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Mobile phone users seem to be giving undue advantage to iPhone. Is it simply because Apple computer products are great. Now, this doesn’t mean that the mobile products would be great too.
Within a week of iPhone’s launch (2007/2008 both), it was already on eBay. It took a lot of consumers only a week to realize that they don’t need it.

The so called ’simplicity’ makes iPhone more complicated. To avoid the keys, you’ve to click on the one button provided and then one more click at the bottom of the screen to get the key-board. Apple claims that the phone is meant for fingers but it should be easy with the stylus as well which is not the case.
As a general perception, when fingers touch some key, the fingers expect a response: some kind of feeling that the finger pressed a key. This thing is lacking in the iPhone and you’re not clear whether the key actually got pressed unless your eyes work hard.
You can’t type fast without a lot of practice, and entering passwords isn’t so private since it is visible from within 3-5 feet during typing.
Unlike typing (T9 or even just Multitap) on a regular handset with raised buttons, all of the keys feel the same on this one… and triggering the wrong one is ridiculously easy. It seems like they wrote in something to correct common mistakes, but overall your days of casual typing on a familiar 3×4 grid of keys are over. You really need to pay attention on this one or you’re screwed.

Even in the button-less arena, iPhone can’t claim to be the numero uno. Verizon and T-Mobile have equally come up with great 3-G phones with amazing touch screen. The difference between them and the iPhone is the high price of iPhone to purchase and maintain.

The cut-paste functionality is still not what was expected out of version 2.

Your memory options are limited to two options, upto a maximum of 8G.

Battery life is still not that great. At least, you’ll need to recharge it on a daily basis if you’re browsing the Internet or using multimedia.

You can’t use iPhone as a modem to connect to your laptop for Internet surfing. It has simply not been allowed. What is Apple trying to prove here!

The iPhone is basically not just too expensive to own, but as well too expensive to pay the monthly bills, unless of course you earn hefty.
You pay at least $200 as down-payment and then $70 every month. For a 2 year period, you spend more than $1600 to own it.
Of course, it goes unsaid that you got to marry AT&T for 2 years.

The software used inside the phone is Apple proprietary (closed source). That’s a different question that it has already been hacked/exposed.

For all accessories, small or big, you have to depend upon Apple completely and with their ridiculous costs. Getting a battery replacement is still painful, exactly like the way it was for the first release of the phone.

How about comparing the 2 meg pixel camera on the iPhone with the 5 megs on a Nokia N95!

Flipping the phone sideways does not tilt any of the applications by 90 degrees, except the browser! This is a heavily marketed feature by Apple and it works only with the browser. But the ads give the impression that it’s a global feature in the device.

Some of the restrictions with the initial release version continue with it like, non-removable battery, flash-site support, video quality, heats up, heavy device …
Where is the security of the device software. Its ‘root’ password was hacked within hours of release!

Let’s agree to the truth that Apple doesn’t have experience to the mobile phone industry - 3 years is hardly anything. They would have to go through quite a grind (and years) with the issues with their iPhone before they can actually claim to be niche experts.

I am still wondering why is iPhone over-rated and over-hyped when it does under-perform, to much of the disappointment of Apple. Does it take inspiration from Obama or it’s the other way round?!

There are speculations that Apple is going to unveil it’s next version of iPhone in June this year; Apple would not comment on it. Through the imports monitoring groups, there’s a possibility that the manufactured devices have already been imported which would be a bit unusual because Apple would mostly get them through air.

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According to claims made by one technology blog site, wireless carrier AT&T will soon allow Apple iPhones to be registered under corporate and business accounts, citing unidentified sources, Boy Genius Report says an announcement is on tap for next week Monday, January 21st, which is somewhat odd given the date is a federal holiday.

Nevertheless, the report claims that those individuals with corporate and business accounts will be able to use their discounts on iPhone service plans at this time. There are, however, some reported limitations.

For one, discounts won’t be available on the iPhone hardware itself and corporate and business iPhone users may be required to sign up for a monthly data plan of $25 or more, which is slightly more than the flat-rate $20 fee currently charged by Apple and AT&T for individual account holders.

In addition, the rumor states that corporate and business users will also have to complete a pre-activation process ahead of — and in addition to — the standard iTunes activation process.

If true, the move would undoubtedly dismember yet another barrier to adoption of the touch-screen handsets by big businesses and its employees, leaving security and a lack of Microsoft Exchange support as two of the primary remaining deterrents.

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