Filed under: Macworld, Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
Dan Warne hates 10 things about the iPhone
Nothing in this world is perfect, other than hindsight, and the iPhone is no exception. People will encounter quirks when using this product in the real world. Hey, it happens (especially with a first rev of a complex product).
Dan Warne has given a little thought to the iPhone and has created a list of ten things he hates about it. Considering that the iPhone has been out for less than a day this is an impressive feat. Dan lists, amongst his complaints:
- The battery isn't removable
- EDGE (it is slow compared to the other options)
- 5 hour talk time
Is there anything about the iPhone that you hate? Sound off in the comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
nondual said 7:13AM on 1-10-2007
The only things it's missing is the ability to add third party applications to the machine. VLC, for intance, or GTD programs that could use the calendar to help you do GTD stuff...that's important to ADHD'ers like me. How about a robust word processor? You never know when inspiration hits....how about a program that does voice to text conversion of your dictation for brain storming? How about easily linked external hard drives to hold class notes for students?
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Rob said 8:45AM on 1-10-2007
"iPhone has been out for less than a day" - Actually it isn't even out yet. Although I doubt much will change with the basic hardware, 6 months is a fairly long time software/partner wise. I'm actually kinda surprised Apple announced this so far ahead of release.
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mubier said 7:15AM on 1-10-2007
Less than a day for a hate-list to come out for a product not even available yet. So many haters...
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ephraim said 8:23AM on 1-10-2007
I hate the fact that it's a phone and you have to buy phone service. Where's the wide-screen iPod I was looking for?
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Jason said 10:55AM on 1-10-2007
No GPS? The mapping would have been awesome had this been included. Other premium phones have GPS+mapping, already, so the idea isn't brand new.
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Adrian vG said 7:53AM on 1-10-2007
I just want to know; does it have two batteries? If I talk for five hours I want to be able to listen to music and vica versa.
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Dan Warne said 7:42AM on 1-10-2007
I should point out that the only reason I chose the word "hate" was because it was the exact opposite of "love" -- and we'd also done a top 10 list of things to love about the iPhone.
Admittedly "hate" is a rather strong word... the phone's quite a breakthrough, and I don't hate the phone as the headline on this story suggests (I just hate the 10 things I list...)
Nonetheless I think all 10 criticisms I list in the article are quite valid. Before you bag me out for bein a hateful, spite-filled person, have a read of the actual article. :)
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Kuhndog said 7:48AM on 1-10-2007
i hate that they locked themselves into cingular rather then producing phones for all the networks.. they have the worst service.. and the worst customer service of any phone company i've had...
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Mr. Krinkle said 7:57AM on 1-10-2007
Cool phone and all, but I wont be buying one for 1 reason; The Cingular contract lock. I don't do cell phone contracts, period.
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mcarnvid said 8:00AM on 1-10-2007
Maybe some of the so called hate is just love for the product combined with a boatload of thinking different. If it's put in a good way, one may even call it constructive criticism. Problem is us mere mortals never have the full picture on these things. Certain choices are made, some for good, some for worse, but always with a distinct reason that me may not even know of. For instance, of course it would be great if it also included 80 gigs to put all that media on, but HDD based devices eat a lot more battery power.
Enough excuses, now for the complaining. It should have a lot more space, i really can't replace my current iPod with this one just because of storage space. That's the real hangup for me. I'd still be gettin gone though as soon as they are available over here across the ocean.
There's still a lot to hope for obviously. I always wanted to use my ipod as a remote. I know there are possibilities to do this with third party products, but it's never done really right. If this one goes a little further down the road, it might just becoma available. Won't be putting my money on it though, but i'd just like to have WiFi ipod HiFi's that i can put in every room and choose which ones to stream too, much like the current sonos system, but then in an insanely great way.
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Brendan said 8:09AM on 1-10-2007
"Only a two megapixel camera"
Now he definitely doesn't know what he's talking about. Any idiot would know you can't put an camera more then 2MP in a phone without fucking up the image. I have a Samsung NV10 7.1MP camera, and my old Pentax 5MP that got stolen has a better image output.
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mcarnvid said 8:04AM on 1-10-2007
oh, 'bout the battery. Not much has been said, and i wonder if it really isn't replacable. After all there must be some place to stick your SIM in it and lookin at the pictures i can't really see where it should go. I'm guessing maybe the back comes of. Could be the reason for the different color/textures on the back. Anyone else noticed this or knows where the SIM is going?
Argh, so many questions still to be answered.
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Martin Belam said 8:24AM on 1-10-2007
I hate the fact that I can't move on the internet today without people wittering about a phone ;-)
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Michel said 8:23AM on 1-10-2007
but the ipod seemed to have not removable battery. in fact it is. maybe the iphone is like that : a very fine tool to open the device.
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Chris Carpenter said 8:24AM on 1-10-2007
This was clearly written by the bloke who wants to be remembered for dishing the iPhone the second it came out. How clever of him!
While, most are valid he misses the point that this pushed towards the average punter. If you want to watch movies on the go, why not use the built in player?? There plenty of 3rd party video converters, iSquint etc... which undoubtly will be upgraded. If it an'nt broken don't fix it springs to mind!! I mean you buy a car, you don't go and change the engine now do you??
Personally, from what I have seen it looks remarkable. Nokia and the likes should be worried. I have longed for a device so I can ditch my phone, Palm and iPod. On top of that since this is an Apple product, it will work full stop out of the box and leave others wondering, :"whyt can't I do that??"
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Adrian said 12:56PM on 1-10-2007
This is a bit like when the iMac was released without (shock horror!) a floppy disk drive. Will it be something we will miss? Or is it the future?
For example it is weird to have a mobile phone that doesn't have a removable battery, but - come to think of it - I've never needed to remove one (except to get to the SIM card).
Being stuck to one network is a worry though - who will Apple partner with outside of the US, in the UK for example? And that two year network contract? Forget that! 12 months, is ok - but no more. What if I want to change networks? I'm stuck. I can't. I won't be able to jump networks to move to a better tarrif (which is common in the UK).
For the average (non business) user mobile internet / email sucks or is a waste of time. I've tried different mobile devices / communicators / PDA's / hybrid phone PDA's, etc, call them what you like, and I never use most of the hyped features. Mobile internet is another hype - the form factor just doesn't work. Like with my iPod Video - the whole exercise of watching video on a small unit with a small screen is annoying and low quality experience.
Only 8GB? Where will my music go? I've got 50GB of audio on my iPod!
And the price ... this thing is expensive.
Having said all that, the iPhone is an amazing product, which does leap frog what is available today and does offer exciting innovation. Hopefully iPod 2G will have ironed out the bugs and reliability issues, have much more storage and cost a lot less. Here's for hoping.
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JailerJoe said 12:15AM on 1-11-2007
I hate the price.
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Rich said 8:40AM on 1-10-2007
I think the iPhone sounds awsome. Once again Apple re-defines a product. I have 3 questions about the device, which may be answered between now and when the unit goes into production. 1.Will it work with my Think Outside BT keyboard? 2.Will it have either iWork or Office integration? 3.Will I able to add third party applications? We will have to wait and see what is revealed over the next few months. My Treo 650 is getting a bit long in the tooth, and this may very well be my chosen replacement.
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Lee Webb said 8:41AM on 1-10-2007
What I don't like about it is that it's goddamn phone.
Like another said 'where's the widescreen video ipod?'
That's what I want. Same UI as the iPhod, sorry, iPhone but without the phone. conergence is all very well nut I also want seperate stuff thank you.
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Mike said 9:36PM on 1-11-2007
One word, same as some others: Cingular.
In my metro area, Cingular took AT&T's old networ - which AT&T was planning to upgrade but never did - and it's just terrible. My wife's calls would drop out on the interstate just under the billbaord touting Cingular's "fewest dropped calls." (What a Big Lie that turned out to be.)
Their customer service is crap, too.
As far as I'm concerned, Cingular is a blight on the telecommunications landscape and the sooner it's eradicated, the better. It's also the main reason I'll never be getting an iPhone, even though it looks cool otherwise.
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