I must be in a different demographic than you. I’m fond of saying “I don’t know when I’m going to buy my next iPhone, but my next phone will be an iPhone.”
It’s not perfect, it’s just light years better than everything else in the areas I care about. The UI is fast, the mail is great, Office integration is painless, and my DNA has been rewritten to the point where iTunes doesn’t bug me.
I can’t say I ever used MMS, so I don’t miss it. The cut n paste is a gripe but it’s about a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale. The screen is fantastic, the battery life is fantastic, the included apps are fantastic.
The G1…may…get there. But it’s not, and I don’t care to wait for it to get here.
For most of my adult life, I’d have a phone for 8 months, get tired of it, and want something ‘better’. I’m kinda depressed as I’ve had my iPhone for 14 months or so and it just does everything I want.
A wise choice indeed, as there is almost no risk of bricking your phone when you jailbreak. The only thing that is kind of a pain in the ass is that you have to re-jailbreak anytime you update your phone.
This link provides the software and instructions on how to jailbreak your phone. The first link there should be the one you’ll need. Remember, you don’t want to unlock your phone, just jailbreak it.
Use the iclarified link, and down load the software. The file that has a 77 in it , is for unlocking and as far as I know , you can’t unlock a 3g that way.
The only problems you might encounter is putting it in DFU mode, it will give you a count to hold down the home button for a few seconds, and then the home and the power button for another few seconds.
On my second try, the DFU bubble popped up on the windows task bar and I had to hit restore in iTunes. If you do have to hit restore , it only takes about 8 or so minutes, it took me longer because I did the restore and then synced it to get back the programs and that took about twenty minutes total, you only need to do the restore at this point.
The third time was the charm, and it only took about 4 or 5 minutes to jail break it. One thing that did happen, was that I was re arranging the screen and moving apps to the anchor positions where I wanted them and removing the phone and ipod icons out. The screen went white and did not respond for about 3 or 4 minutes and then booted back up.
I’m beginning to see their rational sorta, both the native facebook and myspace apps allow you to upload pics, so appple probably assumed that most phones would have a native app for that, making mms obsolete.
Not that much of a deal breaker for me , but it should have been there. Also it should have had obex and stereo bluetooth, both of which the hardware supports , but that would allow you to have root access, oh no cant have that.
Very few browser crashes for me.
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Reception sucks ass in San Francisco. In my office building, I get a full 5 bars of 3G reception…yet it doesn’t bloody work! I can’t make calls, nor access the internet! WTF. Elsewhere, my 3G reception drops in and out at seemingly random–it’ll hop from a full 5 3G bars, over to Edge, and back again, and while the iPhone is supposed to handle this transition “seamlessly,” that is rarely the case. And if I switch to Edge, no signal at all–awesome!
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Carrier problem , not apple.
This is a cell phone designed by computer people, of course its gonna have features.
It sorta multitasks, you can run ipod in the background.
I have’nt had the need to do any file transfers away from my computer, but the power cord , I use a iGo recharger , the iphone connecter only cost me 11 bucks. The manufactures of cellphones are supposed to be going with the standard charge cable, but apple is conspicously absent.
Palm so far is the only company that apple has launched a tactical lawsuit against, based on the phone, seems there is a bunch of apple people working at palm now and may have added some iphone type capabilities.
You don’t even need to add it to the iTunes library first, just resize iTunes (to get it out of your way) and drag the file from your desktop or wherever. I was elated to figure that one out.
There is also a podcast feed reader called RSS Player Podcast Catcher in the app store for 2.99 which will allow you to subscribe to podcast feeds and download and play them. It is the same as the free jailbroken app called Podcaster, which I use. Mine crashes from time to time, but it works pretty well.
It has MMS. It even has a free app that you can use to copy MMS files to your memory card.
Most of the apps are free, and the dev kit is platform independent. I’m connecting to the internet through mine right now using a usb tethering app.
There’s a 3rd party battery upgrade kit that adds IIRC 2.5x more juice capacity.
I personally just put a got a usb power adapter in my car, and carry a usb cable with me.
There’s 3rd party firmware that adds multitouch support. It’s in the android code. Google just commented it out for legal reasons.
The biggest problem is no stereo headphone jacks, you have to use an adapter, and no bluetooth adp2 support yet. There’s supposed to be an update that adds it next month. We’ll see.
Alright, well it seems Apple’s going to unveil version 3.0 of the firmware next week, which is rumored to include MMS. Good! That’s one complaint out of nine down! (assuming it’s true)
I just saw a writeup on iPhone OS 3.0; looks like it has a lot of features we’ve been calling for. Tethering will be a big one; apparently that requires carrier cooperation (why?), so I hope Rogers offers the option. Maybe then I could use up my allotted transfer limit.
Because carriers rely on over-subscribing…that is, promising 5 people 100 bits of data each, on a system that can only move a total of 125 bits. They COUNT on you not using your alloted bandwidth.
An iPhone will use a couple hundred Meg a month in normal use…enable tethering and people who aren’t picky may just use that instead of another ISP…I don’t come anywhere NEAR my 200 GB cap at home, but I do consume 50-60 Gb, which is a far cry from my iPhone useage.
Well, I’d only use it with my laptop when away from home, but yeah, I see what you mean. Rogers does offer network access sticks for laptops at about the same monthly rate as my iPhone data plan, so I was hoping that they could make the iPhone into one. We’ll see.
I thought about getting one of them fancy, high-priced iWidgets, but then I said to myself, “Chickpea, how many cell phones of yours have been lost/stolen/broken/dropped-in-the-toilet since around this time in 2007?” I sadly replied to myself, “Three.” My current phone cost $60. And I have MMS.
Oh fear not , I have been perusing the boards regarding the matter and one person mentioned that this may be because of the revenue sharing agreement between ATT and Apple, and not really a hardware issue. To force you to upgrade to a 3g, which would mean all the bennies would go to ATT.
Worst comes to worst , you just jailbreak the phone.
Declan
