Yeah, and the E71 has a tiny little screen and no touchscreen. Having fun watching movies on that thing.
I do actually. Yeah, it's smaller than the iPhone's screen, but the fact that I can fit a couple seasons of each show that I like on cheap little microSD cards makes up for it. Removable storage hath its perks.
No amount of "hackery" is going to allow you to play 3D or accelerometer based games on it.
I don't buy mobile phones on the basis of what games they can play, although I'm sure some people do.
Oh, and good luck replicating the usefulness, simplicity, and variety of the 15,000 apps on the app store.
I can already fart, so there go close to 100 apps...
Seriously though, it should be pretty easy, given that Symbian's got about the same number of apps. I've not yet found any applications (aside from games) that don't have equivalents on the E71.
3G you mentioned, but he's not getting a data plan either way, so meh.
Indeed. It might be useful in the future, or if he travels, etc.
GPS may or may not be useful. I have a real GPS in my car and the cell tower triangulation on the iphone 2G is pretty darn good for locating myself if I'm just walking around.
It's not triangulation. The iPhone can't do that. It will use Skyhook's database to guess your position based on what towers and APs it can associate with -- but the accuracy of that varies wildly depending on where you are. In my current location, the iPhone's estimate puts me 30+ miles away, across a very large body of water (which, needless to say, is completely useless for navigation.) YMMV though.
Bluetooth syncing is not something I've ever wished I could do... ever.
It's not a killer app, no, but it's a nice convenience. I can leave my phone in my pocket, and all I have to do to sync is to select "Sync Now" from the sync menu on the menu bar. I'm pretty thrilled I don't have to screw with iTunes, actually, as I don't use it for playing music.
Look, I'm not knocking your choice. You love your Nokia - good for you. But you're acting like someone would have to be a fool to choose an iphone 2G over the E71 and deliberately ignoring the many, many advantages the iphone has.
The only major advantages of the iPhone are a large number of games (and some damn sexy 3D capabilities), a larger touch screen, and a nice design. The iPhone's not a bad phone, but I'd have a hard time justifying it given the cost and the amount of work I'd have to put into it to get a comparable feature set. Yes, with jailbreaking and a bit of work it can do most of the things that the E71 can do. But there's not that much that it can do that the E71 can't -- and given the sacrifices I'd have to make, the promise of some games and a bigger screen just doesn't seem that appealing.
The E71 sounds like a fine phone that has some advantages, but it's certainly nothing I'd run out to replace my iphone 2G with.
I agree. If you've already got a 2G, keep it. It's a fine phone in its own right. But if you're in the market for a new phone, the E71 is, in my mind, a smarter buy.
