walking in the rain
Sunday, February 07, 2010
why i think the iPhone sucks to the core
Before I even continue, I would like to say that this is just my point of view, so don't slam me if you do not happen to agree with me. Thanks.
Well, for quite some time now, I’ve been wanting a phone that could allow me to do stuff I've always wanted to do - surf on the go, check updates on Facebook and even read my emails.
And no, I had absolutely no plans to get the iPhone. I don't like anything to do with Apple. I completely dislike the Mac, even though I use it at work everyday. Give me a free Mac and I'll put it where it truly belongs - the bin. I mean, look, Apple just came up with the iPad – how not embarrassing is that?
I’ve been a Nokia fan for as long as I can remember, and I love each and every Nokia phone I’ve had all my life, well, at least for the last 10 years or so. The design, the functions – everything’s so sleek, and it fits me so well.
So there, it’s been almost 2 years since I last changed my phone, and my Nokia 3120 Classic was becoming awful due to wear and tear. Afterall, I was eligible to recontract my line again, so I thought, why not? After much consideration, it came down to a close fight between a Nokia N97 Mini and, horror of horrors, an iPhone.
Before I knew it, I was over at the M1 Shop at West Mall, still undecided. My mum and younger brother (who happens to be a huge iPhone fan, or a fan of any Apple product, for that matter) were with me that day, and swinging by the M1 Shop was not part of the plan. We were supposed to be buying a new printer for the home.
Still, it was a close fight between the Nokia and the iPhone. I managed to get hold of the dummy phone of the Nokia N97 Mini, and I thought the flipping of the phone was really quite cumbersome. It wasn’t exactly easy to flip it fast, too. A friend of mine, Willie, tried to promote his Nokia N97 to me over coffee a couple of days back, showing me how easy it was to surf Facebook on the go. His phone hung, and he had to restart it there and then. Didn’t leave a good impression there.
On the other hand, my brother was telling me how the iPhone had changed his life over the past 2 years, saying that it beats any Nokia phone hands down. I don’t know how true that was – what I did know at that point of time was that surfing Facebook on my friends’ iPhones whenever we were out together was fairly enjoyable.
After much consideration (and of course thinking that I had made the best decision of my life that night), I succumbed, and bought the iPhone 3GS.
I left the M1 Shop $518 poorer. I don’t know what got into me, but I bought the phone even though M1 didn’t give me any rebate whatsoever for being such a loyal customer, but that’s another story altogether. I’ve made a complaint about that actually.
So there. I’m now able to do the things that I’ve always wanted, like being able to check emails, surf the net, surf Facebook, and even check bus arrival timings, all on the go.
It's been the 7th day of using my iPhone, and even though it has been quite an experience, it’s also been the worst 7 days of my life while having a mobile phone with me. I figured that the iPhone is a bulky, useless piece of device that has given me inconvenience, frustration and much misery.
To put it simply, the iPhone sucks.
Here are my reasons why:
1) Never in my life have I found it harder to type an SMS. My fingers aren’t as small as you think, Apple. So what if I have unlimited SMSes? I don’t even feel like SMSing at the very thought of having to touch those stupid tiny letters on the screen. It doesn't even matter if the phone has a smart dictionary.
2) The iPhone cost me $518. Thinking back, that was like daylight robbery. I don’t know what got me into thinking that that was a “special price” for recontracting my line. Even if I had a $100 rebate, $418 would still be a ripoff for a phone like that.
3) The browser doesn’t support Flash. Which website doesn’t use Flash nowadays, you tell me?
4) The battery of the iPhone sucks. 2 days ago, the battery went COMPLETELY flat within just a few hours. I mean, I wasn't on YouTube or Facebook, and I certainly wasn't on the phone the whole day. Neither did I even touch any of the games, and I had no resource-intensive applications running at all. I left the house with a fully-charged battery, and by 7pm, the phone was dead. I was fuming mad. You can have all the features you want, but with a battery as useless as this, you're better off without it. Apple doesn’t realize that a smartphone with a useless battery that dies after a few hours of usage (or non-usage, in fact) doesn’t make it quite smart afterall. Charge it once every few hours? No wonder the earth is dying.
5) I can't sync my Hotmail to the iPhone. It claims that I have 50 unread emails, when I actually have none at all. What's up with that? I don't care if it's Hotmail's fault. If syncing can't be done properly with a large email provider like Hotmail, then don't have such a feature, Apple. Not everyone uses Gmail, mind you.
6) There are a whole bunch of unnecessary applications - Stocks, Voice Memos (can't believe people are bo liao enough to use this), Clock (what's a watch for?), iPod/iTunes (a music player does the job, no?), Compass (you think what, you stay in the jungle ah?). YouTube's for people who have nothing better to do, and it eats up your battery. The Maps feature is ridiculous (I've tried it, but maybe it's because I don't know how to use it properly). WhatsApp is interesting, but then, I've got unlimited SMSes, so it becomes redundant.
7) To answer a call, you'll have to slide this bar on your screen. You will never know how stupid that feature is until one day, the slide refuses to budge when you need to answer an urgent call. Well, surprise surprise, it happened to me a few days ago. It didn't budge an inch even when I tried to slide the bar over a dozen times. To reject calls, you'll need to press the top button twice. What happened to the simple pressing of a green or red button?
8) SMSes are turned into conversations, similar to MSN. What's that for? If there's an option to choose NOT to have my SMSes turned into conversations, maybe it's not so bad. But there isn't any. And I think Apple thinks that the green speech bubbles are pretty. I think Shrek looks better.
9) The iPhone charger is short. When I mean short, I mean ridiculously short. What were you thinking, Apple?
I could come up with another hundred reasons why the iPhone sucks, but I shan’t, because it's not worth my time. If you want, try googling “iPhone sucks”, and you see nothing but tons of webpages listing reasons why it does. Reasons which I can't agree more.
On hindsight, I really don’t know why I bought a phone which I told myself never, ever to buy. The iPhone is a big, bulky piece of shit which is poorly-designed by the money-sucking company, Apple, of course. They should stop embarrassing themselves with products like the iPhone and iPad.
Anyway, as mentioned earlier, it's been exactly a week of being able to surf on the go anytime I want (not always, actually, as the 3G dies every now and then), but then again, that can always be done on a Nokia or a BlackBerry. The iPhone has brought me much anger and frustration every single day this week, and as much as I've paid good money for this, I've decided that this phone has to go, simply because it does not suit me one bit.
It feels better knowing that I'm not alone in this. Although I have many friends who love the iPhone, I found out that I've got a whole bunch of friends who dislike the iPhone too. In fact, they told me off for buying a ridiculous phone like that. I should have known better, dammit.
I think it's about time to head back to my first love - Nokia. It may not be everyone's choice of phone, but at least I'm quite sure it doesn't disappoint.
Good riddance, Apple. You're the worst thing that happened to my handphone life.
Well, for quite some time now, I’ve been wanting a phone that could allow me to do stuff I've always wanted to do - surf on the go, check updates on Facebook and even read my emails.
And no, I had absolutely no plans to get the iPhone. I don't like anything to do with Apple. I completely dislike the Mac, even though I use it at work everyday. Give me a free Mac and I'll put it where it truly belongs - the bin. I mean, look, Apple just came up with the iPad – how not embarrassing is that?
I’ve been a Nokia fan for as long as I can remember, and I love each and every Nokia phone I’ve had all my life, well, at least for the last 10 years or so. The design, the functions – everything’s so sleek, and it fits me so well.
So there, it’s been almost 2 years since I last changed my phone, and my Nokia 3120 Classic was becoming awful due to wear and tear. Afterall, I was eligible to recontract my line again, so I thought, why not? After much consideration, it came down to a close fight between a Nokia N97 Mini and, horror of horrors, an iPhone.
Before I knew it, I was over at the M1 Shop at West Mall, still undecided. My mum and younger brother (who happens to be a huge iPhone fan, or a fan of any Apple product, for that matter) were with me that day, and swinging by the M1 Shop was not part of the plan. We were supposed to be buying a new printer for the home.
Still, it was a close fight between the Nokia and the iPhone. I managed to get hold of the dummy phone of the Nokia N97 Mini, and I thought the flipping of the phone was really quite cumbersome. It wasn’t exactly easy to flip it fast, too. A friend of mine, Willie, tried to promote his Nokia N97 to me over coffee a couple of days back, showing me how easy it was to surf Facebook on the go. His phone hung, and he had to restart it there and then. Didn’t leave a good impression there.
On the other hand, my brother was telling me how the iPhone had changed his life over the past 2 years, saying that it beats any Nokia phone hands down. I don’t know how true that was – what I did know at that point of time was that surfing Facebook on my friends’ iPhones whenever we were out together was fairly enjoyable.
After much consideration (and of course thinking that I had made the best decision of my life that night), I succumbed, and bought the iPhone 3GS.
I left the M1 Shop $518 poorer. I don’t know what got into me, but I bought the phone even though M1 didn’t give me any rebate whatsoever for being such a loyal customer, but that’s another story altogether. I’ve made a complaint about that actually.
So there. I’m now able to do the things that I’ve always wanted, like being able to check emails, surf the net, surf Facebook, and even check bus arrival timings, all on the go.
It's been the 7th day of using my iPhone, and even though it has been quite an experience, it’s also been the worst 7 days of my life while having a mobile phone with me. I figured that the iPhone is a bulky, useless piece of device that has given me inconvenience, frustration and much misery.
To put it simply, the iPhone sucks.
Here are my reasons why:
1) Never in my life have I found it harder to type an SMS. My fingers aren’t as small as you think, Apple. So what if I have unlimited SMSes? I don’t even feel like SMSing at the very thought of having to touch those stupid tiny letters on the screen. It doesn't even matter if the phone has a smart dictionary.
2) The iPhone cost me $518. Thinking back, that was like daylight robbery. I don’t know what got me into thinking that that was a “special price” for recontracting my line. Even if I had a $100 rebate, $418 would still be a ripoff for a phone like that.
3) The browser doesn’t support Flash. Which website doesn’t use Flash nowadays, you tell me?
4) The battery of the iPhone sucks. 2 days ago, the battery went COMPLETELY flat within just a few hours. I mean, I wasn't on YouTube or Facebook, and I certainly wasn't on the phone the whole day. Neither did I even touch any of the games, and I had no resource-intensive applications running at all. I left the house with a fully-charged battery, and by 7pm, the phone was dead. I was fuming mad. You can have all the features you want, but with a battery as useless as this, you're better off without it. Apple doesn’t realize that a smartphone with a useless battery that dies after a few hours of usage (or non-usage, in fact) doesn’t make it quite smart afterall. Charge it once every few hours? No wonder the earth is dying.
5) I can't sync my Hotmail to the iPhone. It claims that I have 50 unread emails, when I actually have none at all. What's up with that? I don't care if it's Hotmail's fault. If syncing can't be done properly with a large email provider like Hotmail, then don't have such a feature, Apple. Not everyone uses Gmail, mind you.
6) There are a whole bunch of unnecessary applications - Stocks, Voice Memos (can't believe people are bo liao enough to use this), Clock (what's a watch for?), iPod/iTunes (a music player does the job, no?), Compass (you think what, you stay in the jungle ah?). YouTube's for people who have nothing better to do, and it eats up your battery. The Maps feature is ridiculous (I've tried it, but maybe it's because I don't know how to use it properly). WhatsApp is interesting, but then, I've got unlimited SMSes, so it becomes redundant.
7) To answer a call, you'll have to slide this bar on your screen. You will never know how stupid that feature is until one day, the slide refuses to budge when you need to answer an urgent call. Well, surprise surprise, it happened to me a few days ago. It didn't budge an inch even when I tried to slide the bar over a dozen times. To reject calls, you'll need to press the top button twice. What happened to the simple pressing of a green or red button?
8) SMSes are turned into conversations, similar to MSN. What's that for? If there's an option to choose NOT to have my SMSes turned into conversations, maybe it's not so bad. But there isn't any. And I think Apple thinks that the green speech bubbles are pretty. I think Shrek looks better.
9) The iPhone charger is short. When I mean short, I mean ridiculously short. What were you thinking, Apple?
I could come up with another hundred reasons why the iPhone sucks, but I shan’t, because it's not worth my time. If you want, try googling “iPhone sucks”, and you see nothing but tons of webpages listing reasons why it does. Reasons which I can't agree more.
On hindsight, I really don’t know why I bought a phone which I told myself never, ever to buy. The iPhone is a big, bulky piece of shit which is poorly-designed by the money-sucking company, Apple, of course. They should stop embarrassing themselves with products like the iPhone and iPad.
Anyway, as mentioned earlier, it's been exactly a week of being able to surf on the go anytime I want (not always, actually, as the 3G dies every now and then), but then again, that can always be done on a Nokia or a BlackBerry. The iPhone has brought me much anger and frustration every single day this week, and as much as I've paid good money for this, I've decided that this phone has to go, simply because it does not suit me one bit.
It feels better knowing that I'm not alone in this. Although I have many friends who love the iPhone, I found out that I've got a whole bunch of friends who dislike the iPhone too. In fact, they told me off for buying a ridiculous phone like that. I should have known better, dammit.
I think it's about time to head back to my first love - Nokia. It may not be everyone's choice of phone, but at least I'm quite sure it doesn't disappoint.
Good riddance, Apple. You're the worst thing that happened to my handphone life.
