For as many impressive features as the iPhone packs in to its tiny frame, it's missing just as many. Some of the absent features can be added via firmware updates, some won't appear until the second-generation model--and some likely won't be added at all
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apps like drawing and painting? I'd love to have a mobile sketchpad with the
precision of a stylus for input. I know current iPhones only work via direct touch
input, but is there a synthetic substitute one could put on a stylus to do the
same thing? And whatever happened to 'ink' handwriting recognition? You'd
need a stylus for that, too. Maybe they're still haunted by the Newton. Also, a
wi-fi/bluetooth phone with no wireless sync option? Come on, Apple...
anxiously awaiting your 2nd or 3rd generation product...
Seems like the only thing that might marginally pass for the claimed "revolutionary" is the somewhat new input mode. that's about it. other than that, it's more like a piece of you know what.
hope this helps any further potential customers that havent yet been swayed by the hype
And that is just the start of the new Wing's capabilities.
When I got an LG much to my amazment it worked and worked well. When you just can't dial for some reason you can't beat voice as an option.
For less then $600 you can get a perfect Sony Ericsson 3G phone with expandable mp3 player and all of services that you may want to use in 21 Century, like streaming video and video conference.
- IPHONE IS NOT A PHONE
- by gustaugus July 10, 2007 10:07 PM PDT
- I BOUGHT MY IPHONE AND I LOVED IT, NICE SLIM BEAUTIFUL GADGETS AND MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE, SO I SIGNED UP FOR AN IPHONE WORKSHOP AT THE APPLE STORE. AFTER TALKING TO THE "GENIUS" I REALIZED THAT YOU CAN ERASE ONE PHONE CALLED MADE OR RECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO ERASE THE WHOLE BUNCH. I SAID OK NOT THAT IMPORTANT, BUT STILL SURPRISED SINCE THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS PHONE WAS 5 YEARS AHEAD OF ANY OTHER PHONE. AFTER TALKING MORE TO THE GENIUS, WE AND I MEAN "WE" REALIZED THAT THE IPHONE DON'T ALERT YOU OF THE MISSING CALLS, OR MISSING MESSAGES?????
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(17 Comments)YES BELIEVE IT OR NOT WHAT YOU CAN GET IN THE MOST INSIGNIFICANT PHONE IN THE MARKET YOU CAN'T GET WITH THE IPHONE. ONCE THE PHONE GOES BLACK NO SIGNS NO NOISE NO ONE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU LOST A CALL OR A MESSAGE.
THE APPLE "GENIUS" TOLD ME THAT I HAVE TO CHECK MYSELF, THAT MEANS TURN THE PHONE ONE EVERY FIVE MINUTES TO CHECK THAT YOU DIDN'T LOOSE AN IMPORTANT PHONE CALL OR MESSAGE.
VERY SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED I INFORMED TO THE APPLE GENIUS THAT I WILL BE RETURNING THE BEAUTIFUL GADGET UNTIL THEY MAKE IT A PHONE.