Comments on: Is the Apple iPhone really the worst phone in the world? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/04/is-the-apple-iphone-really-the-worst-phone-in-the-world/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/04/is-the-apple-iphone-really-the-worst-phone-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-225789 DavidB Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:02:59 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=21391#comment-225789 My thinking is pretty much in line with JohnJ. Most of the "phone" related complaints about iPhone would be better directed at AT&T as provider. Many of the same complaints can be found regardless of the brand. Yet, a LOT of the problems with AT&T's network in the USA are specifically BECAUSE of the iPhone. Their network just can't keep up with the volume of iPhone usage which has caused ALL users of AT&T's 3G network to suffer reduced call and data quality. The other thing to keep in mind is that 99% of the people who DON'T have a problem with their iPhone DON'T go posting about that on tech blogs. So these sorts of compilations are most often the "vocal minority". If it was REALLY this bad across the board, people would be returning them in droves. And they're not. My thinking is pretty much in line with JohnJ. Most of the “phone” related complaints about iPhone would be better directed at AT&T as provider. Many of the same complaints can be found regardless of the brand. Yet, a LOT of the problems with AT&T’s network in the USA are specifically BECAUSE of the iPhone. Their network just can’t keep up with the volume of iPhone usage which has caused ALL users of AT&T’s 3G network to suffer reduced call and data quality.

The other thing to keep in mind is that 99% of the people who DON’T have a problem with their iPhone DON’T go posting about that on tech blogs. So these sorts of compilations are most often the “vocal minority”. If it was REALLY this bad across the board, people would be returning them in droves. And they’re not.

]]> By: JohnJ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/04/is-the-apple-iphone-really-the-worst-phone-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-225767 JohnJ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52:32 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=21391#comment-225767 Re: Dave's comment "Who gives a ..." Apparently you do. You came here to read the post, after all. Re: iPhone as a phone This is a good thing to mention. As a user of a smartphone that isn't an iPhone I hear the virtues of the iPhone and the criticisms of AT&T all the time. That includes dropped calls. It ahs generally sounded like the bulk of iPhone issues were actually with AT&T. I've not really heard about the other problems mentioned - speaker placement/volume, phone not ringing, etc. So perhaps the reason this hasn't affected sales is because people just don't hear/read about those problems. That the problems are brought up in forums but not in the mainstream tech media. While c|net's headline is grandstanding, at least it publicizes problems with the device that the average person doesn't hear about. Re: Dave’s comment “Who gives a …”

Apparently you do. You came here to read the post, after all.

Re: iPhone as a phone

This is a good thing to mention. As a user of a smartphone that isn’t an iPhone I hear the virtues of the iPhone and the criticisms of AT&T all the time. That includes dropped calls. It ahs generally sounded like the bulk of iPhone issues were actually with AT&T.

I’ve not really heard about the other problems mentioned – speaker placement/volume, phone not ringing, etc. So perhaps the reason this hasn’t affected sales is because people just don’t hear/read about those problems. That the problems are brought up in forums but not in the mainstream tech media.

While c|net’s headline is grandstanding, at least it publicizes problems with the device that the average person doesn’t hear about.

]]> By: No Droid is http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/04/is-the-apple-iphone-really-the-worst-phone-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-225670 No Droid is Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:56:36 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=21391#comment-225670 Droid has its weak spots, The big one is polish and simplicity; the Droid just doesn’t have enough. Techies may go nuts over its flexibility, but normal people are in for some floundering. Sometimes the keyboard doesn’t light up when it should. Sometimes the screen image doesn’t rotate when it should. The camera has an LED flash, which helps at close range at night, but the camera itself is balky and slow to focus and fire. You can record videos (at a high 720 by 480 resolution, although they don’t look any sharper) and upload them to YouTube, but you can’t trim the dead air off the ends first. The Droid doesn’t work outside the United States, as the iPhone does. There’s no iTunes-like auto-synching software. The Droid’s Web browser is good, but slower than the iPhone’s. And you have to zoom in and out by tapping +/- buttons or double-tapping the screen. That is, you can’t control how much to zoom, so you get far less control (and pleasure) than “pinching and spreading” with two fingers on the iPhone and Palm Pre. Ditto with maps and photos. The real bummer, though, is the apps. The Android Market may offer 12,000 of them, but the iPhone store has 100,000 — and over all, they seem to be more useful and imaginative. There’s not much room for the apps on the Droid, either, apps have to be stored in a 560-megabyte chunk of built-in memory. Droid has its weak spots, The big one is polish and simplicity; the Droid just doesn’t have enough. Techies may go nuts over its flexibility, but normal people are in for some floundering. Sometimes the keyboard doesn’t light up when it should. Sometimes the screen image doesn’t rotate when it should. The camera has an LED flash, which helps at close range at night, but the camera itself is balky and slow to focus and fire. You can record videos (at a high 720 by 480 resolution, although they don’t look any sharper) and upload them to YouTube, but you can’t trim the dead air off the ends first.
The Droid doesn’t work outside the United States, as the iPhone does. There’s no iTunes-like auto-synching software. The Droid’s Web browser is good, but slower than the iPhone’s. And you have to zoom in and out by tapping +/- buttons or double-tapping the screen. That is, you can’t control how much to zoom, so you get far less control (and pleasure) than “pinching and spreading” with two fingers on the iPhone and Palm Pre. Ditto with maps and photos. The real bummer, though, is the apps. The Android Market may offer 12,000 of them, but the iPhone store has 100,000 — and over all, they seem to be more useful and imaginative.
There’s not much room for the apps on the Droid, either, apps have to be stored in a 560-megabyte chunk of built-in memory.

]]> By: Dave http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/11/04/is-the-apple-iphone-really-the-worst-phone-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-225652 Dave Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:59:40 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=21391#comment-225652 Who gives a shit what you think? Who gives a shit what you think?

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