I really want an iphone 3g... its fucken beautiful. But after further research it is extremely restrictive in what you can do on it. This is a list of every issue I have found... maybe you people know this shit already but im in Australia and we havn't got the iPhone yet without it being imported and hacked.
1. The new iPhone SDK will not allowed third party applications to run in the background. This means if you download say an MSN client or an IRC client, as soon as you go to do something else on your phone, the program will be closed and you will be 'logged out'. Only one application apart from what comes on the iPhone out of the box will run at any single time. This may not apply if Apple release their own iChat application, but dont expect it to be free. Want to SSH into your web server? receive a call when you're connected and the application will be closed on you. Fucken bullshit, they've thrown multi tasking out the window because they're worried everybody is too dumb to control what happens on their phone.
2. You can only set mp3 ringtones that you purchase from the iTunes store. Hacking your phone is the only way around this (which of course voids your warranty). (or using some shit called garageband which is mac only)
3. No MMS.. everyone knows this.. nobody really gives a fuck, nor do I. If an application is released to handle MMS, it will most likely have to run in the background to receive MMS's, which is not allowed according to the iPhone SDK (refer to point 1).
4. VOIP is disabled over 3g, it will only work over wifi. Apple wanted to protect the carriers revenues. I could have got a landline number for my mobile and could be making 6c\min calls to afghanistan but no, Apple wants to protect the carriers.
5. You cannot use your iPhone as a portable hard drive... it must use iTunes to transfer data to and from it, and iTunes will only allow mp3's and Apple approved video formats.
6. The Safari browser does not support Flash at all.
7. You cannot use your iPhone as a modem for your laptop.
8. No copy and paste
9. No bluetooth file transfers or headset music listening.
10. Want to read documents? you can.. but not simply, you gotta email them to yourself so you can then open them because iTunes wont let you copy across any unrelated formats. 8 or 16gb of space you cant use for anything other than videos and music! fucken genius.
If Microsoft released a phone with all the above flaws you would never hear the end of it... but because this is Apple everybody is happy to take it right up the arse. I really want an iPhone, the screen is amazing.. but with all the above shit wrong with it its just not going to work out.
What are my alternatives? HTC Diamond? screen is smaller, its sometimes laggy, its been reported to overheat, but at least I can do whatever the fuck I want with it. If anybody can prove me wrong on the above points please do.. I would love to hear that i'm wrong about point 1. No fanboy shit here trying to justify the above points please! Actually.. try if you want, I would also love to hear the reasoning behind them.
1. The new iPhone SDK will not allowed third party applications to run in the background. This means if you download say an MSN client or an IRC client, as soon as you go to do something else on your phone, the program will be closed and you will be 'logged out'. Only one application apart from what comes on the iPhone out of the box will run at any single time. This may not apply if Apple release their own iChat application, but dont expect it to be free. Want to SSH into your web server? receive a call when you're connected and the application will be closed on you. Fucken bullshit, they've thrown multi tasking out the window because they're worried everybody is too dumb to control what happens on their phone.
2. You can only set mp3 ringtones that you purchase from the iTunes store. Hacking your phone is the only way around this (which of course voids your warranty). (or using some shit called garageband which is mac only)
3. No MMS.. everyone knows this.. nobody really gives a fuck, nor do I. If an application is released to handle MMS, it will most likely have to run in the background to receive MMS's, which is not allowed according to the iPhone SDK (refer to point 1).
4. VOIP is disabled over 3g, it will only work over wifi. Apple wanted to protect the carriers revenues. I could have got a landline number for my mobile and could be making 6c\min calls to afghanistan but no, Apple wants to protect the carriers.
5. You cannot use your iPhone as a portable hard drive... it must use iTunes to transfer data to and from it, and iTunes will only allow mp3's and Apple approved video formats.
6. The Safari browser does not support Flash at all.
7. You cannot use your iPhone as a modem for your laptop.
8. No copy and paste
9. No bluetooth file transfers or headset music listening.
10. Want to read documents? you can.. but not simply, you gotta email them to yourself so you can then open them because iTunes wont let you copy across any unrelated formats. 8 or 16gb of space you cant use for anything other than videos and music! fucken genius.
If Microsoft released a phone with all the above flaws you would never hear the end of it... but because this is Apple everybody is happy to take it right up the arse. I really want an iPhone, the screen is amazing.. but with all the above shit wrong with it its just not going to work out.
What are my alternatives? HTC Diamond? screen is smaller, its sometimes laggy, its been reported to overheat, but at least I can do whatever the fuck I want with it. If anybody can prove me wrong on the above points please do.. I would love to hear that i'm wrong about point 1. No fanboy shit here trying to justify the above points please! Actually.. try if you want, I would also love to hear the reasoning behind them.
