iPhone drawbacks?

I'm not an iPhone user (iPod touch user) but since every friend of mine have the iPhone I know their general weaknesses. I've gone through Blackberry, SGS2 (Android), Nokia (Symbian), Sony Ericsson, Motorola, (you name it). It's definitely an upgrade (but a downgrade if the phone is used for business).

 

You should worry about their:

• security - iPhone's security is one of the easiest to hack into
• fragile glass - if you drop it accidentally even from a reasonable height, the glass will break (70% of the iPhones I've seen has a broken glass, <teenage to young adult users>)
• closed iOS system, it's like a prison (can be fixed through jailbreaking)

 

 

Call quality (Rating: Bad < Okay < Great)

 

Blackberry - Great

SGS2 - Great

iPhone - Okay

 

Like I said, for business it is safer to use the Blackberry. I moved from the Blackberry 9780 because I want a faster, thinner, lighter and good looking phone. iPhone is still pretty new in the mobile phone business so they are doing pretty well. But for call quality, I would give the crown to other experienced companies.

I've used 2.6gb last month and this month (12 days) almost 1gb. I use browser, rss reader, audio podcasts and pandora. So, 150mg would be not enough for you, unless you only need email and a  little surfing.

I have an Android and would recommend it if you want something better than an idevice or blackberry. SGS2 would be a good choose. Check htc.com as well.

Iphone is locked down-they just now allow you to use your own message tones.

No user controllable EQ

Not sure how much I use, I've had the unlimited data plan and haven't dropped it so I dont pay attention to that.

 

 

I didn't know there were so many with broken glass. I haven't experienced that. About ten members of my family carry iPhones and we haven't had one broken yet.

I bought one of the original iPhones for $600 a few weeks after they were released. I've had an iPhone on me every day of my life since. No failures, no problems. My current iPhone is a 4. Using it right now, even.

People make a big stink over the closed platform. I don't see it as a problem. It hasn't affected functionality at all. It does everything I want. On the other end of that spectrum, I run Linux on a desktop. If I want to tweak, I can do anything. But, thing is, the stock distro works fine. If, somehow, I woke up tomorrow morning and my distro was locked down, it would still be 100% functional for my needs. As a philosophical point, total freedom sounds ideal. But how much are you really going to do with it? I have total freedom with Linux, and I don't really use it. So, to me, restrictions on an iPhone aren't a big deal. I have better things to do than recompile the kernel for a phone. (To keep the discussion under control, I'm all for freedom of speech, etc. And I'm a lawyer - don't get me started on that stuff. A smartphone has nothing to do with civil rights.)

As for actual flaws, I don't like iPhones for long telephone conversations. They're hard to hold and get uncomfortable. The old RAZR I had (original model) was much better as a telephone. But I don't make too many phone calls and I'm planning to get a landline () soon. I have a small collection ofnold rotary phones that I want to start using. Now those were engineered to be held comfortably for long conversations and I will use them for that.

I've had my iPhone 4 for 1.5 years now

 

The good:

Apps

 

The bad:

crap internals (for the price)

glass back

tiny screen

not the best screen (considering the price)

heavy

 

 

My contract finishes around the time the SGS3 comes out so yea...

Ah iPhone drawbacks. I own an iPhone 4 so i will give you a run down of my thoughts.

 

 

The good

Sound quality

Design

Apps

Fast

Good customer support

 

The bad

Glass on back and front could shatter

Heavy

dropped calls and bad cell reception

 

Anyone who claims they haven't had dropped calls must be 1 lucky person. I usually don't but i have had 1.

 

I give it a 4/5

Very very few problems with it in the last 11 months I've had it. Wanna guess when I did? Jailbreaking, downloading poo-poo apps from cydia and having it crash.

 

Restored it that day. Works fine, never skipped a beat.

 

No drawbacks for me.

it turning gay on me. i swear it never gets turned on anymore.

Android - America 

iOS - Australia 

 

Take your pick. 

 

The biggest issue I had using an iphone was that you pretty much have to do everything through itunes.  

You can't drag and drop music, pictures, or video on, everything has to be synced.

It's very annoying to get music, pictures, and video OFF of the iphone as well, if you don't have the computer that it's always synced too.

It's difficult to modify files already on the iphone, you have to have your computer as well as itunes again... it's super hard to copy and paste files around, retag songs, organize folders, etc. on the iphone itself.

Apps are fine if you're the kind of person who's fine with buying stuff from the itunes store.  If you want apps outside of the store though, it's much more difficult compared to Android.  You can't drag and drop something like an APK onto the phone and just install it.

HTC is out the window now unless they have very good dev support. Beats Audio is making its debut appearance in the Rezound(, and several people have told me off for not having a Beats Audio equipped phone. Despite the fact even the folks at CyanogenMod say Beats Audio is absolute rubbish compared to DSP Manager.

 

iPhone is a perfectly fine choice. Drawbacks? Perhaps the smaller screen and the locking of the system by Apple. And the fact it doesn't accept flacs without a few hitches. Otherwise, it's a sound device.