The iPhone Ads are Incredible and Makes Me Want to Buy It

June 4th, 2007 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

Wow… did you see the iPhone ads?! When I first read the specifications of the iPhone, I thought, “Yuck… that’s nothing compared to my Nokia N95.” But after watching the ads, I forgot all about specs, numbers, and features, and actually considered it as my next phone.

The ads for the iPhone show exactly what you can do with it, how it works, and how it will look like while using it. After seeing the ads, I have to say the iPhone looks really cool and is adequate for everyday use. Nokia employee Paul Whitaker even thinks the iPhone commercials are better than the N95 ads.

I can’t wait to play with an iPhone. Of course, by going to an Apple iPhone from a Nokia N95, I will be missing 3 features I use the most on the Nokia N95:

  • GPS
  • 5 megapixel camera
  • DVD-like Camcorder

But will I really miss these features? The GPS on the Nokia N95 is very useful finding new places, but it often takes way too long to find my location… sometimes taking 5-10 minutes. The 5 megapixel camera is amazing… BUT ONLY during the day. The camcorder is good for videos too, and not having this feature on the iPhone is the one thing setting me back.

I’ll have to see how well the iPhone works in real life so I can compare it to my current Nokia N95. If the unconfirmed Nokia N82 announced by Ricky Cadden, supposedly releasing later this year, fixes the shortcomings of the N95, I’ll probably upgrade to that after “downgrading” to the iPhone.

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There are 6 comments so far. »

  1. TheFixer on 4 June 2007:

    The thought of using a touchscreen to dial makes me shudder (No tactile response, you have to STARING at the phone to actually do anything on it) and all the durability issues with a touch screen… But the clincher for me not buying one is that the AT&T connection. Unless they turn out really easy to unlock (And knowing Apple, they’ll have all sorts of proprietary things tying them to the AT&T network if you want to use any of the cool features)

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  2. Robert on 5 June 2007:

    I just hope that battery will last long enough. I don’t want to be not available after 2 hours of music :)

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  3. Philippe Borremans on 5 June 2007:

    I’ll play around with it during my holiday in the US in a couple of weeks but one thing that I see as a big gap in the iPhone is GPRS support… It is almost never mentioned in reviews but here in Belgium (Europe) I do connect to the web with my N93 via GPRS and not WiFi or EDGE.

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  4. Don on 5 June 2007:

    My big concern about the iPhone is what those pretty little maps are going to be like when it’s not on a WIFI connection. It looks nifty in all the demos when it’s already linked to a high speed connection but what’s it going to do out on the street?

    Jobs’ demo showed him finding a Starbucks location, so let’s talk about them - they have wireless there that you can use…. after you sign up for an account, pay for it, then log in on the captive portal. THEN that Google maps is going to rock.

    Sure, there’s free wifi out there to grab onto, but not when I’m stopped at the streetlight. And a lot of them are also authentication-required captive portals. Even if it’s just a clickthrough agreement, that still requires opening a webpage and going through the motions first.

    My N95 doesn’t have 3G either but its appeal hasn’t been predicated on that snazzy map response in every commercial touting it. I wonder if that EDGE limitation is going to bite them in the ass with consumer disappointment.

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  5. weave on 6 June 2007:

    The maps demos on the iphone are pretty deceiving. How many people are going to think that the map just shows where you are? You have to know where you are, load the maps, scroll it to where you are, then do the search.

    When I’m in a town I am not familiar with, I don’t even know what the zip code is to begin a search.

    The battery is also sealed, the memory is sealed, I just don’t know. And I’m a huge Apple fan boy (go on, check my browsed tag!)

    So far I absolutely love my N95, and a lot of that is for the expandability via those dreaded third party programs. Gizmo allows me to dial overseas cheap, and the sports tracker app is very cool too.

    Plus there’s all those little things like being able to rip a CD straight to the phone and then choose any song from the library as a ring tone. I bet AT&T won’t permit THAT revenue leak on the iphone.

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  6. Andy Burgin on 15 June 2007:

    GO to http://www.mobile-review.com an you be amazed by the New Nokia N98 its a iphone with touch screen an a unbelievable 7.2 Mega-pixel camera an a 3″ screen,some are saying its a fake but i always check this website everyday because they give true an honest reviews of handsets an products .I just hope its not a fake an i will definetly getting the N98

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