RIGHT NOW, iPhone Review on the GADGET SHOW

[MrT8064]

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]

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]

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

Doug

 

[TurboSC]

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

 

[Sedulous]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

I'd like that too.

 

[alFR]

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...

Actually, call quality, wifi speed and browsing on mine are all fine. Maybe yours is faulty?

 

[Oh-es-Ten]

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?