Comments on: iPhone is Next-Gen? You got to be kidding me!

By: A very cute comment regarding my entry on the iPhone at Weikiat.NET

A very cute comment regarding my entry on the iPhone at Weikiat.NET — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:38 +0000

[...] Remember the entry about iPhone I wrote earlier last month? iPhone is Next-Gen? You got to be kidding me! [...]

By: K Kapilan

K Kapilan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:10:06 +0000

@ azmiyogi

Dude, the iPhone is coming out on the 22nd of August. SingTel has yet to release a price list.

@ Mr. Admin man

Sir, I have to tell you that YOU have failed to understand what the iPhone is really about. Apple has always been about simplicity. That is what the iPhone is as well. An intuitive phone that even a construction worker could use (no offence intended). That is how simple this phone was intended to be y Apple. However, due to the heavy price tag, this phone was not too readily available to the masses.

Next thing, the iPhone, being built for simplicity, DOES NOT require a secondary camera. Seriously, who the hell video calls? I am pretty sure as hell that I most certainly do not. It is a redundant feature that the Japanese suddenly thought up off.

Batteries, since when had ANY Apple product (besides MacBook and MacBook Pro) ever have swappable batteries? I am sure iPods don’t… like seriously, the don’t… yet they are the MOST POPULAR, BEST SELLING mp3 players in the industry!

So seriously, if you are such a Linux fan, I suggest you do not write such a biased opinion of the iPhone. You must have single handedly turned off like 200 potential buyers (who have never used an Apple product before) already.

By: azmiyogi

azmiyogi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:24:27 +0000

I just want to know how much is the iPhone 3G? Can’t be SGD299 right? can anyone tell me if it is confirmed out in the stores by September 2008? I need to know now..

By: "Tech?" "No, Phil." "I see."

"Tech?" "No, Phil." "I see." — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:45:40 +0000

[...] The failure of a mobile device (according to this source), the iPhone, has had its Apps store up for about three days now. Apple has put up about 500 applications on the first day, of which about a quarter of them are free apps, and I have already downloaded a few which I would find useful. The good thing about the iPhone is that it’ll share many similarities with OS X, and one of which is the community support which includes free and quality apps. [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:10:17 +0000

Seth,

Guess what, when iPhone first came out it cannot not send sms to multiple person. This was only fixed in Feb this year.

Currently, the 3G iPhone cannot receive mms, cannot forward messages to other people, cannot use for video conference (a key feature of having 3G) due to its lack of secondary camera. And unlike other phones, there is no way for you to swap in and out the rechargeable batteries. There is no way you can use this phone for extended period of time if you do not have your charger with you.

Sure, it calls, plays music, surfs the net, but it fails miserably as a phone. There is no flash support in its webbrowser, and it has limited audio related features such as EQ and what nots. And once its battery is flat, it is just a paper weight.

It does not play music well, does not surf the net well, does not act as a phone well. It is just a collection of pretty gimicky features with no real substance.

With Android, you get the same gimicky stuff with real substance. And you are no longer limited to one closed hardware (the iPhone.) And it is not for just geek and technophiles, unless you really consider the public to be still living in the stone age where computers was just conceived. Also, if you think of open source as something for the geek, think Firefox and OpenOffice.org.

By: 3rd Source » Blog Archive » iPhone is Next-Gen? You got to be kidding me!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:57:41 +0000

[...] iPhone is Next-Gen? You got to be kidding me! It has more features than iPhone, similar gesture powered interface that we all love, and because it is open source, anyone can modify it to their liking, and people need not break the law in order to install 3rd party (free!!!). … [...]

By: Ming Han

Ming Han — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:34:52 +0000

Your comparison is not very fair. Because of the way handsets are developed, there are actually platform-specific and even device-specific problems. This means it might be easier to develop for an iPhone compared to say a specific-Nokia phone running android. Anyway, there isn’t much ground for comparison between the features of an iPhone to an OS/Platform. If you want, you should compare Leopard to Android.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:23:01 +0000

I personally feel that it depends on how you define next-generation. I believe the iPhone is truly a next-generation phone that is leading the rest of the phone manufacturers in terms of how users interact with devices. Look at the number of touch-screen based phones popping all over since the iPhone. Sure, touch-based interfaces touch-screen handphones are nothing new, but Apple is very good at taking existing technologies and making it accessible.

You can say that Andriod is next-generation in terms of bringing what seems like a very powerful open-source mobile platform, and I’m not going to argue with that, but I believe that will not appeal to most but geeks who a super-smartphone.

The killer apps for iPhone are its media and web browsing abilities (a third will probably emerge with its gaming capabilities), and I think that’s pretty much aligned with most consumers’ wants. Of course, it’s not going to impress geeks and technophiles, but personally I prefer a phone that calls, plays music, surfs the net well, and I think the iPhone does all of that effortlessly. Anything beyond that is frivolous to me, and probably achievable with add-on apps anyway.