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Don’t Buy an iPhone 3G Hate 8 Reasons

Written by Amit Bhawani on Saturday, 23 August 200812 Comments
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Airtel and Vodafone thinks Indians have a lot of money to spend and would be ready to shell out 31000Rs+ for a useless device, here are 8 reasons why you should not Buy a Apple iPhone 3G in India.

Buy No Apple iPhone

  1. Overpriced phone - The price of Rs. 31000 for 8 GB and Rs. 36100 for 16 GB models is not satisfactory and into budget of everyone. It is approx. $800 and $900 respectively, which is 4 times the same in U.S. Do airtel and vodafone realize that most of the services in iPhone are locked and that gadget would not sell easily in that high price.
  2. No 3G - 3rd Generation technology is still not available in India, so the traditional slow speed internet is seen, when compared to the high-tech fast speed seen in the U.S. Facilitation of many new applications is not possible due to lack of 3G in India.
  3. Camera - It is 2 MP, and the very basic one which Nokia had already being giving since the start of N-series mobiles. And now there are many other mobiles in India which have 5 MP cameras, so why just 2 MP in iPhone.
  4. Can’t share with bluetooth - It isn’t just like any other Nokia phone. You can’t share music files, images or videos through bluetooth. What for is this mobile for?
  5. No video recording or flash - There is no flash attached to the camera and video recording can not be done. So this phone is just for making calls and we are gonna pay a hefty sum for just a phone of no use.
  6. Battery drain problems - As reported here(http://www.thewwwblog.com/apple-iphone-3g-battery-problems-reported.html), battery keeps draining very fast and needs charging very frequently, if not taken care of well. In India, the usage of phones is not in a very safe and conservative way, so phone like iPhone won’t stay long if the type and way of usage is not changed.
  7. Video calling not possible - Video calling is also not possible as there is just a single camera on the back, whereas there are many Nokia N-series phones that have dual camera and front camera helps in video calling.
  8. Everything requires iTunes - Windows computers can not easily adjust with it, as every installation or transfer from or to the iPhone needs the Apple iTunes and very few Indians use iTunes or actually have it installed.

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12 Comments »

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    - 23 August 2008 at 9:11 am
  • Sherry said:

    sorry to said that I have never hear about this before. Why would any with hate feeling and reasons would want to buy a iPhone 3G in the first place. Its really waste of time and money. I don’t have a iPhone so I can’t complain much.

    - 23 August 2008 at 2:42 pm
  • Sherry said:

    okay I read the battery drain problem seem to be disturbing me as I don’t really like to use any gadget that need me to charge all day long. if I am going out for sure there’s not many place where provide you to charge and use your iPhone at the same time.

    - 23 August 2008 at 2:44 pm
  • Sparks said:

    Oh my god! this thing is crap!
    I’ll can buy N96 16GB and still save a few bucks.

    Who’s buying that stupid fone that-
    can’t even forward SMS
    Can’t install software/Updates without Itunes
    Can’t change theme and wallpaper.

    Unlike USA, Iphone in india will be an ‘idiot symbol’ and NOT status symbol.
    Heck! Apple paid people in Poland to buy Iphone!

    - 24 August 2008 at 1:52 am
  • Pavan Kumar said:

    Here are 8 more…

    1. No copy paste feature.
    2. Battery embedded inside which makes it inevitable to move on to apple store even for simple problems
    3. You cannot use the device as a external storage.
    4. No MMS.
    5. Can’t use mp3 files as ringtones.
    6. No expansion slot for memory.
    7. HIGH PRICE
    8. HIGH PRICE

    - 24 August 2008 at 5:17 am
  • Make money said:

    ooh.. even our 3000 rupees phones have all such features..
    you can even add
    - no message forwarding
    - no MMS
    - no FM :eek:

    and may be more.

    - 24 August 2008 at 5:19 am
  • Mohan said:

    Airtel is sick, there service is pathetic and they are boasting about their Airtel Live application on iPhone as unhackable

    - 25 August 2008 at 1:40 pm
  • pankaj said:

    oh people have been fooled then ;)

    - 26 August 2008 at 9:52 am
  • Zerosleep said:

    truly ! this article proves that iPhone 3G is Useless buy a HTC Diamond better

    - 26 August 2008 at 2:00 pm
  • vishnu said:

    ha ha ha.. I think my sony erricson is having better value.

    - 29 August 2008 at 9:40 am
  • Balaji J H said:

    One more thing is the browser is more sensitive to spyware

    Nokia is going to release

    Nokia 5800 which is a touch screen it looks even like iphone have almost all facilitiei iphone have and many more it would be a great provider of music especially…
    Apart from this it comes with 8gb card expandable upto 16gb…
    It perhaps have 3.2mp carl zessis optics and inbuilt memory of 81MB

    - 20 October 2008 at 3:13 pm
  • Freezebyte said:

    No matter wat ppl say u all will agree that whenever somebody takes out an iphone they definitely get all the attention. try that with a HTC Diamond. BRAND MATTERS. APPLE isnt fool to leave all these basic things out. there’s always a reason!

    - 21 October 2008 at 12:23 pm

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