Posts by Henry Blackman

Unintelligent review

There is little to no facts in this article, and clearly the author hasn't seen the phone, so should not make comment on the iPhone 4 screen. Nor does the author reference the sales number error by Sprint, which makes the Evo less popular than he suggests. Nor, does the author reference the battery nightmare of the Evo.

IT people like to focus on features, 5mega pixel this, 12 mega pixel that-but consumers know that, for example, those numbers are meaningless. The 3MP camera in the 3GS is significantly better in many scenarios than much higher MP cameras in other phones. Apple focuses on results, not acronyms much to their dismay, but given the 4 isn't even out yet, leaves much to actual usage.

Let's remember the things IT people value, are not the things everyone else does.

They scream!

I've got one of these babies and believe me, they scream. The sheer speed of the processors just doesn't get touched with video encoding (H264 5 times faster than real time - love it), and yet the machine is responsive like it's doing nothing. It does show that the bottleneck is the disk, so you'll need a RAID to get maximum performance out of it!

Running Great Here

I'm running Parallels 4 and have been since release day, and I can't find fault. It's significantly faster with Vista, and whilst I didn't install Internet Security, I can't see any slowdowns at all. Vista speeded up significantly for me with SP1 - so it might be SP1 or it might be better compatibility with Parallels.

All in all, no complaints here.

Just laugh...

What is it with so many iPhone/Apple haters... they tell us that the iPhone is crap, it's not suitable for the enterprise, how closed it is, why they hate iTunes, that Mac OS X is last years news and so on.

Why is it, if all these products are awful, and they would never buy an Apple piece, that they are simply clamoring for products like this hack? It's beyond me. Get over it, and just buy one!

For the love of God!

@Anonymous Coward RE: clueless fanboi comment... I don't usually rise to the bait. You can lock the iPhone just like any other phone, and it's quite impossible to use without being unlocked. It's filesystem is completely encrypted, and generally inaccessible to a desktop machine so no worries there. Both just as effective as Windows Mobile/Blackberry - if not more so. Please don't comment if you haven't actually used one (which you clearly haven't).

@Gulfie - the 3G dock is £19, quite a steal when you look at the cost of other handsets docks, e.g. HTC Touch Diamond where it's £29.99 at Expansys (although not yet available). You can get plenty of car chargers for those of you how are "really mobile"... just like any phone, e.g. an old O2 XDA of mine, it was quite impossible to get a day of full on use out of it.

Of course full on use of the XDA was limited to very slow browsing on a crummy version of IE, on the other hand, with the iPhone, blimey I get stuff done! Imagine that.

Running 3rd Party w/o Jailbreaking

What is exactly the point of jailbreaking an iPhone 3G...? All version 2.0 users can get all the 3rd party apps you want from the App Store, directly to your phone by pressing the button on your phone. Seems a little pointless to me. I'm sure that older apps that were not created with the SDK, will be transitioned over so MORE people can use them!

Who has legitimate reason to complain?

Who has legitimate reason to complain. O2 are allowing people out of their contracts for service, and get a new phone with a contract just like new customers. Since when have operators done this before? O2, as far as I know, is unique in this offer, after allowing O2 customers out of their previous contact with the first iPhone at no extra charge.

The price point is excellent, the contract is fair, who can complain?

How is this different?

How is this different from any other legal agreement? Let's face it, MS put all sorts of things in their EULAs... not tranferring licenses, not running in a VM. Symbian has similar - don't screw around - gotchas.

It's called good business. If developers prefer to distribute apps through cracked phones that's fine, but if they prefer the advertisements and the listings on apple.com which, no doubt, make a massive difference to sales - that's fine. Apple have always done a great job supporting developers, and I'd prefer to see a stable platform that is somewhat shy of perfection, than a nasty looking Palm or Series 60 brought down in seconds because the app didn't respond, or better, Windows Mobile brought down by it's own - built in, no less - sucky apps.

Good Deal - Excellent Contract

The £35 a month contract is good! The figures from "anonymous vulture" are misleading at best. Here's the *real* figures:

iPhone

£35 a month over 18 months: £630 (200 mins, 200 txts, unlimited data + wifi)

Phone: £269

TOTAL 18 Months: £899

Nokia N95 - Option 1

£25 a month over 18 months: £450 (250 mins, 100 txts)

£45 a month for unlimited data: £810

Phone: £199

TOTAL: £1459

Nokia N95 - Option 2

£35 a month over 18 months: £630 (750 mins, 100 txts)

Phone: Free

£25 a month for 250MB data (more realistic?): £450

TOTAL: £1080

These are the real figures. Which is better? For me, I'm a data user, not a talker or texter - so the iPhone can't be beaten. The Wifi access is included with the iPhone, but rumors are that O2 will introduce this too with other contracts, so I've ignored it in the Nokia pricing. Should it not be included, then add this cost in.

Either way, the iPhone price is not anything but good! The data makes it worth it!