Read this before you by an iphone - features you might miss in real live

[skubish]

I am an Apple user since 14 years and was awaiting my new iPhone for 5 weeks - now having it in hand since three days I consider it not really Apple-like in some points. I am quite disappointed and wonder how Apple can bring out this hyped phone as a smart phone that cant do the following features that are standard on competing phones from Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, and ohers:

My biggest disappointment: even when using Ical on your Mac you cant sync your to-do list from ical on your mac to the iphone
Your daily time schedule is not shown on your scree saver life with the Nokia N90
You cant store sent or received sms messages in differnet folders like "draft" or "stored", and you cant sent a draft to several people- every cheap phone has that feature
The battery is way below standard operating times - my old Sony Ericsson W810 gave me battery power for 4 days - my i phone is empty after one
Its not possible to make little movies with the camera
You cant send pictures added to an sms (mms)

There are some points I really like: the screen is great, the routplanner works fine, and the browser is good and fast - but who need a GPS in daily live on his cellphone?

I wrote all that in a feedback to Apple, and hope they will improve the software, so the iphone will really become a full featured smart phone that comes up with Appels standards.
Christian

Nice try but I have to give it a fail

MobileMe will sync your todos.
There is an app to save your SMS. http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=190
Battery life-better than many smartphones.
Video-its a phone not a camcorder
Schedule on home screen-the iphone is for people who don't need a schedule. And don't say its needed for business. Going from one pointless meeting to another is not business.

 

[DreamPod]

a bare-bones web experience

Bare-bones, hah. Nobody in their right mind who has used ANY other cell phone to browse the web would call it bare-bones. Other phones have small, super-low res screens, crappy web browsers, often crappy cursor controls, etc. There is only one mobile web browser as good as the iPhone's Safari, and that's Opera. Sure, Opera is slightly better, but Safari and Opera are so much better than anything else, you just can't call it "bare bones".

"GPS, oh yeah, it does that!" (just as long as you're not out in the country, or cell tower range. ...where you would actually use GPS.)

Um, huh? This tells me you do not know anything about what you speak. GPS is handled by satellites, not cell towers. You do not need a cell signal at all to find your exact location on the iPhone.

 

[NeoMayhem]

Um, huh? This tells me you do not know anything about what you speak. GPS is handled by satellites, not cell towers. You do not need a cell signal at all to find your exact location on the iPhone.

You do now, in order to download the maps. But once the real GPS apps come out, you will be right.

 

[ucfgrad93]

MobileMe will sync your todos.
Schedule on home screen-the iphone is for people who don't need a schedule. And don't say its needed for business. Going from one pointless meeting to another is not business.

How does MobileMe sync todos? I haven't been able to do that, so please provide some help with that.

I need a schedule in my phone. I have meetings to attend, Master courses to work on, a high school senior to keep track of, and an 8 year old boy as well. Just because you don't need a schedule doesn't mean its irrelevant for everyone.

 

[daihard]

I need a schedule in my phone. I have meetings to attend, Master courses to work on, a high school senior to keep track of, and an 8 year old boy as well. Just because you don't need a schedule doesn't mean its irrelevant for everyone.

I love my iPhone 3G, but I do wish their calendar application were more feature-rich. The biggest missing piece for me is that you can't invite attendees to an event. This is a huge problem when scheduling meetings. It's great that you can now sync with Exchange, but it's only half-baked until that feature is added... IMO.

 

[DreamPod]

You do now, in order to download the maps. But once the real GPS apps come out, you will be right.

To use GoogleMaps, sure. But the OP wasn't talking about Google Maps, he was talking about GPS, and GPS doesn't require internet connection, and is used for a lot more than just mapping - for example, geotagging your photos, you can do that anywhere without a data connection. Heck, you could be in an area with data connection, startup Google Maps, and as long as you don't zoom in too much, leave the data area and GPS will be fine in showing where you are.

 

[pbrstreetgang]

I am an Apple user since 14 years and was awaiting my new iPhone for 5 weeks - now having it in hand since three days I consider it not really Apple-like in some points. I am quite disappointed and wonder how Apple can bring out this hyped phone as a smart phone that cant do the following features that are standard on competing phones from Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, and ohers:

My biggest disappointment: even when using Ical on your Mac you cant sync your to-do list from ical on your mac to the iphone
Your daily time schedule is not shown on your scree saver life with the Nokia N90
You cant store sent or received sms messages in differnet folders like "draft" or "stored", and you cant sent a draft to several people- every cheap phone has that feature
The battery is way below standard operating times - my old Sony Ericsson W810 gave me battery power for 4 days - my i phone is empty after one
Its not possible to make little movies with the camera
You cant send pictures added to an sms (mms)

There are some points I really like: the screen is great, the routplanner works fine, and the browser is good and fast - but who need a GPS in daily live on his cellphone?

I wrote all that in a feedback to Apple, and hope they will improve the software, so the iphone will really become a full featured smart phone that comes up with Appels standards.
Christian

Yup it's a piece of rubbish, it couldn't even teach you spelling and grammar!! Honestly, school should be a priority before children get a cell phone, back in my day................................!!!!