Honestly I don’t see the iphone as being as groundbreaking as some people seem to think. The interface is seems nice,I will give it that,it still doesn’t seem to be as good as a real keyboard,but we will soon see.
My samsung a920 has played mp3 files for a year and a half. It doesn’t integrate with itunes like the iphone does,but I have been using it as my mp3 player in my car for over a year and a half and it works great. My real problem isnt the MP3 capability or the interface however. That all looks ok. The MP3 capability promises to have a much smoother interface both on your pc and on the phone,and the user interface could certainly be to many peoples liking. The real problem here is the internet connectivity.
They are advertising this thing as “the real internet”. What they are not telling you is that its the real internet at dial up speeds. Thats right,dial up. The I-phone uses the same technology that my old Siemens s45 used almost 8 years ago. My samsung a920 on the other hand uses EVDO. EVDO gives me about 1Mbps. (its burst speed is higher,but thats the sustained number) In fact,it works so well,I have had my DSL disconnected and use only my cell phone for internet. You cant receive calls while online but that will be fixed with rev a later this year,and it will be faster too.
AT&T has something similar. Its called HSPDA. Im told that its even better than EVDO,even better in fact than EVDO rev a according to some. That begs the question,why on earth did they use obsolete technology on a phone that claims to give you the real internet,when AT&T has a 3.5G network. I don’t care how good the interface is,or how easy it is to transfer MP3 files to the phone. Until they come up with an I-Phone that can connect to the internet as well as my year and a half old a920,the I-Phone,and its “real internet” remain a joke.

I read somewhere that Jobs said that the reason for going with EDGE was that 3G drained the battery too fast. He also said something about the size of the components.

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I use the travel lot, so I can’t use same network in other countries. If I go for roaming that would be very expensive comparing local service providers. So sim lock is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Is this legal in Australia??

http://www.reviewiphones.com/

It’s true, the iPhone could be a useful tool for blogging. In fact, first thing I did after buying mine was post to my blog :).

But the iPhone’s still got some issues I think Apple needs to work out. So it might be worth waiting a little to buy one.

One issue I’ve had a couple times lately is that the sliders (”Slide here to unlock” and “Slide here to answer”) have malfunctioned and not detected my touch. I restarted the phone and that issue is resolved for now, but we’ll see how it goes.

I posted a full iPhone review with pros & cons on my blog. Hope it helps you make your decision.

Cheers,
Chris

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