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- streak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The Register review is actually incomplete, uninformed and, hence, biased. And even from the review, the iPhone is clearly superior to the Q. I therefore submit that you, gregmcg, are also biased against the iPhone.
"Both devices handled the internet connectivity well, although the iPhone was easier to navigate than Opera on the Q. That's not really Opera's fault. Rather, it [is] just the small Q screen and the need to zoom in and out to read the small print that caused problems."
Name a smartphone platform where Opera looks good and isn't cumbersome and slow to zoom in and out to read the small print. Does it matter if it's Opera's "fault"? The fact is, the combination of Opera with any smartphone is inferior.
I have no doubt the iPhone worked so well over EDGE using CATTRAX because of the iPhone's best-in-class 622 MHz processor, fast graphics, fast interrupt handling, and asynchronous I/O, which make up for a lot of the relative slowness of _raw_ EDGE bandwidth. Prior to the iPhone, EDGE was only found in much slower phones, and this didn't help the general impression of EDGE's speed. While iPhone EDGE is not fast, it is adequate.
The majority of the people out there do _not_ need "voice and SMS". The majority of people need voice. What was "quirky" about the iPhone UI?
"any web phone can do this". With respect to the web, no web phone can do what the iPhone does and do it so well.
On the contrary to the reviewers' claim, the iPhone *does* auto-delete items from the server when deleted on the phone, moving them to the Trash folder, with options for emptying the trash of never, daily, weekly or monthly. The reviewers must not have correctly configured their IMAP root folder.
Water resistance has nothing to do with the iPhone battery being non-removable. The lithium polymer battery is SEALED, otherwise it would melt or burst into flames upon contact with humidity and atmospheric oxygen.
Given that the unlimited data plan for the iPhone is half (or even less) than the price of the unlimited plans for other smartphones on AT&T and other providers, over the term of a 2-year contract, this makes the device itself essentially free. A lot of the people who returned their iPhones probably didn't have a smartphone to begin with, and really had no need. $20/month is a lot to pay if you don't need it.
UI aside, the best reason to buy the iPhone is the accurate rendering of web pages and html e-mail, the big screen, and a bonus for business users of a great video iPod.
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