the worst purchase i've ever made!
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Posted 2 years ago #
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i bought an iphone last week....i took it back! it
was not my cup of tea, the worst purchase i've
ever made!Eh? Were you unaware how it operated before you bought it?
Had you not tried one before you laid down that much cash?
Mental.
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Not really all its cracked up to be (for me
anyway) i fell for the hype!Really? What did you want it to do that it doesn't?
(from my iphone, as always)
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I guess it may be that i'm just not releasing its potential!
But i miss buttons to text with-dont like the feel of the touch screen! Weird!
I used my old phones to listen to the radio. I would then text or play games too. Can't "multitask" with it, that annoys me.
Cameras poo. But i knew that really-just miss a decent one on the phone!
Just expected something more somehow.
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You get used to the keyboard pretty quickly. I can definitely type faster on it than I could ever text with a basic phone keypad.
The "Tune-In Radio" app can play some radio stations in the background (by opening them in Safari) but OS4 is just around the corner and will add multitasking.
The camera is fairly poo, true enough, but it's not unusable. I've had a few nice shots from it.
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I used my old phones to listen to the radio. I would then text or play games too. Can't "multitask" with it, that annoys me.
I'm writing this on my 18 month old iPod Touch whilst it is playing music... double click of the home button whilst in the web browser brings a popup dialog box to change tracks...
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i bought an iphone last week....i took it back! it was not my cup of tea, the worst purchase i've ever made!
I see DrJ's law is in operation - "all internet discussion tends towards criticism of the iPhone"
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OS4 is just around the corner and will add multitasking.
Hope it is better than the much-hyped Android version, and avoids the necessity to install a task killer to reduce wasting system resources.
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i bought an iphone last week....i took it back! it was not my cup of tea, the worst purchase i've ever made!
What exactly was 'not a cup of tea' about it?
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What porterclough said; the iphone currently doesn't multitask, but it doesn't count music + otherstuff as multitasking so you can do that. If you have a 3GS and upgrade to the 4.0 OS when its released or buy one of the new ones in July you'll get "proper" multitasking.
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What porterclough said; the iphone currently doesn't multitask, but it doesn't count music + otherstuff as multitasking so you can do that.
Essentially Apple allows its own apps to run concurrently, mail/safari/itunes/phone, but no non Apple apps.
....as usual you can do proper multitasking on an iPhone, you just have to jailbreak and install proswitcher from Cydia.
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I've had my iPhone for about a week now and here's my impression of it, as someone who's previously had a Blackberry and before that one of the nicer business Nokia:
Display - excellent, much better than any other phone I've used for both clarity and size
Keypad - very god for a touch screen and much better for mail etc. than a normal phone keypad (e.g. like my E51) however it's not as good as the keypad on the Blackberry Bold I had.
Email - Very good for reading and responding to email, pretty much up there with the Blackberry
Apps - some fun games and some useful apps available
GPS - not convinced how useful this is in reality, partly because it doesn't seem that reliable but mostly because of the limited battery life
Battery - terrible, perhaps no more than 4 hours if I run the phone they way I would my Blackberry (I was getting 3-4 days with that). I'll give turning loads of stuff off a go, however for someone who's out and about a lot in meetings etc. that does seem to remove a lot of the reasons you'd get an iPhone in the first place. I could buy extra batteries etc. to carry around but the iPhone is already pretty bulky so I might just carry one of my old phones as a back-up instead.Posted 2 years ago # -
Quick question, what phone cover would you suggest for an i-phone? Lots of the ones I've looked out don't have a think film to cover the screen,surely this is the key bit you want to protect. Could anyone suggest something. thanks
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Four HOURS battery life?!
Makes my HTC Desire look frugal. And I have no issues with the latest version of Android which plays Flash and Youtube too. And it has a 5MP camera
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