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iPhone 3G, the “supposedly” latest and greatest handhled, just continues to amaze me, with its ridiculousness of course. I mean first they dare to call a machine a smartphone that can’t run more than one app a time, need you to send the unit back even for a battery change, fix the glaring mistakes of its predecessor and call them “features” and make you believe that you are getting it all for cheap while covertly telling you that you need a minimum of 2 year 70$ contract to get it and need to pay through every hole for even software updates. And then they don’t stop this, just out is the information that you can’t tether the “data transfer powerhouse” to your laptops/PCs/Macs.
HSDPA/HSUPA my a**. I mean what good is a “3G” device that doesn’t even let you use the potential of the hyper-speeds by connecting to your bigger machines or even doing video calls. Oh right, I forgot, now you can check your e-mail at 50 messages per minute, WOOHOO!!, I’m so l33t.
So far the only good things I’ve noticed about the new release are:The MobileMe aka “sync-with-anything-anywhere” service, which although paid (obviously, its Apple we are talking about here), is still interesting. And the new SDK 2.0 that promises the 3rd party devs the same access to the phone as Apple’s devs, seems to be a step in the right direction though it remains to be seen how much of this is actually followed up on by Apple.
So, what do you feel is THE revolutionary thing about this new Cupertino offering? And of course, chime in with your gripes as well.
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June 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Dude,
1. The iPhone is by Apple & AT&T not the IRS.
2. You don’t have to buy it if you don’t want to.
3. Read 1 and 2 again and by another product.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
enough:
1. Where did I mention the IRS?
2. I’m not going to buy it.
3. If we take the approach as suggested by you to any product on the market, well ,I guess then we should pretty well shut down each and every review site/gadget blog/forum on this planet. Public Expression of opinion should be outlawed. All people on this earth should be tagged and sorted into two columns “buyers” and “non-buyers”.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Wow this was already posted!
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Vodafone and Airtel already started pre register stuff.. what are they going to do with the 3G phone on their 2G network ?
I am not going to buy it
it looks good, and ipod is a good thing … I will buy an iPod instead of this crap 
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Actually the pre-register thing is also a way to earn money as all one has to do is just send an sms costing 3 rupees with no obligation to buy later on. Thousands (lakhs?) of people will sms in, airtel/vodafone rope in lots of free money, and with so many people pre-registering, will there be enough units to give out?