Question:
Would you rather have a Apple iPhone or Samsung Instinct?
Josh
2008-07-04 15:07:22 UTC
I want good choice and good reasoning!

iPhone:http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhone.jsp

Instinct:http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/SubmitRegionAction
[click on 'more info' under Samsung Instinct]
Three answers:
firefox9294
2008-07-04 16:18:18 UTC
I think the IPhone is a total waste of money



1. At $599, it is ridiculously expensive. (Add in the cost of an AT&T contract and you get close to $1500)



2. Those who want to buy one must sell their soul to evil mega-corporation AT&T.



3. Japan already has technologically superior phones, and they’re far cheaper.



4. Slower internet than the commercials show: “The data experience is going to be very slow. If you’re on a cellular network, [using the Internet] is going to be very slow.”



5. Initial reports indicate that YouTube is slow and crappy using cellular network internet/EDGE. It’s nothing like in the commercials.



6. You cannot remove its battery. Thanks for replicating one of the biggest complaints about the ipod, Apple!



7. The glass touch screen of the iPhone guarantees that thousands of customers who drop their phones will have cracked screens.



8. The touchscreen keyboard sucks, according to those who have used the phone.



9. It can’t send MMS picture messages.



10. The camera has little or no options, and the pictures it takes aren’t very good.



11. It lacks proper support for Flash websites. So much for the internet.



12. It can’t record video.



13. “Pinching” pictures to zoom might look neat in commercials, but many reviewers are saying it actually sucks.



14. It lacks 3G high-speed data transfer.



15. No songs as ringtones.



16. No GPS.



17. It doesn’t work under 64-bit Windows XP / Windows Vista!!!!!!! Thanks for not including that in your Windows System Requirements, Apple!



18. It only allows for a maximum of 1 picture to be attached to each e-mail you send.



19. It doesn’t have a file browser/organizer.



20. Its default ringtones suck.



21. You can not save documents on it: documents can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your e-mail address.



22. No games!!



23. Its “quick list” dialing sucks compared to traditional speed dialing, which it lacks..



24. Long activation waits: many new iPhone users are reporting that they are being told to wait hours or even days to activate service for their phone. Thanks, AT&T!



25. Heat issues: the iPhone can get very hot when it is in use.

26. Deceptive Ads: Apple has been using models with gigantic hands in their advertisements for the iPhone in an effort to trick consumers into believing it is more compact.



27. Many of the positive press reports about the iPhone are influenced by newspapers and TV networks that simply want to profit from the hypefest, or even worse, reporters who are looking to sell books about the iPhone.



28. It creates incredibly annoying iPhone fanboys.
way2perfect4you
2008-07-04 22:13:12 UTC
I would rather have an iPhone 3G. It has amazing speeds and it looks great. The Instinct is a very bad copy of the iPhone. I tried it out at the Sprint store and the touch screen was very unresponsive. It feels really weird in your hand too, after 5 minutes, my hand started to cramp up. I don't like the sound quality either and the internet browser is based mostly on mobile web and is very slow. Wait for the iPhone 3G to come out on July 11th and get that.
Limelight
2008-07-04 22:11:58 UTC
out of those apple iphone, but the LG Dare is so much better then them both. Take a look...



http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/lg-dare-verizon-wireless/4505-6454_7-33070218.html?tag=prod.txt.1


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