[ilias]

@rab777hp

Yes, and you probably prefer working with shell commands in Linux than a proper user interface hence your poor judgment of what is best.

[rab777hp]

@ilias Yes, and you probably do not understand how to use shell commands and are limited in life to GUI
hence your poor judgement of what is best.


I think you phrased it nicely ;)

[rukqoa]

How does working with shell commands in Linux make your judgment poor?

Edit: The GUI is easy to learn and multitask. Commandline wins in almost every other category.

[bonesb]

For all the "there's no voice dialing" whiners - that's what you read like to me - there's at least a dozen voice dialing apps in the App Store right now.
The Melodis product doesn't need a server - it works perfectly. Vlingo does need a server - it works perfectly, and offers more features. I use each on my iPhone and both are more accurate than the Nuance software on my Storm and all are equally easy to use. They're both fee-free, no charge, zero cost. Heck, even Google's app can be used to find a business or contact in your iPhone and dial it. Nuance doesn't have an iPhone product (yet?) - beat on them, not Apple.

[HyperMactive]

@ rab777hp: I said Linux is a "marketplace failure." Because it is. It's just not friendly for the typical consumer.

And Android's scattershot approach of one OS/many hardware devices will ensure it can never be as user friendly as, say, the iPhone or Pre.

[rab777hp]

I still haven't the foggiest idea what you are attempting to convey here.

[hillstones]

BigIslandMac said:

The new features are nice, but I wish Apple would devote a fraction of the effort it puts into design into quality control. On that front, it seems the iPhone is quickly becoming the Yugo of the smartphone world. I purchased an original iPhone back in Sept. '07. When the 3G came out, I passed it on to my daughter. She has since had to have it replaced after a permanent crash. The 3G I bought after standing in line for its debut was defective out of the box. I had to wait three weeks for a replacement. The replacement died in Nov. '08 and had to be replaced again. Now the earpiece speaker has died, so I'm looking at another replacement (or should I hold out and shell out $499 for a 3G S?). I bought my wife a 3G for Christmas and it died last month. The replacement Apple sent was also defective, right out of the box. In fact, Apple hadn't even released the hold on my credit card from the first "advance replacement" when they placed a second hold on the card to secure the replacement for the replacement. So, right now, having purchased 3 iPhones since Sept. '07, the defect rate is something like 200% (fuzzy math, I know, but it sounds good). If Airbus made planes the way Apple makes phones, there'd be 4 or 5 jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day. So why do I keep buying them? Just a sucker for a sleek shiny toy, I guess. That and I rely on MobileMe to keep my contacts and appointments in sync. But that's another story...

My original iPhone and my friends' iPhones all work great, no problems whatsoever. Sorry you had a few bad phones, but most iPhones are very reliable.

[hillstones]

gfsh73 said:

With Find my iPhone I'm assuming you need to have location services on all the time? Doesn't that suck the life out of the battery? How does it work inside? Questions, questions- but it is a cool feature.

No, it is only used when initiated. For example, when you use the Map application and you tap the find me button, it uses the Location Services. Or with the camera. For faster loading of apps, such as the camera, turn it off. However, with the new feature in 3.0, you would have to leave it on and be a MobileMe subscriber. However, it doesn't drain the battery.

[hillstones]

rab777hp said:

Most of these features (not necessarily what's here, but most of the features) were available when android first hit the market (or by cupcake). Apple really needs to get with the times, the android 1.5 release is better than the iPhone 3.0. Lame, apple really needs to do some serious work here.

Gee, what a surprise, you hate Apple. Go buy an Android phone if you think it is so much better.

[PaulAndrews]

I wonder if Voice Recognition will work with my Apple Bluetooth Headset? A single push of the headset button and "Dial Home" maybe?

[hillstones]

ZeroGravX said:

I too am annoyed that the voice dialing is not coming to the iPhone or iPhone 3G. There is absolutely no reason why it can't. I fully believe that's just a tactic to sell more iPhones seeing as that was (in addition to cut, copy, paste) one of the most requested features.

Perhaps Apple's Voice Recognition will actually work compared to other phones. Most other phones that do voice dialing, are not actually doing voice recognition. You record yourself two or three times in order for the feature to work. Then you hope it actually does work. However in most cases, it never dials the person you actually want. So the Voice feature requires the faster processor in the new iPhone.

Most of you confuse Voice DIALING with Voice RECOGNITION. As another pointed out, there are apps available that will do voice dialing. Even on my old Razr phone, I had to press a button to activate the Voice Dial feature, and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I would imagine the voice recognition in the new iPhone will be much more reliable than voice dialing.

[rukqoa]

@hypermactive: I don't think you get this. I apologize for any misunderstanding, but linux isn't a "big marketing failure". First off, linux is used in many more aspects than just end-user computers and phones. Routers, databases, web serving, scientific computation are just a few places where Linux is used. In short, Linux does not compete in the same market as Windows and Mac. Two, the problem with Linux is not with its lack of user-friendliness; it's the problem with the standard. Taking Mac OS as an example: people accustomed to Windows, when switching to mac, complain about its "lack" of a right-click menu. Linux is no different; people have been using Windows for their life and assume that all computers should behave the way it does in windows. Why is having a universal menu wrong? How is the "/home/user/Desktop" filesystem implementation illogical? On the other hand, how is having My Documents in 3 different places logical.

[rab777hp]

I do not hate apple, but I disagree with them on many counts.
And by the way, I am the proud owner of a G, so yes, that was my decision

[hillstones]

rab777hp said:

I do not hate apple, but I disagree with them on many counts.
And by the way, I am the proud owner of a G, so yes, that was my decision

So why are you trolling here when you don't have an iPhone? If you disagree on many counts, sounds like you don't care for any of their products.