How long have other phones had a multitouch interface, a real mobile browser, great video playback, a legit MP3 player integrated, etc.?


Whoops.

It's not push email. It's push application notifications. Different beast.

And all those phones are inferior in just about every other way. But, thanks for playing.

Except for cellular network connectivity and call sound quality (don't get me started on iPhone's speakerphone sound. Just embarrassing for a company who are known for their audio devices), but who cares about making calls, huh?

Other phones are "inferior in just about every other way"? Typical Apple fanboy who thinks Apple can do no wrong.

videomaker was commenting on the so-called "new" functionality in 3.0, and you reply by bringing up functionality that was in 2.0 as well as in many other manufacturers' phones? Whoops, indeed.
How about addressing the text you quoted?

Point is, Apple obviously prioritized certain features over the other ones.

Now they seem to be rolling out the other ones.

Product has sold pretty well despite the lack of those features.

If I was a typical fanboy, I would've said "every other way."

I've had no connectivity issues and I live in fairly rural Wisconsin (no 3G at home).

If the phone part was most important to me, I would've stayed with Verizon and bought a Razr. It's email first, web second, apps third, phone gets used a couple hundred minutes a month. As someone whose first smartphone was a Kyocera 6035 in 2001, the iPhone *is* just about a perfect device, although I would love to see a consolidated email Inbox instead of me having to check messages from multiple account inboxes separately.

My main complaint with Apple at the moment has to do with iTunes 8.1, which prevented me from downloading apps and episodes of Top Gear and forced me to revert to 8.0.2, which wasn't a straight-forward process.

Except for the multitouch interface, my first phone to have a real mobile browser (Opera), great video playback (Real) and a legit MP3 player (3rd party app, though Real played MP3s too) was, er, my Nokia 9210i. In 2002.

And I had a .wav custom ringtone too - imagine that

It may be a perfect device for you.

It'd be a rubbish device for me. Finally, in 3.0, it can do most (though by no means all) of the things I need a device to do. If hacked to do so (i.e. Jailbroken). And it costs substantially more than other devices that I'd be more productive with.

No thanks.

I solved this problem by setting up my gmail account to fetch from two other email accounts, and also activated the gmail setting of "reply from the address that the email was sent to."

My experience is that the fetching is virtually instant; in some experiments emails sent to the other accounts always showed up in gmail within 2 minutes, usually faster.

I'm an IMAP guy, though. Both accounts. The Mail client within the Mac OS presents a consolidated Inbox, consolidated Sent folder, and consolidated Trash. That's what I want.

Thanks, though. I considered that option a few months ago, but couldn't figure out how to have the benefits of IMAP on the phone with the ease you mentioned.

I'm sure all the new features will be great and I'll happily upgrade. But, I'd simply like to remove the default apps that I will never use such as Stocks

I don't know if your phone is jail broken or not? If it is then you can download Boss Preferences through Cydia. This lets you hide all icons that you don't need from the screen. Yes the software still exists in the back ground but at least you don't have to see if every time you make a call.

Makes for a clutter free iPhone.

I've got multiple pages of apps and I put stuff like Stocks on the last page. It seems like an easier answer than jailbreaking the phone just to hide an app.

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Just a friendly reminder to please remain civil and focused on specifics in the discussion here. Let's try to focus on specifics of the product being discussed (iPhone and now v3 of the software) and avoid overarching generalizations and characterizations of individuals based on their mobile device preferences.

Thank you for you cooperation.
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