iPhone Still Worth Buying?

Discussion in 'Science, Technology & Car Chat' started by magic2036, Jan 11, 2009.

  1. winsonlee

    winsonlee New Member

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    Personally I feel that many features of an Iphone has been locked.
    1) you cant blue tooth a file over from a device to iphone.
    2) files is stored within an application. This means that if you create a file within an application this file cannot be access on another application. This also means that you cant synchronize files in an application to your desktop.
     
  2. ming2020

    ming2020 Member

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    Is the latest iPhone camera quality on par with the rest of the competition e.g. Nokia's Carl Zeiss optics?
     
  3. anfernee

    anfernee Member

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    its still very unique and nice for me...
     
  4. neospider

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    Definately Iphone is a nice phone but I think it is overpriced a lot. As previously highlighted by wind2000, there are alternative such as omnia, sony ericsson x1, htc HD which is with better spec and function.
     
  5. Skai

    Skai Member

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    Htc runs on Android. Nothing can beat an open source OS.
     
  6. c0untryman

    c0untryman Member

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    Nah.. I have seen my colleagues using it. Not impressed at all. They tell me that they cannot even load a personal ringtone or shoot video. Cheh!

    I use a Dopod 810 and I think it is just fantastic!!
     
  7. mots

    mots New Member

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    nice phone with pretty cool interface but isn't worth the price to get it since it's fairly delicate
     
  8. et8386

    et8386 Member

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    I have an iphone.. and it's been great for me. I do wish copy and paste is there though.
     
  9. kelea

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    I've heard some bad stories regarding reliability (also for iPod) and that claiming warrenty and getting it fixed is a big hassle. Anyone actually have a personal experience with this and wouldn't mind sharing? Some of the problems I've heard include, it just stopped working altogether and won't turn on, frozen screens, software 'hanging' etc.

    I wouldn't mind waiting for the 32GB :)
     
  10. bbes

    bbes Incredible

    well i have an ipod and it works fine for me. it only froze once but it rarely freezes and besides u just reset it and it works fine again. then again my ipod is a few years old so can't comment on the new ones but i think there wouldn't rele be any problems that u described unless people bricked their ipod touch or iphone trying to jailbreak it.
     
  11. miworld

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    you could still consider it but do you need the phone tho? else get the touch instead, just without phone or gps.
     
  12. crasianlee

    crasianlee Well-Known Member

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    has anyone been able to watch tvb series from here on the nokia 5800?
     
  13. shytjai

    shytjai Member

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    buy iphone
     
  14. magic2036

    magic2036 New Member

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    Thanks folks, for the sugestion.

    I think I'm gonna get the samsung sgh-i900 with windows mobile operating.
     
  15. bbes

    bbes Incredible

    as far as i'm aware the nokia 5800 will only be able to play rm files and not the newer rmvb format files. but i guess sooner or later when more developers come out they may develop a program for the nokia 5800 to play rmvb but for the time being i think it only plays rm files and as teh new tvb series are all in rmvb i don't think it will be able to play it.
     
  16. renegade_cash

    renegade_cash Well-Known Member

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    Pro:
    - the insane amount of apps and many of them are actually useful
    - better for browsing than anything else ive seen
    - doubles as a htc remote (i know its technically an app but i love it so much im treating it differently)
    - alright hardware

    Cons:
    - sucks as a phone... the way things are put, just are inconvenient
    - battery life is rather crap
    - maps was all hyped up but its utter crap
     
  17. jphun

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    you're better off waiting for another 3-4 months. there will be alot of different choices from HTC, Nokia Sony Ericsson, etc.
    I'm waiting for the Nokia N97. cool phone
     
  18. kaveyn

    kaveyn Member

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    I think so... if u dun mind that everyone else is using it:D
     
  19. Happy1314

    Happy1314 Active Member

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    If you can afford the service and plan cost, I believe you should. I have an Iphone but the payment I am making monthly is much higher compared to my T-mobile plan in prior year.
     
  20. intraland

    intraland Well-Known Member

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    I was always against apple products... Something just stuck in me when I was a kid that apple is not worth it. that darn 2mp camera is what I'm most ticked off about too... You can't much of a "picture" with that. I would say stay off the iphone, the biggest Pro for it is the development of apps... you can have a large variety of stuff going on (altho even other OSes, you can still find a lot of neat stuff).

    Go on gsmarena.com and check out what phones suit your needs (or are to you taste). What I did was:
    1) get the bestest valued phone (for example a free n95 8g, at least something worth selling) with some contract you are willing to commit to

    2) then sell it asap to fund towards the phone you actually want.

    3) buy the unlocked phone you want (given that it isn't provided in your country or something).

    Work out the math first. I recommend preping before any big actions.


    I have the n85 tee hee =D pure love.