January 9th, 2007
Just When I Think I’m Out… They Pull Me Back In!
Look, I want the iPhone (more accurately, I want to give up my Treo 650), but there’s no way I can justify spending $500 on this beauty until these three features — in the very least — are added in a next generation:
- A tactile qwerty keyboard: I cannot go backwards in text messaging functionality, which is the definition of touchscreen qwerty. No way, Jose.
- Real battery life: My iPod battery died after less than a year and it never played for more than a few hours in the first place. The Treo 650 specs show 6hrs talk time and 300 hours standby (both are accurate from my experience); the iPhone specs are up to 5hrs talk, browse or video and up to 6hrs audio. If I’m buying this for its multi-functionality — essentially giving up my other gadgets — then those figures are completely unacceptable.
- More Gigs: Again, if this is to replace my iPod, 4gig and 8gig models are pretty weak options. Direct market me once you pass the 20gig threshold.
See you in a few years, baby.
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I think I had to change my underwear today
I so want one. I SO want one. I saw it before my kids did (albeit Kid#2 was on a plane from London with no wifi in the air).
I love when they do stuff like the “Tuesday 9″ calendar icon. That’s today - the day of the Macworld keynote when they announced the iPhone.
yeah, apple covers every little detail like that; the detail is what makes them a great design firm (albeit control freaks). and i said apple, not apple computers — they’ve officially changed their name.
I SO agree with you - So what if I have to carry my iPod AND my phone? I mean, I’d love them to merge, but not for 4 gigs. Right on brother.
You gadget people amuse me. Right now I couldn’t justify $19.95 for a new cell phone, were my current one to die.
Perhaps I have a defective new iPhone. But on the first one hour call the battery dropped 40%. Not good.
being that the iPhone doesn’t have a replaceable battery, there’s *no way* i could ever justify buying one.
can you imagine how painful it’ll be when you have to send it to apple to replace the battery? 4 days without your *cell phone*?
hell no.