The Fascination Continues…
Posted on 27 February 2007, at 4:30 pm, by Mitchell Oke
…but this time it is for what the iPhone CAN NOT do, or things that other phones have been doing for years. Standing next to the Blackjack, the iPhone looks pretty feature light. No 3G. No Push Email. No 3rd Party Apps. Very Pricey…
This short comic strip illustrates a few of these deficiencies differences.
You can see the rest of the strip here at istartedsomething.
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February 28th, 2007 at 6:21 am
The iPhone is definitely not a smartphone (capitalized or not), but I don’t think it is intended to be. As much as we gadgetheads love our smartphones, they still represent a small fraction of total phone sales. I guess most people just aren’t that “smart.”
February 28th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Haha, but Apple have opened themselves up to comparison with other smartphones since they have called the iPhone a Smartphone.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I don’t think they’ve called it a Smartphone, because that’s an MS trademark, and on their website the only place I find the word smartphone is when they compare their on-screen keyboard to the “plastic” keyboards on smartphones.
It’s funny that they use the word plastic like it’s derogatory. I’ll take a plastic keyboard with raised keys and tactile feedback over a flat, non-tactile one any day.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:48 am
What I don’t like is that we still have at least three more months to wait before we can see the final shipping version of the iPhone. I hate it when companies pre-announce their product by so many months.
Honefully the iPhone will be released as promised, when promised. Then we can see how much hype they do or don’t live up to.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:44 am
I am hankering for the release of the HTC Cavalier and there is no guarantee at this point that it will even be released!!
February 28th, 2007 at 9:06 am
The waiting sure is hard, but as they say anticipation is half the fun. Some products I’ve enjoyed anticipating longer than I enjoyed the actual product (kind of like a ride at Disneyworld).
Often it seems like companies just announce ideas that they’ve barely started working on just so they can say they were “first” and everybody else copied them.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Haha true, waiting and anticipating is part of the fun. It’s true what they say, we want what we don’t have. While I am still very happy with my Treo 750, I just don’t have that excitement that I did when I first looked at it online, or first played with it when it finally arrived. I am more excited about all the latest stuff, some of which isn’t even available!!
And yes, they certainly love to stick that “World’s first” moniker onto products