10 Things We Hate About iPhone 3G : This Stuff Drives Me Nuts

By Anthony Celeste , published on May 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM
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I love my iPhone 3G.  Usually.  But there are times when I want to throw it into the nearest wall.  With the iPhone 3.0 operating system coming in June, I thought this might be a good time to take a look at what needs to change.  As I discuss these issues, I’ll also examine which ones I expect to change, and perhaps more important, which ones I expect to still be stuck with, after my iPhone receives its 3.0 upgrade.     

One brief note: I won’t be delving into the iPhone’s camera (with no auto focus, no zoom, no flash, and no video); the iPhone’s Wifi (which seems to only exist to move the burden of downloading large files from the ATT 3G network to your home network); nor the iPhone’s sync feature (which in a best case scenario ends with a sigh of relief that it didn’t once again trash your files, and create new ones for no apparent reason). 

It’s not that I feel Apple deserves compassion on these issues. It doesn’t.  However, we already covered them thoroughly in Matthieu Lamelot’s article iPhone 3G : An Unfinished Product.  Instead, we’ll cover our software and business related gripes here in this article, because these are the problems that Apple has the potential to fix with a new operating system update or simply a change in policy.   

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awktane 05/28/2009 8:03 PM
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mavroxur 05/28/2009 8:40 PM
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Jinx13 05/28/2009 9:00 PM
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The iPhone does notify you of missed text messages every few minutes. Just wanted to point that out.

Now let me play my violin for you...

Anonymous 05/28/2009 9:33 PM
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I hate when Apple fanboys leave comments about anyone being critical of the all mighty iPhone. It isn't perfect... deal with it.

vorless 05/28/2009 11:16 PM
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So im glad I dont have and iPhone and dont have AT&T

Tomsguiderachel 05/28/2009 11:41 PM
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awktane :
This story made me twitch... the first several items on there were AT&T problems and had nothing to do with the iphone itself. The title was "10 things we hate" but its quite obvious that its "10 things the author hates". No mention that a couple of these things have been confirmed to be fixed in the upcoming version of the OS. TG's "journalism" continues its downward spiral.


Yes, there is a mention of the things that have been confirmed to be fixed in the upcoming version of the OS. Read it. That was the whole point of the article.

Tomsguiderachel 05/28/2009 11:42 PM
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mavroxur :
The title should be "10 Things I want to whine about". Most of these wern't problems with the phone at all. Complaining about masked passwords? Hell, everything masks passwords when you enter them. It's for your safety. But then again, from the content of the article, you strike me as a "my password is 123" kinda guy anyway. Complaining about the iTunes website? How is the crappy website the iPhone's fault? Maybe I could submit a reader article"Top 10 Things I Hate About THG's Reporting"


Please do submit that article :) This is an opinion article. What about is factually incorrect?

Tomsguiderachel 05/28/2009 11:43 PM
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Jinx13 :
The iPhone does notify you of missed text messages every few minutes. Just wanted to point that out.Now let me play my violin for you...


What do you mean it does notify you every few minutes of missed texts. Audibly? All I get is a pop up once I unlock the phone. If there is indeed a way, we will amend the article.

norbs 05/28/2009 11:43 PM
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norbs 05/28/2009 11:50 PM
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Tomsguiderachel 05/29/2009 12:00 PM
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norbs :
OK i just read a bit of the article and sorry i may of over reacted, I just assume it's more hate against apple like usual from this place (especially in the comment and from certain news authors).


I really can't win. No matter what we write about Apple, so many of you are unhappy. Either we are too easy on Apple, and you call us "fanboys," or we're too negative, and people say we are hating on Apple as usually. Why can't you just take my word for it that we, as editors, treat Apple just like every other company--which is to say, fairly.

norbs 05/29/2009 12:31 PM
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Tomsguiderachel :
I really can't win. No matter what we write about Apple, so many of you are unhappy. Either we are too easy on Apple, and you call us "fanboys," or we're too negative, and people say we are hating on Apple as usually. Why can't you just take my word for it that we, as editors, treat Apple just like every other company--which is to say, fairly.



No I apologize, i just saw the title and thought "oh great, now they are picking apart the iPhone". This article was good and i agree with the things i dislike about my iphone as well...

I'm not a fanboy of apple or microsoft or any other company and i don't have loyalties to these companies. I do however recognize something they do right. Windows XP, Windows 7, OS X leopard and iPhone are a few of these things. I also recognize when they do things wrong (windows vista).

Once you keep your mind open you start to notice other things too like who is getting idea's from who and so on.

ryansolid 05/29/2009 12:57 PM
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I have found in most places the password masking shows the last typed character unmasked for a second to ensure you type the it in properly. As long as you are watching your screen you can make sure you didn't make any mistakes.

Anonymous 05/29/2009 4:06 AM
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i hate it for not being able to forward text messages or contact numbers.

radguy 05/29/2009 4:14 AM
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I own an iphone 3g and well my luck with cell phones pretty dismal so fortunatly I haven't had a major problem with my iphone.
The biggest problem I have with is it is that it is sooo sssllloooowwww. I mean come on it takes forever to do anything on it. Even on wifi web pages load like its dialup and the system overall runs slow. Yes the black berry storm makes it look fast but its still really slow. I don't really like apple but there is nothing on the market thats better. I give the iphone an 80 out of a 100 after the software update but thats is still better then everything else. I think your article is too finiky about little things. I don't care about password dots, picture messages, at&t, or price fixing. I want the product to run well and its slow period

Ciuy 05/29/2009 8:18 AM
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Crying about your iPhones? :))) thats sad .... Dont use it then , buy a Nokia, its better.

apache_lives 05/29/2009 10:24 AM
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Nokia better? thats a joke right? (not to say the iphone is better either)

FlayerSlayer 05/29/2009 3:41 PM
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Re: masking passwords
My Palm Treo does masking right. It masks everything but the most recently typed letter, so I can see what I type as I go, but anyone looking over my shoulder would see *******5 or somesuch.

erigolhuhu 05/29/2009 3:57 PM
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I just loved the article ...

I do like the I-Phone, and I would buy one if Nokia wasn't going to release the N97 so soon :) But it's really interesting to see someone else point of view.

I just don't understand why people who like the Apple and I-Phone cannot accept bad comments about it.
When someone says : Oh, Vista have problems, Windows 7 is not perfect ... Supporters of microsoft just accept and agree with it.
When someone even think about saying one bad comment about Apple, all apple fans try to kill him rsrs

koss64 05/29/2009 4:43 PM
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You just cant speak ill about anything Apple, the cultists get all aggitated,arrogant and ignorant.


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