Just give us an iPhone Steve!
Just not on O2…
But in all seriousness, is the iPhone really up to the European Market? I don’t really think it is, for several reasons:
- No 3G
Although 3G reception is nowhere near blanket, and it doesn’t work half the time, to not have this feature in a “smart” phone is a complete step in the wrong direction. EDGE is terrible for carrying data and blindingly expensive, and whereas the US may have more Wireless Hot Spots over there, we certainly do not have much in the way of coverage and who wants to pay the extortionate rates the likes of T-Mobile and BT want to charge you. But it’s not just data, people are slowly becoming used to the idea of Video Calling, with no 3G and no secondary camera, this is an impossibility with the iPhone.
- Purchasing Ringtones through the iTunes Music Store
Am I the only person who thinks this is an absolute joke? Mobile Phones, in the UK at least, have had the ability for users to stick any MP3 (and often several other audio formats) on there phone and set it as the ringtone, and quite often message alert. I know US phones are often a lot more restricted than UK phones but still, paying for a ringtone? What a joke. It might not be so bad if it was a couple of pence or so, but charging the same amount as the actual song for a ringtone that’s limited to a maximum of 30 seconds? I’m sorry, I don’t think so.
- A low resolution camera
Before you say, it’s a phone, not a camera. Well then, you might as well get rid of the Wi-Fi, iPod, Google Maps, e-mail…. You get my drift. When I first got a camera phone, I thought I’d hardly use it. In reality, I’m finding that I’m using it as much, if not more, as my ‘real’ camera. The reason being is that it’s always in my pocket and I can snap things at any random moment, whereas I don’t carry my camera round 24/7 in the hope something will happen. The new Sony Ericsson phones are coming out with 5MP cameras and 2MP on the iPhone (plus no flash/camera light as far as I can tell) is a little sub-standard these days.
But as mentioned before, this all falls into irrelevancy because if they put that thing on O2, I’m not going anywhere near it!
[...] back to O2. This was something that I wasn’t looking forward to and something that I said I wouldn’t go again, not even for the iPhone. But here I am and I have to say that I’ve been pretty impressed with O2 thus [...]