Comments on: Review: iPhone 3G Hardware

By: MB

MB — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:34:20 +0000

If I already have a tilt and a ipod there is no reason to get the iphone. It is a waste of money. I do not need my music and phone combined into one the battery will get toasted.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:13:01 +0000

The thing that really disappoints me about the iphone is that the developers have not really taken advantage of multi-touch. I mean, the iphone/ipod_touch are really the only devices out there with multiple touch interfaces, I want to see some absolutely killer apps taking advantage of this.

By: Brian Hughes

Brian Hughes — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:52:00 +0000

The iPhone is an interesting device… I’m not totally sold on it though. The app store has almost nazi-like restrictions on what can be put on there, and I don’t know if I would be able to adapt to a flat screen for texting and such…

By: Tashanna

Tashanna — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:23:40 +0000

I would love to have one of these as a side phone.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:21:06 +0000

I agree with the website issues too. Combine that with the lack of multi-media texting (Can’t send/recieve pictures via text) and Apple has some explainin’ to do. I like mine but certainly keeping an eye on the competition because others are getting better and better. Either Iphone is going to fix these media issues or somebody else is going to take over as King of the Hill.

By: BT

BT — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:44:53 +0000

Totally agreed Ben. That is one of my biggest annoyances, especially when the iphone site is poorly designed. There are some sites, such as CNN’s where I prefer the iphone site, but there needs to be a clear way to choose which site you want to access.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:02:08 +0000

other than that it’s amazing.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:12:02 +0000

Apples biggest movement with the iPhones is having “the Internet in your pocket”, but about half of the sites I view on mine direct me to a different page designed specifically for the iPhone which is EXACTLY what I DIDN’T want when I got it. Sometimes there’s not even a way to access the regular site. They claim not to offer “a watered down version of the Internet”, but that’s exactly what it is.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:12:40 +0000

The iPhone 3G has 2 major software problems right now. First, there is no flash. Adobe and Apple are apparently bickering about “rights” and we the end use suffer. Since Hulu.com and all the major free and paid online TV and Movie websites use a flash player, we can not access them. Given the large screen, and small amount of hard drive space, such sites are critical to media lovers like myself. Instead of being able to access a massive amount of free TV shows and Movies online I am limited to what I can fit on my 8 gigs (or 16 gigs is you’re a big spender) worth of hard drive space. Likewise, many of my favorite websites (including 2 of my own online stores) use a lot of flash. So they display funny, or are completely inaccessible to iPhone users. Flash won the web video war along time ago, beating out Apple’s QuickTime web player in the process. Perhaps this is why Steve Jobs is not anxious to see a flash player released for the iPhone? Regardless, as more and more people realize they can not access flash websites while other phones can…he is going to see the popularity of his phone diminish. Second, Google Maps is a rather pitiful GPS Navigation system when compared to the likes of TomTom or Garmin. Google Maps gives you page by page directions. You have to click the next button manually to see the next turn. TomTom and Garmin not only plot your course but follow you as you go and have an automated voice that gives you step-by-step instructions as you go. There are rumors that TomTom and others are developing software for the iPhone, but there are just as many rumors that the developers license agreement is preventing them from releasing their software to the public. Again, it would appear that Steve Jobs is standing in the way of making his own product truly great. Perhaps Apple signed some sort of agreement with Google locking them into Google Maps? If so that was pretty foolish. Especially since the Instinct has voice activated GPS that exceeds anything we’ve seen from the big boys in GPS software. Long story short, the iPhone 3G is a disappointment. It only kinda does the stuff they say it does. But not really. Push comes to shove, the Instinct is the best phone at the moment…not the iPhone 3G.

By: Tom. Z

Tom. Z — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:45:52 +0000

I have the LG Vu right now and im trading for i phone 3g. is it realy worth it?