Comments on: What will it take for you to buy a new iPhone?

By: Pere

Pere — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:23:09 +0000

1. GPS
2. 3G
3. Video camera
4. RadioFM
5. Open Battery
6. DualSim
7. OLED screen

I will buy this iphone for 599…

By: Tice

Tice — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:02:16 +0000

Whatever Apple does, unless this german T-Mobile tariff is the only thing I can get, I won’t buy one – ever!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:07:16 +0000

Unfortunately I don’t know if there is anything that I can think of that would make me buy another iPhone. I think the iPhone works just fine now and with the SDK coming the iPhone will be able to do all that I want it to. I think the only thing that would really make me buy another one is if mine broke. At this point the phone does what I want it to and soon will be able to do practically anything I would ever want it to, unless 3G comes to my area and Apple comes out with a 3G phone I don’t see myself running to my local AT&T store for a new iPhone.

By: vance

vance — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:24 +0000

1.) Price
2.) Open Lined no contracts
3.) SMS, MMS
4.) 5 Mega Pixel Cam
5.) 3G
6.) Wireles N
7.) 80Gb version hehehe

By: Primoz

Primoz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:27:58 +0000

I would die for a 3G iPhone here in Europe… we have now 7.2 MB speeds over 3G network here in Slovenia and with Edge on my iPhone I’m just not satisfied. I would upgrade immediately. There are three features that would make me upgrade immediately:

3G
MMS support
32GB of flash storage

That’s it. No less no more and we would be happy

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:39:39 +0000

Basically, make me not regret buying an iPhone compared to other currently available phones, feature-wise. I’m not talking the freebie crap-ass phones (although some of them are quite nice: SEW580i), I’m talking, at least, the +$250 range like the Sony Ericsson Walkmans, Nokias, and smart phones. The iPhone, outside of the interface and Safari, is no more capable than my 2 year old SE W810. That sucks, in internet time.

1. Bluetooth A2DP support: I find it unconscionable that a device that can communicate with a cell phone tower miles away can’t seem to get stereo sound to my head without a tangly cord (which seems to grab EVERY door knob it comes across–speaking from iPod experience). Apple’s gaffe on this one is rather like if Sony had shipped big-ass over-the-ear cans with a 1/4″ jack with the original Walkman. The future will look back in puzzlement.

2. Bluetooth tethering: Apple is actually pushing ExpressCard AT&T 3G wireless cards on the MacBook Pro spec pages as part of their “Freedom built in” campaign. Huh? No mention of such freedom with a MacBook Air or MacBook. Guess they aren’t free. But WAIT! What’s this? I’m a good Apple fanboi with a Bluetooth-enabled phone and a data service! They pair! It tethers from the Bluetooth menu! “Where’s the internet? Oh there it is!” Except that phone is a Sony Ericsson. Gah. Sucks if you drank the Kool-Aid and bought an iPhone, “The internet is [still] hiding” for you.

3. A sufficient camera flash would be nice. Come to think of it, so would video. So let’s just say fix up the camera and bring it into line with Sony Ericsson’s offerings.

4. MMS. Well, MMS and a real chat programâ€¦say, iChat! Yeah, the thing needs iChat. And MMS. If I can do it on a Sony Eriâ€¦right, you’re tired of hearing thatâ€¦got it.

5. Louder ringing. I’m nearly deaf.

6. A more capable Address Book- how about supporting multiple Address Books through the use of Groups? Just as with the Weather app, you could swipe through All, Personal, Work, Friends, Drinking Buddies, Family, Ex Girlfriends, etc. I don’t have 5000 contacts like Karl Rove, but I’d still really like this feature. (They could fix up the one in OS X too. Who designs Address Books? They are morons. Do they have no social life? Do they understand that SOME contacts are actually FAMILY UNITS, not simply individuals? The Jobs’–Steve and Katie)

7. Open up the Ringtone creation process- okay, the record companies and AT&T had their time. Who buys ringtones? Morons do, that’s who. So let’s just open the code a bit and let the rest of us have the “easy” tools. I’m tired of the hassle.

8. Does the goofy thing have a voice recorder yet? Better yet, implement a “Holy Crap I just got pulled over” Rodney King protection service feature that you can use to quickly, uh, document official business.

Like I said, basically, go out, buy a Sony Ericsson W890, and copy every good technical feature (not UI) it has. An iPhone owner should have NO remorse compared to other phones on the market. None. Never a feeling of “Wow, that’s kinda cool.”

By: George B.

George B. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:08:51 +0000

I plan to get an iPhone eventually. Maybe in a year.
So if/when there’s a 3G iPhone, I’ll let other folks debug it and see how AT&T’s service stacks up.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:52:38 +0000

I’ll get it as soon as it comes out in Hong Kong.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:40:03 +0000

For one of the pathetically apathetic Canadian carriers to finally pick up the iPhone…

By: Ksurfer

Ksurfer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:41:42 +0000

Absolutely, I will buy one for me and give my wife the old one!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:36:33 +0000

@David

“There are markets other than the US.”

Nobody ever said that there weren’t. All I said was that Apple is making plenty of money off of the US market. Which they are.

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:51 +0000

There are markets other than the US.
8 million phones are sold in Australia every year, in a population of just 20 million.
Australia’s Telstra has an extensive 3G network which, it claims, reaches over 90% of the population.
The iPhone hasn’t been released in Australia yet.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:45:17 +0000

The O2 contract in the UK at Â£35 is now a reasonable package – when it first came out, you didn’t get enough for the monthly fee.

As eberlin mentions, 3G is pretty much everywhere in the UK (much more so than Edge) and as soon as a 3G iPhone is available, I know at least three people (my sister, wife and I) who will be buying it.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:24:09 +0000

A CDMA radio IN STEAD of a GSM radio.

I’m sorry, but GSM is only good in densely populated urban areas in the US; CDMA is everywhere and reception and sound quality blows GSM out of the water everywhere I’ve tried it (I really couldn’t care less what Europe uses, I don’t live there; but I have traveled all over the US).

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:35:10 +0000

what it would take me?

lower prices and cheaper contracts – I think the iphone is an awesome device and now it’s sold in Austria (here) too – but it is incredibly expensive!

â‚¬399 for the 8GB version (~$633)
â‚¬499 for the 16 GB version (~$791)
â‚¬39 monthly for the cheaper contract (~$62)
â‚¬55 monthly for the more expensive one (~$88)

contracts run 2 years…

I don’t even want to know what they’d cost without the contracts…what would be of use to know – almost any other mobile phone (nokia, lg, samsung, sony ericsson, …) costs like â‚¬0 or â‚¬20 or something like that with a 1 year contract where you pay like â‚¬20 to â‚¬30 a month…

By: ledfan

ledfan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:44:23 +0000

OLED (“Organic light emitting diodes”) displays are considered as the screens of the future.

Organic light emitting diodes have been receiving a lot of attention over
the world as a new type of display technology. OLEDs have many advantages over
conventional display technologies.

By: eberlin

eberlin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:12:52 +0000

3G is popular in the UK and will probably generate alot of extra sales of the iPhone here. Indeed many people are delaying purchase because of the lack of 3G on the current iPhone.

By: drho2004

drho2004 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:44:41 +0000

3G is a good start. but for me to REALLy get one, they would have to un-cripple the Bluetooth. thats just really bothersome to me, that you can only use it for headsets. its actually Bullshit that they did that, they busted a (evil) verizon move. reception i couldnt care less, i live in l.a and currently have ATT and i have full service and 3g almost everywere.

someone help. can the iphone currently share its internet connection with a mac/pc? if it doesnt, that would HAVE to be a requirement. right now im without internet access at home (moving) and my i am using my 8525 windows mobile phone as a modem, and man on 3g i constaly get 200KB/s down. i NEED a phone that can do this, since i travel and i rather not pay for hotel wi-fi charges either.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:14:54 +0000

Here in the US, I think 3G is more of a “future-proofing” situation. I know full well that as soon as I go buy an iPhone, Apple will announce the 3G iPhone and AT&T will have 3G service in my backyard.

I’m waiting for Apple to reverse their decision about daemons running on the iPhone (I have a killer app that I want to write, but it requires a background process). Then I’ll go get one.

By: Niles Donegan

Niles Donegan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:57:26 +0000

One word:

Reception.

It’s horrible in most parts of Vermont and New Hampshire.

By: Frank Powell

Frank Powell — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:19:42 +0000

For me to buy an iPhone, AT&T would have to go straight to hell!!!!!

By: Nicolas Hoizey

Nicolas Hoizey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:17:34 +0000

Living in France, lack of 3G is currently my most important criteria for not buying it!

By: Ted T.

Ted T. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:07:45 +0000

@Scott Paeth: Waiting for availability on another network is useless.
The only other U.S. Network the iPhone could use is T-Mobile. There are no other nationwide GSM networks. As a former (happy) T-Mobile customer, I can assure you that AT&T has a better network.

As for CDMA (Verizon) it’s never going to happen. GSM is the worldwide standard. Apple isn’t going to fatten the iPhone so they can stick two radios in there.

By: James Bond

James Bond — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:57:32 +0000

i’ll get one when my wife says it’s ok! i don’t know why i’m waiting other than that reason. seriously though, just waiting for the new revision then i’m making the whole family jump to at&t. 1 iphone & 3 regular phones for family plans. i’ve been really happy with t-mobile for 6 years now, but the iphone is just too much to pass up.

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:27:06 +0000

There is still pent-up demand for the iPhone. Still, the one thing you people are forgetting is that once the SDK-created applications hit the iPhone, demand will go through the roof with apps such as voice dialing, remote MS Office updating, ePocrates, Exchange Server, etc. Businesses will want in, for certain.

It’s been proven that the processing power of the iPhone is far better than either the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP, so games could definitely be a sales booster. Social networking would be great if there really were to be a two-camera version of the iPhone.

If Apple could increase the battery life of the iPhone by a couple of hours, it would be fantastic and hopefully stop the complaints about not having a user-replaceable battery.

I don’t think we should be looking for any major price reductions for the iPhone, however. It will just have to sell on it’s overall versatility.