If The iPhone's So Great, Why No Broadband Support? > I can only quote myself...

1. GPRS/EDGE only! Forget full HSDPA but there is'nt even a basic UMTS...
So much for the "innovative" Apple, the "company that pushes the envelope" as the everyday mantra (= Macfan idiocy) says. Seriously: what the fuck Apple was thinking when they have designed a GPRS/EDGE-only phone? Ridiculous.

2. No keyboard? Hell no, that's just downright hilarious when you have a phone with the size of a table tennis bat...

3. ... especially when it's not even VGA so imagine when you want to type AND use the browser/message handler/etc.... I HATE my on-screen micro-sized keyboard (you also need the frikkin' stylus) on my TyTN, I always use the slide-out if I need to type more than a word - pop-up on-screen keys are useless, period.

4. What kind of memory card will go in it? Hopefully not microSD - I have that and it's the most expensive type ever.

Design is very nice - though it seems to be even bigger than my TyTN, whoa -, 4GB or 8GB is also very impressive - though I just got a last year Sony Ericsson W950 2 weeks ago which has 4GB built-in - but hopefully that's not the only memory you have because it'd be sucks not to have any memory I/O option (it's great to dump your photos when you travel, for example.)

I think it's a very nice first phone but even if I could live without real qwerty keyboard - which I highly doubt, given my RDP sessions - I wouldn't buy anything in 2007 without megabit-capable internet support. No way.
See you in a year, with HSDPA, iPhone2.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Top 5 Worst Things About The iPhone

At the risk of sounding churlish—we love the iPhone, we truly do, and will sacrifice our children to get our hands on one—not all is perfect behind the pearly white gates of heaven. Here are the top five worst things about the phone, media player, computer and news frenzy:

1) Cingular. They're North America's largest cellular network, so it makes sense for Apple to deal with them. But it would have been far better if Apple had taken on the carriers' chokehold on handset provisioning wholesale, and simply sold unlocked phones.

2) 8GB Flash drive. For many, it will be more than enough, but the iPhone won't kill the iPod until drive sizes start matching the needs of MP3-era music libraries. My fear is that Apple will stick to its guns and stick with Flash media as it grows to 16GB and beyond, but a second-gen iPhone with magnetic storage is an obvious upgrade path.

3) Built-in battery. Apple's bothersome tradition of non-user-servicable batteries continues. There's no reason to do this, frankly, aside from the kind of implied "we're aesthetic obsessives" claim that Apple still gets away with.

4) No 3G. Fast internet is the horse, 3G is one hind leg.

5) With all those features, a QWERTY keyboard stashed within (somehow) would be the perfect way to turn this little beast into Apple's answer to the UMPC: a cheap, fully-featured computing device in addition to a phone and music player. Even a clamshell...

said by kamm:

Plus add it the lack of replaceable batteries and there you go - you got a very fancy phone, built-on outdated featureset with severe shortcomings.

As it is it won't really fly for $500-600 outside of the usual Mactard crowd (they don't count, they would buy if Jobs would take an apple-shaped pile of shit and sell it for $5k.)

said by kamm:

1. GPRS/EDGE only! Forget full HSDPA but there is'nt even a basic UMTS...
So much for the "innovative" Apple, the "company that pushes the envelope" as the everyday mantra (= Macfan idiocy) says. Seriously: what the fuck Apple was thinking when they have designed a GPRS/EDGE-only phone? Ridiculous.

2. No keyboard? Hell no, that's just downright hilarious when you have a phone with the size of a table tennis bat...

said by tokevino:

You need have an international mind to replace the geek mind for this one: GSM is the way to go if you come from business department to build an introductory product for international use. GSM may not be your or my favorite, but it too popular to skip in the rest of the world. U.S. cell phone market is not as big comparing with international market.

To me, any non-full-size "keyboard" is not a keyboard whatsoever. Plus there is something called portable bluetooth keyboard. Of course it costs moeny...

I think it is a smart idea to drop the "keyboard" for more screen space. This is not your regular smart phone, this is more of a mini-laptop. Apple better comes up with more applications of course. And that touch screen better be the top of the line and so it can be useful.

edited: (couldn't believe I spelled GSM as GPS...!)