There are many people who have pointed the numerous reasons why someone can or should return their iPhones.
My iPhone was just not a very good phone. And I’m not saying anything about wishing that it did this or that more.
obnoxious restriction is the fact that you can’t add more than one picture attachment to an email. If you finally manage to get the camera to take a picture of something that doesn’t move too fast, you can only send one picture at a time. But other people have already pointer out the limitations of the camera functions.
Death of the iPhone
July 2, 2007 -
Returning the iPhone
July 22, 2007
I was truly impressed with the initial functions of the iPhone. The week I got the iPhone, my MacBook had to go in for repairs (AGAIN!) and I was without a computer for a whole week. During that week, I was able to do some of my banking, MySpace and provide email feedback to clients and so on. However, that was pretty much it.
As an iPod, I think the iPhone was alright. I didn’t mind the touch screen when I was driving, but I did mind the fact that the iPhone’s iPod does not organize your music like a regular iPod. It has all the same organizational features, but in buttons. Buttons you can’t feel when you are driving or at the gym.
It also does not allow browsing your podcasts in cover-flow. Cover-flow shows all the albums at once, even when you want to just browse your podcasts. I’m not even going to mention the receded headphone jack.
As an email device, it felt like a strip down blackberry that rendered you helpless. I can see why many blackberry users chose to go back to their blackberries. You can’t copy/past anything, editing long emails in the iPhone is like giving birth (not that I would know, but from what I hear...) and the most
My primary website is in flash. As a filmmaker, that’s how I can display my work in an interactive way. Safari without Flash is just a strip down version of Safari. Hence contrary to what Steve Jobs said, it IS a “strip down version of the internet.” Not to mention how hot the little
f***er gets when you use Safari and/or any video. It can get really hot and the battery goes down the drain when this happens. I can’t imagine having Flash actually working in the iPhone. Flash doesn’t even work properly in my MacBook or any Intel Macs, for that matter. So don’t hold your breath.
Finally, the last straw: the iPhone as a phone. I don’t know whose idea was it to call AT&T and Cingular “the new AT&T,” but it’s been only one costly headache after the other. I’ve had my service with Cingular for over four years now and it was not that bad. When I bought the iPhone I had to activate it and add the data
plan that was thirty dollars more so that I could have the same functionality I am used to from a phone. However, what AT&T doesn’t tell anyone is how you can’t really use your international phone internationally. I mean, you can, but you might as well use the money you would pay per minute and buy a blackberry.
The little charges here and there that makes the iPhone work in the US are not the same when you travel. If indeed you are not just some Apple nut that has never seen how Apple Care really works or if you really take your mobility seriously, then you would probably want to call AT&T and ask how much it would really cost for you to travel to any other country in the world. I was going to record my conversation with the AT&T representative, but I was not authorized to do so.
At any rate, it seems that you need to add a 26-dollar plan to your already existing voice plan so you can travel abroad with the iPhone (not with any other phone) and be able not to get roaming charges. Now, if that was it, I would’ve have kept my phone, but the truth is that on top of this monthly 26-dollar charge, you would only be able to make calls at the “standard rate,” meaning if costs about $1.50 - $3.00 per minute depending which area of a respective country you are in.
Let me break this down to you:
$59.99 (voice plan) + $20.00 (data plan) + $10.00 (additional SMS) + $26.00 (int’l roaming) + $6.00 (int’l calling) = $121.99 + tax*
*Price estimated if, and only if, you don’t go over your minutes and/or SMS
If none of this has made you rethink your two-year contract, think of it this way. An unlocked smartphone costs around $300.00 and a mylo™ costs around $299.99, both of which are internet devices that have similar, if not all, capabilities of the iPhone. Why should consumers pay so much for so little?
