Rochak Chauhan::Unpredictably Exciting » Apple

This is why I will NOT buy iPhone 3G

rochakchauhan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:27:20 +0000

No video calling,
No AD2P on the Bluetooth,
CAN’T share ANY (mp3, images, videos….) files via bluetooth,
Can’t use as a wireless modem, (you pay ridiculous data charges to activate internet on your phone , but cannot connect it to your PC and browse when you are at home)
No copy and paste,(cannot copy a part of a…. say…. email & send it….have to type it out yourself)
No 3.2 or 5 megapixel camera ,(the 2MP camera it carries is worst camera i’ve ever seen….. photos look like they have come out of a VGA camera)
No video recording with camera,
No front camera,
No Flash support.
No JAVA support
No physical keyboard (BELIEVE me! this alone is a dealbreaker…touch keyboard as good as it looks…once you use it then only you come to know about the importance of having a hard keypad)
No 3G network yet in India..So why pay for expensive 3G phone if you can’t use its 3G services … so, for India, iPhone 2.0 is no better than its first version.
No removable battery. (You cannot change battery. Have to send it to apple outlet.. Come on now!!!!…This is not an iPod . Its a bloody phone. You cannot live without phone for 2-3 days)
No hap tic feedback
Cannot send MMS
Can’t use as external storage device (16 GB of utter waste..next time you go to your friend’s house & find some interesting songs, movies , etc…Sorry you cannot connect your ’16 GB’ phone and share it!!!! Apple apparently has a solution.. ” BUY MUSIC & MOVIES FROM iTUNES STORE “….. Give me a break … will you ??
No FM radio,
Can’t use your mp3 files as ringtones,(This is heights man!!!)
Cannot insert any other SIM card.
Completely tied to iTunes… Connect to your friend’s iTunes & you risk erasing everything on your phone.

In my opinion, we Indians are used to these features. Most of our phones already have these features and it very hard to do with out them. Imagine paying around INR 35,000 for a phone with which you cannot transfer files via bluetooth. What age is this …STONE AGE??? Some features may be activated by jailbreak.. but why the hell should you risk losing your warranty after paying so much. Forget Microsoft, I think Apple is a bloody control freak. Dont surrender your freedom to it.

It’s good for American market (who have no idea what mobile freedom/choice is) which is in stone age compared to asian/european markets. When they want to buy a phone, they have to go to network operators and buy only those phones that are available on that network. & stick to that company till their contract expires. You want to change carriers? Not before paying damages, & buying another phone on the other network again.

On the contrary, we in India have so much freedom. We go to handset shops & buy which ever phone we like. Then go to carriers…checkout the plans… buy desired SIM.. and if we don’t like the plan or rival carrier came up with a better plan ???? EASY.. just remove & replace the SIM. Apple are trying to IMPOSE THEIR MODEL ON US riding on the hype iPhone has created in the US (yes it was a flop in Europe .thats why Apple never talks about its sales in Europe).

Dont fall for the subsidized price of iPhone… CHECKOUT THE DATA PLAN ATTACHED TO ITS SIM..they will recover the cost through ridiculous data plans. Its around 30 p for 50 kb. You monthly bill may come to around INR 3500 (ATLEAST AMERICANS PAY THAT MUCH)

Let me clear one thing though.. iPhone is the best looking phone (its touch interface is nothing like you have ever seen ), best browsing experience out there no doubt …. ( others are fast catching up..Check out the Android demo at Google IO 2008)…. BUT AFTER A FEW DAYS IT ALL COMES DOWN TO FUNCTIONALITY…

Those of who buy it… You will be most happy for atmost a week… then, YOU MAY START REGRETTING IT

PS: This is what David Chartier had to say… Apple snoozes, researcher discloses risky iPhone UI flaws

Apple iPhone 3G is Out…Finaly !!

rochakchauhan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:02:45 +0000

Yes, Apple’s iPhone 3G is finally, and officially — out. And yes, as Techtree did report earlier, New Zealander Jonny Gladwell (22) has successfully become the first person in the world to own an iPhone 3G.

A visibly excited Gladwell told the Associated Press (AP), “I’m going to put this on charge, have a play around with it, and have a nice long sleep.” Yes, he needs all the sleep he can get; he’s been camped outside the Vodafone store for a record 60 hours, and in freezing temperatures — before he could get his greasy hands on the object of his desire.

In fact, there were hundreds like him who queued up outside stores in New Zealand’s main cities except that they weren’t as lucky. Sales kicked off at the stroke of midnight (beginning of Friday, July 11th) in New Zealand.

In Tokyo, the newest iPhone was greeted by swirls of smoke and eager buyers who had all but lined up outside the Softbank (sells iPhone in Japan) store. Apparently, by the morning of Friday, the store had seen over 1,000 people lined up waiting to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. And within no time, Softbank even declared it had sold out stocks. In Japan, the 8GB model is going for $215 and the 16GB one for $320.

Tomohiko Katsu (38), a banker, actually confessed that he’d rarely ever lined up for any product in his entire life, this being the first time. An overjoyed Taichiro Nakamura (28), filmmaker, called up his girlfriend the moment he had his hands on the new iPhone.

In the US which saw the “exclusive” launch of the original iPhone last year, iPhone 3G models were made available in all time zones at 8am on Friday — ahead of the big weekend. USA has the 8GB version going for $199 and the 16GB version for $299.

Meanwhile, a disciplined London saw an orderly queue form in front of its flagship O2 store. Steve Alder, O2 UK’s iPhone Director remarked, “We ordered lots. We’ve seen the demand the first time, but we’re even blown away by this demand. I think it is unprecedented.” Yes there were others outside of the store who wondered what the fuss was all about but they remained a minority.

The big picture: Apple’s shares went up nearly 4 percent over the whole of last week — merely in anticipation of the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 21 countries. Now that the hotly awaited (and debated) device is finally out on the market, analysts expect it to draw up to 10.5 million buyers worldwide within this year itself.

Apple launched Safari 3.1 for Windows users

rochakchauhan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:22:20 +0000

Apple has released the latest version of its Safari web browser.

A full release version of Safari, which has until now only been available for Mac, is now also shipping a Windows-friendly version.

This reflects the fact that Microsoft’s operating system runs on Intel Macs.

A beta version of Safari 3 for Windows was released in June last year, quickly followed by a bug-fix from Apple.

Despite a shaky start – which included online reports of slow page loading compared to Internet Explorer 7 on Windows machines – a million people downloaded the beta in just 48 hours.

Safari is currently the number three browser in the marketplace, with analytics company Net Applications data showing six per cent of the world’s web users use the browser. Internet Explorer accounts for three quarters of the market, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox on about 17 per cent.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is used by three-quarters of the world’s web users, far more than Mozilla’s Firefox, which has a 17 per cent share of the market, and Apple’s Safari with 6 per cent, according to data from website analytics company Net Applications.

Apple claims that Safari 3.1 is the fastest web browser in the world – 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.

It based these claims on tests made with VeriTest iBench 5.0 using default settings running on an iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM.

Apple also says that Safari is capable of running JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers and is better tooled to deliver Web 2.0 content.

“Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface,” said Apple spokesman Philip Schiller, “and best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience.”

He is referring to support for the new video and audio HTML tags, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) animations, and CSS web fonts.

To work, Safari 3.1 for Windows needs XP or Vista, at least 256MB of RAM and a minimum 500MHz Intel Pentium processor.

On Mac, it will run on any G3, G4 G5 or Intel machine with FireWire, running updated OS X Tiger (10.4.11) and carrying at least 256MB of RAM.

Safari 3.1 can be downloaded here.

A QuickTime demo of the browser in action can be viewed here.

A beta version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 can be found here.