What’s with all the iPhone talk?

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No matter how interesting the iPhone looks every time you see it on TV or your local Mac store, save your money. Although the fanboy dubbed JesusPhone is a break through in technological advancement, it falls short in so many ways that just make it the most impractical tool for anyone who needs or wants a smartphone. Looking at the list of features it boasts, all of the audio and video playback options are included in a regular iPod, with 8 to 16 times the storage space. E-mail, SMS, Notes, and Calendar all suffer from a lack of cut & paste or the ability to delete multiple items. Picture my dismay when I first set up a Gmail account and every message in my inbox, including my responses to it flooded my phone. Manually deleting 40 e-mails was almost as fun as re-writing the same message to about 10 contacts who had replied back to me. Even the Safari browser with its ability to utilize both EDGE and Wi-Fi is gimped thanks to a denial that it's a mobile device and EDGE being phased out close to two years ago now. If the iPhone Safari browser is what they claim it is, why do we need "iPhone optimized" websites? What's worse is trying to use EDGE to run the Maps or YouTube application. Let me know how well it works for you when your $400 (or $600 in my case) iPhone is relying on EDGE connection to triangulate your general area because you got lost.

You will hear people saying that these are not issues as the iPhone is so new, but how can you launch a smartphone without cut & paste? Update after update, the iPhone continues to skip the most basic of features. With plenty of interesting applications being released to the modding scene only, most people haven't even seen what the iPhone is capable of and besides, why should you have to modify your iPhone to take advantage of what it should have done out of the box? No matter how cool it is, the iPhone is anything but practical.

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