Someone else said the iPhone has outstanding technology.
To me it is an outstanding phone. I agree other SmartPhones do more but they are ugly, slow, with a useless User Interface and too many buttons to push or things to slide... Not to mention they are all thick as a brick.
As mentioned, the i780 fit the same slip-cases sold for the iPhone. That's hardly "thick as a brick".
The user interface on my i780 is certainly more complex than the one on the iPhone, but that extra complexity comes with a fully featured phone.
The iphone has one of the simplest, most elegant and fluid interfaces out there.
That's my point: It SO simplified that they had to remove features because the interface is so simple it's almost impossible to implement even the simplest of things while keeping the simplicity. Cut and paste, for one.
The iPhone has gestures and multi-touch, which the others are still trying to emulate.
Yes, but viewing phones as TOOLS, not TOYS, those things are less than productive. Plus having to navigate with your fingers
only limits the usage of that screen size.
2 years ago there were lots of touch screen Smart Phones from Sony and Nokia, and they were $800 to $1000 so nobody was buying them.
Are you trying to back up your "suggestion" that I should toss my i780? Seriously? And go with a portable video viewer that wouldn't be half as cabaple as a tool?
Since the iPhone, not only all the competitors are trying to copy it, but they are failing too. Nokia has a new N-Series Smart Phone. Nice, but $699 and it's still thick as hell. Sony is out of the picture with their P-Series and even the sorry BlackBerry is trying to be an iPhone now.
The thickness-debate is ridiculous. I am talking about "outstanding technologies" and "tool vs. toy", you keep trying to make this a debate about looks and thickness. Apparently it's all about looking "cool", with no thought given to how things actually work.
Secondly, you're appealing to popularity. You know, the McDonald's argument: Many people eat at McDonald's, thus is must be better than a five star restaurant.
Outstanding is what Apple did in just 16 months. Revolutionize the phone AND smart phone markets, thus creating a new kind of platform.
Actually, the only "outstanding" in that is the marketing and how many sheep bit.
I was asking people to back up their "outstanding
technologies"-claim, not whether they succeded getting popular. By your argument, Windows is the end-all of all OS'es, just like IE is the best browser ever, and was even more perfect five-ten years ago.
Everytime I see someone with an iPod Touch, a crappy flip phone and a digital camera I feel sorry for them. They can easily get a $199 iPhone and forget about the other stuff...
LOL, you "feel sorry" for someone who uses a stand-alone camera? Are you serious? You feel sorry for people who like to have a stand-alone music player where playing music doesn't subtract from talk-time and vice versa? Are you effing kidding me?
Your i780 is twice as expensive as the iPhone and it has a smaller screen, a keyboard that unless you are 2 years old, your fingers are too big to use and also the ugliness factor.
Yet another thing where you speak of something you don't know anything about:
You obviously haven't checked prices. I bought it very cheaply – it's more expensive in Denmark than the US, but I bought it for the equivalent of US$300. That's without the sim locked and without a plan. That's hardly "twice" the price. In fact, in the end it's MUCH cheaper than what people pay for your toy.
Secondly, the keyboard does seem a little small at first – especially from the looks. I was very worried to begin with that it would be too smal, but the reality is that within a day I had no problems hitting the right keys first time – you can feel them. For the record, I'm 6'1" tall and have rather big hands.
It looks just like any other smart phone out there, generic and boring
Wha? You mean the iPhone is "unique"? Seriously, you like to quote sales figures. Think about it. I have to say though, your endless focus on looks, looks, thinness, looks, looks, thinness, and looks really says a lot.
and none of the companies out there are making any accessories for it cause it's a phone that will be discontinued in 3 months... Just because it is not OUTSTANDING enough.
Hmm, what "accessories" do I need for my phone (which, btw, have been out for almost a year and it's still selling – you REALLY should do your research, before you mouth off) I use as a TOOL?
I have some memory cards (very important), a screen protector, a headphone/line-out adaptor and a sleeve. Are you saying that because I can't buy accessories such as docks and whatnot it's somehow inferior? You really should consider the points I have made about "tool vs. toy".
Cheerio
Yes, we know – even if takes defending blindly. We wouldn't want that vacuum to be broken, now would we?
Besides it probley has edge so maybe 15-20 bucks for data via att!
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