Anyone that says there is a phone thats better than the iPhone is not right! The iPhone is the best phone ever, cannot wait!

Nathan

Uh, we 3G iPhone users have generally been ranting and raving all over Gizmodo and Engadget about how TERRIBLE the 3G iPhone’s battery life is!

Really? The only time I’ve had issues with the battery life is when I am using the GPS and then it gets drained pretty quickly. We heard a tip that you can help improve battery life by turning off push (I don’t use it) – so both Ryan and I did and it seems to have helped.

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But the coverage is even worse. I have had Sprint and T-Mobile and never had problems with call quality – and with Sprint I was always in 3G range.

Now I have dead spots where I get no signal whatsoever – and I live dead smack in the middle of the humungous AT&T 3G coverage area (according to their maps). Similarly, my wife gets calls dropped in Manhattan daily on her iPhone (as did Walt Mossberg in his review) – I *never* dropped calls in Manhattan on either T-Mobile or Sprint.

Sometimes I have to actually go into settings and manually enable or disable 3G, because sometimes I can actually increase my call quality by turning it off (or on). Its ridiculous. I never had to do this with my 3G Blackberry – calls ‘just worked’.

I love my iPhone – but mostly because of its other features – definitely in spite of its ability as a telephone!

Ashley wrote:

From my point of view, the biggest downside to Windows Mobile apps is that there is no centralized location to get them.

Stop the presses right there. Weren’t people complaining about the fact that you can only download new apps using iTunes before the App Store was opened? I guess it’s true: Apple knows what’s best for us.

There is definitely the good and the bad with all of the control that Apple has over the App Store — this just happens to be one of the good aspects to it.

From my point of view, the biggest downside to Windows Mobile apps is that there is no centralized location to get them.

Stop the presses right there. Weren’t people complaining about the fact that you can only download new apps using iTunes before the App Store was opened? I guess it’s true: Apple knows what’s best for us.

but my idea of reception is, how good the reception is in dBm, so 1
bar is not very good if you are in a “zone”

apple will get sued over this…so many problems and so short of answer from Cupertiono, or if not it will cost them…

beacuse you do understand this is a major ?

The camera is better??? OH, COME ON!

Show me where’s the camera flash, because I can’t find that “easier” way to activate it when I try to take a picture in a low light situation. Oh wait, it doesn’t have flash…

If you read my previous article about things we wished the iPhone 3G had (linked to at the beginning of this article), you would have seen my complaints about the camera including the fact that it lacks a flash. My point with the camera here is that it is easy to use and sharing the photos with the big screen is great as well.

Cop-out answer eh? It was actually hard to come up with just five – I could have come up with several more. Usability and overall experience are not the same thing. The usability definitely helps make the overall experience better, but it’s certainly not the same thing. The overall experience includes the ease of use, the applications (Safari is amazing for browsing on the iPhone), the hardware itself, and more.

I do have a “general” idea of how many applications are available for Windows Mobile, but can you tell me exactly how many apps there are? I can go to the App Store and get an exact count of the apps available for the iPhone, browse through them and download them, but you can’t do that for Windows Mobile. From my point of view, the biggest downside to Windows Mobile apps is that there is no centralized location to get them. Sure there’s Handmark, but that’s not specific to Windows Mobile and doesn’t include every app out there. When you want an app, you have to go search for what you are looking for. It’s not that they are hard to come by, it just takes more effort.

Cutting and pasting is definitely something the iPhone needs, and I’m surprised Apple didn’t try to implement it with the 2.0 Firmware.

Definitely not full bars all the time, but I’ve never had full bars all the time with any carrier or phone in this area (previous to AT&T I had Sprint). It depends on the area, sometimes it’s full bars, other times it’s just one or two. My idea of reception is, how clear are the calls? If I have one or two bars yet the reception is perfectly clear, I have no reason to complain. If, however, I have one bar yet my calls fade in and out, or I can’t even make calls, then there is a problem, but I haven’t experienced that with the iPhone 3G or my original iPhone.

Most areas in the Chicagoland area, I get 3G coverage with only a few spots where it switches to the Edge network.

I’m completely with you about the alarm clock. I absolutely love the alarm clock. I have a bunch of different times available that I can just turn on depending on if I want to wake-up at 6:00, 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, etc.

I have to say that my favorite feature is the alarm clock. I know, I know it’s not anything special. But it does get me out of bed in the morning, no matter where I am. Plus it has the option for setting the alarm by the day of the week. My only complaint is that it erased all my weekly alarms when I updated the firmware and I was late to work the next morning.

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