Apple iPhone 16gb = Rubbish!!

Gall1987

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It may not come as a surprise for you all to hear but I recieved the phone today and it will be back in the post first thing in the morning.

I have never used a 'phone' that is so hard to use, navigate and just do general texts etc...

My thoughts are this is a great 'gadget' but nothing more and really shouldn't function as a phone.

I am now using an old phone but am looking at getting something that I know I will get on with. I am tempted to get the N95 8gb as I like phone that do not have the touch screen as they are easier and faster to use.

Any suggestions on any other phones that may interest me? I feel phones that follow the Nokia layout and functions.

Thanks


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Originally Posted by Gall1987
Hi all,

I have recently upgraded my phone from a Nokia N95 standard to a iPhone 3G 16GB.

I am with o2. My contract on my N95 was 600 minutes, 1000 texts and unlimited texts all weekend and this only cost me £35 over 18 months.

With the iPhone I have 500 texts and 600 minutes but have added an unlimited text bolt on for £7.50. Therefore the iPhone is £42.50 over 18 months. I also get the unlimited data which will allow me to always be on the net.

I had the choice of paying £155 for the iPhone new or £99 for a reconditioned handset so I went for the £99 option.

I have read a new of reviews about the iPhone and they have mainly been good with the odd exception.

What are your thoughts on the iPhone (good and bad) and the contract that I now have?

Thanks :)
 
Would it be a long shot to suggest just using it for a week and seeing how you get on? I would be surprised if you go back to convential buttons afterwards.. 24 hours isn't exactly giving it a fair punt!
 
I agree, but I just felt like some of the features expected you to have extremley small fingers to be able to press and navigate as you would expect. I made a phone call and sent a few text messages and straight away it put me off.

It's not so much the touch screen buttons but the fact that the buttons are all so small.

Like I said, great gadget but really couldn't use it as my everyday mobile.

Adrianr said:
Would it be a long shot to suggest just using it for a week and seeing how you get on? I would be surprised if you go back to convential buttons afterwards.. 24 hours isn't exactly giving it a fair punt!
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What aspects did you not like? I get you on the hard to text, when I first got it I had major problems using the keyboard but after a week or so it was second nature. There are aspects of the phone I hate and aspects I love.
 
The main thing that I really didn't like was the texting application. The keyboard was too small and I do not have large fingers, so I'm not sure how someone like that would manage.
It felt to me like the basics of a mobile had been forgotten. No option to forward texts, unable to send MMS texts without downloading an application.

Also it seemed like Apple had designed it to make more and more money out of it's customers with all the commercial features/apps etc.

Any ideas of what phone I should go for now? I have been looking at the N96 and N95 8gb but I'm not sure if the N96 has any 'keys' and therefore would be in the same boat as the iPhone...

VaderDSL said:
What aspects did you not like? I get you on the hard to text, when I first got it I had major problems using the keyboard but after a week or so it was second nature. There are aspects of the phone I hate and aspects I love.
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It's the best phone i have ever used and it's revolutionised the way i use a mobile phone. I have had a 8GB Original iPhone and now i have a White 16GB 3G iPhone

There is so many things that are great about the phone. The GUI is superb and it actually feels like an expensive phone.

There is so many things that i do now with the phone which i have never done before;

-Being able to text much faster with a nice full sized qwerty keyboard. (You can't possibly be good at texting on it within 24 hours) You just have to learn to trust the phone and it's correction assistant. It's very good!

-Being able to store important dates on the phone as they come up then the phone syncing with my computer near enough instantly and vice versa.

-Having a GPS and maps device on one phone is excellent, great being able to search for some food in an unknown area it showing me directions. Also when needing to get the phone number of a place/business is easy, just search for it and it'll pin it on the map and then you can get the number and call etc.

-Apps are excellent!

-Email on the phone is excellent as with the internet!

There is many more things i can say but i would be here all night. It's a powerful phone that can do a lot! Give it some time. Maybe it isn't for you but for me i was in awe from the moment i got my first one and it's got better ever since!

EDIT - The google G1 is horrible!
 
You bought the iPhone just recently, without investigating it in the slightest, and are now expecting sympathy? Seriously? And on a forum that so very obviously quite likes the device?

Pull the other one.
 
Gall1987 said:
I like phone that do not have the touch screen as they are easier and faster to use.
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So you don't like touchscreens, but you bought a touchscreen phone anyway and now you're moaning about the touchscreen? Not really fair on the iPhone, is it?

Gall1987 said:
I agree, but I just felt like some of the features expected you to have extremley small fingers to be able to press and navigate as you would expect. I made a phone call and sent a few text messages and straight away it put me off.
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The onscreen phone keypad is massive :confused: As for texting, it's just something you have to get used to.
 
Gall1987 I say it's fair enough if the iPhone isn't for you but I do think it's silly to go to the effort of buying one only to be sending it back 24 hours later. You could have spent how ever long you needed in the shop with a demo iPhone and come to the same conclusion.

Now not everyone is the same as me but I don't look at it just as a phone, I look at it as the first portable Unix device to challenge, beat and shame (imo) the Symbian and Windows Mobile competition. If you look at all the things you can do with it out of the box then fair enough it has it's flaws but if you look at what it's really capable of (i.e. once jailbroken) then the pros far outweigh any cons.

edit: It's worth noting that I've owned Nokia, Siemens and HTC phones in recent years. I'm really liking the N96 at the moment but the truth of the matter is that the iPhone does everything I need from a phone and a lot more.
 
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I went iPhone (7 months) --> K750i (1 month) ---> iPhone

All I can say is, thank god I have my iPhone back!!! Shame the touch screen broke but brand new replacement :D
 
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At first, it seemed like you needed small fingers to navigate, but thats because your not used to it.

I love mine now, and couldnt live without it. But it is each to their own.
 
Went from an N95 to iPhone 16 gig and would never go back to any other phone.

Everything I've used before this just seems clunky now.

I have big fingers and I can actually text quicker on my iPhone than I ever could with the N95.

As one of the above posters said give it a chance and trust the auto correction and you'll be laughing.;)
 
I was highly annoyed with mine at first. I was calling people when trying to txt them, and other things like that. I finally got the hang of it afrer a while. As the previous poster mentioned his big fingers, so have I, and I don't have the most delicate touch.

If you buy a touchscreen phone, I guess that all phones are different and its a matter of getting used to them. I used to be unable to use laptops at first.
 
Logsi said:
It's the best phone i have ever used and it's revolutionised the way i use a mobile phone. I have had a 8GB Original iPhone and now i have a White 16GB 3G iPhone

There is so many things that are great about the phone. The GUI is superb and it actually feels like an expensive phone.

There is so many things that i do now with the phone which i have never done before;

-Being able to text much faster with a nice full sized qwerty keyboard. (You can't possibly be good at texting on it within 24 hours) You just have to learn to trust the phone and it's correction assistant. It's very good!

-Being able to store important dates on the phone as they come up then the phone syncing with my computer near enough instantly and vice versa.

-Having a GPS and maps device on one phone is excellent, great being able to search for some food in an unknown area it showing me directions. Also when needing to get the phone number of a place/business is easy, just search for it and it'll pin it on the map and then you can get the number and call etc.

-Apps are excellent!

-Email on the phone is excellent as with the internet!

There is many more things i can say but i would be here all night. It's a powerful phone that can do a lot! Give it some time. Maybe it isn't for you but for me i was in awe from the moment i got my first one and it's got better ever since!

EDIT - The google G1 is horrible!
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This guys hit the nail on the head! the Google phones shocking!! I should know i have one, I have used every other touchscreen and new phone on the market.......guess what? I love the iphone so much ive bought a new 8gb 3g one and unlocked it jailbroken it and it becomes the phone we all wished for I can now send mms and forward text theres more content and apps than android and the UI is simply the BEST there is, quite frankly I cannot after trying all the rivals, find a better phone!.
 
There's a learning curve, and I think you need to give it a chance.

However, I can see your point about the keyboard.. I wish Apple would allow landscape keyboards in all apps (but that's another rant). I have big hands but I'm now comfortable with two-thumb texting; just took some getting used to.

Your point about poor UI and navigation confuses me. I always thought the iPhone was the easiest phone to use. Tap an app to open, push the home button to get out.. all the menus are coherent and things are turned on/off by simple sliders :confused:

If you bought it to replace your throw-it-about dont-care-what-happens handset, then you're in for a shock. This is a smartphone.
 
Now now people lets not slate another OS that is barely in its infantile life. Andriod will get good.

As for the iPhone, it isn't perfect no matter what anyone says. It has a lot of faults, regardless or not as to whether they're used in the real world or not.

Bit puzzled about the OP's post tbh.

Whilst the N9x series is feature packed compared to the iPhone, the Symbian OS is very antiquated and finicky to use, just like WM in it's present form. I was a massive S60 fanboy but even I admit that. The UI is the iPhones killer feature - I have never had a single phone in which my mother could use until the iPhone came along, and now she uses it to abuse my free calltime.

How can you call the phone hard to use when the whole user focus is on an easy to use UI? Granted the SMS keyboard is crap for those with big fingers like me, so I just avoid using my thumb and tap away with my fingertips. For those with jailbroken phones, I believe there are a load of SMS apps with landscape views for composing texts.

As for the 'Phone' feature of the er iPhone it isn't as feature packed as other phones and that is because Apple wanted to keep things as minimal and simple as possible - relying on the pathetic app store to provide the extras - an area where that has gone balls up unless you jailbreak.

I think you need to give it time as you sound like you didn't want the phone in the first place. You could wait a few weeks and adjust to the phone or you can wait for the N97 to arrive.

I admit that the phone isn't perfect, and that it has a lot of basic things missing that are present on even my ancient Nokia 6600 and the apple appstore is filled with crap - somewhat alieviated by the quality apps on jailbreak but at the end of the day it has the most promising/powerful OS aside from Andriod.
 
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