Why I don’t like the new 4G iPhone

 

So you guys heard? The new iPhone is here. It’s Called 4G iPhone. Definitely it is an very good improvement over the last iPhone (iPhone 3GS) that came out. Since the launch, apple – iPhone is at the tip0 of their tounges. But wait? Why doesn’t Steve Jobs skip past the negatives or provide kiddy answers to some questions?

Launch failure !

At first let’s start off with the launch. A mega event with thousands of people.

Steve Jobs presenting 4G iPhone :Is he serious?

The event was well covered by the press so naturally there were huge number of Wi-Fi stations. When the iPhone couldn’t connect to any W-Fi access points because there were so many Steve Jobs asked the audience to switch off their notebooks and shutdown Wi-Fi base stations. But lets get this scenario, where you want to use your shiny 4G iPhone in an airport where there is more interference than 572 Wi-Fi base stations. My question to Apple is whether you guys have tested that kind of scenarios. The second incident is when iPhone refused to connect to the service provider. So it means that when there is a lot of interference iPhone is a sitting duck.

About FaceTime

Apple FaceTime is the 4G iPhone’s new video calling software. Yeah it does bring loved ones to your home. But what’s the point if it only operates on Wi-Fi. Maybe Apple has designed the phone for a futuristic movie. I mean seriously when is the last time you got a Wi-Fi signal when you were in a bus. Even the “FaeTime” froze in the demo launch. The new FaceTime feature could only be used in limited places (where there’s an access point).

The “Beautiful” glass covering

Yes yes that could have been your 4G iPhone. The iPhone is a beautiful phone without a doubt. But that’s what could happen and the beauty becomes a useless beast. The iPhone’s glass is covered by Alumino Silicate glass which is the type in high speed trains and said to be 30times tougher than plastic. But after 3 drops at 3.5 feet above is the result. By no means I wouldn’t question Apple’s design decision; but it’s up to the consumer to decide whether he could protect a phone from ever dropping in it’s life time.  The result looks just like a damaged windscreen. The replacement screen from Apple would burn a hole in your pocket. If there was minor damage we could have used the phone; but here in this case it is frankly unusable.

Flash is non-existent

Those of you buying an 4G iPhone surely would visit web sites with Flash. But sadly iPhone not only it doesn’t support Flash it constrains developers to come up with an alternative too. Flash is still going strong. And let’s say there is a Youtube client, but that’s only 40% of the web’s videos. Hulu is designed in Flash in mind.Just because iPhone doesn’t use Flash content can’t change to apple’s format. Apple’s  alternative to Flash is HTML5. But let me ask you a question? What is more easy to draw a square for Web 2.0 media content.

Drawing it visually in Adobe Flash Suite

or

function draw_b() {
  var b_canvas = document.getElementById("b");
  var b_context = b_canvas.getContext("2d");
  b_context.fillRect(50, 25, 150, 100);
}

That’s what you get when you view Flash content in all iPhones.

So there now you would think twice before buying a 4G iPhone. Just because it’s shiny and Steve Jobs tell fairy tales of it you shouldn’t buy it.

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