Comments on: Quick Quotes: iPhone 3.0 Edition

By: A Personal Challenge to Steve Jobs « Joe Wilcox

A Personal Challenge to Steve Jobs « Joe Wilcox — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:04 +0000

[...] iPhone 3.0 OS: More of the same, only better. Sure, developers can now charge customers from within apps, but they’ve still got no Flash (from Adobe). [...]

By: NickH

NickH — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:36:38 +0000

As in not “what the fuck!”, but “how the hell!”

By: billybob

billybob — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:27:39 +0000

I heard someone say that with Apple it is not the ‘what’, it is the ‘how’.

By: whatever

whatever — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:12:06 +0000

What EAS functionality are you missing the most Martin?

By: NickH

NickH — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:56:32 +0000

My current handset is a Sony Ericsson Z600 – its a 5 year old GSM phone – but it works, and its costing me €5 a month to run. The call quality is good, the battery lasts days, I always get a signal. I don’t really want to increase my monthly payments by an order of magnitude just to get a phone that doesn’t last the day without recharge, has margin reception where I am, and poor vocie quality when it does get a signal.

In a nutshell: who needs a slick multitouch UI and 50,000 apps if the basics are a step backwards over the phone I got 5 years ago?

(I don’t mean to single out specifically Apple here. Nothing currently available has really caught my eye, but if I had to choose now, I’d go the the iPhone).

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:30:54 +0000

Hi Joe,

I have to say I can’t disagree with any of the quotes. I am disappointed that Apple have not got round to improving the calendaring and email functionality which really lets the phone down compared to the competition. Why support Activesync and Exchange and then not implement so much of the functionality.

By: Joe Wilcox

Joe Wilcox — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:27:44 +0000

I’m crazy, Nick. While the world welcomes iPhone 3GS, I delight in the Nokia N97.

The people buying last year, whined and complained their way into a sweet deal over here. AT&T caved on upgrade pricing. They’re not entitled, I say.

What handset are you using now, and what’s keeping you back from that new iPhone?

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Quick Quotes: iPhone 3.0 Edition « Joe Wilcox « the mobile tech — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:02:43 +0000

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By: NickH

NickH — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:39:27 +0000

The price of the iPhone didnt go down here (well, its still €1) – more to the point, the 3GS comes in more expensive €99 for the 16Gb edition + 24 months at €45.

This is the closest any smart phone has tempted me so far, but the moths are staying in my wallet a while longer. I’ll get bound in for 2 years, but I when I ask myself this – will something **significantly** better arrive in the next two years, and I think the answer is Yes!. But maybe not in the next year, so I guess the people who got an 3G a year ago got it right.