Brit Blog Names iPhone 'Worlds Worst'

Krunk83 · 11-06-2009, 03:58 PM

Interesting read.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...ily-love_money

MrEous · 11-06-2009, 04:14 PM

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 · 11-06-2009, 04:16 PM

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

psylichon · 11-06-2009, 04:20 PM

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

Londonrockz568 · 11-06-2009, 04:28 PM

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 · 11-06-2009, 04:29 PM

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 · 11-06-2009, 04:31 PM

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 · 11-06-2009, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Krunk83

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

Krunk83 · 11-06-2009, 04:47 PM

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 · 11-06-2009, 04:50 PM

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!