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11. Using Iphone 3g w/ T-Mobile
29 Apr 2009 by T-Mobile Iphoner
86.7%8.7out of 10
Okay, so I've been using my Iphone 3g on T-mobile for about the past 6 months now. I have been a loyal T-mobile customer for close to 8 years and have been through atleast 8-10 phones with them in that time period. After hearing about how many AT&T customers were unhappy with the call reception w/ their Iphone, I thought, great, I can have the best of both worlds with my T-mobile svc. hooked up to my Iphone- Well, over the past 8 years, I had NO problems with dropped calls w/ T-mobile until I got the Iphone, which leads me to believe that the actual radios Apple uses in the phone to draw signals is weaker than the majority of other phones on the market. I drop many more calls with the Iphone which is a shame, because the actual device itself it great, and fun to use, for me anyways. I just wish it pulled stonger signals more consistently. So do I like the device itself enough to keep it until a newer Iphone comes out w/ hopefully a stronger radio? Yes, but I am definitely keeping my eye on the Palm Pre to see how that's going to compete. Hope this was helpful.
-Great/Clear screen
-Camera's really good
-Easy/fun to use
-Internet interface is great
-E-mails are easy to access (Hotmail,Yahoo,Gmail)
-Call quality
-Drops calls more than reg. phones (Yes, even on T-mobile)
-If using internet or texting generously, battery will only last 8-10 hours
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12. Love it
9 Apr 2009 by Andy
96.7%9.7out of 10
I love the Iphone the screen it amazing. I really enjoy the games and the texting the way it comes up lik msn is really cool. I has been quite tough i have droped it a few time and been a trampoline with it and it still works fine. The one down fall is you have to apple soft ware which can be slow and you cant just plug it in copy and paste and go you have to wait.But the Iphone 3G is a great phone and is slated for minor things. The battery life is good just charge it write over charging dose destroy the life of all batterys. There is to be a new iphone only it will be 32Gb so look forward to that.The iphone dose come in t mobile but its german so. O2 is good the suprise are wicked.
Gaming
Number ! gaget of the year on gaget show.
The texting and voice quilty in calls.can frezze but is rare
hard to type texting needs to widescreen.
Not the toughest should be for its price.
And the white edition can show up marks more than white.
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13. Iphone... my nightmare.
28 Mar 2009 by gali94
60%6out of 10
I purchased an iphone at the rogers store in the mall that i am closest to. Everything was set, i had signed lal the papers, and then i was the owner of a iphone. You would think 'cool' right? well it wasnt. When I got home and turned the phone on i was amazed, the screen, the texting, but then i actually tried to call someone. It's called a iPHONE right, well i tried to call someone and my phone would not hang up. there was a glitch in it that would not let me hang up and when i put the phone to my ear the screen wouldnt turn off (you know how it does this so that way your face doesnt hit the buttons), so i ened up hanging up on people when i didnt want to. When I brought it back to the Rogers store to get a new one, they said that they would not give me a phone. I was really mad, because apparently there is a thing in the contract (which they NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT) that says that if you use the phone for over 30 hours, you cannot get a refund. And since i could not hang up my phone, some of my calls went on for about 20 minutes! I started calling people and at one point it was just a big word battle. I ended up getting a new one, sheesh, my parents have been costomers with rogers for 10 years!! the phone is ok, but trying to type on that thing is a nightmare, and even the new one freezes on me.
nice screen
nice camera
you can listen to your songs
thats pretty much it
It looks nice
The apps are ok... (som are pretty much pointless unless you are willin to pay big bucks for the ones that arent free)Is a bit too big...cant stick it in a pant pocket (but i guess you need a big screen to touch and move stuff around)
has good battery charge... if you have absolutly no apps and you dont call anyone :P
texting is TERRIBLE
calling is difficult... soo many buttons, and you end up hitting one of them
figuring out how to work the darn thing is a nightmare!!
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14. Great phone
15 Mar 2009 by Rob C
90%9out of 10
I love this phone. It has everything that you would need in a basic smartphone.
Set up was easy and fast. I had an AT&T 8525 before this and it took a little to get it to synch properly.
There are some things that are missing, but I can see the reasoning now as more and more of my coworkers and friends upgrade to better phones.
MMS - older, dying technology that is being phased out slowly. Email is the way to go with this.
Camera - 2MP is just not good enough anymore and zoom is also missed. Also I'd like to be able to shoot video.
I've since jailbroke my phone and now can do video recording so that is covered.
Easy setup
Integration with my mac - iCal/Address book/iTunes music
Visual Voicemail
Camera and video
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15. booooooo
14 Mar 2009 by Jenn
63.3%6.3out of 10
Dont really like the phone at all. I think it was a huge waste of money plus At&t service is garbage. The phones size might be the best thing. The battery is always dying and when it freezes i have to deal with it because i cant take out the battery. The texting is hard and how can this phone do everything except MMS?? They should have cut back on all the apps and put MMS on this. I think if the phone was on verizon it would be 10x better!! Good try Apple just stick to Computers :)
The size of the screen
Camera
No MMS
AT&T(the worst of them all!!!)
No Battery that i can take out
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16. iPhone 3G
14 Mar 2009 by damstachizz
66.7%6.7out of 10
Bought my iPhone 3G about 5 months ago.
Last month, i sent it back to apple because the screen failed. They wouldn't fix it because apparently, it has a dent on it. After recieving it back from America (i'm in Australia), i found a 2mm sized dent on the back plastic which wasn't there when i sent it away.
Forgetting for the fact what can happen in the mail, please explain to me how in the hell a 2mm sized dent can possibly damage the screen? the dent would have been bigger if it had been dropped.
Now, aside from the fact that Apples warranty is complete rubbish, the iPhone itself is EXTREMELY useless.
After a few months, you will realise the iPhone IS NOT A PHONE. It is a mobile palm pocket with a useless phone function slapped on for good measure.
The texting is crap, the menus are crap and the reception is CRAP.
If you want a palm pocket that you can use for BASIC phone and text functions, buy an iPhone.
Because - in all seriousness - the Motorola V3X I'm using at the moment (1/6th the price of iphone, years old) is a better PHONE than the $1200 iPhone 3G.
- Great at being an ipod, video player and overall palm pocket- Absolutely useless as a phone
- WAY too overpriced
- Bad warranty
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17. iphone is the best
21 Feb 2009 by michael hood
100%10out of 10
i bought a 16 gig whit iphone yesterday and i am nothing but impressed with it...even if it lacks the feature of video recording and mms but they have apps for those so theres nothing to worry about...there are even apps for video confrenceing so who cares lol...the iphone overall is the best phone i work for at&t customer service so i take calls all day and listen to people complain about there phones and everybody i talk to LOVES there iphone ( with the occasional call of somebody dropping it and not having insurance because you cant with the iphone thats the only downfall) the apps the iphone have make life so much easier and let me have my email myspace facebook chats aim everything togther its sooo convinent considering im balancing work and school i never have time for the computer...its amazing i wou7ld recomend this to anyone also apple has a 1 yr extended warranty
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18. best phone ever had
19 Feb 2009 by charlie wilson
96.7%9.7out of 10
great phone just is missing simple features like copy paste and a simple landscape sms keyboard
looks great
fun to use
ipod
no sms landscape keyboard
no copy paste
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19. One of the best...
28 Jan 2009 by vmatikov
93.3%9.3out of 10
The 3G iPhone is undenaibly one of the best phones out on the market. And for a number of reasons
1. Visual Voicemail -- I hate having to listen through my voicemail. Seeing it in a list is amazing. Very, very few phones have this one. Apple and RIM, as far as I'm aware, are the only ones to offer it. However where I am, its only Apple.
2. The App Store -- The App Store allows you to customize your iPhone with over 10,000 applications avaliable. Written to use dedicated APIs in the OS X software, these apps appear as if they BELONG on the phone. No other phone has this level of integration, or at least not for this amount of applications. (This barrs apps that are poorly written--because those do exist).
3. Largest Touch Screen Avaliable -- The iPhone has a 3.5" 480 x 320 24-bit display. While there are other phones with 24-bit (16.7 million color) displays, and some even have better white balance, the iPhone has the largest (again as far as I'm aware--and I've done quite a bit of research) and very, very clear display. It also features Apple's patended multi-touch, which handles gestures like no other.
4. SMS Capacity -- I know this is stretching it a bit, but I'm just a person that likes to keep EVERY single txt ever sent. I like to know what I talked about with that person. The iPhone has bascially an unlimited capacity for txts. I think its something like 100,000. Compare that with other phone capacities of 50-250, or the occasional 500. (There are phones with 1000+, but nowhere near 100,000)
5. Design -- No one can deny that Apple has a very good design team. All of their hardware designs are integrated and look beautiful. The iPhone design has its faults, like the curved back not allowing it to sit still even on a flat surface, however, the phone still looks spectacular.
6. Safari -- Almost everyone agrees that mobileSafari is the best web browser avaliable for mobile devices. This is greatly assisted by the presence of multi-touch. However, the browser does work very, very well. And it is relatively stable, however it can crash on some more data-intensive pages.
However, the iPhone does have its faults. The camera is dreadful. Not only is it just 2 megapixels, but it has absolutely no settings. Clearly Apple chose to over-simplify it in order to incorporate it into their design scheme, but this is one thing I would like to have improved in my phone. I mean, come on, the LG Vu has plenty of settings for its 2MP camera, not to mention autofocus and flash. Video recording would also be nice.
Lack of MMS is a pain, however you can send them. All you need to know is the carrier that the recipient is on, then you can send an email-to-mms. However, this adds a step to the process, and that is always very annoying.
Overall, it isn't the best (no phone is), but its one of the top couple of phones out there. I'm just waiting for the next generation.
Design
Touch Screen
Keyboard
Accelerometer
App Store
Safari Web BrowserCamera
Lack of MMS
Some stability problems (although these are constantly being worked on by Apple in software updates)
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20. Great phone!
17 Jan 2009 by ravensfan55
100%10out of 10
I was on the fence about getting an iPhone 3G. My main concerns were the virtual keyboard and battery life. I've been using my phone for a while now, and I love it! Not only does this phone do everything you could possibly want it to do, but it has no limits! The App Store is one of the best features. Tons of games and apps for free, and tons more that you can pay for. The software sets the standard for mobile UI. Simple and easy to navigate with. Safari is by far the best browser on a phone, period. It renders pages perfectly, and has smooth scrolling, and the multi-touch makes the zoom feature great! Call quality is excellent, along with reception. AT&T has the fastest 3G network, and it shows. I have not had a problem loading pages on 3G. It's more than twice as fast as EDGE.
Beautiful design
UI is the standard
Tons of features
Decent battery life
Great call quality
Great sound quality
Fast browser
GPS is goodNo MMS
No video recording
No Flash in Safari (but all three of these can be added in later Software updates)
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