Originally Posted by
fuzzy
whats so special about iphones? what do they do different from all the other phones on the market?
Originally Posted by Thrush
There's nothing inherently special about it as such - there are other touchscreen multimedia phones on the market that can browse the net etc.
But what I love about it, is the WAY it does what it does. The mobile version of Apples OS X just, well, works. It's slick and fast, mobileSafari is a joy to use, I love how countless webpages are automatically reformated to "iphone" pages (for optimisation(sp) of the browser) and how full web pages can be fully displayed (when I browse PF on my iPhone I can have it show exactly what it would show if using Safari on a Mac or IE on a PC)
I love it's mail client, which coming from a Gmail user, is saying something! Most mail clients are nightmares for gmail users, but Mail just well, works really.... Tho I do miss my gmail loading in conversations like it does in the web browser - but then I can access that fine from mobileSafari anyway - in full page or "iphone mode"
I like it's shortcuts, I like the apps, I love how it looks, I like it's intergration between contact info and email/sms/mms/pics/web pages, I like it's size, the feel of it, the customisation (after you jailbreak it
)
I just like it really
As I think a lot do......
Tho to be fair, there are things I don't like about it....
I don't like the battery life - 1 day! Tho in defence, it's the older iPhone and I use it a LOT
I don't like how it's tied to iTunes for EVERYTHING! You can't put anything on it without iTunes - contacts, pictures, music, apps etc.... Tho again in defence, with the right apps (even "legal" ones from the App Store) you can set it up as a wifi hard disk and put all sorts of stuff on it over a wifi network without using iTunes - same when using it with SSH, after jailbreaking
I don't like that as standard it doesn't do MMS, forwarding texts, video recording, no camera zoom.
I still don't like that it doesn't have Java or full Flash support - tho so far only one thing has failed to work in that region and that was a video on facebook, so not like the end of the world
YouTube, Youporn, BBC iPlayer etc all work fine
I don't like that the Bluetooth isn't worth a wank - I've not turned it on once since I got it
It's pointless unless you have a Parrot system in car, or you're a knob that wears bluetooth ear pieces
I HATE that it doesn't support copy n paste text!
FFS Apple!
But I still love it