iPhone: What to Love, What to Hate

In almost everything, there are aspects you’ll learn to love and things you’ll learn to despise. Same goes with one of the coolest gadgets in town: iPhone from Apple. What’s there to love? What’s there to hate?

You’ll learn to love its smartness, the way it reacts to your every touch. After all, first and foremost, it makes use of the touch screen technology—yes, just your fingers, not your stylus. You’ll also appreciate its complex yet usable design. Now, who will not get awed with the elegance, sleekness, and modernism of this small phone? It’s basically thin, just around 11.6 mm. Moreover, its innovation isn’t only limited to its appearance. Despite of some of its flaws, there’s a sense of coherence and coordination among the software and hardware you can find on an iPhone.

In line with its prominent feature, iPhones have three types of sensors built into their system, so they basically “know” what you’re trying to do. It has a proximity sensor, light sensors, and an accelerometer which helps the phone to automatically change its layout from portrait to landscape mode.

IPhones also spell convenience in numerous ways. Let’s take the voicemail, for example. It mainly uses visual voicemail, which allows you to choose your voice messages. Moreover, you can send and receive messages directly from your public Inbox such as Gmail and Yahoo, provided they are in HTML format. There’s no need to imagine webpages as you can view them as they are, courtesy of Safari Web browser.

However, everything isn’t spic and span for iPhones. The road to using it isn’t entirely paved or rosy. For one, if you are very keen on camera phone, you won’t get much satisfaction in here. After all, it only uses 2 megapixels. It makes you question as to how other mobile manufacturers can come up with 3.2 or higher. It may take pride of its 8GB storage, and yet, for any person who’s been storing files for like a lifetime, this is definitely limited and small. In spite of its ability to transmit mobile data, a 2G EDGE technology will surely be slow compared to opting for 3G phones.

Apple has tied up with Cingular Wireless as its official network provider until 2009. What does that mean? It simply implies that if you’re using other than AT&T, you won’t have any significant use of your phone. So you need to shuffle your carrier and move on to Cingular. Lastly, even if you can get yourself online through it, you don’t have the power to download anything—not even music or video.

The iPhone is in itself a myriad of mystery. It entices you to buy it, with its many features that you may not probably hear of, and yet it makes your heart sink with the things you can’t probably enjoy. But perhaps that’s where the magic lies: when something imperfect can find its way into the market and still end up successful.