Comments on: 11 things iPhone is missing

By: mark palmos

mark palmos — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:24:06 +0000

SEVERAL MORE

1/ iphone cannot be used as a modem

2/ you cannod drag and drop folders with music to the ipod, so you have to use the proprietory cable and itunes which is awful compared to iriver or cowon or meizu etc which allow you to drag and drop a folder with images, text, music etc directly to the mp3 player and you can browse to that folder to read text reviews, biogs about the artist, look at all the album art full screen while listening.

3/ cannot view offline html pages that you copy to the iphone, for example Allmusic.com biog pages of an artist which you would save to the same mp3 folder in your music library.

4/ it still comes with the worst earphones in music, ones which emit more noise out the back than the front it seems, simply the worst!

By: Cj

Cj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:21:13 +0000

The volume qualtiy when playing music is terrible. The phone needs to be alot louder. As loud or louder than the T-Mobile dash

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:17:58 +0000

I too was one of those people; highly anticipating the launch of the new iphone. Thanks to one of my friends (Cingular), I knew about the iphone over a year before the gossip/rumor sites did. I had already purchased a Treo 600 and had upgraded SEVERAL times until I finally upgraded to what I believe to be the MOTHER of all PDA phones on the market. I have had this phone since March of 06′ and never experienced ANY problems with it………..until the battery finally gave out. This phone ACTUALLY DOES everything that everyone wishes the iphone did. This phone works and acts just like a mini-pc; but without all of the problems that you normally have with your computer. Additionally, this phone is already GPS enabled and works freakishly well. This phone is the HP IPAQ 6515. Sadly enough, I will still purchase the iphone once it comes out with a version that has even a fraction of my current phones capabilities just because I am such a fan of Apple products and want a “matching set”. In the mean time, I will enjoy the fact that I have a pretty solid device that has all of the bells & whistles that everyone wants in their iphone.

By: tensility

tensility — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:11:00 +0000

After one evening of emailing, blogging, and web surfing, the absence of copy/paste is my major (number 1, as indicated above) complaint. For all of its issues, this is one thing that Windows Mobile does fairly elegantly with a touch interface (okay, other than the typical Microsoft Word-esque problem of snapping select region to boundaries other than where you are pointing to).

By: Will Park

Will Park — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:12:45 +0000

HAHA, you guys are referencing Star Wars and Star Trek as a basis for a serious argument. I just find that a little funny

But I am a bit of a Trekkie myself, so I’ll stop laughing now

By: dusanb

dusanb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:31:07 +0000

You’re right about it. But I’ve had a chance to try all kinds of touchscreen based keyboards, and no one can match the good ol’ physical keyboard. I’ve also had a chance to try that laser, as well as the fabric keyboard — all of them suck! The feedback is soooo necessary.

On the other hand – you haven’t tried and you’re defending it. I’m just writing from my personal experience with touchscreen keyboards.

Regarding the Star Trek and Star Wars — that’s why it’s called the science FICTION!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:06:48 +0000

Considering you haven’t had a chance to use Apple’s virtual keyboard on the iPhone (and those who have say it’s a non-issue) I’m not sure what you mean by “typing on a touchscreen isnâ€™t hard enough.”

I just want to point out that you never saw a keyboard once anywhere in Star Wars or Star Trek. I guess you must have been the guy in the back of the theater saying “What, no keyboard in the future?? That sucks. How do they type anything?”

By: Will Park

Will Park — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:54:26 +0000

If you want to get all “Conspiracy Theory” about it – Apple could have purposely left out features to entice customers into buying the iPhone 2.0 (that would be very Apple of them)

On the flip side, updates will fix most missing features. And as Apple’s first foray into the mobile world, I think it prudent that they decided not to tackle GPS or 3G quite yet.

By: dusanb

dusanb — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:24:52 +0000

Thanks Alessandro for the heads up. I’ve missed that one.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:02:47 +0000

As for #8, I suspect that’s because there are many online word processors that work fine.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:32:29 +0000

Ciao

the N95, E90 have Flash Lite 2 not 2.1!
I am not surprised about the missing capabilities, more revenue for Apple, right? They did not want to pay licensing fees for Flash or for 3G chip!!

Alessandro

By: t3styler

t3styler — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:17:51 +0000

It’s also missing 3g capability and a dedent amount of megapixels. 2mp in 2007 without a flash? crappy

pure poser phone