(above picture from unwiredview.com)

The iPhone 3G has reached Singapore! I was reading an article from TODAY about the iPhone. It was a nice article which briefly discuss the pros and cons of iPhone. I decided to do a quick summary of the article, because many people do not seem to be aware of the shortcomings of iPhone, which may be shocking to some.


Pros

• 3.5G
• 2MP camera
  
• Can pair iPhone with wireless headset
• Integration with iTunes ("If you lose the phone, you can get a new one and restore it with the latest backup, with all yoru settings intact")
• A "central device for mobile media consumption"
• features of phone, desktop-grade Web browsing and email
• Apple commited in bug fixing and feature additions
• App Store like a "Swiss Army knife", allows limitless applications to broaden the phone's functions (think open source)
• Good performance in 3G and calls
• Battery yielded decent 8-10 hours

Cons

• Can't forward SMS
• Can't create SMS group
• Can't send MMS
• Cannot delete individual messages, have to delete whole conversation threads
• No copy and paste (people who love to forward SMS will have a hard time)
• No video calls (Yes, its 3.5G...)
• Cannot capture video (shocked?)
• Cannot transfer files from iPhone to another device via Bluetooth (no more "Can BT me some games?)
• Heavy utiilisng push emal and viewing media intensively drained battery life to three hours (not really a con, but something to take note of)
• Can't use as an exernal storage device
• May be troublesome for people with long fingernails

Well, Apple may address such issues in upcoming patches, so the iPhone isn't that bad... As if such tiny (but very irriating) issues will stop hordes of people from owning an iPhone.