The Fascination Continues…

Posted on 27 February 2007 by


…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.

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You can see the rest of the strip here at istartedsomething.

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Mitchell Oke is a 22 year old Bachelor of Creative Technology (Digital Video Production) from Sydney, Australia. He's previously worked for News Ltd as a Multimedia Producer, and currently works as a freelance editor and videographer. He has a great love for gadgets and cars, always wanting to have the latest and greatest phones, notebooks and other electronic toys. He is a huge fan of Star Trek, Top Gear and Seinfeld, citing them as his favourite TV shows. In December 2006 he became a Mac convert, having used Windows since he was 5.

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  • reidme

    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.” ;-)

  • http://www.geardiary.com Mitchell Oke

    Haha, but Apple have opened themselves up to comparison with other smartphones since they have called the iPhone a Smartphone.

  • reidme

    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.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Hughes

    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. :-P

    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.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Mitchell Oke

    I am hankering for the release of the HTC Cavalier and there is no guarantee at this point that it will even be released!!

  • reidme

    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.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Mitchell Oke

    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 :D