So, you want to join the popular crowd and get a new iPhone… Well, you may be out of luck if you want to do any of the following…
Phone
-No speed dial
-Can’t search ‘recents’ call list
-Can’t delete single entries in ‘recents’ call list
-No call recording
-If you sync your contacts with exchange, you can’t add your personal contacts unless you add them to exchange
-Can’t use music from iPod app as ring tone
-Can’t sort contacts by categories such as by company
-Can’t add/modify contact groups
-Can’t select specific ring tone for unknown callers
-No voice dial
Mail
-No push Gmail/any other servies other than exchange, mobileme, and yahoo mail
-If you have multiple email accounts configured, the iPhone will send all emails with your ‘default’ email account despite replying emails that are in your ‘default’ email account.
-No search function
-No horizontal keyboard mode
-Large images are scaled to VGA resolution
-Only attachments allowed are photo attachments
-No support for sending multiple attachments
-Can’t save attachments unless it’s a picture attachment
-Can’t edit office attachments
-Can’t empty email box with one click
-Can’t delete multiple letters simultaneously
Calendar
-If you sync your calendars with exchange, you can’t add your personal calendars unless you add them to exchange
-No search function
-No week view
-No horizontal keyboard mode
-No advanced recurring options for calendar events (i.e.) Difficult to add events recurring on tue and thurs till mar 20)
-Not really a missing feature, but better use of multitouch could be employed in ‘day’ view (you can’t create an event by selecting a time like you can in iCal, google calendar and you can’t move an event by dragging it)
-No todo list syncing with iCal
Safari
-No flash, java
-Can’t open links in a new tab
SMS
-Can’t delete a particular message from a conversation
-No search function
-No horizontal keyboard mode
-Unable to customize notification sound
Photos + Camera
-No light flash
-No autofocus
-No optical, digital zoom
-No manual photo tagging
-No video recording
Maps with GPS
-Can’t load maps while using GPS unless you have cellular/wifi signal
YouTube
-Can’t login to your youtube account and access your playlists
-Can’t upload videos youtube
Stocks, Weather, Notes
-Can’t sync, email notes
-No categories avaliable in notes
-Can’t change order of cities in weather
-Can’t change indices in stocks
iPod
-no music streaming (AppleTV like streaming)
Misc
-No copy and paste
-No MMS
-No Lotus notes support
-No wifi, bluetooth sync
-Limited bluetooth capability (no file transfer, no stereo audio streaming)
-Inability to toggle EDGE state (on/off)
-No global search function
-User inaccessible internal file system
-No password management utility
-No blackberry plug-in
-No support for computer data tethering
-No iChat software
-No audio recording
Still worth $199/299 + 2 years with ATT now?
O, and if you unlock it, none of the official “apple store” aps will work.
Go get a real phone.
Also see: Activation Problems
July 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
And what is a real phone, may I ask?
July 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
@chako: Well, I am partial to Blackberry, but in reality, most phones are either crippled or suck in some way. Verizon cripples phones, even the AT&T plans and rate for the iPhone are horrible… In the end it really depends on you. Everyone likes there phone for different reasons. My post might have been a bit harsh, but Apple Fans usually deny the fact that Apple is as imperfect as any other technology manufacturer. I would use an iPhone, but with the plan being almost $70 a month for the ‘lowest’ options it seems like a waste. (Being out of work doesn’t help either)
July 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
well now I know not to get one of those shitty ass Iphones, I would be better off getting a real smart phone and use my psp since psp>ipod, nuff said.