Can you be specific about the "some aspects"? Certainly.
The SMS app is exceptionally basic - there are no templates for quick replies, no way to insert emoticons,no way to immediately reply to a text without opening up the phone and going into the texting app, no way to restrict sending messages just to people with mobile numbers, no way to see if your text has been read or received. Thats just the headliners.
The Dialler is, well, exceptionally basic. No T9. No way to amend the voice mail stored number on the dialler, no way to search for a contact using a phone number or fragment of one.
The screen security management is basic, there is no distinction between dimming and locking the screen.
Managing basic networking is too complex - if i want to toggle bluetooth or wifi off and on for example, there is no simple switch to do that, I need to burrow into the menus.
The keyboard is very basic - just shows upper case letters (irrespective of whether or not you are typing upper case), no numeric top line so you awkwardly move between keyboard layouts just to add one number.
And, since you just got the phone this week, don't you think it is early to pass judgement? Given all the above, discovered within a day, and the fact that AFAIK none of them can be rectified without jailbreaking, (which is my main complaint), and the fact that I could either install apps easily on Android to do this if Android didnt support these features, or that previous phones going back 10 years had these features, nope I don't :-)
I asked him if he knew that he could turn the phone sideways to make the key pad bigger. He didn't. Then, I showed him that he could just speak his messages as well as his email, notes, etc. He was dumbfounded.
He hadn't tried using an android then ? :-)
Don't get me wrong, there are lots of things I like about the iPhone, especially now I've jailbroken it and rectified most of the above shortcomings, but IMO when you lock down the environment so tightly, its almost obligated on you to ensure that your apps are the best. For example, if you dont allow anyone else to install an SMS app (and why wouldn't you ??) , shouldn't yours be "the best" ?
FWIW had I not been able to jailbreak, I'd have been buying a better Android with my own money. Very frustrating, especially in the light of Tim Cooks memo today about Apple providing exceptional products. |
