I got to handle an iPhone for an extended period of time today and after it was all said and done…DO NOT WANT.
I know. I’m just as shocked as you are. However, while I love gadgets and convenience and shiny new things and big screens on phones, I do not like:
- being unable to backspace without erasing Sandy corrected me on this in the comments.
- no copy or paste
- the million hoops you have to go through to set up the damn thing
- the price tag on the data plan
- NO TACTILE KEYBOARD
- NO MMS – I mean, honestly, why bother with a camera function if you can’t send an MMS?
I just don’t think the iPhone has made it to the same level as the Blackberry. Oh sure, I was dazzled by the giant screen. And sure, the touch screen aspect is cool. But that’s about it. I wouldn’t mind if my Blackberry Curve’s screen was bigger, but not at the cost of losing my TACTILE KEYBOARD.
So iPhone? Not so much.
I’m sticking with what works well for me.
Um, you can backspace. You just put your finger over the sentence and it turns it into a big fisheye type thing and you go where you need.
But I’m really with you on the whole thing. I’m surrounded here by these iPhones and the only thing I love about it is the ability to find restaurants that fit into my damned food restrictions.
Is it scary in AL today? Big storms?
I agree about the MMS. It doesn’t bother me that M can’t send them to my phone as much as it bothers me that he can’t get them from mine. That little drawback doesn’t seem to bother him at all. It’s nice to live in a country with options.
My boss is looking to replace our Blackberrys with I -phones…scary!…my big question is how long is that touch screen (as cool as it is) really gonna last? I am Mac girl as we all know but I mean, my blackberry pearl is being held together with gaffers tape right now…I don’t think an I-phone would be able to survive my wrath.
I was recently confronted with an iPod that a child had left in my Suburban. It was playing music through the earbuds. Figuring that this would run down the battery and the young lady would be crestfallen on the return drive from Lake Tahoe…
But I couldn’t figure out how to simply turn it off. So I just unplugged the earbuds.
Is it THAT hard to have an actual power switch? You know, the kind that disconnects the battery from the electronics?
I’m getting a second-hand iTouch for this reason. Well, that and I don’t have AT&T. I basically figure I’ve got my EnV, so the iTouch can do everything else I would want an iPhone for. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.