Brit Blog Names iPhone 'Worlds Worst'

[Krunk83]

Interesting read.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108096/brit-Blog-names-iPhone-worlds-worst.html?mod=family-love_money

[MrEous]

Not very interesting when you think about the 'points of failure' for the iphone.

Say What?
Call quality on the iPhone is pathetic, and it's mostly because of the tiny speaker. It has to be aligned with your ear canal with the accuracy of a laser-guided ninja doing cataract surgery, or else the volume cuts down to nothing as the sound waves bounce uselessly around your ear shells.
I have never had this issue...maybe I just clean my ears too well in the shower?
Dropped Calls and Data Gaps
If, like Will Smith in Enemy of the State, you're trying to avoid the eagle eye of Big Brother, the iPhone. could be for you. It drops calls, fails to connect and doesn't even ring sometimes — not for everyone, but more often than any other phone we're currently using.
I have had this issue...but so have others with AT&T and other carriers on different phones!! near where I live.
You Can't Answer If it Doesn't Ring
Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail… or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute.
The wife and I have never had this issue, we are both iphone users. Truthfully, I don't personally know anyone with an iphone that has had this issue.
The iPhone Might Burn Your Face Off
According to our ultra-sciencey test, it is extremely unlikely that the iPhone will burn your face off… Nevertheless, pressing a large, flat surface to your cheek is always going to be sweaty… Thus the current trend for people to walk down the street with their phones on hands-free, yelling into the mike at the bottom while they hold the rest of the phone away from their faces.
The author is reaaallllly reaching for a complaint on this one. What iphone-sized-phone that rests on your face doesn't cause this? I'm not usually on my cell phone for an hour straight so I really don't have this issue though.
iPhone Battery Life
A couple of hours of Google Maps over 3G and you'll be lost in the woods without even the possibility of phoning for help. Compare that to the good old days when your phone would last a week without charging, and you'll wonder why you ever bothered to switch.
Show me a phone with large touchscreen that will last longer than a day on a single charge, with using above said apps. This isn't iphone-specific and hugely a moot point.
The iPhone Sucks — So What?
If the iPhone is inaudible, unconnected, on fire and out of battery, why is the thing so popular? The fact is, although the iPhone is the worst phone in the world, it's the best handheld computer there is.
Opinions are a wonderful thing on the internet...it's just too bad when one as biased and full of holes as this one makes the 'front page', so to speak.

[Krunk83]

I've had all of the issues. Just today I had two calls go straight to voicemail with full bars.

[psylichon]

Gee, hyperbolize much? Someone got out of bed on the wrong side...

[Londonrockz568]

It annoys me when idiot people blame the actual device when it comes to call issue.

Lets not forget... the device is just a device that is capable. Anything when it comes to calling etc, is from the service provider.

[psylichon]

Not necessarily. A device can have a bad radio. But I think based on all anecdotal evidence I've seen, the iPhone does not have an intrinsic problem with its radio. Writers who make broad assumptions based on personal experiences annoy me.

[Krunk83]

I agree, I think it's mostly AT&T because I have had lots of problems with them and service, dropped calls, calls going straight to voicemail.

But you have to admit that some of these things are true whether you are an iPhone fan or not.

[psylichon]

But you have to admit that some of these things are true whether you are an iPhone fan or not.

Um... not really. They may be true, but take away the connection issues and you're left with "it makes your face sweaty and the battery life isn't as good as a dumbphone." I'm sorry, those are not compelling arguments for the iPhone being "the worst phone in the world"

I can't even take that article seriously :dft002:amazed

[Krunk83]

So, your phone doesn't drop calls, get super hot after talking for 30 minutes, calls go straight to VM randomly, battery dies in four hours, 3g network doesn't work, or people can't understand what you are saying?

Want to swap phones?

I def wouldn't call it the worst phone in the world though. The Q takes that prize.

[psylichon]

So, your phone doesn't drop calls, -no, network issue

get super hot after talking for 30 minutes, -no

calls go straight to VM randomly, -no, network issue

battery dies in four hours, -no, got an exchange for that and it's great

3g network doesn't work, -no, network issue

or people can't understand what you are saying? -nope. again, that's probably network-related.

Want to swap phones? -nope! ;)

[Krunk83]

Damn! Then my phone and AT&T in Chicago SUCKS! I can't take my phone in for a new battery because I am past my warranty and I am getting the 3gs in two weeks anyways. Lets hope I get a good battery in that one.

[TarekElsakka]

I bet the author owns 2G, 3G, and 3GS.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I saw this posted on the Pre forum. What a stretch.

[juls1585]

Damn! Then my phone and AT&T in Chicago SUCKS! I can't take my phone in for a new battery because I am past my warranty and I am getting the 3gs in two weeks anyways. Lets hope I get a good battery in that one.

chicagos at&t service does suck. ive found that tall buildings really destroy your service. its very similar in nyc, but there the streets arent as compact i feel as chicagos.

[KabaModern]

Wow, really? Like Dave said, take out most likely provider-based issues, and you're left with what.... NOTHING. A sweaty face and a battery. Good god. Go cry some more.

I've never had one issue listed there with any of my iPhones.

[Youngbinks]

I don't get why some people insist on hating the iPhone simply because so many other people love it. It's beyond me.

[Krunk83]

Wow, really? Like Dave said, take out most likely provider-based issues, and you're left with what.... NOTHING. A sweaty face and a battery. Good god. Go cry some more.

I've never had one issue listed there with any of my iPhones.

This is my jealous face Kaba....:004:drooling

Hopefully I will have a fully functional, bug free 3gs in a week or so.

[KabaModern]

This is my jealous face Kaba....:004:drooling

Hopefully I will have a fully functional, bug free 3gs in a week or so.

LOL, I can't believe your iPhone is having those problems. I've been through almost 4 iPhone 3Gs and 2 iPhone V1s and never had any of the problems these haters are writing about.

[Krunk83]

I know, me either. I think it is a problem with at&t and that has effect on my batter. When 3.1 hit I had serious problems with signal and battery and had many posts on here about it, you can probably find them if you look hard enough. My phone would show a full signal and nothing would work. Then the phone would just erase everything I had on it and I would have to restore and start all over. Same with my wife's phone. My battery has been awful ever since then. Apple actually contacted me to give them some feedback on what was happening on my phone but i never did. Oh well.

[Londonrockz568]

I don't get why some people insist on hating the iPhone simply because so many other people love it. It's beyond me.

If a product is of good quality there will always be haters.

[Tinman]

I heard an interesting interview/review, if you will, on NPR yesterday. It was on the Droid and the guy talking about it was from Engadget. The theme of the interview was if the Droid was an iPhone killer. The interviewer was rather savvy in that he mentioned two other would-be iPhone-killers that fizzled (I believe the BB Storm and Palm Pre were the two he mentioned).

The guy from Endgadget kind of went on and on about what the Droid could do that the iPhone could not (but it did not seem like an iPhone attack). Some of it was carrier specific, as he apparently had a healthy sip of Verizon Kool-Aid. He also went into customization, multitasking, etc.

But when the interviewer asked him point-blank if he had to choose between the Droid and the iPhone which would it be... he didn't take long to say the iPhone. I swear I heard the interviewer chuckle.



--
Mike

[cliffeman]

If a product is of good quality there will always be haters.

Gawd knows everyone's got to complain about something! :dft002:amazed