iPhone 3G: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Good review but there are quite a few points that I want to add:

1. You can still type using text shortcuts if you jailbreak your iPhone and install ‘asKB’ which will allow you to disable the auto-correction feature.

2. Battery performance is improved with the latest FW2.1 update.

3. You can actually go to the next song in iPod mode using the headset (just double click the mic). So, it’s not all touchscreen as you wrote.

Or you can set your double tap home screen key schortcut, to ipod control.

And another one on the bad section, palage syang nag-lag. Specially after waking it up on sleep mode.

i think it’s just cool to have an iPhone.

Great review! I really wanted to buy one but my pocket can’t afford it yet.

have you updated it to v2.1? just wondering if there is/are improvemnt/s

updating to 2.1 improved battery life.

@abe should this be like wrong time to put out a review for the iPhone? why? the newer os upgrade was just out and there was no sign that you install that one. just wondering if your using 2.1 already and if it change some of your thoughts about the phone.. just curious..

Got one last Friday and so far I’m loving it except for a few things:

1. can’t forward sms messages
2. can’t turn off predictive text
3. iTunes downsamples photos when synchronizing leaving you with lower resolution images in your iPhone (as compared to the original)
4. fingerprint magnet! (slightly solved by buying a belkin leather case)
5. 3G signal is still not very widespread (Globe issue)

That means you need to unlock the iPhone from sleep mode everytime you want to skip or move on to the next song.
<– You don’t need to unlock it though. On the iPod touch at least, you just need to press the home button twice.

who won’t like an iphone? an ipod with a phone. but if you’re really thinking and wise, you’d rather get an ipod touch and buy a great phone that best fits your lifestyle. :]

There are a lot of tricks you can do to your iPhone including turning off the predictive text, it is even rumored to be out in the next firmware release but for now, its one of the tweaks you can do by installing a small software to the iphone.

I actually just bought an iPhone to use as an Internet Device. My concept is to stuff in a PLDT WeRoam SIM into it and just use it for surfing whenever I need it.

I used to have an iPod Touch and it was one of my favorite gadgets. I still like it better than the iPhone in many ways, but since I couldn’t put a SIM in it I ended up not being able to get online when I needed to. So I traded it in for an iPhone and here I am ready to surf wherever. I don’t even use it for calls or SMS. Good for email and chat on the go, though.

iPhone is not so nice because its really hard to text on it. even if you just hit the number ones, it will come up that you hit it twice. for example. ur typing M and it camed up N…. its really not that good. im sorry….. but with calling , it will be great.. its all up to you…..

i have a question…i bought my iphone in dubai, uae…well, technically, my dad bought it and will arrive here when my mom does…it hasn’t been unbricked yet because when my mom showed it to me through i.m, i can still see the..uhm, world! haha! like you know, the earth…so i’m wondering whether i can use it here in the philippines like…what if i ask globe telecom to unbrick it for me…wait, do you think they will unbrick it? like, i didn’t buy the product here but i’m a globe subscriber (an excuse?)…well, anyway, the bottom line is, can i use it here in the philippines! and someone please, pretty please answer me!

@yuga really? like, they will really do that even though as i mentioned above, i didn’t buy it here?

I got my iPhone this week.

Some of the things I hate about the iPhone:

– When I have to call someone, especially if I don’t call that person regularly, I have to scroll through my Contacts list. There’s no way to type the first few letters of the person’s name, unlike in other of my previous Nokia phones.

– My AirborneAccess account c/o Smart Gold seems to block access from it. I couldn’t log on to my AirborneAccess account. I thought it was just me, but I heard the same thing with my friend who has a similar setup.

– No SMS forward feature. I heard there are some apps out there that replace the built-in SMS functionality, but I couldn’t find any from the App Store.

– Related to the SMS forward issue, there is no Copy/Cut and Paste. Having copy and paste would have been a neat workaround to the SMS forwarding problem.

– I don’t get why App Store and iTunes icons have to be separate.

– Smudge, smudge, and smudge.

– I cannot make it into an Internet modem for my laptop. All browsing and email has to be done in-phone.

– Autocorrect/Predictive typing sucks if you have to send text or email in a language other than English.

– As a software developer, I find it disheartening that Apple has not yet opened the development program in the Philippines.

In spite of all these, I will keep my iPhone. It’s hard to explain, but I have no regrets getting it. Hopefully, new firmware updates will address some of the issues I pointed out.

Hello from Russia

It is very difficult to read in English, but we try:)

HATE IPHONE…

i think why others buy iphone because they want to look cool and because it is a hit….

how to open internet MMS,GPRS of Q380A+ ifone

i have an iphone 3g 8gb for almost 5 months now and guess where it is now? gave it to my gf kapalit ng old phone nya…. hehehe after a few days… nagrereklamo na siya…. lagi sya lowbatt… hina pa ng signal… she was asking for her old phone back… but unfortunately i traded it off already for a new nokia 5800… no head aches anymore!

I would like to ask if is it worth it to replace my samsung i780 with an iPhone 3G? They are both touchscreen but samsung has a qwerty keypad and has windows mobile as its OS. I really can’t decide yet to what i’m going to do. Please help me decide on this knowing that you have an iPhone. Thanks.

lupit nito..isa sa mga wishlist ko..ang mahal lang kasi sa market..magloloptop nalang ako..waheheh

can u have one for me!!!

Why is the iphone 3g is not half the price of iphone 2g?

salamat at nabasa ko to, i’ll keep my ipod touch 2nd gen and my nokia n82 than purchasing an iphone, dapat wise tayo hehehe….

anu po ba mga
reguirements sa globe?
pag kumuwa po ng plan

Answer nman po

PLS!!!

@Jhun: requirement nila is ID, proof of billing, and payslip. :D

after reading all of ur comments, i have decided that I’ll keep my nokia e71 and I will trade my ipod nano 4th gen 16g for an itouch… hehehe, wise di ba?…

I would better maintain this ma phone

Iphone is not just cool is alaso nice and practical , but yes is true that there is so much missing on the iphoen 3G

how much is iphone3g now in US?

saan po mas mainam bumili ng LG 3g
I WANT TO HAVE FOR CHRISTMAS

hayz iba pala ang size ng 3g at hindi na iphone
nagkamali tuloy ako bili ng iphone skin koT_T
baka may interested sa DecalGirl na skin hehe

Comparing Nokia 5800 Xpress Music With Apple 3G Iphone
http://mattscradle.com/?p=113

I hope this could be of help to those who are having hard time choosing what phone to buy between iphone 3g and nokia 5800

hi, i have this phone for 5 months and its a good phone, i have mine bought from dubai and its factory unlocked, i have jailbroken it to add free apps like games etc. but sadly im selling it for 27k php , its at 97% scratch free(bezel only have some hair like scratch which i got from the case i believe)so any1 interested u can txt me at this # 092777*****.

btw my reason for selling is, i have the 3GS

Currently I’m in the US, and in July of this year, I will be buying an Iphone 3gs from at&t, which has a 2 year contract. June of next year I would be heading back to the Philippines for college. I was wondering if you would happen to know how I could still use my Iphone there, because I plan on bringing it with me. The 2 year contract here is covered, since I have someone paying for it here. After unlocking my phone, how would approach globe to open a plan?

pls help..what is the diff.of iphone and the iphone 3G?

I bought an unlocked i phone last month, I must say I love the Phone!

I turned off my iphone 3g two days ago and tried to turn it back on the next morning but it won’t start. I tried every step I know, ie, connecting to PC, hard reset, hard reset while connecting the cable to PC, etc. I even rested it for more than an hour to do the same steps over again to no avail. The thing is, itunes can detect and sync with my phone but the screen does not show anything. Everything was running smoothly two days ago until this morning.

I tried restoring it through iTunes, and even after the procedure and os update my phone is still dead. Well it’s not totally. It’s just the screen. It’s black all over. I can see pixels covering the whole screen, but that’s just it.

Anyone? Thanks.

hey, morgan!!! if you have problem with your iphone, go to rhe apple store and consult it…

they will manage your problem

Well we can forget about this post now. Ye olde nyews…
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Magkano na ngayon ang Iphone 3g since lumabas na ang 4? o wala ng binebenta?

I have iphone 3g my aunt gave it to me. the review is right its more on pc than a phone. but it is really user friendly pero the battery drains out easily.

And you can copy and paste on your text and you can turn off the predictive text on it. just download the user manual on apple website. It will give u guides on the phone.

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