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Originally Posted by NIKKG
Why do people on this site state the iPhone is not a “real smartphone” but WinMo, Android supposedly are?
With my Jailbroken Iphone 4, I can:
1. Tether through wifi and use it as a wifi hotspot free
2. Customize the lock screen with weather, calendars etc.
3. Run all sorts of great apps and games and can multitask
4. There are all sorts of legal and illegal apps and hacks
5. Use GPS, Music Player, Bluetooth, Wifi, 3G
6. Take pictures and Hi-Def videos and have a built in flash
7. Browse web sites just as fast and good as on my laptop
8. Built in email and calendar syncs with my outlook at work
9. On top of all that, it still makes phone calls and text messages, plus I get great ATT service.
To me, this is not only a smartphone, its like a laptop replacement. My laptop just collects dust now, I don’t see what’s the point of turning on a laptop when I can do almost everything right on my iphone with that beautiful hi-def screen.
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My turn...
First and most important where's Flash 10.1? Without it, no it's NOT a laptop replacement, HTML 5 is simply not there yet. Every website I go to sucks because I can't see flash videos, except youtube linked ones.
While I think that the iPhone is a fantastic piece of hardware and software the potential to be a real smartphone is there, the simple fact is that Apple dictatorship hampers this from being a reality.
The fact that "Steve Jobs" is a smartass, doesn't make the iPhone smart!
If I create an app that "I" need and Apple doesn't approve it, it's not the phones fault it's Apples. I should be able to install ANYTHING that I want/need once I drop my hard earn dollars on it. Whether I want to buy it or create it myself. Once you jailbreak the iPhone I think it becomes a true smartphone but then leave it to Apple again to break the jailbreak with an update (which is dumb), leaving you with a less then smartphone.
Antenna gate issues aside, I thank Apple for it's impact on the smartphone world. If Microsoft didn't bail on WM, and Apple was more open and not with AT&T, Android probably never would have stood a chance. I rather have Google "spying" on me then someone telling me what I can and can't have.
So my defination of smartphone is simply, "Is it smart enough to do what
I want it to do?", and unless its jailbroken and truely usable, my answer is NO...
It still wouldn't stop me from buying one though--
IF it wasn't bundled with AT&T, and carried on Sprint. My wife would just love the simplistic menu systems...