I got myself this year in January a brand new iPhone 3GS 32GB and sorry but I don't understand why people is still buying apple iPhone or iPad: basically it doesn't do what a mobile phone must do.
What? Call people? It calls people fine. It gets me on the internet fine (certainly easier than any previous phone I had. Admittedly none smart phones but at least one capable of browsing limited mobile sites).
Plays most games fine.
Gives me maps and directions to places fine. Gives me directions to places I find on the internet fine. Tells me where movies are playing near me at what times or what restaurants are near me fine.
Oh wait, it's already doing more than what a *phone* should do.
Could be that in Japan we have the most technologically advanced mobiles in the world but to me
That could be, I hear other countries are far more advanced in what their cellphones do (I know taking pictures with your phone was common place in Japan when in the US it was a very novel idea).
a mobile with a no removable battery
Battery lasts long enough doesn't need it and honestly it's a good trade for it being less bulky. Back when I had an Ipaq 4700 I made fun of the fact Apple didn't like removable batteries. But honestly, I haven't really come across it being that much of an issue, save on 5 hour flights (which I bought a plug in battery thingy for it). And honestly, on my iPaq, it was kind of a pain to make sure I was using both batteries in a way not to kill one cause I never used it just to have that spare every now and then. It's why I haven't bought a spare battery for my laptop for the very few times I'd use it. I would have to spend way too much effort to maintain that battery for the very few times I'd need it.
I have decided Apple is right to focus more on longer life batteries rather than replaceable batteries.
, no possibilities to change a desktop wallpaper,
Apparently being fixed in 4.0 and you can still customize the home screen even before 4.0. And really, Apple is right that a black background is much better with no clutter. though admittedly I'd like to customize the wallpaper (though part of me realizes the phone would be more usable with a simple, non intrusive color).
not even the possibilities to use a song as ringtone
That is simply untrue. You only say that cause you don't know how to add them. Honestly, my iphone has been easier to add customized ringtones (from any non-itunes song) than any of my previous phones (one which I had to download software and it only seemed to work on some of my songs and they ahd to be the right format before it would even work with them). I have quite the library of songs as ringtones.
Look it up sometime. It involves using itunes but yes, you can very easily add your own ringtones to it (for free if they aren't songs you bought off of itunes. With a fee if they are).
And iPad is bigger ... geez iPhone is already big and iPad is more bigger?
Iphone is that big? It fits better in my purse than my old Nokia.
As for iPad, I don't really see the use of it myeslf having a laptop and the iphone. For anything i'd actually take something as big as the iPad for I'd just take my laptop (might as well if I have to actually carry something other than my purse around) and for being portable everywhere I go, the iphone is a great compromise between very portable, and still pretty useful. Shoot, the GPS makes the iphone super useful (honestly, if you ask me, that's the one feature that really makes the phone very useful to me).
The ipad looks good and if it were cheaper I could see maybe buying the ipad for an ebook reader (the ebook function works very smoothly and looks nice... I played with it some and it's hard to quantify, but it is very impressive) even though my iphone suffices for that (the ipad would not add too much bulk on plane trips while being nicer to read off of). But since that's really the only use *I* would have for an ipad, not worth the price. Though my roommate says his dad would buy it in a heartbeat (his dad is a private pilot and apparently there is at least one program that would make the ipad super useful for a pilot. I, not being a pilot, can't really elaborate more than that).
Pffft. I've dropped my iphone a whole ton of times on hard floors. It's almost two years old now (my contract is almost up is how i know) and it's got an inch crack on the back that recently showed up on it. still works fine. My ipaq could not say that (it got dropped admittedly from pretty high up but it was in my purse so had some padding. It broke and had to be repaired).
I've heard of some one who was an idiot and thought that putting it in a ziploc bag would protect it while he went jetskiing with it. It got wet. The screen got messed up. The phone still worked regardless.
I don't think I'd call the things fragile. More durable than I'd expect a smartphone to be.
