Handful of Nothing

Ok, A lot has been said but I haven’t heard this too much lately so it’s also good to show the iPhone downsides, and believe me: they are quite serious.

Why? Because the phone in the iPhone brings a heavy task to the device: To be someone’s phone. This implies in 2 basic things :

1) Good reception, thus good quality on your calls
2) Good volume

The iphone is CRAP in these 2 statements when compared to any of my Nokia phones. I have been walking on a low signal place with both phones and the iphone is out 50% of the time. A shame.

In the volume matters, the iPhone speakers is at the limite of usable (for voice) and it’s quite lame for music listening.

So, if you have a carrier that is “not that good”, but your Nokia/SE/Samsung phone works ok on it think twice before changing to an unlocked iPhone because you’re going to be surprised how many times it will be without carrier coverage.

Also, if you are into listening to music in your iPhone one thing REALLY bothers me: No music keys. Sometimes I just want to change music. Just that… I don’t want to slide to unlock, and then try to find the forward button just to listen to the next tune.

I think I will make a hack to allow volume to change music instead of rising the volume =) but even with that I really like my Nokia devices when it comes to music.

Conclusion: iPhone is like a “Gorgeous” cake but a little rotten on the inside. I really like to have a incredible UI but I need to remember one thing: Its using my sim card, to its my phone, and the first and most important thing is to be able to make and receive calls. I think this makes pretty clear the advantages of being “mature” on the market.

Hello Apple : a little more love on the Antennas and speakers next time ok?

Ps1 : I know some fan boy can say “but the iphone was not tested on this carrier… or your carrier sucks not the phone”, but I have been using several phones that were not even released on Brazil (thus, not tested) without carrier problems until now.

Ps2 : Looks that I’m not alone on this… here