Most of the iPhone owners I know bought the gadget for its ostensible “coolness” value, but (I hear) there are some people who thought/think it was/is a monumental achievement in technology. To that latter group, I humbly apologize, as what follows are the reasons why this supposed Holy Grail of cell phones could be the most over-rated product of the year.
Let’s be clear—I don’t own an iPhone….but a cursory Google search of “iPhone reviews” rendered countless irate costumers complaining about all of the following and more: clumsy keyboard, disappointing battery life, limited storage, no cut and paste, no attachments, no iChat, no MMS, video recording, or custom ringtones. No fully functioning bluetooth with stereo audio streaming, no voice dialing when you're using a car kit, no sending contact information to other people and no sending an SMS to more than one recipient at a time.
What would frustrate me the most is having spent $600 on an iPhone only to discover that it can't do some crucial and rudimentary functions that the free phones from the guy wearing the sandwich board outside the Sprint store can do.
Now, I am not unabashedly bashing the iPhone…I think we’ve all spent time fingering the LCD screen in fascination, enthralled by the buttonless design and the phone’s effortless ability to zoom into photos and fan through long lists. I am writing this, however, for the owners of this superphone who, now $600 poorer, have realized that what they lost in practicality, they may not have gained back in super human iPhone powers.
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