I want to send still ahead, I for over 10 years most mobile phones and mobile seminars + workshops organizing. In addition, have worked in this time with a variety of PDAs, today playing due to the complex power of smartphones is no longer relevant.
Again and again I encounter the just go to Apple here at the reviews on comments of. I do not have Apple shares (unfortunately), have no relatives sit at Apple and no other relationship with Apple. But I use (among other things) Apple products for over 20 years and have to say that these products simply the competitors products are always in many area a few steps ahead. This applies both to PCs, iPods and the iPhone. And I just want to again distinguish between two different categories of users. There are the normal users who want to take a product easily, and have maximum benefit, without impose further apart with the use or handling of the product. Take, use, have fun and everything works. For this group of users the iPhone is exactly right. Then there are the users who want to "fiddle around" on a product as much as possible. All want to manipulate the phone and change. For the iPhone is not the ideal solution, because the systems are difficult to access always with Apple. But this is precisely the advantage for normal users, because it can not change anything so unintentionally. The prerequisite is that the system works, and that's always the case with Apple. (If who has a thing or two here once made a different experience, so it is true for the vast majority, does it all work great.)
The activation procedure from the iPhone is a bit more complicated than other phones, but precisely because the iPhone in combination with the Apple iTunes service is fully satisfying only and completes its ease of use. Here already is in some of the criticism that one is forced to use iTunes. It's perfectly legitimate, if one takes as a manufacturer a global approach to the market and also offers maximum ease of use with this overall concept. iTunes is totally simple in structure and use. It does exactly what it should. It synchronizes the iPhone to the PC (contacts, calendars, music, movies, podcasts, data backup) and that makes it perfectly and without error. For users who simply without having to learn a new large want to work with it, just right. Of course, other synchronization tools. But why should I take another if this works great and I therefore still have access to the largest online music store in the world where I have every time I would like also can buy music legally mine. I can, I have not so !!! Also, I have with iTunes and the iPhone to access the App Store, where I can just download my stuff out of more than 140,000 small programs (apps), which also just make my life erleichter or fun. So I can the performance of my iPhone gestallten as unique as no other phone. Who says again, the apps cost money and elsewhere are free, simply wrong. A very large part of the apps are free here. 98 of my 135 apps on my iPhone are free.
An Apple type re so the only uncritically everything will just go: Here are again some say. That is simply not true! But if one is engaged in precisely the iPhone, even in comparison to the competitors products to get easy then to say: It is currently the most user-friendly and powerful phone on the market. Many competitor try for almost 3 years to beat, but in my opinion no avail. Of course there are phones with a much better camera (eg Nokia and Sony Ericsson). Of course there are smartphones with a proper keyboard. Of course there is the pursuit of the "eggs Wollmilchsau". But the question is whether that really makes sense. I'm not saying that the iPhone is perfect also. Certainly not. But what phone or product is? The iPhone has a lot of potential for development, which is now done in part, early June 2009, when the new iPhone OS 3.0 is veröffendlicht Apple. Then it may, for example, send and receive MMS, where so many are so wildly behind her. And I can send images via e-mail with the iPhone without problems, which is cheaper and I have no Größenbeschrenkung and the receiver can work with the image on his PC directly. Especially in the use of the Internet is indeed the strength of the iPhone.
I want to now not all the new features included Enumerate which geschiet already elsewhere. (The iPhone is the way taken by iTunes completely automatically with the update of the new operating system software to the latest version 3.0, without me as the users have to take care about size.)
The keyboard of Touscreen for me is quite sufficient, since I do not have yet a real keyboard. On the contrary: On the touch screen, the buttons are larger than on the mini keyboard of a BlackBerry. In addition, the iPhone would thereby only bigger and bulkier. The SMS function on the iPhone, for example, is just indicative, because here the SMS are being held in a communication course and I therefore can look at any time simply and easily once again what I have written. What I personally just missing here, the opportunity is to be able to forward a text message. (This is but about the copy function now. But what I still sorely miss being a text message confirmation.)
I will now not go into all the possible functions. This is beyond the scope here. But on the one hand was again told that iPhone easy with other phones comparison is often an attempt to compare apples and oranges. The iPhone is unlike any other. Although other manufacturers is provided a cell phone with a large touch screen it still no iPhone. What is the overall concept of the simple and safe operation, the perfect combination of iPhone and iTunes and last but not least the App Store, with its help, I can customize the iPhone my personal and individual wishes distinguishes the iPhone. Other manufacturers are now trying this concept of the App Store to copy for their devices (eg Google, Vodafone and since May 2009, with the Nokia Ovi Store), which is only to be welcomed, but in how far it works one must still Wait.
Finally, I just want to say that it is not enough to face up times for half an hour in a cell phone store, using a cell phone to play around and then to know everything about the phone. This applies not only for the iPhone, but also for other mobile phones. For the possibilities that are now integrated into the phones far too complex. Obviously, however, a large number of people who veröffendlicht your review here have done just that. I think it's just still unqualified and stupid then about something to judge without really knowing about it. (Eg, the iPhone can no UMTS, the iPhone has no alarm clock ... and, and, and ... if you look purely already only in brochure and manual, and reading is powerful, one can immediately see that this is simply untrue !!!) Such unqualified and idiotic reviews nobody needs! I can only say that in my circle of friends many have switched to the iPhone and they are all very happy exception to the highest degree, love their iPhone and do not want to give it up. (Partial is already a case for the therapist.) This is due to the global approach and the fact that is so great with any other mobile phone of the fun factor. I wish all future iPhone users a lot of joy and fun with your iPhone.
Addendum of 23/06/2009
Now the new iPhone system software has been released 3.0 and the new iPhone 3GS has been released. The update for the system software is automatically performed for existing iPhone handsets as usual from iTunes and also functioned as before without any problems. The system software brings over 100 new features and makes the iPhone easier to use and more powerful. The keyboard is now in the Tip-intensive applications such as mail and sms in landscape mode only and thus better serve than any BlackBerry keyboard. The iPhone now also dominates Cut-Coppy-Past and you can now select from SMS communication courses and forward these parts. Also, the MMS sending and receiving is possible now. But it remains for me still does not really make sense, because the transfer of images and sound via mail cheaper At, more versatile and more effective. In addition, the iPhone has also received a Sprachmemofunktion and the Safari browser has been optimized (faster). Contacts can now also send e-mail or MMS. So I have now only times in my opinion the most important new features of the new System Software 3.0 listed. But as stated earlier applies here: Who objectively dealing with the iPhone and employs, comes quickly to the conclusion that everything is not really new, almost, but the iPhone just a lot User friendly is solved as with all other mobile phones and the iPhone just is funny.
This is especially true for the new iPhone 3Gs. It's not really fundamentally new and also not a revolution like the appearance of the first iPhone. It is a logical development, evolution in the right direction. The iPhone now has a 3MP camera (unfortunately still without flash) which now supports the video function. Many will say again that other phones have 12MP cameras on board. That's true of course. But who really needs it? If I want to make top photos I take better get back to my digicam and a new snapshot in between extends the iPhone camera all times. Furthermore DigiCam tests have repeatedly shown that far from being the number of megapixels, the measure of photo quality. I have had such as phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson with only 3MP cameras in the test who defeated 5MP cameras of Samsung and LG loose in image quality. The same applies also for the 3MP Kanera the new iPhone, which delivers amazingly good pictures and especially good video footage.
In addition, the 3Gs has a new, faster processor get the almost all applications can run noticeably faster. The new built-in compass now opens up new possibilities for navigation solutions. In this context it is worth mentioning that NAVIGON has released his Navilösung for the iPhone. In my opinion one of the best Navilösungen on the market.
The new 3Gs are now available with up to 32GB memory, which one still has space for apps, music and movies.
What remains for me to be the weakest point is the pricing policy of the main provider T-Mobile. The price structure of Telekom leaves to be desired for me still very lacking. But it can yes the iPhone nothing.
Conclusion: The iPhone is the new System Software 3.0 and even more so in the new device version 3Gs again a significant step ahead in the points ease and fun factor. In these areas there is still the rest of the mobile world far ahead and I wish all iPhone users have fun and friends with your iPhone.
