Who wants the iphone 4-S?

[dahuman]

disolitude said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

disolitude said:

Its funny that people actually automatically may think its time to upgrade if a new Iphone is out. Not really funny.

I received Iphone 4 from work about 4 months ago as my work phone and I really don't see why anyone would want this device so badly over a Window Phone or Android. Sure the hardware is maybe a bit slicker...but so is the price tag. The OS and user experience however isn't any better or worse than competition. Just different...

In fact there are multiple basic things which I find Iphone lacks compared to windows phone 7 that I wouldn't want to trade for a slicker screen or better camera.

Things like:

Spell check in search and maps, iphone doesn't have it, WP7 does.
Spell check and voice recognition in general sucks on the iphone. Spell check is awesome. I don't use voice recognition at all, so I can't judege.
App store needs password every time you log in, WP7 doesn't. App store doesn't ask for the password each time you log in..
Lock screen on iphone is poorly utilized and vague.  
Sure Iphone has lots of apps but their integration with other apps is non existent. wat. I am never bothered by that. The real point is the app store is THE best.
Can't sync phone numbers from Sim card. oh please, SIM card syncing is ANNOYING and I never used it. Always had to copy them to pc by using nokia pc suit and then copy them to my new device. I don't miss it all now and I didn't know that the iphone lacks that "feature" actually.
Some people may find issues like this with Windows phones or Androids.  

The bottom line is, all 3 devices are fairly similar with slight minor differences, if you want the basic smartphone experience. Why would anyone rush to "upgrade" to iphone 5? This question is weird actually. A lot of People always upgrade their PCs, TVs, Cameras, Consoles etc to ge the best experience possible. You of all people shouldn't be wondering since you always tell us stories about your monsterous gaming  PC set.

Whoa look at you go, Apple Taliban in action.... Everything I said was in relation to windows phone which how long have you used?

1. Still no spell check on maps and search

2. Actual spell check is not nearly as good as windows phone 7s which gives you a slew of words to choose as well as pick the most obvious one. Iphone only picks 1 word and is wrong most of the time.

3. Sorry I meant every time you want to purchase an app. you can't save your password for app purchases which is idiotic. Also, very few apps have trials where on windows phone every app has a trial mode.

4. No one doubts the apple store is amazing but I prefer to have features integrated than having to spend hours in the app store looking for apps to do things. If I just took a picture I don't want to have to save it so I can open facebook app, log in, find the picture and post it. I want to take pic, choose "post to facebook" and move on.

5. Lock screen still doesn't tell you shit other than a text message that may come in or an appointment and time. WP7 lists a slew of things on the start screen.

6. I have a work phone which is email locked. I can not set up a personal email account on it. Therefore I can't sync with gmail or hotmail. Only work exchange. Only way for me to get my personal numbers on to this iphone would be through the sim or manually to enter than in to work contacts, which isn't ideal. So yeah, importing sim contacts while old and outdated, can be useful, despite what you and Apple think.

Also, I buy monster PCs because there is no other way to run 3 monitors in 3D. However there are other ways for people to do pretty much everything iphone does, besides buying iphone 5.

You do understand that Android does all those better right? I even have a finger print scanner on my Atrix 4G lol. My phone is slick as shit too and takes good pictures or HD videos. I mean shit, I can have mumble and vent on it lol, iPhone doesn't even have good options for those.