Friday, June 29th 2007

Summary of first iPhone review impressions
Since the first iPhone reviews are in, Engadget.com made an interesting list of features which the iPhone has ... or has not:
Source:
Engadget
- The mobile version of OS X or whatever it is the iPhone runs takes up 700MB of the device's capacity. Damn son!
- There's no way to cut, copy, or paste text! WHOA! Big, big mistake.
- No A2DP support. That, friends, is such a huge bummer right there.
- Sorry, music can't be used as a ringtone -- even if it's just a raw MP3. No additional ringtones will be sold at launch.
- On a PC the iPhone syncs with Outlook for calendars AND addresses! Noice.
- It supports Exchange in some capacity, according to Walt, but he doesn't exactly say how.
- Pogue again confirms document file reading -- but not editing -- for PDF, Word, and Excel (only).
- Adobe Flash support is officially out. It's just not in the browser. Neither is there any other kind of embedded video support. Sorry everybody, that's that.
- It will take snaps, but won't record video. How can Apple love YouTube as much as it does and not realize cellphone-shot movies make up a sizeable chunk of the crazy crap you find on there?
- Oh, and no MMS. And sorry, no voice dialing, either.
- Contact groups can't be emailed as contact lists.
- Apple sez between 300-400 charges the iPhone will lose battery capacity -- you'll send it in and get the cell replaced for a fee. Meh. We knew this would be the case, but still, meh.
- Apple can (and supposedly will) be rolling out periodic updates -- no surprise there.
- Battery life is, somehow, almost as mind-blowingly good as Apple claims for calls, music, and movies.
- As we suspected, users are prompted with lists of WiFi networks if you're not nearby a trusted hotspot. We've seen this on other phones, and we're afraid this would get friggin annoying.
- It's said to be very scratch resistant. The facade both front and rear apparently just doesn't pick up marring like regular iPods do.
- Voice quality is said to be good -- not great.
64 Comments on Summary of first iPhone review impressions
Edit: Oh wait, I just read one of the most hilarious things on that website: Hahahah Apple certainly is special :roll:
There is simply nothing good about this whatsoever. I can't believe so many people are eating the hype without question. It's not like there is an absence of viable alternatives that don't bear Apple's seal. :shadedshu
I cringe to think of the horror that would manifest itself if one were to say, drop the thing and watch the uncovered screen shatter... :eek:
Meh just got a fancy interface thats all. Wouldnt buy one myself, but wouldnt turn one away for free.
The sad thing is that the rich Apple whores will buy this piece of crap in their droves, thus giving Apple more money to produce more crap.
so in it's main course .....fails
after all it's a phone just a phone
p.s. no java people forget your application and games
iPhone... lose. x50000000
Keep drinkin' that hatoraid! :slap:
and the internet is sloooow.
and 2 grand over 2 years for 450 minutes/month and 200 txt/month just blows. hard.
no noteworthy word on whether or not touch-sensitive keyboards suck... i suppose thats mostly a personal taste.
Also, the position-sensitive stuff sounds cool, but sounds retarded to me; like how it locks in some positions, unlocks in others etc... not everybody talks standing up. lots of people talk lying down. then again, who actually talks on a cellphone any more these days? i'm just a crazy old loon to do that.
that thing is a piece of crap! even my cheepo cell phone can do most of the stuff that it cant!
anyway, i was expecting it to be a piece of crap, but man, crapple did a great job makign it worthless.
lol at all the isheep that bought it.
chris
While not a terribly extensive stress test, its not a fragile device. Wtf kinda reporting is "sez"? So, you've used it?!
omg where? and why? So.. your phone can...
Cut, copy and paste text?
Support Exchange?
EDIT word, excel and PDF files? Let alone, OPEN?
Email contact groups? Notice this is GROUPS, not CONTACTS. if you don't know the difference, GTFO.
Interesting. What cheap ass phone can do all of this while remaining as featureful as an iPhone? My Razr can't do any of that, and it wasn't cheap.
I really don't understand how they managed to get so many bullets out of what really are, 4 basic downfalls. And they really aren't even all that bad. Edit PDF's? How often do you do that? Not much. If you are, do you really need to be doing it on your phone?
I'm impressed though, an apple thread and theres nothing but shitting down apples neck for releasing a new product.
Someone posts a microsoft thread, everyone does the same.
What do people really want around here?www.wirelessinfo.com/content/Apple-iPhone-Cell-Phone-Review/Audio-Quality.htm
According to the numbers, audio is apparently............. pretty damn good.
Who says it sucks? I wanna see your phone benchmarks.
How many more false claims you apple haters wanna try?