iPhone is a Compromise so was the iPod

The wait is over[sighs], the much awaited iPhone is out in the market and at $600 you could demand much more. It's a phone, it's a picture viewer, it's a Video Player, it's a Audio Player and much more advanced technologies go into the making of this little wonder form Apple.

Think again, Apple has been notorious to make under standard gadgets and market it well enough to make it a big hit, enough is one sample the iPod. I'm not a big fan of the iPod, being a patron of the Creative Nomad Series from the first days of the Diamond Rio MP3 players. I would say what the iPod was just a piece of junk, with many holes in the making; so is the iPhone? read on to learn.

iPhone is a Compromise so was the iPod, Battery replacement woes, No memory Extension, No 3G, Expensive, a meagre 2MP Camera - You want this? Read On

The iPhone is a beautiful gadget on the first look, it has a lot of features to hide the worst of holes in the making. Let us see the best part of the phone first, to avoid any hatred in first case! Hey we all want value for money and when that is not given, we tend to send a product back to the box. That is what we are trying to do here, and we have nothing in person against Apple or the iPod or the very new iPhone - :)

Alrite here is what the Wall Street Journal has to say: "Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer."

The Blackberry can rest peacefully, it will have it's own pack of followers because of the Corporates that would not entertain the use of iPhone as a corporate phone or allow the iPhone network to be accessed from office networks.

Good deals like the battery life of 5+ hours of talk time and 8+ hours of WiFi usage is way ahead of other smart phones and will never be matched by the existing competitors. This is real cool! Note this down.

Memory cards may not be a bother like many reviewers say(bias aren't they?), I would still say it is a dumb idea not to have a Memory Card, coz a multimedia device such this will be the best companion to the avid photographer, and will serve as a viewer and a storage device if at all the memory card extension was a part of the gadget. [I suggest the Creative Zen Vision 30GB for Digital Photographers]

PMP's should [Personal Multimedia Players] adhere to a certain set of features to make it a perfect companion. PMP's as the name suggests are becoming more personal, I welcome the idea of a phone + PMP which has become a reality with iPhone and a million thanks to Jobs for this initiative, and rest assured the market will be flooded with 100's of such devices in the coming days[keep an eye on the Taiwanese and Chinese market :) ]

Here is what David Pogue of New York Times had to say: "... so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese."

True, this is one feature that many Mobile + PMP makers will look to mimic, and a job well done by iPhone as they always do, a good design.

I heard the iPhone phone is not SIM based, making it a big pain in the [neck] to the gadget lovers outside the USA and the At&T carrier. You cannot slip it thorough the customs and use it in your local network, so that makes no sense to buy it without a package from the ISP. Wonder how such a weak design could be made and brought out so successfully!! Huh!

I heard the WSJ reviewer was searching for the Comma key for almost 2 weeks! Hell that is a pain, you won't find such information on the manual either! Ha ha.,,

But this is what we learned from the various experiences over almost 7 days of thorough testing and usage of the iPhone:

"New Standards for the Smart Phone has been set. None of the existing competitors like Nokia can get near it for the next quarter till they come up with technology that matches the touch response screen of the iPhone, though this is a very innovative feature it could make some very basic functions lengthier in process"

This is common in all the new technologies, once the next version is made available these glitches will be rectified[we hope so at least].

The EDGE network is a pain as far as AT&T is concerned, and this will make life miserable for the iPhone users with huge expectations like watching videos from Youtube and Metacafe on their Multimedia Phones!!

A robust E-Mail application combined with a wonderful browser makes the iPhone stand way ahead of the other Smart Phone category contenders. Apple iTunes software for the MAC and Windows makes life easier with it's ability to sync with the boxes.

One fact and easy breather for the guys who invest so much cash into the iPhone is the awesome screen resolution and unmatched maneuver of the Stylus and Touch Screen. These two features make other Smartphones look meek and filthy! Yea you heard it right - Filthy!

The keyboard glitches have been brushed off by standard testing procedures, people who are used to using smartphones should not find it difficult to use the Virtual Keyboard on the iPhone! Whoa that is something people will love to hear, now all you people who pick up the iPhone spend some time with it before you start to complain. Spend the whole week, testing and typing and using it with flair, you shall find it convincing!

AT&T - that is the catch. All others with other plans just sit and stare at iPhone users, and iPhone users suffer the poor quality of AT&T! And hey foreign users, well take a hike! [do u think you would by a $600 phone and take a AT&T roaming plan and call it cool? ]

Verizon rulez!! Sprint is good enough!!

Well the breather is, WiFi's quite fast and works like a marvel, but you shall not fancy switching between WiFi networks while on the move would you?

Scratch resistant casing and screen makes it a sturdy gadget, weighs well above the Treos and Blackberrys. There is no technology I have heard that is smudge resistant, so forget that. The other sad stories are, the standard headphone would not fit the socket, your car adapter would not be recognized to play it in your car, only charging is recognized, volume buttons are placed awkwardly, there is no memory card facility, there is no memory extension possible(San Disk, San Media, Stick Pro, Mini SD, Micro SD, Compact Flash - nothing!), hey did I say, you cannot Copy Paste in a Smart(?)Phone [stop laughing yo], he hehe, then there is no Multi Tasking, that means you need to close an application to play a song, or stop the song to view a picture, or to change a picture you need to close applications and come back. Funny that such a piece of art forgot to have such elementary features on it.

Verdict:

No Instant Messaging, No Video Recording, No Adobe Flash, No Games no, no, no Dam you man why tha hell do you wanna rope in $600 on this piece of [@##%$##]