iphone is flawless

Add me to the list. I have had my iphone since release weekend in June; have yet to have a problem; battery life is very good; coverage has been good; ringtones work great; no problems syncing or upgrading software versions.

I love this thing.

I too am happy with my iphone. I also enjoy coming to the threads and learning a lot of the things I have learned. Each update is like Christmas, exiting, unexspecting and new. Thanks to Apple also for the rebate. I have been burned so often on other brand new phones. None of them ever gave me a rebate. I love my iphone so much that I got my husband one for Christmas. Since we have the web apps I think he will like it (I hope).

I recently tossed my BlackBerry and got an iPhone as well. I'm thrilled with it, though the camera could be a lot better (not that important, though). What's bothering me are all the Mac-haters who are saying that the LG Voyager is a better product. Look at this biased site (it's all UGC), and help me defend the iPhone! I put up a few points today.

http://comparati.com/890-LG-Voyager-vs-iPhone

I agree with MonoEvolver entirely, my iPhone activated quickly and is working beautifully. I would just add that photos from the phone taken in low light do improve a great deal if put through the Neatimage noise reduction plug-in for Photoshop.

It's a joy to at last have a phone that syncs flawlessly with regular Mac Apps (setting appointments is actually a pleasure) and a good snub to Nokia/Ericsson etc who have completely ignored Mac users for years, while making their own menus more obscure and fragmented.

Well done with iPhone One, I can't wait for version two.

Glad it worked. Enjoy your new phone!

Hi,

i was one of the first to get an iPhone in germany.
Took several days to port my number (argl, this is a shame t-mobile)

Everything works great. There is a lot "Liebe zum Detail" (love to the detail) as
we in germany say.

I have several thousand pictures on it and it's a pleasure to browse even this amount of data.

The only thing i miss is bluetooth syncronisation as i did with my SE k700i and
SMS from adressbook.

Syncing dat via exchange (only part of info is handled) or
.MAC (i am behind a frirewall, crushed my Mail)
is not a good option.

I strongly believe iPhone will be as succesful as the iPods are now.

It's a real masterpiece and fullfills what i expect from Apple as a long term user,

kind regards,

Bodo

In regards to this thread, i would like to add that the iphone is a tremendous innovation, but unfortunately is nowhere near flawless...

issue 1/ A seriously inadequate camera, even though it has 2mp.
issue 2/ Slow browsing even on wireless broadband networks...Don't even bother with edge!
issue 3/ Mails often not received on edge (anyone else get "could not connect with server", and that is with a .mac email account!
issue 4/ big fingers and little keyboards don't get on well
issue 5/ no video recording
issue 6/ Common knowledge that O2 coverage is widely poor across the United Kingdom according to several which magazines and watch dogs...Why choose O2...I would imagine that O2 gave Apple the most money to rep the iphone. Lets not forget that Orange and Vodaphone are the major frontrunners in this country, and were still ignored...

So other than the issues above, i love my iphone...lol. But be realistic...flawless it IS NOT.

I've been a Windows Mobile user ever since the first Pocket PC's came out and then Pocket PC Phones and Smartphones. I just got sick of Windows Mobile problems. Sure Windows Mobile does a lot of things but it also has many quirks that just seem to never get fixed. And inovation has pretty much come to a halt with WM.
Being a loyal WM user it was hard to make the switch but I did and I couldn't be happier. In fact I have a MacBook Pro in my sights next replacing this Windows machine.

While I agree with some of the things you have noted in your post, from my own experience I really feel I would have say the following...

RE: Issue 1 - If you really want to see an "inadequate 2MP camera", pick up any Nokia N81 or Sony Ericsson W910i and you'll think your iPhone's camera is wonderful! I admit that it doesn't like indoor (and especially poor lighting conditions) when taking shots, but outside it does take some fantastic pictures for a camera that doesn't have auto focus. It would be great to see a next generation iPhone with a 3.2 or even a 5 MP camera though, especially if they teamed up with a respected digital camera company (such as Canon, for example) to provide the optical sensor.

RE: Issue 2 - I (personally) haven't found the browsing to be that slow. EDGE maybe wasn't the best choice (3G would have been faster (but used a little more battery life) or HSDPA), but then again you have to look at the fact that this is the first mobile device Apple have ever made and they will also be a little more biased to what is popular in the US. They really need to look at a more universal data solution to keep a competitive edge (if you pardon the pun).

RE: Issue 3 - I too have a .mac account and have so far been very lucky to have had no such problem. All my e-mails come through to my iPhone without any issues at all.

RE: Issue 4 - I am lucky (unlucky?) that I have quite skinny fingers, so this will never be an issue for me, but everyone is different and maybe Apple should offer a solution. Maybe they should make a small, portable version of the Bluetooth keyboard they make for the iMac, a little like the one Nokia make. At least then those users who couldn't get along with the touch screen would have an option.

RE: Issue 5 - I totally agree with you - with all the benefits of Quicktime and H264 encoding, you would have that that the iPhone would have been an excellent choice for making videos, especially if it have iMovie syncing of the videos you made or direct uploading to YouTube. I hope Apple address this in an update, as I'm sure it would be possible.

RE: Issue 6 - Again, I wouldn't really agree. As a previous contract customer with all the networks you mentioned, I found that when I was traveling around the UK (as my work takes me to many audio recording studios), I had in fact better coverage and less dropped signals when on trains with O2 than with Orange or Vodafone. As a (one time) seller and reviewer of mobile devices, a lot of people forget that the call quality, signal strength and reception depends just as much on the individual handset as it does on the network supplier.

IMHO, I think Apple made the right choice with O2, as I'm sure Orange (or Vodafone) would have wanted to brand the device, which is something I always hate and with regard to customer service and satisfaction, well I won't even go there! I know O2 aren't perfect either, but I have seen some very good levels of service from them where I live. Everyone will have an individual experience.

I agree with you - the iPhone is not flawless - but it is an amazing handset for a first attempt at something they have never done before, no question about that and I am sure that we will be treated to even better things in this area from Apple in the future.

While I did have the "reverse black screen" problem with my first phone, my replacement is flawless (build week 42). I use it for light phone, light text, light ipod use, heavy internet surfing. Never had a problem with battery, syncing, etc., and I'm syncing with a PC laptop.
I was at Starbucks the other day surfing with my iphone (smugly laughing to myself at all the people that had dragged their laptops there to do the same thing), and the barista was clearing up newspapers on the table next to me. He asked if I was finished with them, then he saw my iphone, then he said "oh, I see you have your own version!"

Harshly put - but a dedicated UK forum? I thought this forum is for everyone, no matter where you happen to live. Are American users of the iPhone uninterested in what people outside of the US are experiencing? Someone who might be planning a trip to the UK may welcome the insight, as they may end up be routed through O2 if they come here with an iPhone as a network partner!

I think that maybe UK users have higher (maybe unrealistically higher) expectations of what a device will be or should be. The fact that we make posts about the iPhone having no video recording features isn't "stupid", as I am sure that if anyone from Apple is reading this, it would be regarded as end user feedback, and as Apple like the "hub of your digital life" motto, having video recording that can sync with iMovie isn't (and wouldn't be) a bad idea at all and something that I am sure many US customers would welcome as well as those of us in the UK.

I totally agree, my opinion was my honest one and I didn't even say I hate the iPhone! The simple fact is that the iPhone isn't perfect and its as plain as the nose on anyones face. I am writing this response from my iPhone and I love the opportunity it has given me to do something like this, I thank apple for that! As for a British forum...get real! Everyone is entitled to post here and I'm sorry if I upset the odd American with my honest thoughts but even though I love all apple products including this one...don't use words like flawless because nome of them are! Brilliant and innovative, not flawless

I totally agree with you all. But can Apple wait awhile before coming up with another magnificent and dramatically different design for at least 5 years. And that goes all with their computers and monitors? They're notorious for that and I don't blame them for their excellent creativity and foresight. And for that matter cars and electronic gadgets? This is at least to defer people from buying and throwing away their old ones for our planet's sake.

Just a thought.. 🙂

can Apple wait awhile before coming up with another magnificent and dramatically different design for at least 5 years.

My checking account agrees with you. I always want the newest shiniest toys!

But: I am still using my 2001 Powerbook G4 Titanium; my cat demands it. The 15" Titanium leaves room for the cat to snuggle into the easy chair in the evening; she cannot wedge herself in if I have the 17" MacBook Pro on my lap.

Thankfully, Apple has made all of their software upgrades backward compatible so there has been no need to replace the PB Titanium. Leopard requires a 867 MHz or faster processor, so the old 400 MHz Titanium is finally going to be approaching retirement and headed for the recycler (or maybe donated to a favorite elementary school, if they want it). Seven years is a long time to be able to use a laptop!

Compare that to the "Brand I" Windows laptop I bought in 1993 that was obsoleted by a Windows upgrade in 1995! I had to replace the laptop because I was the network administrator at the time and I needed to be able to connect from home.

Apple - and every other tech product maker - must stay on the bleeding edge. Thankfully, Apple, more than any other computer maker, allows users to wait a long time before buying the latest and greatest magic box.