All phones have their positives, and all phones have their negatives. The iPhone excels in many areas other phones don’t, but other phones have some things the iPhone just couldn’t stand up to. There are things I really dislike about the iPhone, and these dislikes are small compared to everything I do enjoy about owning an iPhone. I may have some issues with my phone that I don’t know about, or it may just be me.
Hit the cut for my dislikes on the iPhone.
Signal Strength
The iPhone’s signal strength isn’t too bad, but isn’t really the greatest either. What I really dislike about the signal is how fast the iPhone “refreshes” the signal bar. I never know when I have signal if I slightly move the phone. This might be in part of the internal antenna, but I don’t know. I’ve heard a lot of other problems about the signal strength on the iPhone.
Speaker Volume
This is probably my biggest dislike on the iPhone. The speaker volume on the iPhone is simply, awful. Putting the iPhone on speakerphone during a call is useless because you have to hold the bottom of the phone up to your ear anyways. Sure music should come out nice and clean on the speaker, but voice is so low, I would not care if the voice was heavily distorted such as Nextel phones. Anything for better speakerphone.
Battery Life
I can live with short battery life, but it’s just something that could be touched up a little bit. I can’t go one full day without charging my phone at least once. I remember with my old ones, I had to charge them every 3 to 4 days. I don’t see 3G coming at least until the iPhone gets a better battery and some more energy efficient parts.
Maybe we can expect a change coming in future updates, or possibly the 2nd version of the iPhone.
I think it is time to get a curve.
I just got an iPhone having had the last two versions of the t-mobile sidekick and there are some serious flaws that I hope they fix in some future updates. One of them is the lack of copy and paste along with several rather important email functions like sort by, mass deleting of email, etc.
Have you owned any other smartphones? The iPhone gets the best battery life of any smartphone I’ve tried, and believe me I’ve tried a lot of them, from every major supplier.
There’s tons of problems with the iPhone, you covered maybe 1% of them and one of them isn’t even an issue.
I would certainly agree on your first two points. Especially the speaker. I really expected apple would put a good speaker in the thing but they certainly screwed that up. Even those ghastly motorola nextel’s have this part right.
That being said I do think it’s the best phone in the world by a wide margin right now.
I think the touch screen is a huge flaw, too. I mean who wants to continually press a screen to navigate?; there should just be huge, bumpy buttons instead of this sleek touch screen. I can’t believe you didn’t discuss the touch screen dislike in this article; it’s a huge one!
I hope they get rid of the touch screen completely in the 3G iPhone.
andy has this right.
this article could be called “my dislikes of the iphone, which i have painfully obviously used under 3 hrs”
my vx6700 would crash while taking a call if IE had a “complex” page loaded.
there are pleanty of downsides, but it’s still by far the best phone on the planet.
how bout no video messaging/video capture at all? or picture messaging? or sending sms’s to more than one person at a time?
yeah, you barley have your advertisers fooled
The thing I hate about the iPhone is that I can’t pull it out without a crowd of people clamouring around me with the usual “that’s the coolest thing I have aver seen” – yes, yes it is light years better than anything sold on the planet – (hopefully it will open up the tel-co’s to stop nickel and diming us to death) – get over it already…. I love my iPhone and if I decided to get another smartphone I would be lost because no other phone out there does what the iPhone does and as easily as it does it. It would just be nice if one day it was just another phone….
I agree with your three points..but let’s not forget.
No address book search
No cut and paste feature
No multi person texting
No multi media picture viewing…unless you go to viewmymessage.com
which takes about a day to download.
oh, and it’s slowwwwwww internet access.
I love my iphone and have zero regrets about getting it. Speaker loudness is an issue for the custom ringtones. Cut and paste is a pretty big issue. I still really have to use my regular computer to do my serious emailing. I wish it could run more types of media files. I wish it had a flash and video recorder capability. I bought it conscious of its limitations, knowing better things will come down the line, but how long do I want to wait? I’m getting to old to wait. No regrets.
One more thing. Everyone should thank Apple because every phone manufacturer has had the bar raised, and even if you never buy an iPhone you will enjoy its influence on other new phones.
I really don’t use a lot of features some people on here are complaining about. These are just things I dislike about it. Drop me an email kenallen04[at]gmail.com if you’d like to voice your opinion on what you dislike about the iPhone. I’ll make another post with what the readers think.
I like the iPhone because business users hate it. Crackberry addicts.
Can’t stand ‘em.
Too much stuff on their belts.
Crippled bluetooth. I can’t voice dial w/o paying extra to AT&T? Sad.
Signal strength is weak and does fluctuate too much. My old RAZR was rock solid in comparison.
Absent to do list. Pretty basic feature even for a non-work centric smartphone; particularly one wasting screen space with stock tracking and YouTube app.
No Custom Ringtones. Again basic function of most any phone nowadays; absence, particularly for a device emphasizing music, is just too greedy. This is probably the biggest single driver for jailbreaking.
The Recessed Headphone Port. I understand why it is the way it is; it’s just a pain that I need an adapter to use my really good ‘phones.
The Security Question. How vulnerable is this thing, really? I mean really. I’m still leery of doing anything significant that would require passwords (e.g., banking) or other important info.
Umm you can use your own custom ringtones now in case you didn’t know. Apple seems to have caved on that one.
You can have custom ringtones if you use a mac and garageband. And even then, i think you can’t use protected content (i.e., stuff bought from iTunes). But if you’re going to do it now, why not in the beginning? Answer: greed.
let me start by saying the iPhone is the greatest phone I have ever owed and I love it and can’t see myself getting another make of phone ever!! That said it needs the following…..
1. 3g or better
2. MMS
3. Multi-textin
4. Better camera
5. Video taking
6. A flash
7. Copy and paste
8. Flash player
9. Downloading from the web
10. Some sort of word, exel etc
11. Photo editer
12. A dj program
13. And the big one, Games
I know its a long list but trust me I love my iPhone and if it never got any of this stuff I’d still love it
So your all after a Dell Axim x51v PDA with a sim card then!
Its basically the same thing but the PDA does it all… ok no phone, but apart from that… we were all happy having 2 gadgets not one LIMITED one that almost does both gadgets work at twice the price.
I love the iphones design and the way apple get things working with a great GUI, but after a few hours I have got my axim to work better than an iphone, more customisable also…. ok yet again no phone, but hey WE HAVE PHONES!!!!
I actually get more CRED from my custom axim than some iphone people .. ok I lied, but hey!
Happy newyear btw
The iPhone is my first Apple product. I wanted to condense from two devices (phone and pda) to one. There are many good features on the iPhone, but I am disappointed with the lack of the following features: “go to” feature in the Planner/calendar; “search” feature in calendar/planner; “copy and paste” feature; “voice memo” feature. There are many email attachments that will not open for me. Also, there is no way (that I can find) to sync from the device to the computer only instead of syncing from the computer to the device using the Yahoo address book. When the sync does go from computer to device, it does not support the Yahoo calendar. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. Sandra