Comments on: iPhone 3G: What we didn't get

The iPhone 3G brought many new promises, but it didn't give us a lot of things we expected.

[tekwiz4u]

The Diamond is MS mobile...who wants that? Like I said, MS mobile too dated.

[cervante1]

Touch Diamond huh? Now that is the features I would expect from the new iphone...

[tekwiz4u]

Diamond is no where near iPhone. Just because it has a 'Start' button doesn't mean its a less of a phone.

[cervante1]

uhm... looking at the features the Diamond is far ahead of the new Iphone (except internal storage). I can't see one thing you can do on the iphone that you cannot do on the diamond. I can see many things you can't do on the iphone on the other hand...

I think I will wait for a refurbished one. This one is great for the folks that depend on Exchange.

[khimari05]

The whole keynote was wierd. They drag out the whole"new sdk" apps..wow..whoop de doo..then he just rushes into the iphone. They thoroughly went thru everything else. I was very disappointed by the iphone's presentation. I felt like it should have gotten more attention. After all this is what everybody came to see right? Then it hit me...$199....Jobs didn't want to do that. And he's not going to a)give us all those wonderful features we wished for and b)spend time on a device he had to price cut to meet his quota. if it was $600, he'd of talked about it all day. And to answer the million dollar question:why doesn't iphone have MMS?" Because Jobs wants to promote his own product. He wants you and your friend to have iphones. MMS would take away from from things like say...Mobile Me....or god forbid let the iphone communicate with a windows mobile device. Its all business, Apple has to proclaim its independence, and if that means leaving out cellphone features that have been since the turn of the century.....so be it.

[iforeigner]

Seen the light!? Quotas to be met by Mr. Jobs - that's what it is all about. Rushing the iPhone presentation - when a thief robs your house he doesn't stay for a chat and a beer with you, does he!? Ten years ago some mobile phones had better specs than some of the ones offered by the iPhone 3G. Who on earth still uses a 2MP camera!?

[wantzep]

This was a developer conference not a iPhone conference. That's why the emphasis on the SDK. Plus all the major UI features were already demonstrated in depth by Jobs last year.

[cbrown0417]

I have to admit, I was uber-excited for the 3G iPhone. Imagine, MMS, cut and paste, landscape mode for email and SMS, video capture, maybe even a 4 or better yet, a 5 Megapixel camera. Alas, none of the above! Lets face it, this is a whole hearted disappointment. I returned my 2.5G iPhone for a Blackberry Curve about a year ago and was looking forward to the upgraded version of the iPhone to replace my aging handset. Unfortunately the upgrade is only one of internet speed, which lets face it, even on a mobile device that has such a gorgeous screen is painfully small in comparison to my Macbook Pro. (I drop the Macbook reference for those of you who think I am bashing Apple.) Trust me I am not. I am a huge Apple fan and when they get the iPhone right, I will sing its praises, but its just not there yet.

[dbtwin28]

This does NOT meet my expectations. The iphone IS much improves, but it still can't do what a simple cell can do. NO MMS is a let down. I could really care less about voice commands and video recording.

[wantzep]

Get yourself a proper camera.

[khimari05]

Well just look at the bright side..it'll get hacked....then we'll get 75% of what we wanted anyway. Go Nerds!!!

[swrobel]

Uhh, video calling!

[iforeigner]

Seen the light!? Quotas to be met by Mr. Jobs - that's what it is all about. Rushing the iPhone presentation - when a thief robs your house he doesn't stay for a chat and a beer with you, does he!? Ten years ago some mobile phones had better specs than some of the ones offered by the iPhone 3G. Who on earth still uses a 2MP camera!?

[wantzep]

Go buy a Nikon D3

[IWantItNowPleaze]

With Push Email, how necessary is MMS? Also, can we definitively rule out copy and paste at this time?

I have had five phones with voice dialing with various operating systems on various carriers, and none of them were even mildly reliable. Typical attempt at using the feature:

Me: "Dial June Smith's cell phone."
Phone: "Dial Jerry Tiller's cell phone?"
Me: "NO!"
Phone: "Dialing Jerry Tiller's cell phone."
Me: "Mother F$#%@&!"

I think this article/post is grasping at straws. Rather than focus on the few things missing, show me one phone that combines all the the niceties of the iPhone and executes them better. Good luck.

[lawgone]

How necessary is MMS? Have you ever had a girl try to send you a picture message, perhaps even a risque one? Try telling her you didn't get it and that you'd appreciate if she just email it to you. Then explain what Push Email is. Let me tell ya, it is usually followed by, "Oh. Never mind." or, and this is the best one, "I thought you had an iPhone." Then you get to say "I do, but it doesn't get picture messages." Then she says, "Didn't you pay like $600 for it?" And then you get to look like a TOTAL IDIOT and say, "Yes, but my geek friends and I were sure we'd have a firmware update addressing it by now." How necessary is MMS? Please.

[tekwiz4u]

Lol...It's funny how teenie bopper Lawgone explains the need for MMS. MMS is old technology, but carriers love them because of the usage. So go ahead and run up that bill.

[markdc1]

None of the other phones that people mention have as good of a browser as the iPhone. But, there is no price cut, they're getting the extra $200 by increasing the data plan by $10 (10x24=$240). I'll probably get one in the Winter.

[wantzep]

And you drink $4 lattes everyday for the next 2 years = 4 * 2 * 365 = $2920. Do the math.

[khimari05]

the nokia n95 or 96....and my nokia n-series....they don't have all the splendor of the iphone....but voice commands work fine. Iphone is a gimmick. Nokia is the truth.

[IWantItNowPleaze]

Nokias are fine phones, but "Nokia is the truth."

Ok, now who is drinking the KoolAid?

[lancerobbins]

I have been anxiously awaiting this day for quite some time as I'm not into jumping on 1st gen products. I like to wait around for the next version and...lets just say I'm disapointed I waited for this. Sure GPS was a huge want, and 3G is nice to have when visiting Chicago (South Bend, IN does not have 3G access), but some other nicities would have made it worth the wait. 4 megapixels was expected, flash, copy/paste and I was expecting them to follow suit of the ipod touch (which I have a 16GB) in respects to memory. I was hoping for a 16GB and a 32GB options for the 3G iphone. I agree w/ the comments from khimari05....had this thing been loaded up and cost $600, it would have had all the pomp and circumstance I was expecting. I was expecting to spend that much for the top of the line loaded up 32GB gen 2 and now I'm reluctantly going to by a 16GB with half the options I wanted (granted at half the price). Maybe I'll get a HTC TYTN II......we'll see.

[slmandel]

Spoken so well I'll just say ditto. Yes, a fine product but so many disappointing omissions... i think this is 1.5, not 2.0; I'm waiting.

[re_illumination]

no MMS. disappointing.

[pmhirsch]

I would have liked to see the iPhone work on other cell phone providers, such as Verizon or Sprint.

[slmandel]

Verizon is so superior in solidity of coverage in SW Los Angeles - no drops - I can't affort the loss of business caused by other carriers.

[oneomniscient]

let's see, apple included 3G and GPS in the new iphone and left out MMS and video recording, etc... why?

if people would stop complaining and actually think about it they would notice that 3G and GPS are hardware upgrades that need to be done before launching a new device. MMS, video, etc. can and will be created either via a software upgrade or third party apps after the fact. apple correctly focused it's resources in upgrading the phone itself and is leaving the sofware developing up to the developing community. that's genius in my book... especially since they will get to vett all the apps before releasing them.

[koala72]

how is that genius, most people who buy these phones won't even touch the addons people make. They won't even know about them.

So people will miss out on basic features.

Apple are awesome at leaving out basic features, they have done it with iPods for years.
It just comes natural for them to be frugal with basic features.

[khimari05]

i was kidding about nokia being the truth, I was just proving a point(the kool-aid line was funny by the way). nokia makes phones that work. period. ive never had a problem with a nokia phone. and they take beating like and keep on ticking. i hate that the iphone is now the benchmark that phones now have to beat. How does a phone that has less features than a kyocera..become top dog? Maybe kyocera is reaching but people..Steve let us down big time..and he did it on purpose. Thats why hackers are in such abundance. They represent the millions of scorned consumers who just want more...Why can't steve give us more? Doesn't he read these blogs, the newspapers? Hasn't he at least seen a jailbroken ipod? Does he live under a rock?

[IWantItNowPleaze]

Has anyone verified whether voice dialing on the iPhone is not a service one can get through AT&T? I have Sprint, and on many of their phones, voice dialing is a service you order. This may have been part of the Apple/AT&T agreement they worked out prior to the release of the iPhone 1.0. Someone with an iPhone, please let us know.

[DrtyDogg]

Most likely will be available from the app store.

[cdtphilpot]

It is official Cnet is staff by a bunch of whining babies who are never satisfied. I've had an iPhone since launch and I will buy the new iPhone next month and I have no desire for any of the features you Cnet babies are crying about other than maybe MMS. Oh wait I have a laptop to look at pictures!!

[tekwiz4u]

Geez people....unless you're a teenie bopper, MMS are for kids. Who cares if it doesn't have it.

[seanh1231]

Hmm... that's about the most false claim I've ever heard. MMS is a feature that should be in the 3G iPhone and should have been in the original. Period. No matter how you put it, MMS is a basic feature that just about every single phone released in recent history has. Stop making excuses for its absence. Just admit that Apple messed up... again. (I am not bashing Apple, I actually love Apple)