanced features advanced users would be accustomed to, and still retains a huge price tag on top of it.
It's certainly pretty and Americans will buy it because of that simple UI, but anyone who's familiar with other operating systems would be appalled. This phone needs to be unlocked and cracked WIDE open to make much better use of the multi-touch system. That, or it needs an immediate update in iTunes to rework every feature.
Source : *www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1190824
1. Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That's it.
2. There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
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.
4. SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn't look into it extensively.
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.
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.
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
8. No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
9. The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14. NO games. None.
15. No voice dialing.
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).
17. No video.
18. No MMS.
19. It's still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
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.
This device looks like it was aimed at the general consumer who has the money to spend on such a flashy device, but it leaves so many basic features behind that it's almost impossible to consider it a success as a mainstream device. It encourages the advanced user to move away from MMS and into email to send images, but leaves out any advanced features advanced users would be accustomed to, and still retains a huge price tag on top of it.
It's certainly pretty and Americans will buy it because of that simple UI, but anyone who's familiar with other operating systems would be appalled. This phone needs to be unlocked and cracked WIDE open to make much better use of the multi-touch system. That, or it needs an immediate update in iTunes to rework every feature.
Source : *www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1190824
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gxsaurav
You gave been GXified
Well, all who I have met were like this. Oh & all were indians, not americans.faraaz said:
@ hemant
1) You cannot transfer files to another phone using Bluetooth or connect to iTunes using bluetooth? WTF
7. You can only send one picture at a time in an email. And Apple said E-Mail is better then MMS
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.
So much for a smartphoneAbe this phone cannot be even called a Phone. Salesman, seriously Apple is Idiot to relese this phone. Again...abe yeh karta kya hai? $600 for just iPod features.? Arya said, it is not for those who want to open there Zip files or read PDF, abe then what the hell is this phone for? If I can't send or recieve files of bluetooth
Lingeeks, I beg you to install Ubuntu Mobile on iPhone & come out of these limitations. I will buy iPhone if it had Windows Mobile or Ubuntu Mobile, atleast I could install whatever I want. But again, if ubuntu is installed, it might no longer work on AT&T network. But who cares, all I want is that this phone works on BSNL
This just in. The first iPhone iReturn. Taken from Engadget
Lolz.....Apple Employees are shocked that the god Jobs was wrong.
Apple has a beautiful hardware in there hand & it is quite capable. How ever if they still don't release complete OS updates adding all those features it is missing in software, like MMS, Bluetooth file transfer, then yeah....Apple is idiot & they want to stay idiots. All hail SE W960i
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dreamcatcher
Rockin g33k
^^^^ excuse me dude but this a tech forum and we are here to dicuss technology...when most peaple are interested...and cummon..y shudnt they....this is one of the most technologically advanced massacres of all time..a phone which switches to ipod features on one click and wen u r to call takes 5 steps....well a debate on this is what makes peaple aware on wat is going on...and sorry..noone here is paid..everyone is her eon their own accord..i guess u are the one paid fr interfering...nw stup and gt back to work..if u have any...sorry guys...but these comments are really idiotic...IPHONE SUCKS..BUT LUKS GREAT..
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gxsaurav
You gave been GXified
U guys are so moron... If you don't like a phone, don't buy it. Period. why do you have to discuss it for all day? Look at this thread.. 11 pages and running.. do you guys get paid for it? Jobless stupid fellows..
Nah, we just like to laugh at the failed iHype that the salesman & his ignorant friends created. Seems like you have a problem with us using our free time, Amit, with all due respect, we are free to do whatever we like so, plz don't order us to do something.
Yeah, grapes are very sour, I don't have $600 to waste
...I so wanna waste $600 on a PMP.No wait, iRiver clix 2
Like I said, the salesman starting so many iPhone threads & then getting pwned with the truth & facts out there is also stupid. But MacBoys just won't stop...Goobi, yaar u have a look. You say this phone is not for everyone. ok fine....then who the hell is this phone for ? someone who wants to use 8 GB Storage instead of 30 GB iPod Video to watch Videos
dreamcatcher
Rockin g33k
amitava82 said:
wat the hell is that.....iphone is not a grape....and gfor ur info i will be buying the k850 or the w960 on launch....and i get the same features for a leser price..if the iphone was realy worht it we nevwer would have reacted..here any such crap about the n95??..ya its slow and battery life is poor...but ery phone has its defects..but jfor the iphone the comment should be like..."every phone has something to be bought for"..
so dude chill..have sum coke..think ovr the iphone..hav sum grapes if you want...and chill..think before what you say
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The other one
amitava82 said:
No sir the grapes are not sour they taste like sh1t , and that is why we are discussing technology in a tech forum. If you want to discuss relationship between Shahrukh khan and karan Johar , you are free to go elsewhere. We can't discuss ubuntu whole day (if that's what you want) , and knowing more/discussing about new tech products is this forum all about.
Summary : Please Shut up if you don't like it here. And we are not jobless, even if some are they are students.
naveen_reloaded
!! RecuZant By Birth !!
iphone is waste...
just the hype ...toooo much hype..
it sdoes not have many essential things.. like video recording ...IM removable battery..
the list goes on
just the hype ...toooo much hype..
it sdoes not have many essential things.. like video recording ...IM removable battery..
the list goes on
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