RIGHT NOW, iPhone Review on the GADGET SHOW [Archive]

CD3660

Nov 26, 2007, 02:19 PM

RIGHT NOW! don't miss it!
If it's anything like the comparison review (iPhone versus N95) that they did a couple of weeks ago, it won't be worth wasting my time. I know how good it is anyway.

MrT8064

Nov 26, 2007, 02:21 PM

it was a comparison between music phones, some sony, some nokia, and the iPhone...

iPhone won :)

Tom B.

Nov 26, 2007, 02:27 PM

Looking forward to seeing Suzi's 'video'. :D

CD3660

Nov 26, 2007, 02:27 PM

it was a comparison between music phones, some sony, some nokia, and the iPhone...

iPhone won :)Pleased to hear it.

edesignuk

Nov 27, 2007, 02:21 AM

The SE W960 won on audio playback quality. Though the iPhone obviously won hands down in simplicity and speed of finding a song on a music store (iTunes) and downloading.

sneeks

Nov 27, 2007, 04:20 AM

As a music phone there was never any doubt that the iPhone would win, the UI is gorgeous and beats any other phone currently available.

redgaz26

Nov 27, 2007, 06:30 AM

As a music phone there was never any doubt that the iPhone would win, the UI is gorgeous and beats any other phone currently available.

your right sneeks!!!!! theres not one person ive showed the phone to that hasn't been amazed by it. "i heard you got that iphone thing can i see it":D:D:D
mind you your still the only person i know who's got one!!!!!!

redgaz26

Nov 27, 2007, 06:39 AM

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apart from myself LOL. And all my fellow mac romors friends.

dogtanian

Nov 27, 2007, 07:15 AM

The SE W960 won on audio playback quality. Though the iPhone obviously won hands down in simplicity and speed of finding a song on a music store (iTunes) and downloading.

Surely this test was invalid as the quality of the encoding the track was done in would be by far the most important factor in the audio playback quality test. For a programme called "The Gadget Show" I was hoping for a little more understanding of the basics. They didn't once mention the encoding from the online stores each of them bought the tracks from!

alFR

Nov 27, 2007, 07:56 AM

For a programme called "The Gadget Show" I was hoping for a little more understanding of the basics. They didn't once mention the encoding from the online stores each of them bought the tracks from!

Expecting scientific rigor in a prime-time TV show? Whatever were you thinking? :)

MrT8064

Nov 27, 2007, 08:33 AM

i wish there was a geekyer gadget show on TV, really anoying that they take gadgets at such a surface level!

i think news 24 do a thing called click? but i dunno when this is

Project

Nov 27, 2007, 08:45 AM

Did they download a regular or an iTunes Plus track?

CD3660

Nov 27, 2007, 08:49 AM

i think news 24 do a thing called click? but i dunno when this is
They do, and it is much better, but it is much shorter and not as wide ranging in the items it reviews. It is computer rather than gadget related really.

It's repeated several times a week. I tend to record it on a Saturday morning.

djellison

Nov 27, 2007, 09:25 AM

They didn't once mention the encoding from the online stores each of them bought the tracks from!

But they did specifically mention that they put the SAME file onto all three phones for the blind listening test.

Doug

MrT8064

Nov 27, 2007, 12:14 PM

the same file, thats stupid, the iPhone one must have been .AAC, and i dunno about the other 2, but they may well use different format types, or bit rates!!

gadget show, is very simplistic.

edesignuk

Nov 28, 2007, 01:45 AM

Pretty much any phone will play .AAC MrT8064, just so long it's it's not an iTMS DRM protected one.

weckart

Nov 28, 2007, 02:34 AM

the same file, thats stupid, the iPhone one must have been .AAC, and i dunno about the other 2, but they may well use different format types, or bit rates!!

gadget show, is very simplistic.

Yes. Must have been. God knows that the iPhone cannot begin to cope with MP3s.

Apple's music players have never enjoyed a good reputation for sound fidelity, with the possible exception of the MK1 Shuffle. My MK1 Mini was particularly poor in this regard. There are other reasons to choose Apple's range over the rest.

alFR

Nov 28, 2007, 03:07 AM

Yes. Must have been. God knows that the iPhone cannot begin to cope with MP3s.

That's not what he was saying - the point is that if it was an iTunes Store download it will have been aac, while downloads from other online stores will more than likely be mp3.

sneeks

Nov 28, 2007, 08:25 AM

mind you your still the only person i know who's got one!!!!!!

I've yet to see another person with a iPhone while travelling in and out of Glasgow each day :D

CD3660

Nov 28, 2007, 09:03 AM

I've yet to see another person with a iPhone while travelling in and out of Glasgow each day :DThis could of course be, as suggested in another thread, because everyone has returned their iPhones at the end of the 14 day period. :rolleyes:

redgaz26

Nov 28, 2007, 09:53 AM

I've yet to see another person with a iPhone while travelling in and out of Glasgow each day :D

i saw a guy on monday with one in my work, that's 3 of us sneeks:D:D:D

redgaz26

Nov 28, 2007, 09:56 AM

This could of course be, as suggested in another thread, because everyone has returned their iPhones at the end of the 14 day period. :rolleyes:

while there may be those who have returned them, i want to know how many of those are non-apple fans. we all knew what we were buying and what the limitations were, theres nothing on the phone i didn't know about so im taking it those who took theres back were either faulty or they didn't know what they were buying in the first place..................

MrT8064

Nov 28, 2007, 10:20 AM

is iPhone sound quality better when its coming throughout the dock compared with the headphone jack? just a thought?

CD3660

Nov 28, 2007, 10:32 AM

is iPhone sound quality better when its coming throughout the dock compared with the headphone jack? just a thought?
What do you mean 'coming through the dock'? The iPhone dock has no sound output. Do you mean some sort of sound dock, like a speaker system?

MrT8064

Nov 28, 2007, 02:12 PM

my iPhone docks has a 3.5mm connector on the back... thats how i connect it to my hifi,

just wondering if that would give better sound quality than the jack at the top of the iPhone

CD3660

Nov 28, 2007, 02:14 PM

my iPhone docks has a 3.5mm connector on the back... thats how i connect it to my hifi,

just wondering if that would give better sound quality than the jack at the top of the iPhone
I see. I do the same. I don't think that there would be any quality difference.

djellison

Dec 10, 2007, 03:35 PM

They just gave it their gadget of the year award. You can quit bitching now.

Doug

TurboSC

Dec 10, 2007, 04:57 PM

is this one YouTube yet? or did someone snag the segment to share with everyone? :P

Sedulous

Dec 10, 2007, 05:24 PM

As a music phone there was never any doubt that the iPhone would win, the UI is gorgeous and beats any other phone currently available.

Well according to CNET, the Verizon /LG Voyager is better because they like all the buttons.

djellison

Dec 11, 2007, 03:29 AM

The Gadget show looked at it three times..

Firstly - as a mobile phone against the N95 - and rightly, the N95 won
Then - as a music phone against two others - and rightly, the iPhone won
And as the best gadget of the year - it's bound to win.

Calling for little short of public hanging for the presenters of the show in this thread was frankly, pathetic - they gave it the right result every time, and only a blinkered fanboy would disagree. There are so many shortfalls in the iPhone that it simply can not be describe as the best mobile phone out there. But because it's an iPod - it IS the best music phone out there.

Doug

jSunbeam

Dec 11, 2007, 04:47 AM

while there may be those who have returned them, i want to know how many of those are non-apple fans. we all knew what we were buying and what the limitations were, theres nothing on the phone i didn't know about so im taking it those who took theres back were either faulty or they didn't know what they were buying in the first place..................

either that or they'd watched all the videos a whole bunch of times and made an informed decision to buy an iphone and then realised within the first few days of ownership that it's the epitome of style over substance and pretty dreadful in many ways. poor call quality, slow wifi, crap web browsing experience etc...

CD3660

Dec 11, 2007, 04:54 AM

either that or they'd watched all the videos a whole bunch of times and made an informed decision to buy an iphone and then realised within the first few days of ownership that it's the epitome of style over substance and pretty dreadful in many ways. poor call quality, slow wifi, crap web browsing experience etc...
Whilst I love my iPhone and wouldn't dream of returning it, I do think that the iPhone TV ads are a little naughty and misleading in that they give the false impression that everything works instantaneously without any delay (web page loading for example).

Artistic licence I suppose. :)

jSunbeam

Dec 11, 2007, 04:57 AM

Whilst I love my iPhone and wouldn't dream of returning it, I do think that the iPhone TV ads are a little naughty and misleading in that they give the false impression that everything works instantaneously without any delay (web page loading for example).

Artistic licence I suppose. :)

heh.

it's a shame really. i'm sure that the safari app on the iphone is streets ahead of browsers on other phones, but i still find it a pain to use. the text messaging 'conversation' thing is really annoying. it's kind of like apple employed a team of people who'd never really used a mobile phone to build the phone part of the iphone. i'm all for change, but i think they fell rather short of the mark here...back to the o2 store it goes. boo

CD3660

Dec 11, 2007, 05:07 AM

The text messaging 'conversation' thing is really annoying.
I agree with you. There is something rather peculiar about the SMS interface, although it is quite handy to see the earlier messages. I just don't like the way it's done or the appearance.

jSunbeam

Dec 11, 2007, 05:12 AM

I agree with you. There is something rather peculiar about the SMS interface, although it is quite handy to see the earlier messages. I just don't like the way it's done or the appearance.

i've used phones which have had the 'conversation' interface as an option. if it had a traditional inbox/outbox structure as such an option i'd be a little happier.

CD3660

Dec 11, 2007, 05:22 AM

If it had a traditional inbox/outbox structure as such an option i'd be a little happier.
I'd like that too.

alFR

Dec 11, 2007, 06:43 AM

Oh-es-Ten

Dec 11, 2007, 06:57 AM

either that or they'd watched all the videos a whole bunch of times and made an informed decision to buy an iphone and then realised within the first few days of ownership that it's the epitome of style over substance and pretty dreadful in many ways. poor call quality, slow wifi, crap web browsing experience etc...

Are you sure you are talking about the same iPhone as I am using. This phone has better call quality, call management, contact management that the last Nokia I had (N-Series). Wifi screams (even EDGE is faster than 3G on the Nokia), and as far as browsing goes... WTF?