iPhone: iHot or iNot?
Technologically I think the iPhone is a bit backwards: lack of MMS functions, no video recorder, no keypad, no 3G, no HSDPA, but it does have a nice touch screen. Score! Needless to say, iChris is off to iBirmingham to go to join the iQueue outside an Apple iStore to purchase a £900 iPhone iContract.
Personally I think its going to be a hit today. The problem is there are too many Apple Fanboys in the world who relish the chance to pay £900 for a phone. Imagine what you could buy with £900. You could buy a laptop AND a regular 3G phone.
The other actual Chris (without the prefix i) reckons it won't be as a hit as the hype makes out because:
the people in the UK are smart enough to know that EDGE is whack!
Revolutionary yes, worth it? No. Wait for iPhone II.
Nathaniel Ho
09 Nov 2007 11:32
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Robert Southgate
Don’t forget about the fact that you can’t even send multiple SMSs let alone do MMS. What would you do not being able to SPAM anymore?
09 Nov 2007, 12:30
Chris May
I was at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 expo in Berlin earlier in the week, and during one of the keynotes, Tim O’Reilly asked for a show of hands from those people who were excited about the iPhone coming to Europe. Out of a room of at least 2000 geeks, where probably 30-40% were using a mac laptop, less than 20 people raised their hands. (To Tim’s surprise and disappointment, I think it’s fair to say). It might be cool if you’re used to US-standards of contracts and connectivity, but over here it’s well behind the curve. I’d add “crap camera” and “lame contract” to your list of cons above.
Won’t stop it being a hit though; after all it looks great.
09 Nov 2007, 14:11
Robin Janssens
“iPhone II” is out now and it still doesn’t seem to be worth it. Maybe we should wait for some of the Google android series of phones to come out, I’m not holding up any hopes that they will be any good though.
12 Dec 2008, 18:16
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