Debating should I keep the Iphone?

I want to like it..
I cannot sync using bluetooth with my laptop or my palm pda.
I think if it slips out of your hand, and it is very slippery it's a goner.
It has a lot of nice features but is missing loads of stuff too.
I can read but not send a an email to my cox.net account which is a pop3 service?
no pics in messaging, no video, the edge internet is very slow...
It does look kool, great screen, pictures, ipod, all good, but for the money is it worth it?
I have to make a decision if I want to keep it or not, then get burned on the return charge of $60
What else is out there?
I have a sony ericson, I810 which is pretty darn good, just not sure if the cost of the iphone and what it offers will do it..
what do you people think?

well, only that's a question you can decide. However, a few things to keep in mind. Apple will, most likely within the next couple of months come out with some extras. Not sure they will be what everyone wants, but it will probably be something. You're right about a few things. No syncing via BT and it missing some other stuff like no "true" multimedia messaging. However, PC World did an iPhone stress test and really beat the crap out of it and withstood being dropped numerous times onto a concrete floor and only got a little scufffed but it kept working. You should definitely be able to send email with your POP service. Have you tried adding port 25 or port 587 to your outgoing mail server name? Apple recommeds and suggests that if you can't send mail from your POP3 service. I would say to stick with the iPhone. Things can only get better, not worse.

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Over the last two weeks I have read hundreds of complaints about the iPhone. There seems to be a wide range of problems. I have also read that many, if not most, have not been able to resolve their problem. This leaves at least some of the iPhones unreliable at most.
My question is why are all these people keeping the iPhone if they are having that much trouble with it?
Of course, I may be in the same boat soon because I ordered the iPhone despite what I have read. For one thing, I like the features of the iPhone. And another reason I am going to give it a try is because I know a guy that got one on the first day and he has never had a single problem with it. However, if I do have problems then I will return it and get a different brand. I for one will not put up with a phone that is not totally functional. And I will not wait for software updates hoping it will fix the problems.
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ddell wrote:
My question is why are all these people keeping the iPhone if they are having that much trouble with it?
Of course, I may be in the same boat soon because I ordered the iPhone despite what I have read. For one thing, I like the features of the iPhone. And another reason I am going to give it a try is because I know a guy that got one on the first day and he has never had a single problem with it. However, if I do have problems then I will return it and get a different brand. I for one will not put up with a phone that is not totally functional. And I will not wait for software updates hoping it will fix the problems.
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I have no idea what you are actually asking!
Should I keep the iPad or throw out my annoying tablet
By "tablet", do you mean the Samsung, or are you now referring to the iPad as a tablet?
but is not 100% reyclable it's actually 20% - and your point is?
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Planet Earth
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Yes, I bought the phone on the day it came out. Loved It. Returned it due to cold feet and the massive expense (599 + 175 cancellation fee-- Verizon).. and the "no insurance".
Now time has passed, the phone has proven worthy.. and dropped in price. I am tempted to go get one again, and keep it this time.
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I think the danger is in approaching the question from the wrong angle. Considering it from the standpoint of what the iPhone can (or can't) do in comparison to other devices isn't the best way to analyze the matter. In every case there are comparative products offering more or less features, at greater or lesser prices, that's the nature of the marketplace. Applying your set of criteria to someone else's choice would be the equivalent of telling a prospective car buyer that you wouldn't get the SUV being considered because you can't carry a cow in it.
The only valid approach is to consider what the individual actually needs first, and then basing a choice on what product meets that need. Thus, while the iPhone lacks a lot of features other cellphones have, if the individual doesn't want those other features, but does want what the iPhone has, the iPhone is the perfect choice regardless of what it doesn't have.
For example, you list poor support for Outlook. True. Not much of a problem however for those who don't use Outlook, or have no need for the comparative sophistication of ActiveSync. You say it has no external memory option. True. Of course 8Gb is somewhat larger than the memory in most other cellphones, so external memory isn't much of a problem in that sense. No games... True. Not an issue to those who don't want to play games.
The point isn't that these lacking features aren't important, because to those who want these things they are important. However, to those who don't, they aren't.
When buying anything, the consumer invariably has to make compromises. It's a rare thing that any manufacturer makes a product that fits the exact need of the individual. So the buying process almost always involves the individual in making compromises about which features matter and which don't. In the cellphone market, there are any number of little devices offering tiny keyboards, cramped screens, poor interfaces, multitudinous features and levels of sophistication which, quite frankly not only would have seemed impossible just a few years ago, but which are often hard to use or place the device in a market segment which is increasingly narrowing to the technically minded consumer. Nothing wrong with that if that's what the consumers in that market want. However, what about the rest of us? Consumers who want something more flexible than a simple cellphone, more capable, but who don't want the complication of the typical UI such devices have, or the balance of the extended feature set they will never use?
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Most important of all:
Visit the "Register My Product" link on this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/
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If some day you have a motherboard problem, what happens usually is that your serial number's infos get whipped from Memory.
Not all repair shops reinstall the info, and some even disagree about whether setting a new number or resetting the original.
--> This original info is good for the one who will buy your computer (used), especially if you sell it with the 2-years extended warranty.
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