Sooph, I am far far from a apple fan boy but your a prime example of a hater, lol.
Moans about things but can not quite put down a valid argument agaisnt.
No phone has the screen res this iphone has and the tech for this and other current gen phones like the HTC offerings have only been available recently through manufacturers. To say they been around for years is not true. That is for any phone not just this one.
As for the demo glitch...
Android flash demo went badly wrong too, it happens to everyone. Was not a phone glitch at the apple one but a wifi issue, One Apple and Others have had at the location. Apple and others have actually complained a number of times about it before and its not been sorted properly Still. MS had similar issues at an xbox event there not to long ago apperently.
Specs - pff. Head to head you will always find a phone that beats another phone at something, not everything but it is all tit for tat and I always find people who do that or try to do that on points is silly if you ask me, its just Top Trumps which is a childs game and silly kids argue over who has the better card.
Looking at the whole package this is a very nice phone and good pricing compared to other new smartphones. A lot of people have questioned why android based phones cost as they do considering the OS and where it comes from, they should not be that high. Whole idea was to drive prices down with that OS, not happened.
I think android OS is a great OS but head to head multitasking iphone os4 has been outdoing it from what I have read. Next version in the works from google is looking to better this aspect of the phone.
Windows mobile 7 will not have multitasking to start with.
You can go on and on....
Oh, you avoided my question. I asked that today to one of the guys at work who said the same thing as you. Could not actually come out with a valid example, could not think of anything.
It is a locked down OS but Apple has reasons but it does not prevent you making most apps you would use on the system. Jailbreaking reasons get less and less all the time on iphone. Less people actually do figures show.
Apple are not perfect by a long run but this is a good phone and I will get one it looks dam good and its not as wide and its thinner then the 3GS and that is a big selling point for me, I hate thick phones.
At the end of the day you get the phone that appeals to you, it is like a car. You like what you like and may not be what another person likes.
SO WHAT?
No point doing the old top trumps bitching in my opinion.
Whoa Whoa Whoa.
I am a one man hate squad against Apple. Their products are overpriced toys. Why spend so much over the odds for a Logo?
If you want to waste your money, go for it. The more sensible of us will go for the Androids, the WebOSs, the Symbians and the Blackberry.
Forced into using Apples hateful proprietary software, The Flash argument thats going on is prime example of "Do as we say"
The glitch was unfortunate, thats all. I wasnt digging on it.
Its not a good price at all, the $99 they show on the screen is on the very expensive and very low value for money contracts they bundle this hateful device with.
Ive only used an iPhone in passing, and wasnt impressed at all. Certainly not enough to spend £200 more than a similarly featured phone.
Now, go pass your gall stone.
Its got some nice new features, but ground breaking it is not.
