Sorry to break the news folks but the iPhone sucks on so many levels that I can’t understand the hype. Japan’s had better phones for years. PDA features, music, you name it. What’s more you don’t have to donate a body organ to buy one.
Let me break it down for you why it wont be the smash hit of 2007. – You need to find a compatible carrier – It’s too damn expensive for what’s actually a glorified iPod nano – No keypad. – Touchscreen will get nasty. – Hardware will suck and have defects well into 2008
You know Apple’s track record. That phone’s going to be covered in a mess of fingerprints and be scratched up like hell. All for a price of $500 or more? No thanks. Keep the phone.
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do you know what the iphone is made of? Is it the same material as the ipod? you might want to find that out before you think of scratchers.
The video iPod is their biggest selling product in terms of revenue (pricing x units) and look how easily it scratches. I’m hoping Apple will prove me wrong but judging from the shine it gives off it’s probably not the same material as say what covers Palm screens. We’ll see what it’s made of later in the year.
Apple is the new Betamax LOL
betamax rocks
So you know jack shit about it, but you know it will have defects, and regardless of the fact that it has a keyboard, you say it has no keyboard.
It is going to have exclusive carriers, but you say you have to find a compatible carrier.
Japan has had better phones, have they? I live in Edmonton, Alberta. Can you point me at the local dealer for Japanese phones? Thanks.
And “smart phones” easily can and will run you over 500 hundred dollars. Is this a somehow cheaper 500 dollars than Apple’s 500 dollars?
Do us all a favour and shut the fuck up.
Um, this is my blog so it doesn’t matter does it? You should write a blog yourself.
Soooooo over rated
I feel sorry for the consumers buying into this…
don’t they have the interet!?!? Can’t they do their own research!?
For the person in Edmonton Alberta,
It’s called the internet, you’re using it now, well done
now google cell phones
something called a ‘list’ will appear
and browse a few sites until u see what we were talking about.
God, whats worse than ignorant ppl? IGNORANT FANBOYS.
Well w/e
I guess the pro is
I’ll be walking around with my N95
while everyone else has an iphone
muhahaha
Steve Jobs can use anything and make it look good. You never know until people use it themselves. We’ll see how good it is soon.
Well, i really loved the iphone after i saw the video on apple.com.
I think the iphone has a good price for all its features, and if it scratches just put a fucking cover on it!!!!!
how the heck can you tell me that japan got better phones, dude a phone with a magnetic credit card glue to the back battery cover is not really a break through in tecnology, blah blah blah, everyone outhere can name something better than the iphone, but i dont see them making money, now let me give you some real facts apple made over 10 billion dollars on the stock market in one day from $85 to $97 almost $98 just by anouncing the freaking thing, most small cell companies dont even cost that much, do the math they sold 5 GB ipod in 2000 the size of VCR and the could not keep enough on the shelf for $499, so if you think they wont be able to sell iphones your dead wrong
Dude….Iphone is havin bunch of rocking technology. No key pad…is really rocking feature…em excited to use….and it has multitouch screen….and all in just 500 bucks…Believe friends…They will sell this advance technology like nething!!
Have you actually seen and touched one? I have had Japaneese phones and use a Razr because I like the feel of it. Before I had my first Razr, the last phone I owneed was a Sony P800. It was cool at the time, but I didn’t like it because it was too big. Treo and Blackberry are too big too. The iPhone is the coolest personal tech device I can remember and I bought my first cell phone in 1984. I have an iPod I don’t use much and I bought the first version of the Reo MP3 player and regretfully, stock in Diamond (Reo was the MP3 market leader before iPod).
If Apple can shrink the iPhone, like they did the iPod, it’s game over for the Japanese, Finnish and Swedish cell phone manufactures.
I did buy one of the first VHS, CD, DVD and Blueray players, I but didn’t buy a Betamax because an Japanese engineer at JVC told me it had to many moving parts, shortly before they released VHS.
Even the Japanese have to admire the iPhone’s evolutionary brilliance.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the T-mobile MDA!! iphone is similar to that phone but so much less in many regards. The MDA has a touch screen for everything as well but with the addition of a slide out full qwerty keyboard. It also has mni SD expansion slot and you can easily fing 4gb cards and I’m sure 8 and more are out there or will arrive. It can play mp3s and all that no problem. It even has WIFI, does iphone have that?? More importantly, there is a ton more software for it’s windows mobile platform that iphone will ever have, not saying it’s all good…
Either way, I’m just surprised everyone is talking about japanese phones when we already have great iphone beating competitors available.
I was waiting for someone to compare it to my T-Mobile MDA. When I first heard about the phone I was told that it is the “most advanced thing out there”. But when I look at it, it is not as functional as my MDA.
Mine has wifi b/g, camera, real-time full internet, email, touch screen, etc. like the iPhone – but I can also install Pocket PC / Windows Mobile applications on it. So it also functions as my GPS because of the built-in Bluetooth.
iPhone sucks! The lemmings are bowing before the “paradigm shift” in cellular phone technology:
1) “wow, google maps!”-like every other PDA/phone
2)”wow, video and mp3 on your phone”-not just every PDA/phone, but practically every other non-PDA phone as well
3)”wow, internet!”-EDGE only, so have fun with slow internet and not being able to use the internet while on a call while the guy w/ a 3G PDA/phone, ala Blackjack or Treo is looking up directions on the same google maps program as on iphone or windows live search and telling his friends on the phone where to go all at the same time
4)”wow! touchscreen”-oh, you mean like windows mobile, symbian and palm os? but that many of them also have a keyboard, hidden or not, which drastically decrease time spent typing.
5)”wow…apple OS system on a phone!”-nice, closed system that doesnt allow for 3rd party softwares, unlike WM5/6 and palm and symbian
...In the words of Public Enemy, “Don’t…Don’t….Don’t Believe the Hype!”
Hmmmm…the iphone. Another gimmick to suck money out of the wallets of the desperate, hipster, brand worshiping yuppy. I can already see the loser crowd reminiscent of the dork in the Apple commercials running around with their stupid iphone and thinking they are on a whole new different level because they are part of the “iLife”. Well…if the “iLosers” are willing to shell out ridiculous money for an average phone and make Jobs even richer just so that their LOSER friends drool over this thing, oh well…let ‘em.
I wouldn’t buy an Apple product if my life depended on it. Steve Jobs ensured that by torturing me with the insanely stupid, not to mention misleading, Mac commercials.
haha wow you guys. Shut up. You obviously googled the Iphone or something same as i and came across this page. So that means you have a little interest in it. Cmon now do we really have the time to sit around and debate about a phone that hasn’t been released yet? All of you talking about “The hype…oh terror…the hype” you’re only increasing it. Let’s wait until it comes out guys! THEN you can argue!
What about the Glofiish M700… this looks to be a pretty cool device at the $500 price point doing everything the iPhone does and more. I bought an 8125 a while back and it sucked…I am back on a regular old cell phone just waiting for something… not the iPhone though
http://www.etencorp.com/products/Communication/M700.php
iPhone
it has a glass touch screen
if you scratch it ( you probably with cause hey its a phone that you put in your pocket and take with you evrywhere) its ruined.
but hey its just my primary thoughts id rather see it with my own eyes.
im just fine with my own cellphone right now which is pretty old (9 months old, ancient now huh) and im fine with that. I dought im gonna get an expensive $500 cellphone to carry around wherever i go anyway, seems alot of people miss that point
I don’t mean to jump on the bandwagon, but you guys should admit.. the iPhone is our new god. let the gates burst down, as the infinitely powerful ray of light that is the iPhone blinds our vision and remaining senses with an infintesmal extoic explosion of light, disentigrate our souls and our planet with endless glory. Let the iPhone take away the limitations of mankind, and deliver us from our pathetic insignificant existences, cotrolled and consumed by the orb of skin that wraps itself around our mortal souls. iPhone, we welcome you as our new god. Let every insignificant soul drop to their knees and praise you.
OMG I JUST GOT MY IPHONE!!!! OMG ITS SOOOOO well alright. i had it for two hours and im getting bored. its just collecting dust on my table right now. When i first opened the box, i got that apple feeling. you know the feeling when you open a new ipod box. it looks so clean and shiny and has that simple modern minimalistic look to it. you take it out it feels so cool this large rectangular metal device with smooth round edges, sleek. you turn it on the apple logo appears. i made my first call with it. i couldnt believe how fun it is to make calls. i tried the internet. kinda slow. took five minutes to start the guitar video from you tube. added contacts easily. hard to type with fat fingers like mine. its just so hard to control. it will take you months to get it right. even deleting is a bitch. you have to like slide the item to the right to make the delete button appear and try pressing the tiny button. the keys are small and i tend to press multiple keys at once. it collects the oils from your hand easily. itll probably scratch if you leave it unprotected in your pocket. after a while putting a large rectangular oblect to your face makes you look stupid and feels weird. 8gb is not enough for my music. it takes forever to navigate. its ten times harder than the clickwheel. time to sell mine on ebay. id prefer my razr over this piece of advanced shit.
hey why am i complaining. ive made a profit of 500,000 in my life, just from apple stock. i just bought more shares the other week. keep the iphone coming. you know what, disregard my last comment, i was high. buy an iphone, or better yet two iphones. and don’t forget your kids. and parents, friends, relatives. oh yeah and macbook pros are cool too. buy one for everyone in your household. and dont forget your mac pros. go buy a dozen of those too. you wont regret it
whether the phone sucks or not… its not fucking worth $500.
Seriously, whats wrong with people.. wasting money like this..
You have a TV, you have music, you have a computer, you have a phone, stop throwing your money away because of your short attention span. Where are you gonna be that you HAVE to watch a movie? It can wait.
you guys need to get a life…its a stupid phone that no one really needs.
the iphone geeks remind me of the star wars geeks camped out waiting for the grand arrival of thier savior, get a freakin’ life, you bunch of loosers, it’s an overpriced gadget phone. I dread going to work next week wondering how long it will take before I run into some pin head geek talking proudly about his ipod purchase like he just found the cure for cancer. I’ll have a hard time not wanting to shove it down his throat and then wanting to see if the touch screen can still work by punching him in the stomach, lol.
Wish I had one, could make a great video running it over with a steam roller.
Every time you play a video clip it will probably ask you to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Dude i just got my jesus iphone today and it rocks, i can imagine living with out it right know makes me want to cry, by the way if someone brought one, dont call him a looser because, its probabily the other way around, just look at it, they manage to come up with $600 dollars for the jesus phone, and you manage to come up with nothing
Who really needs all that crap on their phone?? Surf the Internet? Who can see that small print? I know, the ad shows someone reading the newspaper, but after they zoom in, you only get about two sentences of readable print. I can get a phone, a camera and an MP3 for much less than $500. Go ahead, waste your money on bells and whistles. I’d rather keep my money in my pocket.
I have never understood the draw to apple products. They only work the way apple wants them to. ( until intel chip macs ). everything iphone can do treo can do better 3 years ago. Killer apps skyrocketed the pc market, same will be true of phones.
Anyone who buys iphone is a moron…
ok…. what other phone can you surf the internet and have it look like ur on an actual computer!!!! none that i’ve ever seen.
and if you hate it so much why do you WASTE ur time BITCHING bout it on a blog…
YOUR WHATS WRONG WITH AMERICA… not bush…...(bunch a whinny bitches!)
I have a Treo and an iPhone. Everyone is right, The Treo can do more, but it still sucks!!!! I hate the thing. The iPhone isn’t perfect but what it can do is done waayyyyyy better than the Treo or any other phone I’ve used. I can’t wait to throw that piece of crap Treo out of the window. And as far as the price goes….ALL SMART PHONES COST TOO MUCH!!!!! My TREO cost $600 bucks when I bought it and the new Treos still cost that much! Go to Palms sight if you don’t believe me….oh and trying to watch a movie or play songs on a Treo…AWFUL!! For a first entry into the cellphone business (regardless of the fact that it’s Apple) the device is good. I’m sure their future devices will be even better. I not trying to talk trash or jump on Apple’s jock. This is just my opinion after owning several smart phones. The iPhone is good considering it’s a rookie in the cell phone industry. If you don’t like just don’t buy it, but don’t act like it’s not a contender because then you just sound ignorant.
Iphone..hmmmm..The one I had this weekend is nothing more then an Ipod with Wifi. The phone service worked when it felt like working. I was able to get 2 calls to go through on Saturday and one of them was dropped after 5 minutes. And I live in the NY Metro area! The Wifi on the other hand is fast and nice. This thing is handicrapped by the horrible network they decided to go with. But then again you could just buy and Ipod and a regular cell phone and save about $300 bucks..This thing is cool, but for about like 15 minutes.
You trendy people have wasted your money and bought into a consumer culture where anyone can slap an “i” before the name of their newest product, regardless of its quality, and make a ton of cash from gullible, hype-loving, pretentious hipster weenies like you. There’s a plastic cup sitting beside me, I think I’ll call it the iCup and sell it for $699; after all, if it costs more than the iPhone, it just has to be better, right? Then I’ll make people wait in line for 36 hours instead of 18, because not only does my iCup send emails and transmit music into your brain stem, it also contains the cure for cancer.
Get a life, goobers, it’s a little gadget made of plastic and glass, and you spent the equivalent of at least a month’s worth of groceries on it.
Anything Apple sells is a piece of crap! I agree after getting to use one that a friend bought…it’s an overpriced piece of junk! $600 for a PHONE!!!!
What a joke!
i want the iCUP, it sound cool !!!
is a cup with apple design. awesome
The following article appears at PC World. For more videos, visit PC World’s Video Library. How tough is the iPhone?:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/06/30/iphone_test/index.php
Apple haters are a funny bunch. Complain, whine, complain about how they can’t afford anything Apple sells. Ok for them to camp out for days just to get an Xbox or Playstation, to them that’s “normal”. I heard the same kind of FUD when the iPod first appeared and look what it’s done to our way of listening and buying our music. It’s turned the industry upside down. If you think the iPhone is a piece of crap, don’t buy one. If you think it’s overpriced, present some logical information to justify it and let us know what you think the price should be. Do you guys go around asking people to justify why they drive a BMW instead of a Chevy? If you guys hate Apple so much that you can’t see what they have brought to the table with the iPhone, than YOU are the loser. The iPhone is far from perfect but it IS going to change the industry. It’s already happening. Don’t you guys get it? It’s not just a phone, it’s a computer in your hands. Try one out before you bash it.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2007/tc2007072_957316.htm
Overpriced.
CNET REMOVED THIS POST-CNET CENSORSHIP=WTF
(This was the #1 review, before CNET deleted it. Why? I guess the truth about the iPhone hurts.)
“No GPS, No Video, No MMS, No 3G, No Apps= WTF!!!”
by appleguy17msn.com (see profile) – June 30, 2007
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Pros:Slim, light, good battery, visual voicemail
Cons:No GPS, No Video, No MMS, No 3G, No 3rd-Party Apps
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No GPS, No Video, No MMS, No 3G, No Apps= WTF!!!
I just bought a new iPhone and am very disappointed. I have a MacBook Pro, which is awesome and a 80 GB iPod. I am a big apple fan and couldn’t wait the get my hands on this new piece of awesomeness. Boy was I wrong. I guess all the hype was just hype. I couldn’t believe that it didn’t even have basic functions that are on free phones.
I am going to try to return it today or eBay it. How can a phone that is suppose to “revolutionize” the market lack so many basic features like GPS, Video recording, MMS, 3G, 3rd party applications (yeah, I heard about the Web 2.0 apps, but what about multitasking and working offline. Besides Web 2.0 works on Windows Mobile too.)
Also, I can’t believe you can’t work with Office docs (Excel, Word, PPT) or Adobe flash, or PDF’s. Or corporate email.
When I heard Apple say that this phone was “5 years ahead of anything out there” I thought it must be one hella cool phone. Now, I just think that there must be some sort of nuclear holocaust in the next 3-4 years, so that 5 years from now this over-hyped piece of crap will be cutting edge.
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by appleguy17msn.com (see profile) – July 2, 2007
No Removable Battery, No Memory Card
No Removable Battery, No Memory Card.
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Although I agree with all these points, you for got about how simple minded Americans don’t care about credit debt, fall for simple marketing, and like shinny objects. The masses are simply too stupid to realize the valid points you have mentioned so they will still buy the phone.
I’m headed out the door, closing out my savings, and throwing down six hundred smackers at the local Apple store, smiling in manic excitement the entire time… just as soon as I’m somehow able to play WoW from work with the thing.
It’s a phone all you haters get over it! If people want to buy an iPhone they have a right too. Just because you can’t afford one or don’t like it, does not mean the rest of America should follow your lead. Some of us do not use our phone to take videos. Most iPhone owners like to use real camcorders for that. No GPS….who the hell is walking down the street using a GPS system?..and you call us geeks. Use the GPS in your car fool. No removeable battery…when was the last time needed to replace a battery in your iPod….ummmmmm..never? If we’re going to have this conversation let’s get real here. Most of you Microsoft boys are just slinging mud. Let’s see how good the X-Phone360 will be ….LOL!!!!!
psp plus nokia 3310 would offer more features. macs spelt backwards is what they are
Unfortunately, Rip Ragged, you failed to mention anything worth noting at all. You didn’t post one fact and it disgusts me as your ego skyrocketed due to rewarding yourself on a victorious moment.
Your bias toward this device is just shy of poor credentials and lack of reasoning. Your meaning to tell me because you read a positive review off of an apple iPod based site that the article alone contributes to facts and truth? Sorry, you’re ignorant and completely misguided.
As for your shares, that means nothing in terms of factual evidence as to the quality of an iPhone. Consumers have pretty wide variables as to why they buy Apple products, and they luckily got off on teenage trends-hill to get items they have no comparative knowledge of.
Japan has had very detailed and high quality internet phones for years, and whilst your assuming thats an opinion, you might want to do a little bit of in-depth reading. Now your thinking “If they have better phones, why doesn’t everyone have one?”- Because your naive and being clueless is how Apple gets paid (they prey you stay ignorant). However, they have great advertising, word of mouth, and are American. Imagine that, a US based company selling well in the US!
Fact: You’ll pay that extra dollar for a bigger name regardless of what bang for the buck. What confuses me though, is your general approach to defending a company with a product that could easily be put obsolete within a month time frame by a random small business in Japan.
Astonishing, really, but having a blog (yours) devoted solely to being a fanboy doesn’t strike me as to the irony. You bash Microsoft for stealing and being a knockoff of Mac OS’, but fail to comprehend how.
Well, you’ve found yourself dumbed down and thrown into a useless, stupid commoner pile with apparently no real personal opinion (Rely on those bias reviewers, helps with the ego I’m sure) and in the meantime, practice what you preach (Again, nice list of facts) before acting like Justin Long from the Mac commercials, you oblivious human embarrassment.
well i don’t think it is worth 600. I travel about 2 weeks a month, and I don’t think iphone can offer me what my blackberry does. From what I experience speed of internet is much slower, no GPS. I am sure it is a solid product, Apple is famous for that, however I don’t think it is innovative, thumbs down from me.
Oh, I thought I’d point out something:
The BlackBerry 8800 Series has GPS, BlackBerry Maps, a multi-media player, expandable memory, Voice-Activated Dialing and the trackball navigation, email and text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer, web browser, and your usual advanced phone features. Hmm. If it were me, I’d go for the Blackberry without looking back.
I find it funny how the iPhone is so behind everything else, but Apple claims it’s “5 years ahead”.
ok what the hell everyone heres hatting on the damn phone really i have had no deffects with mine the internet rocks the camera rocks the wifi rocks its a bitch ass device im glad i bought it only idiots who dont take care of theyre shit scratch it up… its a bad ass phone ps i used it to write this post you freakin haters
Well, it’s alright… only Mac fanboys or ppl with little brains will buy and embrace the iphone, or any other apple products…
I heard they said they invented OS X… really? It’s a UNIX box with some pretty GUI on top of it. Woah… Mac users think they are so superior than any other PC users! That’s why they only have 5% of the PC markets…
Ummm…. ummm…
liz,
I thought maybe you had some mental deficiency which resulted in your poor spelling or inability to use proper grammar. I then read the part where you said you were typing your entry on the iPhone. Now I understand why you can’t spell correctly; it’s the ridiculously unusable keyboard. I was also curious about your egregious oversight of proper punctuation, but now I understand it’s because the period is inconveniently located on a different screen. Perhaps retards, such as yourself, would be better suited with a conveniently located “LOL”, “ROTFL”, “I LOVE APPLE” key.
Cheers,
Mark
I agree with Avery. For a first effort, it’s okay. Every piece of technology has its shortcomings at first. I’m not going to get one because I just don’t want or need it. There’s no need to get so worked up over a damn cell phone.