Well, I finally broke down and got an Apple iPhone. Not the new 3GS, but a 3G … it was only $80, and I figured I wanted to try it before I did anything more serious. I *really* wanted an n95-like device again, but wasn’t ready to shell out the cash. How bad could the iPhone be, right?
Let me tell you … after a week and a half, I’m so glad I went with the 3G, because, frankly … the iPhone is a giant, steaming pile of rhino droppings.
I seriously don’t get what people see in this phone other than it’s sexy. There’s not one thing the iPhone does that my n95 didn’t do a little (or vastly) better. I can’t believe I can’t tether (but I can if I shell out for the 3GS I’m told). It’s data reception is so awful, that I can’t get local NPR stations to load, even when I’m in the same city with them. Everything that has been said about the “touch keyboard” is at best a gross understatement – it’s an inexcusably bad interface, and the designers should receive “death by nancy regan singing” as the punishment.
Worst of all, it’s a lousy phone. Reception is hideously bad. I have talked with friends via their iPhone for a couple years now, and I thought maybe it was just where they lived. It isn’t. It’s just a bad phone.
If you’re thinking about the new Crapple styPhone 3GS, reconsider. There isn’t anything it does better than my former nokia, except maybe look pretty.
