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And yet, don't iPhone USERS have the best user experience of any (mobile) platform?
by joubert 17y ago
And yet, don't iPhone USERS have the best user experience of any (mobile) platform?
- jonknee 17y agoI guess that depends on the user. The user who wanted basic stuff like MMS, multi-tasking and tethering hasn't been getting the best experience.
- mattmaroon 17y agoOr the user who actually uses a phone to make calls.
- jonknee 17y agoHeh, I didn't want to start a opinion war but you have a point. One of the iPhone users I know actually went out and bought another phone to use in his car because he was so sick of dropped calls.
- conquest 17y agoI thought the dropped call problems were over until yesterday. I have to turn off 3G in order to make a call. This phone is pathetic when it comes to making calls. My razr was so much better as a phone.
- quantumhobbit 17y agoThis has to be somewhat location specific. AT&T seems to have some of the best reception where I usually spend most of my time, the Gulf and East Coasts. The iPhone seems to get as good or better reception than my old Nokia (disclaimer: this was a very old Nokia). Apparently it is terrible on the West Coast. Of course these are isolated data points. I do think that Apple has made a mistake by limiting the iPhone to one carrier, especially one that can arouse strong hatred like AT&T.
- djehuty 17y agoI'm sure that's AT&T. I'm in Australia and there's been no such problem personally or from anything I've heard.
- jonknee 17y agoApple chose them as their exclusive US carrier, so I don't see much sense in passing the buck. But we use different frequencies for the most part so it could still be a phone problem and you would not experience the same issue.
- JacobAldridge 17y agoThere were initial issues with Optus in Australia - their network wasn't prepped for the volume the iPhone delivered, so disconnections and poor connections were common complaints for the first 2-3 months. I believe that's been sorted now.
- beamso 17y agoI've had issues on Telstra. Sometimes the phone UI will prevent you from answering the call. Sometimes the phone crashes mid-call. Sometimes you answer the phone and you can hear the other party but they can't here you.
- telemachuszero 17y agoA similar thing happens on my Sony Ericsson S500 phone on Vodafone. I don't know if it's the phone or the network - I haven't done much testing. It's quite irritating pressing the answer button repeatedly and the phone not answering the call, or when I call someone and I end up unable to hear them while they can hear me.
- whatusername 17y agoI've heard of a couple of complaints about low signal strength. (compared to other phones on the same network). (this was in Oz - think it may have been optus)
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- sev 17y agoYeah, I experience problems with mine as well. Not dropped calls, but rather the software/OS freezing/crashing more often than it should. I expected much more from Apple in that regard.
- rdj 17y agoBelieve it or not, I originally purchased the iPhone for the ease of making calls, placing people on hold to answer the other caller, merging multiple callers and using the speakerphone option. It does not get much easier than the one button option and I haven't had any problems. A bonus was being able to load Skype and use it while in Mexico to avoid the ridiculous international rates.
- kingsley_20 17y agoOther "basic" stuff not in the iphone: pedometer, dual bootability and quantum teleportation. OK, I'll give you MMS.
- jonknee 17y agoMulti-tasking and tethering have been standard smartphone features for a long time. I can personally remember those as far back as 2001.
- redcap 17y agoTo be totally honest, I had to look up what tethering meant today as I had no idea what the term meant. Disclaimer: The closest I own to a smart phone is one of these email/phone/web devices they sell in Japan that has a pita interface to use.
- cubicle67 17y agoTrue, but the iPhone is new whereas other phone oss' have been around for years. It takes time and manpower to code for these, and you have to start somewhere.
- redrobot5050 17y agoYeah, and the iPhone started with OS X and went from there. Something tells me OS X can multi-task. (Keep in mind: Playing music and txting / getting phone calls is multi-tasking.)
- drewcrawford 17y agoYou forget. Apple's whole strategy is to remove features in order to focus a product. Apple wins by doing less than everyone else. Who else sells a computer with only one mouse button? Who else sells a phone with only one button? No copy/paste? Awful APIs that prevent you from really reading camera data? First iPod had less disk space than any other player First iPod had no windows support Safari's extension support are crappy relative to FF or even IE OSX dock can display 1/100th the apps of menus on other OSes Apple's strategy is to cut features. This is roughly equivalent to asceticism: finding enlightenment by doing less. Like asceticism, this seems a bad idea on the surface, but some people really seem happier doing it.
- philwelch 17y agoThe user who wants his phone to just work without having to launch process monitors all the time would probably get a worse experience if multitasking was done wrong. The iPhone, with rare exception, obeys the UI convention that leaving an app closes the app rather than leaving it running in the background. The exceptions to that (Phone and iPod) indicate at the top of the screen that they're still running in the background. OK, so third party apps could have that too. But once you start adding taskbars and process monitors to the phone, you still lose something.