Using an iPhone as a phone?

[unagimiyagi]

I feel the voice/speaker quality is the best of any phone, even the HTC boomsound phones. Quality is not the same thing as pure volume.

 

[rabbitjetta]

VoLTE is pretty impressive on my 6. I love the feature and its as good as Cisco Jabber or my Desk VoIP phone.

 

[tigress666]

As if the 6 is some hulkingly huge thing. I mean, really. Have you even held one in your hand? It's barely bigger than the 5. No one is forcing you to buy a 6 Plus. No one is even forcing you to buy the diminutive 6. Ultimately it's your money and there ARE other choices out there, so what exactly is it that you hope to accomplish by coming here and ranting about how much you hate Apple?

Yeah, actually tye 6 is too big for some. I'm torn right now cause I do like the new features like the thumbprint reader and NFC. But I really like using my phone with one hand and also for reading in bed and it cramps my hand to hold it for long. I miss my 5 cause of this (it also doesn't fit in pockets as well). I want the new features but I can't decide if it is worth the fact it is uncomfortable to use where I use it the longest amount of time. And the bigger screen space really isn't that big of a perk to make up for the fact it is uncomfortable for my hand. I've gone from a bigger screen to a smaller when I moved from my ipaq to my first iPhone (3g) and you get used to it pretty quick. Barely even noticed.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I feel the voice/speaker quality is the best of any phone, even the HTC boomsound phones. Quality is not the same thing as pure volume.

Have to disagree with this. The sound from my HTC One blows away any iPhone.

 

[Learylvr.]

I'm a Gen Xer as well, but some of your complaints sound as if they are coming from a 80 year old man. Lol I'm in my 40s and my elderly parents seem to have a better grip on what the Iphone offers. I understand you have call quality issues, that's a nightmare. I'm not waking around watching skateboard videos. I am making clear calls, reading the news and using my phone as a computer when I'm out of the house. The iPhone 4, is dated technology. My son loves his 4 and still uses it. I suggested my parents get a jitterbug flip phone, they were mortified. Lol why would we want that ?? They have IPhones . Maybe you should consider upgrading your 4? Try any type of phone you want, if your not happy, return it before your 14 day return period is up. There is no reason to walk around with a phone that has awful call quality , because your right, the most important thing they do is make calls..

 

[surripere]

The call sound quality on the 6 over LTE is dramatically better than the call sound quality on my old 4s, for me. I usually have issues hearing properly on cell calls, and that has not been the case with the 6.

 

[ratbrain]

OP,

iphone 4/4S does suck as a phone.

When i had 4/4s, i used blackberry tour for work and that phone blew iphone 4 away when comparing "phone" quality.

However, 5/5s generation is a significant improvement. with HD voice as well as the volume of the speaker.

suggest you look for used 5/5s and you will notice a significant improvement in phone quality from 4/4s.

good luck

 

[Zetaprime]

I swear I'm not trolling.



I have an iPhone 4. It's a great little pocket computer, but it has ALWAYS sucked as a phone.



Whenever I get calls from people on iPhones, I know they have an iPhone, because I can't hear them. I almost always ask, "Do you have your earbuds? Sorry, I can't make out half of what you're saying."



I can't make calls on my iPhone without the earbuds - with the exception of putting it in "speakerphone" mode.



Anyway, my experience has been that they're just terrible phones.



I got my iPhone 4 when they were "cool" - but after getting over my addiction to Angry Birds, I only use the "i" part of the Phone to check email and text. And I now have an aftermarket BT stereo in my Jeep, so I use iTunes in my Jeep.



I'm GenX - I really just don't have any use for an iPhone.



Does anyone know if it's possible to buy a good mobile phone that works as a phone and just use the same "number" on an iPad?



I do like my iPad and would upgrade to the new iPad released today if I could share the "number" with my iPhone 4 or possibly just get a phone that works really well as a PHONE for talking to people.

It's fine as a phone. For me it's my only phone and it serves just fine.

 

[mmomega]

Well Apple is running out of crap to do apparently.

Maybe the next iPhones might actually focus on making "calls" an enhanced feature?

I preferred it when Apple was the scrappy innovator.

All Tim Cooke and Jony Ives seem to be able to do is say "Amazing" over and over again as they introduce features that are just stupid.

1) Siri. I've been able to talk to my Mac forever. I never have, never will. I'm sure as hell not talking to my Phone.

2) Fingerprint sensor. Yes, now you can protect your extremely over-priced phone and all of your sensitive data with fingerprint protection.

3) ApplePay. Hey, you don't have a job - so we realize how bothersome it must be to swipe a credit card to pay for crap. We've made your life so much simpler.

4) Slow Motion Capture. Yes, now you can upload all of those cool skateboarding tricks to YouTube, for those of you who skateboard, which is who exactly?

My iPhone 4 has a retina display and an HD camera. THAT was a bad ass innovative phone.

At this point, they're reduced to phablets? Seriously?

So why is being a phablet a bad thing?

You said it correct earlier on though, the iPhone is more of a mobile computer you keep in your pocket.

The bullet points you made; I'm not sure where all of those are bad.
I use Siri daily to call people hands free while driving. Using Siri to text is easier once you get in the habit of doing it, like with most other things.

The fingerprint sensor is a convenient feature, I don't use the default 4 digit numerical passcode so I prefer this to typing it in each time.

ApplePay, the I don't have a job comment I didn't understand but if I can save some steps in between opening my wallet, finding the CC I want to use, swiping it, entering a PIN or signing then how is that a bad thing.

Now I don't skateboard or upload to youtube but that doesn't make it not useful to everyone else.

Why is change so bad?