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

By: Andy Burgin

Andy Burgin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:21:27 +0000

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

By: weave

weave — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:44:14 +0000

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.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:01:30 +0000

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.

By: Philippe Borremans

Philippe Borremans — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:21:39 +0000

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.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:19:31 +0000

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

By: TheFixer

TheFixer — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:20:34 +0000

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)