Apple iPhone Review

Overall Rating

Large screen

1) iphone bluetooth is incompatible with most other devices. It won ' t pair with my PC, my laptop my son ' s phone, my printer, my wife ' s laptop, phone etc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe this was done deliberately by Apple so you have to use itunes or some such reason. That makes me very angry. Bluetooth is supposed to be a universal standard like USB. In making the iphone incompatible with most other bluetooth devices they have in effect consciously made it a defective product !
I ' ve never heard of such a thing. It ' s a completely crass thing to do.

2) Can ' t switch off predictive text. To add to this, the predictive text you ' re stuck with doesn ' t seem to learn !

3) Can ' t enlarge font size in text entry box. Why have a relatively large phone screen then leave the customer with tiny fonts !

4) Cant forward SMS ' s or phone numbers.

5) Can ' t sort order of internet bookmarks

6) Last Incoming & last outgoing calls mixed up in one call log so difficult to distinguish outgoing from incoming calls.

7) Myspace music doesn ' t play. Same with other sites where programmes such as flashplayer etc are needed because those programmes don't work on the Apple platform.

8) Here ' s one of the most irritating niggles with the iphone. Can't use the iphone with one hand unlike most phones where a little group of selection keys gives access to most functions within easy reach of the thumb of the hand you are holding the phone with. The iphone touch screen is too sensitive to the duration of finger stroke. It needs quick stabs with index finger so thumb doesn ' t work well. The iphone is a big slippery lump you need two hands to operate where icons are dotted all over the place rather than all within easy reach of your thumb anyway.

9) Any phone screen, including the iphone screen, is too small to use the internet conveniently. I've got a PC at work & two at home. Do I really need the internet in my pocket ? No not with a silly little phone screen. So the main reason to justify having an iphone, namely 3G, isn ' t a valid enough reason for putting up with the poor ergonomics & camera.

10) The camera is of course not as good as for example the N95 which has 5M pixel & a Carl Zeiss lens.

11) When you ' ve finished with the phone then press home key the next time you use it, the previous application you ' ve finished with opens up !
When I go to use my phone I expect the home key to give me the desktop for me to select the application I want to use. Not the application I finished with hours ago !

12) The Qwerty keypad is so small you keep hitting the adjacent key by mistake. I ' m so used to to entering text with multiple key strokes via the telephone keypad on my N95 that it ' s quicker & more reliable & less fiddly than the tiny Qwerty keypad on the iphone.

13 Iphone won ' t take a standard earphone jack whereas Nokia had the sense to make the N95 so it does take standard jack.

Summary:
The iphone is very slick & impressive, but alas ergonomically poor. The wow factor is there initially, but then you find it ' s not so nice to use. In fact it's a bit gimmicky & I can't forgive Apple for the bluetooth issue. I found the 13 irritating problems listed above within a week of owning my iphone. No doubt there are many more problems one would find over a longer period of time.
I'm happy to be taking my iphone back to the shop & switching back to my Nokia N95. I ' m very disappointed with the iphone.