10 reasons not to buy Apple's new iPhone 4G

[Michael CM1]

Did you guys read this article, posted on the same day?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-we-can-expect-from-the-new-Apple-iPhone.html

Does the Consumer Technology Editor not talk to the Technology Editor? Is the CTE the one who writes the "ooh I'm so stupid, I can't use a phone because it's shiny!" articles for laypeople? This is just hilarious if you read the other one first:


When Steve Jobs takes to the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, he is expected to take the wraps off Apple's latest iPhone. There are likely to be few surprises in store for Apple fans – after all, a prototype of the so-called iPhone 4G was famously left in a bar and picked apart by gadget blogs – but Jobs usually keeps one or two tricks up his sleeve.

Here's a run-down of some of the features the iPhone 4G is expected to offer:

1) New design: Gone is the smooth, curved plastic back of the iPhone 3G and 3GS – the iPhone 4G appears to have flat back, most likely made from glass, with an aluminium border around the outside. Edges appear to be squarer than on previous models, while the device itself is said to be about 3g heavier than its predecessors.

2) Smaller screen but better resolution: According to Gizmodo, the screen is slightly smaller than on the iPhone 3GS, but the display itself appears to be higher resolution. The current iPhone 3GS boasts a 480x320 pixel resolution, while the iPhone 4G is rumoured to offer a 960x640 resolution – four times the quality of the current display.

3) Better battery: Battery life has long been a bone of contention with the iPhone – many users complain bitterly about having to give the device a booster charge during the day. This problem could be resolved with the iPhone 4G which apparently features a battery 16 per cent larger than the one found in the iPhone 3GS. That should mean the iPhone lasts a lot longer on a single charge, which will be crucial for one of the most talked-about new features – multitasking.

4) Multitasking: The iPhone 4G will run the new iPhone operating system, iPhone OS 4 (which will also be available to iPhone 3G and 3GS users, and owners of the most recent models of the iPod touch). One of the key features of the new software is multitasking – the ability to run multiple apps simultaneously and switch easily between them. It's a feature that Apple fans have been desperate for since the iPhone was first launched, and other devices, such as those running Google's Android operating system, have already got this function. Now, you'll be able to listen to your Spotify playlists while instant-messaging a friend.

5) More storage: Apple is expected to bring the storage capacity of its iPhones in to line with the iPod touch range, which means we could see a 64GB iPhone 4G make its debut. Enabling users to store more films and TV shows, in particular, makes sense if rumours of that super high-res screen prove correct. Another feature of iPhone OS 4 is the ability to collapse apps in to folders, which means users will be able to store up to 2,160 apps on their iPhone – significantly more than the current limit of 180.

6) Better camera: The iPhone 4G will feature a better camera, according to Gizmodo. The rear-facing lens is said to be much bigger than on previous models, with some speculating that the iPhone 4G could boast a five-megapixel camera (compared to the three-megapixel camera on the iPhone 3GS) with a flash for capturing pictures in low light. There is some evidence within the iPhone's software development kit that the iPhone 4G could support high-definition video recording, of a quality similar to that of the Flip HD. Further probing of the SDK also reveals the possibility for video conferencing on the iPhone, possibly using Apple's iChat program and a front-facing camera.

7) Ebooks: The iPad, Apple's touch-screen, tablet-style computer, is already being touted as the ultimate ebook reading device – so much so that Apple has lunched a literary equivalent of iTunes, the iBookstore. Now iPhone users will be able to buy and download novels from the Apple bookshop on to their iPhone. Amazon already offers a Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod touch, a long with a far wider selection of titles, but the roll-out of Apple's own ebook store to the iPhone underlines Apple's commitment to making digitised content more widely available across all of its platforms.

8) A new processor: According to gadget websites, the iPhone uses one of Apple's own processors, similar to the one found in the iPad. That could give the iPhone an additional speed bump, which could be crucial if it is to handle its new multitasking responsibilities with aplomb.

9) A different kind of SIM: Rumours suggest that the iPhone, like the iPad, will feature a microSIM, rather than the standard-sized SIM card used by other mobile phones. The prototype device that Gizmodo saw used a microSIM, but it's unclear whether Apple will roll this out across the iPhone range, too – after all, it means that millions of existing iPhone users who want to upgrade to the latest model will need to be issued with new SIM cards for their phone number, which seems an unnecessary logistical burden to place on network operators, and a potentially off-putting hoop for some users to jump through.

10) Wireless synching: This is probably the least likely new feature, but Apple fans would jump for joy if the new iPhone could synchronise wirelessly with their computer. It means that data could be backed up across the home Wi-Fi network, while new songs, photos and movies could be transferred to and from the device without the need for a USB cable. Microsoft already offers wireless synching on its Zune music player, and will be integrating the feature in to mobile phones running the Windows Phone operating system – it would be something of a spoiler if Apple added the capability to its iPhone range ahead of the Windows Phone launch later this year.

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

Why did evil Steve block music videos on YouTube???? So we have to BUY them.

APPLE IS GREEDY!!!!!!! GO WITH GOOGLE!!!!!

1. I can watch music videos just fine on my touch. Perhaps no one uploaded the ones you like or they were removed by the record company.
2. Google? The people who steal wi-fi data? no thanks.

Are you in such a hurry that you can't type everyone? You typed every1?

Wow. I'm fourteen years old what are you, ten?

I know a lot of 14 year olds who type that way. I assume you love justin beeber?

1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.

Its a smart phone. Smart phones are not going to be cheep. Go out and get a job like the rest of us.

2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that it’s customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

Apple was orgnally never going to have an app store. If they still didn't the product would have died in 2008.

3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.

Fair argument. but remember most websites have those roll over graphics. Plus you have the app store for your little flash games.

4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. If Apple announces multitasking next it will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.

Multitasking will be in iPhone Os 4.0. Don't know what you have been smoking.

5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.

Seems to be a larger battery in the leaked prototypes. Plus we know nothing about the battery life,

6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: The special version of the BBC iPlayer, of Natwest Phone Banking, of Eon’s meter reader – developing all of these came out of money that could have been channelled away from a self-important minority and towards more generally useful ideas

.

what?

7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. It’s another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.

Then go out and buy some new ones. Like I said get a job. No one uses the stock headphones from ANYONE anyway.

8) It’s not very well designed: Use the iPhone as a phone and it’s not got great reception, nor is it particularly comfortable to use for long periods. It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on – jack of two trades, but master of neither.

Really depends on the user of the phone, and the size hands they have.

9) It charges for satnav: In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.

meh

10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone’s ubiquity, there’d be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.

Who the hell goes on vacation and just sits on the hotel room? Use the HEADPHONES or your LAPTOP to listen to music. oh I forgot you dont like to spend money. Guess you snuck in that hotel rooom too.

Totally agree with all points (apart form multi tasking cos i jailbroke).

With 4.0 you dont need to.

hell im a sucker to buy it to be honest, never been keen on the leaked pics of the 4g but dont want a HTC or blackberry thats made of bits and pieces which come apart....

because of the leaked HARDWARE. did you even see the april 2010 iphone os 4.0 event?

fair enough fanboys good way to bring excitement to your evening/day i suppose guess we will have to wait and see next week, however im not holding my hopes up and yeh ill probably still buy one.

oh, sorry 14 year old. youre obviously one of those anal retentive forum users that picks up on how people type. bet you know how to have fun in the playground...

haha

 

[evsmotors]

Source

When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its nearest rivals. But now the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And it’s so ubiquitous it’s not even cool any more.

Here are ten reasons why, whatever is announced at the forthcoming launch, there’s no point buying the iPhone 4G:

1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.

2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that it’s customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.

4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. If Apple announces multitasking next it will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.

5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.

6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: The special version of the BBC iPlayer, of Natwest Phone Banking, of Eon’s meter reader – developing all of these came out of money that could have been channelled away from a self-important minority and towards more generally useful ideas.

7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. It’s another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.

8) It’s not very well designed: Use the iPhone as a phone and it’s not got great reception, nor is it particularly comfortable to use for long periods. It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on – jack of two trades, but master of neither.

9) It charges for satnav: In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.

10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone’s ubiquity, there’d be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.


Totally agree with all points (apart form multi tasking cos i jailbroke). hell im a sucker to buy it to be honest, never been keen on the leaked pics of the 4g but dont want a HTC or blackberry thats made of bits and pieces which come apart....

Who cares, iPhone is still the best regardless. Everyone wants to be an iPhone, we know this! lol

 

[Geckotek]

John Gruber's take on this article:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/03/warman

Unsurprisingly, (by my count) nine of his ten reasons are factually wrong.

 

[Dammit Cubs]

Source

When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its nearest rivals. But now the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And it’s so ubiquitous it’s not even cool any more.

Here are ten reasons why, whatever is announced at the forthcoming launch, there’s no point buying the iPhone 4G:

1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.

2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that it’s customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.

4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. If Apple announces multitasking next it will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.

5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.

6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: The special version of the BBC iPlayer, of Natwest Phone Banking, of Eon’s meter reader – developing all of these came out of money that could have been channelled away from a self-important minority and towards more generally useful ideas.

7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. It’s another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.

8) It’s not very well designed: Use the iPhone as a phone and it’s not got great reception, nor is it particularly comfortable to use for long periods. It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on – jack of two trades, but master of neither.

9) It charges for satnav: In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.

10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone’s ubiquity, there’d be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.


Totally agree with all points (apart form multi tasking cos i jailbroke). hell im a sucker to buy it to be honest, never been keen on the leaked pics of the 4g but dont want a HTC or blackberry thats made of bits and pieces which come apart....

Lol....get real

 

[Geckotek]

Lol....get real

You quoted that long a## post just to say that?

 

[Dammit Cubs]

You quoted that long a## post just to say that?

Yes

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

You quoted that long a## post just to say that?

You quoted that short a## post just to say that?

 

[Geckotek]

You quoted that short a## post just to say that?

no

 

[macfan881]

im not a PC fanboy if thats what youre getting at. Ive got a PC because Macs cant run the apps i need funnily enough....

christ this really has got a lot of u wound up hasnt it

have you heard of bootcamp?

 

[Kristenn]

Who is Justin Beeber?

Wow, fourteen year olds type like that? I'm ashamed to be fourteen. What does this person called Justin Beeber have to do with the iPhone or how well people's grammar should be on a message board?

According to the article posted at the top of the page, the rest of this topic is epic fail.

And if that was some sneaky way of trying to flame me it was also an epic fail.

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

Who is Justin Beeber?

Wow, fourteen year olds type like that? I'm ashamed to be fourteen. What does this person called Justin Beeber have to do with the iPhone or how well people's grammar should be on a message board?

According to the article posted at the top of the page, the rest of this topic is epic fail.

And if that was some sneaky way of trying to flame me it was also an epic fail.

Well we could start with "epic fail"

as for Justin Beeber, hes someone I rather call a name that I can't say on the boards......

for being a 14 year old girl I'm shocked you don't know who he is.

 

[Kristenn]

That's because his name is Justin Bieber. Not Justin Beeber. And yeah I know who he is. His music is horrible and he has ZERO talent.

My dad says he should start his career over after his balls drop. But I still don't think I will like him.

Do you have a problem with me or something? The guy spelled horribly (especially for being from the UK) and I told him I thought so... bluntly. Big deal ... just the interwebs, right?

Also. Just because I'm fourteen doesn't mean I need to avoid all common sense of the English Language.

 

[TheAppleGeek]

Guys, it's an article, not the OP speaking.

Hm. I disagree with the article. If he's going to have a list, he should've done some research first. Didn't he hear about OS 4.0?

 

[Geckotek]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)

That's because his name is Justin Bieber. Not Justin Beeber. And yeah I know who he is. His music is horrible and he has ZERO talent.

My dad says he should start his career over after his balls drop. But I still don't think I will like him.

Do you have a problem with me or something? The guy spelled horribly (especially for being from the UK) and I told him I thought so... bluntly. Big deal ... just the interwebs, right?

Also. Just because I'm fourteen doesn't mean I need to avoid all common sense of the English Language.

Well, one of the forum rules is to not pick on spelling and grammar. Just sayin....

 

[Kristenn]

And one of the forum rules is to have good grammar if you can help it. And the guy is from UK. If it's not his native language he has had plenty of time to learn it.

Just saying.

It's clear this topic left a bad enough taste in everyone's mouth without some person having to bring Justin Bieber into the picture.

 

[Hilmi Hamidi]

The article doesn't bothers me at all but the attitude of the OP really saddens me.
He pointlessly insult everyone that doesn't agree with him by calling them fanboy.
Here's some pointer, never ever said the word fanboy if you wanna make smart argument.

 

[KameronBriggs]

Not gunna lie, the new iPhone is pretty much the biggest eye sore ever. It looks like a suped up Samsung Eternity.

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

That's because his name is Justin Bieber. Not Justin Beeber. And yeah I know who he is. His music is horrible and he has ZERO talent.

My dad says he should start his career over after his balls drop. But I still don't think I will like him.

Do you have a problem with me or something? The guy spelled horribly (especially for being from the UK) and I told him I thought so... bluntly. Big deal ... just the interwebs, right?

Also. Just because I'm fourteen doesn't mean I need to avoid all common sense of the English Language.

You know ragging on peoples spelling errors does not make you look cool. Its quite stupid.

I don't care what his name is. He still sucks.

Your dad said "when his balls drop" ummmmm ok.

as for interwebs? what is this? 1999?

And one of the forum rules is to have good grammar if you can help it. And the guy is from UK. If it's not his native language he has had plenty of time to learn it.

Just saying.

It's clear this topic left a bad enough taste in everyone's mouth without some person having to bring Justin Bieber into the picture.

So your making fun of someone from the UK? Yeah they talk diferent, but no reason to make fun of them .

and do you have a problem with Justin? All girls your age have a crush on him.

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

Not gunna lie, the new iPhone is pretty much the biggest eye sore ever. It looks like a suped up Samsung Eternity.

...in your opinion. I happen to think it looks great.

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

Not gunna lie, the new iPhone is pretty much the biggest eye sore ever. It looks like a suped up Samsung Eternity.

Apple is done with having baby fat and found curves....

 

[WeegieMac]

Flash is not and never has been "most of the web" ...

 

[0309385]

This thread is now about hubert farnsworth

 

[Kristenn]

You know ragging on peoples spelling errors does not make you look cool. Its quite stupid.

I don't care what his name is. He still sucks.

Your dad said "when his balls drop" ummmmm ok.

as for interwebs? what is this? 1999?



So your making fun of someone from the UK? Yeah they talk diferent, but no reason to make fun of them .

and do you have a problem with Justin? All girls your age have a crush on him.

No. Where do you get the idea I'm making fun of "someone from the UK"?

Talk different? Yes, they do. But that isn't the point of my post. Him talking different has nothing to do with grammatical errors. By the way, didn't someone already post a link to a thread about using proper grammar? So why are you picking on me when it was already settled? Just drop it.

And I don't know ANYONE 14 who has a crush on Bieber. Save for maybe three. The ones I do know that have a crush on him are ten, eleven, twelve and maybe thirteen. Last I checked that isn't fourteen.

Apple's computers come with spellcheck and grammar checker system wide. I'm merely suggesting people USE it. And if he was texting it still isn't much of a excuse. If you want people to take you seriously you wont get there using slangs in place of full words and a bunch of grammar errors. It looks messy.

The topic was already laid to rest when the rules for proper grammar on starting disscussion threads was posted. That doesn't mean you can come here, start assuming I like Justin Bieber and putting words in my mouth because you disagree with me.

That doesn't make me look stupid at all. I can tell you that much.

ON TOPIC.

How does everyone think the glass back of the new iPhone would hold up? If it is really glass anyway. You would think that would be on the list of reasons not to buy the 4G iPhone.

 

[WeegieMac]

How does everyone think the glass back of the new iPhone would hold up? If it is really glass anyway. You would think that would be on the list of reasons not to buy the 4G iPhone.

I actually think the glass/ceramic back is a result of the complaints about iPhone scratches.

The aluminium "middle" looks like it protrudes a little all the way round as to replicate the look of the chrome bezel when looking at the phone straight on.

All the materials used seem to hint at this phone being somewhat more durable, and appears to hint back to the story that Apple retail stores will no longer stock screen protectors.

Apple don't want to give the impression their device is "fragile".

That's my take on the redesign.