Navkarn said:
harjot i love you, but i find everything you listed to be really inaccurate minus the dastar example! what generation do you use? i have a 3GS and it's amazing in all these aspects
Love you too brother, no worries everyone has their own view's and opinions on the iPhone, it's all good... Here's how I got to this point...
Keep in mind, this is coming from someone who loved his iPhone, I couldn't live without it... Or so I thought...
I have a 3G... The 3gS wasn't worth the upgrade given what I consider to be minor upgrades with the exception of the extra ram and processor clocking.... Even then, it wasn't worth signing a new contract etc etc...
So... With that said, I would randomly drop calls at the most random times.. It gets annoying fast, especially when you're on a business call... I learned this is highly dependent on the area you live... For example, where I live, I get GREAT service with blazing fast 3G speeds... When I went to DC for Elite 8, 3G was painfully slow, as it is in San Francisco and LA... Yes, this is partly due to the carrier... But, for the past month or so, I ditched my iPhone and went back to my Motorola KRZR... Man, how good it feels to have a phone that functions so well as a ... PHONE!...
No more dropped calls, not one dropped call yet, full signal nearly everywhere I go...
The Krzr will keep beeping every 5 minutes if I missed a call, a text, voicemail etc etc... The iPhone beeps like 3 times, and it's a silent beep, you almost have to be in close proximity to it to hear it... My Krzr? I can hear it anywhere in the house beeping, and I got the option of selecting a custom ringtone...
Which brings me to my next gripe... The iPhone speaker is just quiet as shit... I've owned 4 iPhones and they are all like this, though the 3G is clearly louder than my 2G... Same for the speaker phone... Why even call it a speaker phone? If I'm outside wearing my Dastar in a windy/noisy environment, you can't hear the other person... The Krzr, and other phones I've owned for that matter, have speakers that are loud as shit!
With my Krzr, and previous phones, I can customize almost anything in terms of ringtone... With the iPhone, you can't change your email ring, your voicemail ring, your alarm ring, etc etc.. You pretty much have to use that Apple thinks is a great sound... My Krzr? It busts out Pappi Gill every morning as an alarm, and other various punjabi tunes for texts etc etc...
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to make a super urgent call, and your phone is being a bitch? So you decide to turn it off and then back on... Reminds me of the good ol days when I would boot my PC and do downstairs to get a drink and be back in time for the boot to complete... Yeah, it sucks...
As for the dastar/proximity sensor? I've hung up on people when I didn't really want to... That too, gets annoying...
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So as you see, some of these are "problems" and some of these are "preferences" ... But, almost ALL of my phones before the iPhone didn't have these issues...
P.S. Have you ever been in another country, and had to reflash your iPhone software, without data/3g/wifi present? Don't try it... Don't ask how I know...