iPhone Drawback

Following are Apple 3G iphone drawback. Just check that draw before you purchase 3G iphone.

• Camera

Apple 3G iphone has a 2 megapixel camera but you CANNOT record video clips.

• Internet

Apple Safari does not support FLASH, which is used on tons and tons of websites out there.

• Instant Messaging

The 3G iPhone does not support INSTANT MESSAGING.

• BLUETOOTH HEADSETS

3G iPhone does not support stereo Music Streaming through Bluetooth headsets. you can only answer iPhone calls wirelessly with this Bluetooth headset.

• 3RD Party software

CANNOT LOAD YOUR OWN 3RD PARTY PROGRAMS. On iphone 3G you can load approved applications may be released by Apple & they will charge fees for that.

• Battery

iPhone DOES NOT HAVE A REMOVEABLE BATTERY & expected life is 300-400 charges after that you have visit apple store to replace the Battery every Year OR Two like ipod. Offcource they will charge you for Battery.

• Games

You can not play games on appple iphone because it does not have any GAMES.

• CUSTOMIZE RINGTONES

You can not CUSTOMIZE YOUR RINGTONES WITH MP3 SONGS.

• VOICE COMMANDS

You can not use Voice COMMANDS OR Voice RECOGNITION OR Voice DIALING.

• MESSAGING

The keyboard supposedly isn’t a real bother after you get used to it, but TYPING PERIODS AND COMMAS ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK, requiring you to go to a 2nd screen each time. Given that you use a period or comma in almost every sentence you type, this is NOT CONVENIENT.

• MMS

You canot SEND PICS TO OTHER CELL PHONES VIA MMS PICTURE MESSAGING.

• Donload iTUNES

You cannot download OR access iTUNES directly from the iPhone, you always have to do it through you PC or Mac’s iTunes program and then sync files.

• Modem

You cannot use apple 3G iphone as modem that means you cannot connect iphone 3G to laptop and PC. (New software launch By Netshare for iphone to use as modem but it's not free.)

• Storage

You CANNOT LOAD MORE THAN 8GB and 16GB worth of music, video, audio, documents, contacts, email, etc because there is NO REMOVEABLE STORAGE CARD support.

There is work out for most of the above drawback, My friend has iPhone we able to install 3rd party app, & installed many of above features(as we hve 2-3 years of mobile development experience). But ordinary people will not do all this.

I think in India, Why indians should pay $710 for the iPhone, which is available for $199 in US.

source: techarena.

iPhone 3G to make India debut on Aug 22

The new-generation iPhone will be available in India from August 22. The country’s two largest GSM operators, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, on Wednesday announced that they will begin selling the new model in select outlets from that date.

The new iPhone features built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services and iPhone 2.0 software, which supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and hundreds of third-party applications.
news on EconomicTimes

India to Get iPhone 3G on August 18

[new on tech2.com]
So after much digging, we've got information on the official date for the India launch of the iPhone 3G.
Vodafone will launch the iPhone 3G first on the 18th of August. Pricing and other essentials are still unknown. But worry not, we at Tech2 will keep you posted. You'll know as soon as we do.

3G iPhone launching globally on July 11

Vodafone and Apple today announced that the iPhone 3G will be available in Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal on July 11, and in the Egypt, Greece, India, South Africa and Turkey later this year.

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