here's the site, but i copy and pasted text. http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108096/brit-Blog-names-iPhone-worlds-worst.html?mod=family-love_money "The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot," writes CNET UK's Flora Graham in a mock award citation posted Tuesday. "It may be the highest-rated mobile phone on CNET UK, rocking the pockets of half of our crack editorial team. It's certainly the touchscreen face that launched a thousand apps. But as an actual call-making phone, it's rubbish, and we aim to prove it." More from CNNMoney.com: Fortune's CEO of the Decade: Apple's Steve Jobs Celebrities' Favorite iPhone Apps Interactive Timeline: A Decade of Apple Hits What follows is a litany of complaints no iPhone owner hasn't heard or expressed before. But to read them in a publication that four months earlier named Apple's device the "world's best touchscreen phone" is unexpected. And in Ms. Graham's voice, sort of fun. To quote a few of her sharper lines: Say What? Call quality on the iPhone is pathetic, and it's mostly because of the tiny speaker. It has to be aligned with your ear canal with the accuracy of a laser-guided ninja doing cataract surgery, or else the volume cuts down to nothing as the sound waves bounce uselessly around your ear shells. Dropped Calls and Data Gaps If, like Will Smith in Enemy of the State, you're trying to avoid the eagle eye of Big Brother, the iPhone. could be for you. It drops calls, fails to connect and doesn't even ring sometimes not for everyone, but more often than any other phone we're currently using. Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute. The iPhone Might Burn Your Face Off According to our ultra-sciencey test, it is extremely unlikely that the iPhone will burn your face off Nevertheless, pressing a large, flat surface to your cheek is always going to be sweaty Thus the current trend for people to walk down the street with their phones on hands-free, yelling into the mike at the bottom while they hold the rest of the phone away from their faces. iPhone Battery Life A couple of hours of Google Maps over 3G and you'll be lost in the woods without even the possibility of phoning for help. Compare that to the good old days when your phone would last a week without charging, and you'll wonder why you ever bothered to switch. The iPhone Sucks So What? If the iPhone is inaudible, unconnected, on fire and out of battery, why is the thing so popular? The fact is, although the iPhone is the worst phone in the world, it's the best handheld computer there is. At least until CNET UK's editors name a new one. Copyrighted, Fortune. All rights reserved.
Iphone pros: Music Videos Photos Camera Video Camera (3gs) Voice Control (3gs) Web Surfing Youtube videos Excellent Games Multitasking (talking and texting, web surfing, games,) Lots of memory (8, 16, 32gb) Calender Weather Stocks Voice Memos Compass (3gs) Pretty fast 3G speeds. Apps for just about anything else. Cons: Bad Battery Life I think that just about covers it.
Hate to say it, but it's kind of true. The iPhone really isn't that great of a device when it comes to being what it's supposed to be...a phone. The battery life won't last through a day, and it's a poor multitasking device since you can only have one app open at once. The fact that it's on AT&T is a non-starter for me. The service is mediocre at best and definitely not comparable to Verizon. Of course, this is all the more apparent after checking out the Droid today. I had 5 apps open at once with no problems, the battery is removable, the camera takes high-res pics/videos, the Android OS is loaded, and it has a pullout keyboard which doesn't add much thickness to the device.
Yes I agree. The iPhone is mostly used as a laptop nowadays, and even more as a gaming platform. I see people using iPhone to play Sudoku and surf the web way more than them using it as a phone.
I still don't get why the iPod Touch gets completely bypassed by some people, it's basically the same thing minus the phone and expensive contract. I swear I see more college students with iPhones than anyone else, and it's like "You're in college, stop using your loan money for things you don't need when there is a very, very cheap alternative"
the article is tounge in cheek and does exaggerate some of the devices more noticable flaws. the battery life is isnt great, but that down to, quite often, badly coded apps sapping all the power from it. some titles, i'll name hook champ and undercroft, seems to last for hours! as for the phone itself, i dont particularly use it as anything other than a quick social call device. i dont want to spend hours talking thru one, especially if im out! if im at home i use a land line so battery life here isnt that important. camera? not fussed really, the pics it takes are generally for fun, i think if yer a serious photographer yer best investing in a digi cam multitasking isnt too great, but again this isnt marketed as a full desktop computer replacement and nor would i use it as one. its a convienient 'on-the-go' device that gets the job done more often than not the one thing all other mobiles look at apple in envy tho has to be the appstore. the bargain basement lucky dip that, it seems, you can find anything in. just wish apple would relax some of its nutty rules!
I agree! And to fix the 1 con they have a charger for anywhere you could ever possibly be! And they sell charger cases!
