The iPhone

[Messiah]

Is there a 'gadget' that is better than this!!

I have had this for a couple of days now and it is just simply brilliant!! Everything works a dream and it is so easy to use.

How do the rest of the industry compete against this????

 

[Anonymous]

To be honest they're gonna be hard to beat for a while. Apple are investing huge amounts of money in 'mobile' technology and they are already leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, did you see that Nokia attempt recently, bah. The open source Google phone was interesting for a while until Apple also released an open source scheme allowing developers to build software for it.

Apple has basically wowed the phone world with a gorgeous, intuitive and working(!) touch screen interface that doesn't need a stylus but they do have their problems of which other, cheaper phones are better at dealing with.

 

[Juzzie Wuzzie]

iPhone is a wonderful piece of kit - I still, however, went for a Blackberry Curve 8900 as it has a keyboard; a better camera; GPS for driving. That said, kind of jealous of the g/f's iPhone!

 

[Anonymous]

I have used a "Crack"berry but prefer the iPhone's keyboard. And it does have GPS with Google Maps for driving etc, not as good as SatNav but it is built in to the iPhone. The camera is not important to me as I have enough cameras as it is. What irritates me about the iPhone is that I cannot foward texts or send multimedia messages (ie pictures via text), plus I cannot copy and paste text from one application to the other.

BUT being able to control my iTunes wirelessly with the Remote Application is cool and I can overlook the minor irritations.

 

[Andy Clough]

I'm stuck on corporate Vodafone, so sadly no iPhone for me! Have to look on jealously as my friends show off theirs.

 

[Juzzie Wuzzie]

For those of you that are interested, the iPhone v. Blackberry debate rages at my institution, with views being divided on what is best. Ironically, we are ALL PC users at work, Mac users at home, but that has little influence on the choice of phone. Most iPhone "sellers" were due to the lack of a keyboard, and the irritations AKL describes. "Buyers" liked the integration with the rest of their Apple products, and the fact that it wasn't a Blackberry (which we are issued for work). Purely asthetically, I think the iPhone is "cooler" but perhaps "too cool" - but then it doesn't look good carrying two Blackberrys with you - especially if you are near a dog called "Pablo".

 

[Anonymous]

The thing the irks me the most about the iPhone is the lack of a keyboard, honestly. I don't feel like touchscreens are revolutionary at all. Sue they make browsing the web easier, but for the rest its only about the 'wow' factor.

If I have to type an e-mail or a sms counting more than 5 words I'd take a nice keyboard over a touchscreen any day.

Yeah. I know. Onscreen keyboard DO work. But they don't work nearly as fast as a keypad, and most of all they don't work without actively staring at the screen.

And the battery life of the iPhone doens't win any prices.

Shame there's no other phone with similar sound quality, although Sony Ericsson sometimes comes close...