Back to Blackberry for me

Oriel · 06-10-2007 1:10am #1

Well, I've given the iPhone 3 weeks and I hate it.
I'm back to using my Blackberry 8800.
Apple have concentrated too much on the hardware and have left sooo much lacking in the software. It's simply not worth the trade-off.
The iPod Touch is soo much better than the iPhone.
I'll not be buying until there is a significant improvement in the software.
So I have a spare crappy iPod with a calendar that I can't actively use.

iUseVi · 06-10-2007 11:03am

Forgive me for being a noob, but I thought the iPhone had a version of mac os, where as the iTouch had only a subset of features.

Can you be more specific in your claim that iTouch is better than iPhone?

440Hz · 06-10-2007 12:24pm

All talk of potential selling etc to stay off the forum please! Sorry moe, I know you meant that innocently enough but easier to stop it before it starts.

daveirl · 06-10-2007 3:16pm

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Oriel · 06-10-2007 6:41pm

- No push e-mail
- No copy and paste.
- Battery life is disgraceful, a full charge for me lasts one day max.
- It makes random noises, vibrations etc for no reason at all.
- I hate the e-mail and text message interface.
- Text messages can only be sent to one recipient at a time.
- Not being able to add Cal entries. WTF is the point of a read-only Calendar?
- ****e e-mail attachment support.
- No GPS.
- You can't select and delete all e-mail in the inbox, have to do each on in turn.

Coming from any other phone to the iPhone would be grand. I'm coming from a Blackberry, I miss the advantages of the Blackberry.
iPhone is not for me until Apple cop on.

Moe, since trigger-happy 440Hz is deleting all round her, I have no idea what you said, but I'm probably just going to give it to somebody, nobody on here though.

iUseVi · 06-10-2007 6:52pm

Does the iTouch do any of the things on that list that the iPhone doesn't?

EDIT: sorry i wasn't clear.

It's just that you said:

The iPod Touch is soo much better than the iPhone.

Oriel · 06-10-2007 7:04pm

The iPhone is a "Smartphone", it does that poorly.
The iPod Touch is an iPod, it does that very well.
The iPod Touch does not do any of those things in the list, because it is not a phone, obviously.

iUseVi · 06-10-2007 7:08pm

Oriel wrote:

The iPod Touch does not do any of those things in the list, because it is not a phone, obviously.

Hmmm yes my bad! oppsy. Not even copy and paste?!:rolleyes:

Creamy Goodness · 06-10-2007 7:26pm

well that list has definitely put to bed any thoughts of me getting an iphone.

one sms to one person at a time

read only calender.

along with the no video ability with the camera, no mms messaging and the recessed headphone jack.

poor apple, poor.

Oriel · 06-10-2007 7:47pm

I text people about 5-a-side football every week.
Blackberry -> Type message, select 9 people, send.
iPhone -> type out each message ten times, sending it to a different person each time.
**** that.

With a Blackberry, there is a comprehensive context menu for each screen, Apple, what you see is what you get, point and click.
Good for people who want a dumbed-down phone, it certainly isn't a business tool.

440Hz · 06-10-2007 7:49pm

Oriel wrote:

Moe, since trigger-happy 440Hz is deleting all round her, I have no idea what you said

I deleted a post which is against boards rules. Take that up with admin if you have a problem. Its not my rule. I am not "deleting all round" me.

Oriel · 06-10-2007 7:51pm

Another thing that pisses me off is the fact that Apple could have had a touch screen on a 160Gb iPod, albeit with a thicker iPod body.
But no, let's screw every penny we can out of our existing customers.
Katie, since you've become mod here, you've deleted more of my posts than I the total posts from all over boards since I joined.

440Hz · 06-10-2007 7:55pm

I have deleted off topic posts in threads. If you stay on topic and don't make personal digs you dont need to worry about your posts being deleted.

If you want to question my moderation do it somewhere else, as it is not relevant to this thread. Also, you seem to be the only person who has any issue with it.

Back on topic please.

babypink · 06-10-2007 8:12pm

- No push e-mail

a 15 minute delay is going to kill you? You bought it knowing there was no push email

- No copy and paste.

again, you knew this

- Battery life is disgraceful, a full charge for me lasts one day max.

no worse than other wifi equipped handsets, i think

- It makes random noises, vibrations etc for no reason at all.

hmmmm....thats a strange one! i don't get any of that.

- I hate the e-mail and text message interface.

fair enough, but again it was a known quantity when you bought it.

- Text messages can only be sent to one recipient at a time.

This bugs me too

- Not being able to add Cal entries. WTF is the point of a read-only Calendar?

eh....you CAN add calendar entries. They also sync into iCal when you sync with your Mac. I do this every day, along with every other iPhone user.

- ****e e-mail attachment support.

All i've tried is PDF and Word documents, so i'll have to take your word on this.

- No GPS.

you knew about this

- You can't select and delete all e-mail in the inbox, have to do each on in turn.

This bugs me too

With a Blackberry, there is a comprehensive context menu for each screen, Apple, what you see is what you get, point and click.

This has amost always been the case with Apple product.

Coming from any other phone to the iPhone would be grand. I'm coming from a Blackberry, I miss the advantages of the Blackberry.
iPhone is not for me until Apple cop on.

Fair enough.

I guess my point, in this post, is that unlike any other device of recent memory, the iPhone has been dissected to death, exhumed and dissected again. Pretty much most of the UI is out there for all to see. We know the features, we have known the limitations since day 1 and anyone here who gets one brought in should be doing so with their eyes well open. Its not as if you can walk into a store and be fooled by a slick sales pitch. Buyers here are typically tech-savvy, savvy enough to have noticed the media frenzy around the device, savvy enough to have done their homework before buying such an expensive device.

I guess what's borne out of this is that if you are under any illusions - don't buy it.

I'm sorry it didn't work out for you Oriel!!

K.O.Kiki · 07-10-2007 1:01am

But Oriel -- don't you have a US spec one?

Or are you living in US?

Or did i miss the launch... 3 weeks ago??

ZENER · 07-10-2007 1:26am

I think everyone got caught up in the hype when Jobs gave his Keynote introducing the iPhone. The device was highly anticipated in the States. The press there went nuts and of course when the device hit the streets there everyone had to have one. They didn't really get the chance to spot the flaws.

The advantage we Europeans had was that it was the yanks that got suckered into buying the unit without the benefit of knowing these pitfall like we know now.

I confess I'd have been first in the cue if I lived in America. Now though, with all the press reviews and personal experiences of people who bought it - like Oriel - I'm not going to bother. My Nokia N73 does everything I need in a phone for now, so I'll wait.

I'm really disappointed with how it turned out, I expected much more from Apple. I expected a device that was truely revolutionary. But this seems to be something that has befallen them of late. The latest oversight from them in my opinion is the lack of BT on the Touch and I don't think the iPhone has stereo BT either. For a company renowned for cutting edge features and probably the first to build in BT to their computers this was a huge oversight imo.

ZEN

Back to Blackberry for me

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