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2.0 stars
"The Worst Cell Phone Ever"
Pros: Stylish, 16GB, cheaper than previous model, lots of cool features - love the GPS
Cons: It's gotta be the worst cell phone i have ever had! Has Apple forgotten POP3?
Summary: I think people seem to forget that when they purchase a device like this they forget it's supposed to do one thing first and then everything else - it's a phone first and then it supposed to do all the fun stuff that we love so much.
Apple has produce here the worst cell phone on the planet - dropped calls, inconsistent reception, constant crashing, improper button pressing, slow 3G network if available at all and so forth. The connectivity on this unit just plain ol' sucks.
I can compare cos I had the 4GB version before it and stupidly so i decided to upgrade it - What a mistake that was. I can't have normal phone conversations, reception fades in and out with no consistency, overall I have much poorer reception than what I had before (the phone just does not have reception in my basement now whereas it did before. Wi Fi is not what it used to be and so forth.
I don't understand also why Apple is waiting so long to fix these issues with so many complaints already. I've warned some of my friends to not buy the unit until Apple fixes these quirks - some listened and some have joined and learned the sad truth at their own expense.
I use this iPhone 3G for business and it can't do what I need it do first - be a freakin' phone!!! Then it can't do what my old Treo (4 years old) could easily do and connect simply to my POP3 accounts.
I won't take away from some of the cool features like apps (which I had on my 1st Gen iPhone), and the GPS (will someone provide us with something better than Google Maps). And by the way - Google Maps based GPS crashes all the time.
Steve Jobs promised me twice the speed on 3G - when i do get 3G which rarely happens it's the same speed as my old edge network.
I have friends oversees who share videos like they do popcorn at the movies yet I can't imagine sharing any video let alone being able to share photos (take cery long to email attachments!
Anyway - I'll stop my *******' and whining here cos it won't help anyway - i just had to take my frustration out. I've been an avid MAC guy for 12 years and hope apple doesn't put out additional crappy products like this NEW and IMPROVED iPhone - Buyers Beware!!!
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apple did make a bad start on 2.0 because of the massive change in the os structure, but it was addressed within a month or so with 2.1 that addresses most of the issues you mentioned. how long did it take for microsoft to get their windows xp right? not until sp2! how long did it take for nokia to get their n95 software sort-of right? not until they added demand paging nearly a year after the initial release. i admit that iphone doesn't do lots of things, say it doesn't hv the best camera, doesn't do mms. but reception has somehow become bad particularly under 3g since the introduction of the iphone 3g. and that's the network operator to blame, for not preparing their network well. even so the signal has just become bad on all devices whenever you're on 3g in many areas now.
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uhh yeah it supports pop3, my email is pop3 and i can download and send
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Apple iPhone 3G - 16GB, white (AT&T):
$149.99
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