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Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Mike — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:51:32 -0000

WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO DELETE ALL TEXT MSGS AT ONCE!
I don't wanna jailbreak my phone but I'm getting there fast! I stopped deleting my msgs as it was too cumbersome sitting there tap tap.. tap tap. Meanwhile life is passing by faster than I can delete these stupid texts. 2017 txts now. The stupidity of it all is maddening! I can't believe in the 3.0 upgrade they only gave you the ability to delete "certain parts" of the text message with-in the message? SERIOUSLY?? Who frikn cares about THAT!! "Oh- I wanna delete just this paragraph inside this text & keep the rest! Yay! dum dee dum" If I stinkn wanted to do that, I'd use the COPY & PASTE & save it in my notes! SHEESH! How hard is it ad "delete all" to the texting! 3 frikn phone releases & this has been in the top 5 requests ever since. It's a slap tease to the face with the useless option they DID include. Still love this stupid thing though.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Mackinzy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:10:45 -0000

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD: I agree about the keyboard, but how about the phone allowing the screen sensitivity to use your nail! I find it so convenient to use my nail when texting on other touchscreen phones.

CUSTOMIZATION: People like colors and themes and I want my apps to be in the shapes of hearts instead of squares. I want a flashing light that flashes blue when it is a missed call, red with text, etc. Have specific colors aggigned to text bubbles or incoming contacts. Example: I want Allison green and Erica pink and my boyfriend blue.

RINGTONES: I want to assign a different Ringtone for each person I receive a text from. This way I know who is texting me or even e-mailing me. We can already do this with calling. For example, I want my friend Allison to have her caller ID ringtone be "Thriller," but I want her text message ringtone to be "Beat it." Today, text is the formal way to communicate!

AVATARS or CARTOONS: Be able to edit pics and make them into cartoons like that app on facebook, this way you have more animation popping up rather than boring photos.

WARM/COLD options: Not necessary but would be cool

FONT: Different font and color of text options as well as emocions for text messages/ hearts/faces/clovers, etc.

CAMERA: Double camera lenses, one facing you so you can take self portraits, and one as is

SPEAK TO TEXT: I live in Washington so it is illegal to text and drive (as it should be lol) and there should be a speak to text option for you to spell out loud what you want to say in a text and send it. Also, have a read aloud option so you know what the other person is texting as well

WRITE OUT TEXT: The Samsung Eternity lets you use your nail to write out the letter instead of using the keyboard. Like a chalkboard

MULTITAKER: Be able to drag apps like the Palm Pre

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Eric Davis — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:42:11 -0000

I just bought 3 Iphones for Me, my wife, and my daughter. I love it. Didn't realize how much I couldn't do. I just read about the updates with 3.0 coming out this summer. It will fix most of these problems right? I do have one pet peeve. I have a dead zone inside my house. I can go outside walk about ten feet and get a signal. But inside I get no bars!!! Well when I go upstair and turn the phone a certain angle while sitting on the bed I can get 1 and a half bars. I would like to get rid of my house phone but can't. Is there a real solution to this problem, other than moving? My daughter's boyfriend can stand right next to me with his verizon phone and make calls all day anywhere in the house.This really sucks....

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Marie — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:28:29 -0000

I have an iPod touch 2nd generation....I'm wondering if switching to an iPhone would be better...(my phone is broken) this article has helped a lot:)thnx

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Dadditude — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:00:55 -0000

RE: MFRTRUCKER - You will be able to send/receive pictures via MMS once the 3.0 update comes out this summer, and you can already send and receive pictures via email just fine now. Not too sure about videos, though.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

John — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:04:08 -0000

Oh cry a little more. The 3.0 update takes care of most of those issues. People will just find something to complain about regardless of how good a product is. People are just plain ignorant of what the phone can do. One person said "Ilove the iphone design, but when i read the review i was fedup with the features. There is no
1. USB data cable
2. FM Radio
3. MP3/Video player
4. Storage feature"

Oh really, it is an mp3/video player. It comes with a USB data cable. You can install an app to listen to the radio. You can install an app to use the internal memory as storage. Do some reading people, most of the things in this list are far from being accurate and who really cares about not being able to crop a photo on the phone. Give me a break.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

MFTRUCKER — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:28:11 -0000

What I am hearing (reading) is.the camera sucks. Can you send pictures or videos with texting.Just bought a 16g and not sure I want to keep it. I really enjoy getting pictures of our great grandaughter while trucking

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Hamd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:41:04 -0000

thanks a lot chris i was just going to buy the apple i phone but now after reading the above 25 pionts i,ll not buy this phone once again thank u so much

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Lesli — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:03:11 -0000

My company just told me I had to pick between a Blackberry and an iphone. If it weren't for screen size, I would have not picked blackberry. Not able to upgrade memory with transflash is a huge issue for me. No Video camera and very poor camera. no voice commands, the guy at At and t told me you couldn't use a stylus...but thanks to other sources I found out differently. I wont have a week of patience to train the keyboard...etc. I haven't gotten the phone yet, it will be a week, but I am sure I will find other things as listed above, as well. Thanks for all the info.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Miquitl — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:40:20 -0000

Oh and i forgot that it slips so easy.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Miquitl — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:37:28 -0000

What about the can't send files via bluetooth?

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

tacky — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:25:30 -0000

i love my iphone but the lack of accident damage protection bites. i have found out that the glass screen is entirely toooo fragile. and repair/replacement comes out of your own pocket for more than half the original cost! why have a great piece of technology that has extremely sensitive screen with no way to really protect it. what about plexiglass? and the unability to forward text messages is lame. camera is lame. safari is a joke. but all-in-all it beats carrying a phone, ipod and laptop everywhere at the same time!

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

egidiocs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:23:31 -0000

I think iPhone must be more portable. It's a revolutionary device, no questions about this, but the "still wrong" reflects Apple's legendary standalone positioning. And it won't work in these days. Nokia N97 is here, MS Office Suite rules business world... Well, just like Chris said 1 year ago, let's push Apple to make it better.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

DBee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:16:31 -0000

The fact that you can not forward a text message is frustrating as well. I often get texts that simply need to be forwarded to someone else. Since the Iphone doesnt provide that option I have to type the whole thing over since we also don't have cut and paste.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

KeithU — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:00:59 -0000

AIM is available but annoyingly it logs out every time you leave the app and go to anything else on iPhone. this needs to get fixed...it looks like you are logging in and out every 5 minutes. friends and co-workers complain that they are notified every time i go back to the app on my iPhone. Why not just leave users logged on and let them sign on or off or close the app themselves like you can on Blackberrys and other phones?

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Justin Yum — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:41:24 -0000

For number 4, have you heard of Touch Type and Touch Type SMS?

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Brian — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:08:40 -0000

No notes synch and very poor Calendar syncing options.

It is not possible to synch Outlook notes and iPhone notes. I have had to buy the Apigo Notebook, which syncs with ToodleDo notebook on the web and give up using Outlook for note taking altogether. Apple have sown things up so that Mobileme is their only solution. Crazy!

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:29:52 -0000

The service sucks. The phone drops 50% of your calls. This is ok when talking casually but for business calls its unreliable. i am switching to a blackberry immediately. Apple chose the wrong service to go with. AT&T is an awful company and should be bitch slapped.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

dimtre — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:47:02 -0000

iPhone is NOT a good phone! Maybe a good mini computer ...

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Charles — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:12:44 -0000

Bill Zornes - perhaps I will buy it? how much? how can I contact you?

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Babyphone for iPhone — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:06:58 -0000

Hey i think you are right. I also like to share one review of the babyphone. Just read it once.

The main screen of Babyphone shows the current status, the microphone sensitivity and the threshold for triggering the alarm.

If the Microphone's display reaches or exceeds the set threshold, the previously defined phone number will be called. After completion of the call and the expiration of the delay Babyphone will reactivate itself again.

In the settings you can enter the number to call. In addition, there is a sleeping interval with an adjustable delay in minutes, after which Babyphone will reactivate itself again.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Bill Zornes — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:20:02 -0000

I have not seen the very basic problems I've expirenced.
1) ringer and speaker phone volume is ridiculous.
2) calender alert is unusable, 3 second inaudable notifacation.
3) no data capabilities for other devices (ie: Tomtom or Garmin).

I've gone back to my Motorola v3xx which is a great phone.

Anyone want to buy an iPhone used (new 6/2008) about 3 weeks, in as new condition CHEAP!!

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Shriniket Sarkar — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:58:43 -0000

HI
@ palash
Dont jump to such a conclusion. In days to come you will see that iPhone will catch the nerve of every technology loving individual.And by the way HTC P3400i is good too.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

Ralf — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:41:18 -0000

I hoped to replace my mobile, iPod and Palm with the iPhone. At the moment it replaces just the first two on the list. A lot of the wishes mentioned above are fixed through apps from the app-store. For me, the main disadvantages remain in the organizer-section.

general:
1. no categories 2. off course the copy&paste-issue 3. no file-management 4. short battery life 5. weak bluetooth support 6. weak sync support, esp. for windows-users 7. no audio-downloads possible from audible because of restrictions from apple

calendar:
8. no weekly view 9. no number of the week display (yes, there is a specialized app; but no integration into the calendar) 10. no todo-app, which is integrated into the calendar, like in datebk3 on the Palm.

Safari:
11. regular crashes

iTunes:
12. no download through 3G

But nevertheless: I like my iPhone and i hope that there will be programmers to fix most of this.

Re: A Year Later: 25 Things STILL Wrong With the iPhone

palash — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:44:58 -0000

never buy apple iphone if you want to buy touch screen phone than htc p3400i is the best option for you...