The price of the iPhone has dropped dramatically last week but somehow I am still not convinced whether to get one or not. I have been talking to many people who think iPhone is the best phone they ever hard, and at the same time I have even talked to some people who hates the device.

When it comes to phone, I go for something out of the ordinary. Well, that’s what people say… but when you look at it, it is not the case. When I chose a phone, I don’t look at the price of the phone, but I always go for one with multiple features spanning from GPS to HSDPA with a QWERTY keyboard.

That is why I have never considered on getting an iPhone because it doesn’t have all 3 above features I look for in a phone.

There are a few more reasons why I don’t like an iPhone, and I could go on and on; here is a short list…

No GPS

GPS is tuning into a must have on every single phone (mainly high end phones / PDAs) and Apple decided to go for cell tower triangulation… I can’t think of any reason why they would go for such thing, when you can easily equip the phone with a GPS chip… Only explanation I could think of is, Apple were so behind on developing the iPhone software, they didn’t have time to write software to work with a GPS chip… Even that sounds lame!

No 3G / HSDPA

I mean, who would have a phone without 3G / HSDPA, Going from 3G to EDGE is like going from DSL Broadband to dialup. If you are one of those people who would use the iPhone just for phone calls and a replacement for an iPod, that’s fine but since Apple is marketing that the iPhone is the ultimate web surfing phone, they should have thought about equipping it 3G than yesteryear EDGE technology.

No Keyboard

Apple is advertising about surfing the net and they didn’t think of putting a keyboard in… It is not a big factor because I do think people would get used to using the iPhone keyboard with a lot of practice.

No Push E-mail

This phone does not support Push E-Mail facility, unless you are on an unlimited data plan with your phone carrier (provider), you are going to have pay a LOT of money for the E-Mail traffic. It all depends on how many mails you get a day and how often you check the mail. If it is me, I definitely will be paying over £100/Month on Data alone!

Cannot change Battery

This is the only phone that I know which doesn’t let you change the battery. When there is something wrong with the battery, you will have to send it to Apple for them to take a look at… And if it’s out of the warranty period, you pretty much have to throw the phone away!

Pathetic Camera

iPhone Camera! Is a Joke, the only word I would describe the iPhone Camera is “Pathetic”. At least they could have put a 3MP camera in it… But No! the mighty Apple wants to save it for the next generation of iPhone…

Since they have dropped the price of an iPhone, I am somewhat tempted to get one, even though I don’t like the phone and currently have one of the best phones in the market (HTC Kaiser) I guess just want to play around with… Or I can go ahead pick up a nice 2611XM Cisco Router from eBay for that money… I got 2 weeks to decide and I would most likely go for the latter. :-)

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