To quote Bud, from Kill Bill: Vol. 2: “If your gunna’ compare a Hanzo sword, you compare it to every other sword ever made, wasn’t made, by Hattori Hanzo.”
This phone is so far ahead of any other phone or hand held device I’ve seen before. Such a refreshing upgrade from the Motorola Q I had for a year. For tasks as simple as setting a ring tone or adding a contact, the Q was painful to say the least. On the iPhone, it’s actually enjoyable to do these simple tasks.
I wasn’t about to drop $600 on a phone, especially when I was mid contract with Verizon and with this iPhone being the first gen (which always have issues). But after the price drop I could not resist picking one up.
Though I give this phone a solid ’10′ since there is nothing else to compare it to, here are a few beefs I’ve found in this first gen iPhone (in order if importance to me):
1) Can’t use it as a hard drive (all other iPods do this).
2) Can’t manually manage music. Which means I can’t listen to my music at work through iTunes (all other iPods do this).
3) No Flash player. I know there could be issues using a touch screen browser with Flash, but we’ll figure that part out. Just turn it on Apple.
4) Speaker phone is way too quiet.
5) No SDK for native apps (and with update 1.1.1 they locked it down and Installer.app Beta no longer works… BS).
6) Can’t sync notes or a to do list.
7) no way to mark email “all read” or “delete all”
(Not a biggie, but) No multimedia messaging
Even with these items, I completely agree with everyone else who is gaga about all the things this phone CAN do. From Maps to Alarm clock, Safari, iPod, everything is so smooth.
I must also say this. Since getting this phone, I have only opened our upstairs computer (a laptop I use casually to check email, scores and read articles) once.