[reeko]

OK, i have an iPhone. I bought it from ebay, i unlocked it at 1.1.1 and installed anysim as i thought the contracts being offered made the phone a joke. Using installer i have installed many many useful apps and managed to upgrade my phone to newer firmwares etc etc.

This is not hard, you do not need to be einstein to do this.

However, i have friends who say the iPhone is overpriced and a waste of time; "You cant send or recieve MMS", "You have to buy your music", "You can't even video record", it goes on and on.

Now, the problem is, they say, "look at <www.insertmobilephonereviewernamewebsitehere.co m> and look at the reviews on my nokia N95/ sony ericsson w960i and then look at the iPhone reviews, my phone pwns yours!" , and you look, and indeed, the n95 and w960i completely pwn the iphone on every single phone review site i have seen.

Now, you use their phone, have a little fiddle with it blah blah, its blocky, slow, not as user friendly, just crap compared to the iphone.

You try and explain the differences, and then try and explain jailbreaking/unlocking and "installer". They don't understand.

this is just a rant but i wondered if anyone else gets this cause it is doing my head in. i use other phones and then i use my iphone, and all the so called "competitors" to the iphone are quite simply miles and miles away from being even close to as good.

also, i would love to sit down with the online phone reviewers who mock the iphone for its lack of "video camera", "MMS send/recieve" etc. etc. and say, "if your so clever and up to date with your phones/gadgets why can you not review the iphone with installer installed, with all the 3rd party apps offered??"

And to the people who say, "i would buy an iphone but there to expensive", dont get one on a friggin contract! Then again, if you think getting the iphone on a contract is the only way to get it, maybe your not ready for it!

If you agree with this or get any of this at all post a reply, if not just ignore my rant.

thankyou and goodnight.

[agentfubu]

See, everyone just needs a phone to unleash their anger on. The mobile community likes to unload onto the iPhone, because it's easy to attack. It doesn't have this, that, yadda yadda. I know what you mean, it makes me mad to read these reviews. Most people I bet write reviews for the iPhone like that because they can't afford one themselves so they don't want other people to have a "better" phone than them.

I've had many phones, and this has been the best phone. All reviews of the iPhone look at are the negative points. People need to start focusing on the positives.

[Imahottguy]

I totally agree. IMO, mms is getting old. If you want to send UNLIMITED pics, do it via email! That's why I like the iPhone. I don't have to pay anymore money, so that I can send picture/video/whatever messages... (Yes I know that at&t charges $5.00 of the 'iphone plan' for texting, however it is still more convient to email than text) The sites that review phones just want to put this device down because it's the first. Nokia has made phones forever, as well as SE, but this is the first apple phone so it cannot possibly be as good as the hype. I personally don't care for the UI of both Sony and nokia phones. that's alright though, because unlike other mobile phone makers, ours gives us f/w updates frequently, AND they have new features in each update

[GenghisPhlip]

My only real source of contention over the iPhone is the lack of flash. MMS and video? Trivial as far as i'm concerned.

[PSP2006]

I really like my iPhone and it fits all of my needs.

Other people are entitled to their opinions on it, but opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one !

At the end of the day it's not a competition, if it works for you and you like it thats all that matters.

[Eurisko]

I would find any website that rates other phones like the N95 highly suspect and completely biased. Reviewers have a hate on for the iPhone because of its popularity, which makes any new technology a target. I even saw one review that said one of the sore points of the iPhone is that you can't text in the rain. Who the frick does!

When your friends try to tell you how much better their phones are, just ask for their comments on why the iPhone is now leading the wireless market share in the short period of time its been out. A record I may add. Then watch them stumble and retort with some idiotic response.

[ellicit]

I've used a lot of phone, and nothing can compar to an unlocked iPhone yet

[reeko]

i read some of the comments on the reviewers websites from so called customers and some of the things they write is just unbelievable?!?! i wish i had the time to quote them all right here.

most things people comment on about the iphone are just uneducated hate. i can deal with this and tell people the simple fixes for stupid things like video recording, MMS etc.

the one that has really got me though is the whole GPS thing, i can't even argue with that?!?! i mean, not being able to send music over bluetooth, i understand because of itunes legallity. no 3G, i understand because of battery draining, im happy with edge. other than those 2 there is only really 1 other criticism worth mentioning, GPS.

ive had my iphone for 4 months now. i love it. i have used the latest SE w960i. it sucks. i have used the N95, not even close. i cant see myself ever changing from the iphone for a long time.

but how can you argue with GPS??

[UV RAYS]

How Can You Get An Iphone W/out A Contract?????

[GenghisPhlip]

It really does not matter to us what others think of our phones. If they want to carry an inferior piece of junk then let them do it.

[Imahottguy]

They will eventually eat their words. The first Nokia had a calculator display... The first Apple (phone) had a multi-touch display, the first in a mobile phone. Hmm... Ya know?? Seriously though, GPS on a phone really isn't necessary, as it has become a standard in new vehicles. I love how the reviews say: 'No GPS, No 3G = Not revolutionary'. Really though, in order for a device like that to be able to boast a slim figure AND great battery life, it would need to not have 3G. Also, I'd love to see how many people lined up outside of the Nokia store waiting for the N95; I Found a vid on youtube, and the author said that the line was 'down to the end of a block'. GASP! lol . There are just so many people that want to hate this device. They cannot stand the fact that their device got pwn'd by a device with a couple fewer features!

[reeko]

i know man, i mean if your reading this and haven't checked out any of the online reviews of the iphone give it a google and let us know what you think of peoples criticism of it. i wonder what the most laughable criticism someone has made is? can't text in rain is pretty bad.....

[dale1v]

I've been on a forum where a person thought the iPhone flopped in terms of global sales (he thought it was 90 000) I promptly shut him up.
I have a friend who has an N95 8GB. He screams at how his phone is better because of the camera, but what he doesn't like to mention is that he's had FIVE replacements for the N95 previously because of unprovoked and unrecoverable software and hardware defects. He shut himself up. My girlfriend hates it because she thinks that it gets more attention from me than she does, lol.

[slbgeo]

People who cut down the iPhone are either too cheap too buy one, or too stupid to begin tapping into it's full-blown potential.

that would be, "too cheap TO buy one..." (self-correcting ranter)

[haza]

def agreed.
the only thing i'd ever change about the iphone is flash capability.
other than that, we are def miles ahead of everyone else when it comes to having phones that pretty much let us do anything, once we jailbreak them.

their phones have limitations too, the only difference is that this phone is actually worth tapping into its full potential...

and as far as pricing i payed 300 for my iphone, off craigslist. completely brand new, with 1.1.2 installed, and i pay 10 dollars less for the unlimited texting, and internet than i did before when i had a blackjack, on at&t.
so it doesn't cost more at all.