{"id":1106,"date":"2007-11-07T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"6505 at http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com"},"modified":"2007-11-07T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T22:34:19","slug":"why-im-not-buying-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m not buying an iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone is release here in the UK on Friday, and while it is incredibly tempting to get an iPhone, for a few simple reasons I won't be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The storage space is too small. Now I know I still iPods that have a 20GB hard disk on occasion, if I'm going to take advantage of that big screen, I need more space than the iPhone offers.<\/li>\n<li>That big screen is nice, but on a phone, it makes the unit huge, and I like something small enough that will fit in my pocket without feeling to uncomfortable when I sit down.<\/li>\n<li>The camera on it is way to low quality. I never thought I'd say this (I avoided buying a camera phone until last year), but I love the 3.2 megapixel camera on my K800i, and I'm already considering upgrading to the K850i for the 5 Megapixel camera.<\/li>\n<li>The call pricing plans are a joke. No, honest. They are terrible in the UK at the best of times, and while O2 have sensibly offered the same unlimited Internet access as available in the US, they are at a price which is still more than I'm prepared to pay when I can get a cheaper tariff, on a better phone, at a time when I spend most of my time in the home-office anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\" dc:title=\"Why I'm not buying an iPhone\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/trackback\/6505\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=8SDUYF\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=8SDUYF\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/184430950\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone is release here in the UK on Friday, and while it is incredibly tempting to get an iPhone, for a few simple reasons I won&#8217;t be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The storage space is too small. Now I know I still iPods that have a 20GB hard disk on occasion, if I&#8217;m going to take advantage of that big screen, I need more space than the iPhone offers.<\/li>\n<li>That big screen is nice, but on a phone, it makes the unit huge, and I like something small enough that will fit in my pocket without feeling to uncomfortable when I sit down.<\/li>\n<li>The camera on it is way to low quality. I never thought I&#8217;d say this (I avoided buying a camera phone until last year), but I love the 3.2 megapixel camera on my K800i, and I&#8217;m already considering upgrading to the K850i for the 5 Megapixel camera.<\/li>\n<li>The call pricing plans are a joke. No, honest. They are terrible in the UK at the best of times, and while O2 have sensibly offered the same unlimited Internet access as available in the US, they are at a price which is still more than I&#8217;m prepared to pay when I can get a cheaper tariff, on a better phone, at a time when I spend most of my time in the home-office anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\" dc:title=\"Why I'm not buying an iPhone\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/trackback\/6505\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/why_im_not_buying_an_iphone\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=8SDUYF\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=8SDUYF\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/184430950\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}