iPhone's review

[asuka_tsuzuki]

I got an iPhone 3GS 16GB white on August 19th. I didn't plan to buy that, but since my iPod touch broke (T^T) and I was in need of a new phone, I thought I could merge the two devices and got an iPhone. I subscribed a two-years contract with a mobile company: I paid iPhone € 199, I've a monthly fee of 15 € and I've internet connection

Comments

[asuka_tsuzuki]

Effettivamente il jailbreak può essere utile per certi aspetti, ma anche in un certo senso "pericoloso". Qualche tempo fa si aggirava in un'applicazione di Cydia una sorta di virus. Inoltre spesso ci sono persone che fanno il jailbreak solo per installare applicazioni piratate (aprendo il firmware è possibile installare di tutto). Per quel che mi riguarda ho fatto il jailbreak per vedere com'era, ma poi l'ho tolto, non ne sentivo il bisogno

[nanani]

I see why iphone isn't so popular here... most of the features are completely normal things for a phone to have ^^

I don't think I know a single person in japan whose phone lacks GPS, mail, browser and so on. So if you are an apple fan, it is cool, but otherwise it sounds pretty normal.

I've had my current phone almost a year, but I dont want to switch it just yet. Maybe in another year...

[asuka_tsuzuki]

I agree, but consider that here in Italy we didn't have anything like a Japanese phone. We were stuck to Symbian that is SOOOOO slow (I could make a coffee while waiting its boot...) and Windows Mobile for smartphones, but nothing even vaguely comparable with the features and the aesthetics of a Japanese phone.
This is why iPhone is very popular here: none of our previous phones did such things so well. Yeah, we had Blackberry, but it isn't really comparable with iPhone. Yeah, we had phones with GPS, my previous one had it, but it was such a pain to use. And about browsers, well, they were - almost - ok for a website optimized for mobile devices, but otherwise pages were pretty unviewable, even with the pretty good Opera Mini.
Plus our carriers doesn't help... especially on mobile internet connections...

I'm an Apple user, but not an Apple fangirl (I hate that damn locked bluetooth on my phone!!!). I bought iPhone 'cause I was in need of a new phone and a new iPod touch, so I thought I could merge the two things and pay less XD

[atsuhi]

I've got some friends that have got this IPhone, and honestly, I thought it was worthless. But know I know the key point: the access to e-mail and Internet. Here in Peru, they have just started using 3G phones couple of years ago, and GPRS for normal phones is very, very, very expensive. Going to a cybercafe is cheaper ;D Blackberries weren't touch and hadn't a camera, so I see now, why was it such a novelty.

Recently, I've tried to jailbreak my Samsung to install Java games, with no success. It's the... third time I try it, and I give up now xD I think I'll live without videogames on my cellphone D=
A risk of jailbreaking it's that sometimes the only way is to resent everything to factory values, and sometimes that makes you phone not to recognise the working network anymore: it means your phone is no longer a "phone" D= That's another reason why I give up trying to jailbreak ^^U

Anyway, I know Apple will develop another IPhone in a few years, technology is like that xD