same thing bro, same thing
Money is too tight, only a moron would buy something without reaching it!!
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Money is too tight, only a moron would buy something without reaching it!!
it's not just that, but I want the best and the most for my money...wich is Apple ( to keep the topic
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I have Push, 3G, Location Services and Wi-Fi on all the time. In one day, I make a few calls, I get and send some texts, I get A LOT of emails, browse for a bit and listen to the iPod for at least 3 hours. My battery lasts between a day and a half and two days. If I let it sit, without using it it lasts for at least a week.
Yup. This is pretty much it.
I dunno if some people around here have broken phones, are unaware of their usage, lying or just flat out trolling - but I'm not an iPhone sales guy. I don't need to "convince" anyone here that the iPhone works (and works well).
If you need some specific feature the iPhone doesn't have - what do you want any of us to say?
Let's compare blackberry shall we?
Blackberry first came out in the late 90's. Guess what it didn't even have phone capabilities. Phone capabilites weren't introduced until 2002, even then you had to use a separate headset to use it as a phone. Guess how many models they had in that period of time?
Guess again, 6 models.
It wasn't until another two models later that the phone capabilities that were "built" in as Blackberry called it at the time. Now surely cell phones existed back then, I know I was paying a monthly fee for something, it had to be for a cell phone.
Let's look at something else, it took BB 20 models to finally include bluetooth. Guess what else, it took them 19 models to offer a color display. better yet it took them 3 models to offer the ability to READ attachments! These were all things that were offered at the preceeding the time these BB models were released by other phones.
It took BB 22 models to include EVDO access and even then it was only available on 1 model; it wasn't until an additional 10 models were released that EVDO became commonplace.
Let's look at how long it took them to add 3G, how long has it been around now? BB didn't offer 3G until AFTER the second iPhone came out with 3G.
I think Apple is doing pretty good. yes there are features I want that are not currently available, guess what that's how life works. If you think you can do better, start your own company and give it a try.
Blackberry first came out in the late 90's. Guess what it didn't even have phone capabilities. Phone capabilites weren't introduced until 2002, even then you had to use a separate headset to use it as a phone. Guess how many models they had in that period of time?
Guess again, 6 models.
It wasn't until another two models later that the phone capabilities that were "built" in as Blackberry called it at the time. Now surely cell phones existed back then, I know I was paying a monthly fee for something, it had to be for a cell phone.
Let's look at something else, it took BB 20 models to finally include bluetooth. Guess what else, it took them 19 models to offer a color display. better yet it took them 3 models to offer the ability to READ attachments! These were all things that were offered at the preceeding the time these BB models were released by other phones.
It took BB 22 models to include EVDO access and even then it was only available on 1 model; it wasn't until an additional 10 models were released that EVDO became commonplace.
Let's look at how long it took them to add 3G, how long has it been around now? BB didn't offer 3G until AFTER the second iPhone came out with 3G.
I think Apple is doing pretty good. yes there are features I want that are not currently available, guess what that's how life works. If you think you can do better, start your own company and give it a try.
Same here, I can get 2 days of use out of phone without charging, depends how you use it.
wow....
so you knew the limitations of this thing...... "waited in line for 10 hours to shell out $500"..... and then proceeded to bitch that it didn't have the features that YOU ALREADY KNEW IT DIDNT HAVE. AND THEN YOU WHEN OUT AND BOUGHT THE 3G IPHONE TOO........
here's a basic scenario of you at best buy...
you: hi, i want to buy something that plays blu-ray
employee: ok well let me take you to our blu-ray players
you: but i dont want to buy a blu-ray player... i want to buy a dvd player that plays blu-ray
employee: ummmmmm thats impossible sir
you: i dont care, im buying the dvd player
1 week later you're back at best buy
you: why the hell wont this thing play blu-ray? this is insane!
employee: sir, i told you right to your face it would not play blu-ray but you bought it anyways.... i dont know what to tell you
you: ok..... this is what's going to happen. first, you're going to give me $100 out of your pocket for the dvd player i bought. and then i'm going to buy another dvd player.... and this time it's going to play blu-ray!!!!!!
and i still can't believe that people are complaining about the original price drop and the $100 that apple sent you. 99% of companies on earth would NEVER do anything like this. i actually thought it was absolutely absurd that apple gave us anything at all. do you think that if dell, or hp, or sony, or compaq, or IBM, or acer, or any other company on the face of the earth released some computer for $700 and then dropped the price down to $550 a month later they'd send everyone who bought it for $700 a $100 check in the mail?
so you knew the limitations of this thing...... "waited in line for 10 hours to shell out $500"..... and then proceeded to bitch that it didn't have the features that YOU ALREADY KNEW IT DIDNT HAVE. AND THEN YOU WHEN OUT AND BOUGHT THE 3G IPHONE TOO........
here's a basic scenario of you at best buy...
you: hi, i want to buy something that plays blu-ray
employee: ok well let me take you to our blu-ray players
you: but i dont want to buy a blu-ray player... i want to buy a dvd player that plays blu-ray
employee: ummmmmm thats impossible sir
you: i dont care, im buying the dvd player
1 week later you're back at best buy
you: why the hell wont this thing play blu-ray? this is insane!
employee: sir, i told you right to your face it would not play blu-ray but you bought it anyways.... i dont know what to tell you
you: ok..... this is what's going to happen. first, you're going to give me $100 out of your pocket for the dvd player i bought. and then i'm going to buy another dvd player.... and this time it's going to play blu-ray!!!!!!
and i still can't believe that people are complaining about the original price drop and the $100 that apple sent you. 99% of companies on earth would NEVER do anything like this. i actually thought it was absolutely absurd that apple gave us anything at all. do you think that if dell, or hp, or sony, or compaq, or IBM, or acer, or any other company on the face of the earth released some computer for $700 and then dropped the price down to $550 a month later they'd send everyone who bought it for $700 a $100 check in the mail?
Ok, so based on what you just wrote about the evolution of the BB, it took them quite a long time to introduce all of these features into a phone. I'm not going to argue there. However, don't you think a company that introduces all of this top-of-the-line, never-seen-before technology into a phone would be able to include those features that have been around for so long?
Let's just take the landscape keyboard for example. Forget about everything else I mentioned. How can you explain that the phone can do it while browsing web pages in Safari but cannot do it in an email/text message? Ok, maybe they forgot to incorporate that. But do you honestly believe it took Apple two years to figure that out and release a "software update" for it? Which, keep in mind, has not been released yet.
Yes, I knew what the iPhone lacked when I bought it. And to be honest at the time I really didn't think it mattered too much. After I found out I was wrong I went back to the Blackberry. Then, I realized how much I missed some of the features on the iPhone, so I bought the 3G. I still knew it didn't have the features I listed. What really made me angry though is how Apple releases these features. They do it to create hype about their product. They bring simple features like MMS two years later so that people will have something to talk about. Not because they couldn't figure out how to do this two years ago. I can't believe no one sees a problem that they can figure out how to landscape the keyboard on a website but not in an email. Really, two years to figure that one out? I don't think so.
Let's just stop arguing. People have their own preferences.
They're all great devices but this argument is getting nowhere.
One is entertainment and the other is productivity.
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They're all great devices but this argument is getting nowhere.
One is entertainment and the other is productivity.
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I agree with you. I remember before 2.0 you could not delete multiple emails at the same time, you had to swipe and delete them one by one. When Jobs announced 2.0 he proudly said "delete multiple emails", an the apple crowd cheered as if he said "you are all millionaires". Morons. Apple intentionally leave out some features initially and then add them later so some people will praise them for it, plus they will make a killing off ipod touch owners who have to pay to upgrade.
When it comes to landscape, I'm sure they could have from the beginning, why don't you take a trip down to 1 infinite loop and ask them yourself. If you READ my post to COMPREHEND what I'm typing on this forum you would have noticed that I typed there were features I wanted that weren't yet available. You know what, I knew that when I bought my iPhone, so I won't complain on a forum when something I want isn't already included.
Let's go back and COMPREHEND my post - BB did NOT include features that were standard on phones at the time of their models releases!
I'll be the first one to agree the iPhone IS NOT perfect! Like I said a few lines up, I knew that when I bought. I send my feedback in to Apple and hope it's included in the next release. I've done that since the day I bought it and I'll continue to do it until I finally get my front-facing camera for video chat!
I wonder why Apple didn't do landscape for texting. Very few smart phones have it, and it makes you wonder if Apple saw the other smart phones with "portrait" mode for texting (and other typing) they might have thought they didn't need it or people didn't want it.
This is just an idea. I thought I would hate portrait texting, but I find it easy and I can also text with one hand very easy if I want.
Originally, when I heard the iPhone had a landscape keyboard, I thought it was a great idea, and I wondered why they didn't implement it for email and text. But after using the portrait keyboard for a while because I had to, I find I've gotten used to it, and find the spacing on the landscape keyboard awkward. When landscape email apps came out, I tried a few of them but I found myself almost never using landscape mode. Right now I'm at the point where I use landscape mode to read, and go back to portrait for typing. But I'm sure some people would prefer the landscape keyboard, so it's good that Apple is expanding the option.
Agreed, I find myself reaching to far for letters, and it cramps up my hand.
While I just glide across the screen easily in portrait.
Love My I phone but will be glad when the update comes out this summer it has texting in landscape and you can download it for free!!
You can check this out at www.apple.com
You can check this out at www.apple.com
Same. Even when I'm surfing in landscape, I rotate to portrait before pulling up the keyboard.
Almost any phone has e-mail capability, but people don't want to pay for a data plan unless they have to. If they already text, MMS is included on their plan, so it wouldn't cost extra.
Not really, no. I cannot stand the fact that the iPhone does not have a spell check. You can say, "Wait, it auto corrects and auto predicts" but that's just a bunch of bull. I hate the word "definitely" -- with a passion. And often times, I find myself accidently spelling it "d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y", which, on my Mac, triggers spell check to suggest, "definitely".
What does the iPhone do? Nothing. Just sits there. I'd send off stuff with misspelled words and I'd never know it. I've started using EasyWriter to send my emails because it allows me to spell check before sending, not to mention type in landscape (although that'll be fixed soon enough).
But I want SPELL CHECK. FULL, COMPLETE SPELL CHECK.