I recently acquired an iPhone. Although it’s only a 2G but it’s an IPhone after all.
Before I purchased this, I had no idea of the ins and outs of it and had no idea how to work one and how one works. After a day of trying it out and reading about it on the net I decided to sell it. What a piece of junk compare to other phones.
The troubles people are having with them are out standing. No sound through the speakers, no sound in the headphones, no ringing, no text sound, the thing gets a drop of water on it, or steam in the bathroom and makes it in-operable and I can go on and on of all the faults this phone has. The interface and the screen is nice. The operation of the buttons and icons and all is quick and excellent, but what good it does if the phone brakes so easily? After spending a few hours on the net reading about it in forums I wonder why people are buying these things at all? They are not cheap phones. Apple marketing department does an excellent job to be able to gain customers considering how unreliable this phone is.
I guess people are buying it because it’s sort of a status symbol among the youth. The quick operation the nice interface shadows the unreliability of this phone. I would not feel comfortable knowing the phone might or might not ring or work when I need it or someone calls me. I would not be happy knowing that I turn it off in the evening and in the morning the iPhone might not have sound coming out of it’s speaker.
Some people have to use the headphones in order to be able to operate it. Some only have the loud speakers working. Some have the iPod part working some don’t or only with the headphones or only with loud speakers.
There are no repair solutions for this phone. All the advice one gets from anywhere is to try and plug and unplug the headphone jack several times, blow air into the headphone jack, try the end of the cotton swabs (q-tips)
etc.etc.. I’ve read in one of the forums, the owner took the phone back to the store for the sound stopped working all of a sudden and the clerk blew into the headphone jack and voila,,, the sound started to work. What kind of fault can cause that in a $600 dollars phone? Is that fixed for good or it’ll be back the next day or in an hour? ( OK sucker I am working now, but “I’ll be back”)
Fortunately I’ve only bought a used one and didn’t have to shell out all those hundreds for an unreliable phone. So I am gonna sell it now and go back to the reliable Nokia s and Motorola s, the Samsung s.
I would not recommend this phone to anyone. I have no quarrel with Apple at all. Never had an Apple phone or appliance before. But what I’ve read put me off of their phone for sure.
I loved the screen and the fast application load, but that’s about it. Also that’s about sums up all the goods in the iPhone.
Windows mobiles might freeze once in the while but they work once rebooted. Easily configurable and millions of applications are available to tweak it and tune it. iPhone couldn’t even put a decent volume adjuster into the phone. Not customizable as a windows mobile phone. Of course there are many many applications one can download and install. But shouldn’t the phone have some of them already installed to make it customizable? Many people are not adept at installing software onto their phones.
Amazing, all the hype for a junker. basically.