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- mvanhorn, on 10/11/2007, -28/+461Wow the no songs as ring tones really sucks. Especially since it's our songs we downloaded and paid for and OWN from the iTunes music store. Bad call Apple...
- fluidfoundation, on 10/11/2007, -146/+423Dont forget that it doesnt turn Coke into Pepsi, shoot rainbows out the top OR give a proper reach-around.
Most of that stuff my Treo doesnt do, or it does it REALLY poorly to where its not worth it. - Cirrius, on 10/11/2007, -18/+285No mp3's as ringtones in unforgivable...I mean come on it's an IPOD!
- cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -35/+268Is this some ***** up contest. See who can sell the most crippled piece of crap?
- M3wThr33, on 10/11/2007, -41/+202While it can open Word/Excel docs, they are READ-ONLY.
You can't copy/paste or highlight any text.
Major flaws in something that's supposed to be a smart device.
You know, outside of the crappy keyboard, lack of external storage, no mms, 2.5G only, no stereo bluetooth, no replaceable battery, no GPS, no flash, etc.
But software updates will magically add hardware to the device, right? Keep justifying the waste of $599 US Dollars. - techsmack, on 10/11/2007, -12/+124*An affordable price when bundled with a 2-year contract, like most phones
Really though, no MP3 ringtones? Thats just lame, my 4 year old phone does that. - martin77, on 10/11/2007, -13/+123A Self-Destruct Button ?
- jazh, on 10/11/2007, -57/+160So, its over priced, but also has fewer features than my current Nokia N80 (that was out last year).
Apple thinks people will buy the Iphone because of its great UI. Sounds just like MAC OS! - renegadeafk, on 10/11/2007, -10/+110The iPhone can't use a song as a ringtone? About any crappy cellphone can do that.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+104"The iTunes Music Store now offers ringtones for just 99 cents!"
You heard it here first. - Adrianc333, on 10/11/2007, -62/+153Lol, it sucks.
- drcreek, on 10/11/2007, -22/+107No vagina either. Really lacking a vagina...
- fffizzz, on 10/15/2007, -8/+82No games? What else am I supposed to do while taking a *****? My Treo 750, Solitaire is the best when in the bathroom.
- profOblivion, on 10/11/2007, -7/+78RIAA probably wants royalties for "public performance".
- totallyAMAZING, on 10/11/2007, -1/+53What? This is 2007, you can't "own" music anymore. You're simply borrowing it until the RIAA finds a way to take it back form you and charge you for it again.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -11/+56Did you guys read the first comment on that site? Now that's what you call a fanboy.
- celeronxl, on 10/11/2007, -56/+99This is a good thing. Phones should not ring by playing a song.
Digg me down. - Metalmoon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41I'm really surprised they didn't incorporate stereo bluetooth (A2DP, what a dirty sounding acronym). My phone has it and its great being able to stream music from the phone in my pocket to my headphones
- kn0xy, on 10/11/2007, -12/+49Funny how just a couple of seemingly measly options that I do have on my $100 phone, can completely remove all the remaining luster that the $499 iPhone held. The Ringtones, MMS and Video Recording just blows. And sure, let the trolls come out and bitch that I can just Carry an iPod with me, Send the pictures over email and buy a Camera, but, why carry all that crap on hand when I can just carry my Current Phone (Samsung SGH-A707) and get all of that and more and save $399 bux. Bad Apple for not paying more attention, maybe their later Generations of the phone will include whats missing.
- Rukaribe, on 10/11/2007, -48/+82awww, in denial your 600 dollar phone is just an over hyped gimmick?
- noch, on 10/11/2007, -9/+42im more interested in turning pepsi into coke
- BrandNewJesus, on 10/11/2007, -10/+42No songs as ring tones! sorry, that's a deal breaker for me.
That's just cingulars way of making you pay $2.50 for a 15 sec sound clip. ***** THAT! - zapa, on 10/11/2007, -26/+58haha fanbois going mad now
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -17/+48YEAH but it has a TOUCH SCREEN! a screen you can muck up with your greasy peanut butter fingers!
- EmurS1ve, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28When you drop 6 bills on a phone it should do whatever the f*ck you want! But ya, im a big fan of always on silent...
- mobilehavoc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28This is because AT&T wants to make a buck of selling you ringtones for $1.99 - $2.99. Just watch.
- cheesegrits, on 10/11/2007, -9/+34It really doesn't have my interest. And I guess there will be the usual news stories about people waiting in line for hours to get one. What is it about our consumer driven society that causes folks to waste hours and days on merchandise? I can understand making a profit on shortages of merchandise, but to wait for something to actually use? There are a lot more rewarding pursuits to spend hours on in my opinion. Why not get some Viagra and spend hours having sex? Or watching top rated movies? Or starting a garden? But to waste time on merchandise??? I just do not understand.
- CaymanCarpediem, on 10/11/2007, -7/+31I'm actually really shocked at that list! I don't live in the states and have always heard they have really crapy selection of phones, but in most of the rest of the world its almost hard to find phones without most of those features. True GPS is still pretty rare and real keyboards are optional depending on the form factor you prefer (it does tend to make the phone a bit thicker than most would like in most implementations), but I'm pretty suprised by most of the items on the list. No songs as ring-tones, no removable battery, no voice dialing? I'm not even sure it would be possible to go to my local cell store and find a phone without those options!
- joerod, on 10/11/2007, -7/+31bummer on the no IM, there should be an adium port for iphone, that would be awesome
- samdu, on 10/11/2007, -6/+28Why would anyone want to turn Coke into Pepsi?!?
- Cyberaktif, on 10/11/2007, -10/+31Jesus my HTC does all of that and has no DRM issues.
Well I shouldn't say it is a suprise. - slapout, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26It's a who can sell the most crippled piece of crap for the highest amount contest.
- johnhummel, on 10/11/2007, -8/+29I wonder how many of these issues are because of the phone company - after all, AT&T certainly wouldn't want Apple to run off with "its" ringtone money, for example. The flash support is a lacking feature - but then again, the browser I have on my blackberry doesn't support flash either.
What I'm hoping for is a crack in the cell phone companies, who tend to kill off features in cell phones to protect their own interests. If the iPhone can actually become a leverage device like the iPod is to music companies (as in, if you don't let us do X we won't sell the iPhone on your network, and then you're going to lose customers when our new $200 iPhone comes out), then there's a chance that we could have other players enter the market with things such as Skype support, etc. - mobilehavoc, on 10/11/2007, -15/+35The Apple gustapo will never allow this article to stay on the front page for long...
- Kozy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23My Nokia phone is reasonably old and while it lacks a few of the features, it has IM, a 2 megapixel camera capable of 640x480 video, MMS, games, you can watch TV, have MP3s as ringtones, voice recognition and i can download songs over the network. Why the hell would i want to spend a LOT more money on a phone that lacks features much cheaper ones have? This phone deserves to flounder in Europe, but chances are it won't because of the Apple factor. Their later iterations need to make some big improvements before it's worth the asking price
- Hortnon, on 10/11/2007, -7/+24Just wanna point out that the OS takes up almost 1/4 of the 4GB model. I don't think many people are realizing that.
- edzilla, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19• Songs as Ringtones - don't need them. =>yeah, it's so much better to pay a second time to get a Ringtone from AT&T. And you're gonna buy a $500 phone, but you don't "need" features that come in $15 phones?
• Games - Yes it does. It has Safari.=>sure, you're going to make games in flash? oh right, non, it does not support flash...
• Any flash support - It has Safari which supports standards. Flash is not a standard.=>it's not standard, but everyone use it/see above
• Instant Messaging - Two words: AIM Express in Safari.=>that's more than two words, and ajax is not the answer to everything
• Picture messages (MMS) - E-mail. =>yeah, like most phones support email, and people have the data plan to use it...
• Video recording - Already have a camera. =>but it cannot record videos? that's lame
• Direct iTunes Music Store Access - Safari. => again, ajax is not the answer - popothebright, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17God I hate the new comments system
- airquotes, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16remind me not to borrow your phones
- clemsontigers, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17Does anyone have the link to the article posted yesterday which was a 5 page PDF that Sprint gave its employees about how to persuade customers not to buy the iPhone? I want to send it to a friend
- Zephkiel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14You can't copy and paste anything.
- frant1c, on 10/11/2007, -15/+27(Europe-related rant) The really important things it doesn't have: UMTS/HSDPA, keyboard, SIM card.
These things make a big difference in Europe. Here, people like prepaid. They change SIM cards often. They also use UMTS, especially for business purposes. And, keyboard probably works best when you type in English due to software corrections; most European languages don't fare nearly as good.
Battery life might also be a factor if it doesn't hold up for more than 2 days (without listening to music), because business users here are used to long battery life.
So, recipe for success in Europe: don't lock it down to one operator; add UMTS (and/or HSDPA). With these two problems out of the way, people might be willing to buy it despite the virtual keyboard and battery life. If they don't fix that, all these negative sides combined will make it a failure in Europe - I'm dead certain of that. - chrisgeleven, on 10/11/2007, -8/+20Most likely, the record labels have a specific part of their contract with Apple that states songs sold from iTunes cannot be ringtones.
So Apple will most likely have to open up a ringtones section of the iTunes store at some point. - NoahK, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15Sucks for your Treo. My phone can do all of that except use flash and access the iTunes store.
(Verizon enV) - championchap, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19Pepsi tastes better.
My tastebuds are representative of everyones, and I like Pepsi better, therefore.. so does the majority of the world.
Argument over. - Ehrgeiz, on 10/11/2007, -10/+21What it doesn't have doesn't matter, its shiny, expensive and made by apple so the fanboys will line up to get it.
- isuisorisuaint, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11screaming makes it better, no?
- cwestpha, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14The lack of IM support is what broke it for me. Even those cheap cells free with activation have atleast AIM on em. Its moronic for a 500+ dollar phone to not have AIM (and ICQ), Yahoo, MS Messenger, and/or even Google Talk. Heck they have such a close relationship with Google you would think Google would have atleast offered to write up a quick client using their UI requirements.
- mobilehavoc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11AT&T will be happy to sell you mp3 ringtones for $1.99 - $2.99 though!
- Girvo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16My M600i does pretty much all of that. Cost me a whole $270AUD brand new.
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