I've been using it for a few weeks, and I love it! Especially after the 11.2.x update, it behaves much better. Great specs, FM transmitter (that I've only had moderate success with), good camera, mass storage compliance, video conferencing (that I haven't used just yet..)... I love it. It's fun to use! Widgets!
But... I 1997-love it. The interface feels super retro. It's basically everything we imagined a phone in the year 2001 would be back in 1990. Every time I use it, I feel like I should be riding a hoverboard down the street.
Anyone else with me on this?
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Party like it's... 2001?
I sort of get what you're saying about that, and it should probably be applied all across the mobile industry.
For example:
- Why have dumb (feature) phones dominated the market for so long?
- Why did Apple finally release in 2009 what they should have released with the frist version of the iPhone?
- Why did it take so long for Nokia to make touchscreen devices (after experimenting with that one in 2005 or whenever)
- Why are the US's network providers so closed about how they (inter)operate?
I could go on and on, obviously.
For example:
- Why have dumb (feature) phones dominated the market for so long?
- Why did Apple finally release in 2009 what they should have released with the frist version of the iPhone?
- Why did it take so long for Nokia to make touchscreen devices (after experimenting with that one in 2005 or whenever)
- Why are the US's network providers so closed about how they (inter)operate?
I could go on and on, obviously.
I've been cutting and pasting on my phones for a decade. It was absolutely intolerable to leave that out of the iPhone.
The feature phones thing is a bit more comprehensible to me. People tend to buy based off of spec sheets, without a realistic consideration of what they'll actually use (or be able to use *cough*badUI). It's not their fault as such as non-techies, but you would think that repeated experience would have some Pavlovian effect. Regardless, it's a vicious cycle that the manufacturers don't think they can extricate themselves from: they market on those very same useless features.
If you haven't read it, Lisa Katayama at Wired had a great article about just how insane this has gotten with Japanese cellies:
www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2008/06/japan_...
As for the operators, I've got my own list of concerns about them, particularly the widespread distaste for their channelization. The only domestic carrier that -doesn't- seem freaked out that pretty soon voice just going to be bits is T-Mobile.
The feature phones thing is a bit more comprehensible to me. People tend to buy based off of spec sheets, without a realistic consideration of what they'll actually use (or be able to use *cough*badUI). It's not their fault as such as non-techies, but you would think that repeated experience would have some Pavlovian effect. Regardless, it's a vicious cycle that the manufacturers don't think they can extricate themselves from: they market on those very same useless features.
If you haven't read it, Lisa Katayama at Wired had a great article about just how insane this has gotten with Japanese cellies:
www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2008/06/japan_...
As for the operators, I've got my own list of concerns about them, particularly the widespread distaste for their channelization. The only domestic carrier that -doesn't- seem freaked out that pretty soon voice just going to be bits is T-Mobile.
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