2007
01.11
01.11
It’s taken me a few days to consider this. But, I’m not that excited by the iPhone. Here’s why:
- It does not look like an Apple product. To me, it looks like something Motorola would produce.
- It’s made by Apple and they’re notorious for proprietary control – this doesn’t bode well for developers.
- The battery life has the potential to be worse than my O2 XDA Exec – a wonderful device that is little used because of the extreme power consumption limits. A day out up in London will see me out of communication by midday.
- It won’t be here for another 10 months or so.
- Besides the music screens and the base ‘widget’ screen, the interface design looks bloody dreadful. Did you really look closely at the address book? Yuk.
- 2mp Camera? I hope it’s a good one…
I have a Cingular contract that’s up about now so I will definitely try and get an iPhone when they’re released because despite of the above, it looks like a very cool device, just not an Apple device.
note: this opinion may change when I get my hands on one 