5 Reasons Why You Should Not Lust For An iPhone
The new 3g iPhone which created such a buzz the world over (read people queuing for hours before the shop opens) lead me to the 5 reason why you should not lust for an iPhone (yet). The new phone is a cool gadget and very useful to boot. No doubts about that. Apple has done a great job, not in the hardware side, but on the human ware side of things. For your info, a phone with 3G, GPS, camera, music is nothing new. Others are there but what they lose out on on the applications that make the phone fantastic.
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It cost a bomb here. Yes, with our weak currency, the phone will cost close to RM 3k. That’s a lot of dough. Invested properly, that 3k can be many times the money you spend now. Read my article on compound interest.
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You have to hack it to use it. The phone originally works only on AT&T and we don’t have it here. There is talk that one of the networks will bring it in soon. If you really lust for one, expect to pay a premium again.
- Lousy battery life. Most multimedia phones don’t have a long battery life and the 3G phone is no exception. Don’t you just hate having to charge my phone everyday and worst still, if it runs out of juice while you are expecting an important call? I do.
- iTunes everything. You have to do everything through iTunes from simply getting a ringtone to loading an application. Why?
- You’ll like need a data plan since there is so much you can do with it. Additional cost on a 3G data plan or a surprise bill at the end of the 1st month you play with your iPhone. Just a bit of fiddling around with a total 1 megabyte download cost me RM 10 recently.
Side note : Apple is catching up on Wintel on certain segment of users, especially for computers over US$ 1,000, Mac computers accounts for 50% of sales. The applications created by the Apple team is truly fantastic. But
But for now, there is no reason to lust for an iPhone.
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