The N95 is just a brick with symbian and a few applications stuck on. Wow it's got GPS, I don't really care, and I doubt most other people do either.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The N95 may not be the prettiest phone about but its a decent enough looking phone and - more importantly - actually gets the basic things right. Also, don't presume that just because you don't want GPS that other people don't. It's a "nice to have", but on phones that have it it's great - TomTom on a phone is pretty awesome.
People talk about paying through the nose for unified devices - well, my phone has GPS built-in, and I use the latest TomTom on it (with latest maps and speedcams courtesy of expandable memory - something else basic the iPhone lacks). That's at least £100 + the added burden of carrying around a 2nd device it's saved me straight away.
I want a phone which has a load of decent, well implemented features in a small aesthetically pleasing package. If I wanted every feature under the sun I would have bought a laptop.
Yeah because that makes sense doesn't it. How is the comparison with a laptop even remotely relevant? You're basically saying all you want is a phone with a pretty UI and you're quite happy to pay a small fortune for it. If that's the case - well you're Apples key demographic, knock yourself out.
3G - I wouldn't want it, it offeres marginally faster downloads at best and is not supported over most of the country, battery life is currently abysmal and it increases the size of the phone.
If by "marginally faster" you mean an order of magnitude faster then you're right. Either you're uninformed about 3G or deliberately being obtuse, either way you're wrong. Incidentally, again, the N95 manages to combine 3G, WiFi and GPS and whilst it is known for being power hungry it certainly shows its possible to do all three and still be useable. Furthermore the N95 isn't that big either - it's smaller than my current phone (Eten G500) and quite a bit smaller than the iPhone.
Ringtones - Some people (not on here at least) don't seem to understand that even if apple wanted to it could not let people put their own ringtones on/give them away free - something called "Copyright law"!
So you're legally not allowed to put MIDI ringtones on a phone? Or maybe you're own "mash up" MP3? Or an MP3 made up of sounds you created yourself? Or a sample from a song you legally paid for and downloaded? Again you're making excuses for something that is a basic feature in every single phone going.
Hackability - Again some people think it is their god given right to hack the iPhone, aside from breaking the contract they agreed to when buying the iPhone it is not a good idea. Apple decided not to allow 3rd party apps for a good reason - It makes the OS unstable - e.g. Windows mobile or Symbian ( I owned an Orange SPV C500 for a year and also a Nokia 6680 for a year).
So basically you're saying we're better off because Apple decided
on our behalf to not even give us the choice about what, when and how we use the phone - interesting logic. Claiming that the reason that Apple don't allow it is because someone might install something to make it unstable is just blind conjecture. Once again you're trying to justify a huge omission and something that is taken as read on phones of similar spec on some premise you just made up in your head and attributed to Apple.
the iPhone is not a smartphone, if you want a smartphone buy one, otherwise the iPhone is a great choice for a premium phone - small, light, stylish, well featured, and with a revolutionary UI.
I assume you've never seen an iPhone in the flesh then? It's hardly small.
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oh well think i have a better tariff on tmobile webnwalk.
