i'm going to take a wait and see approach about a lack of turn by turn GPS, however....if this is true, why bother having it on the phone? Why not just use the cell towers and go from there? total waste if thats the case...
again, IF this is true, it makes an already lame update even worse....throw on the "twice as fast, half the price" B.S., and you've got a real S hit Sandwich.
I am curious to see how this sells....I think it might sell early, but i just don't know if it will sell a ton here in the states (i'm sure i'll be wrong)....I see more people complaining about it (like me), then i do people praising it. you're paying more then you did for iphone 1 (AT&T contract), for features that should have already been in the original iphone (gps, 3g), and not getting features that are already in the most basic phones (video recording, MMS, etc)....
I'll wait...i'll wait for another year before i pick up this junk....
and another thing, the app store: totally overrated....can i please play "bible hangman"? or download an app that let's me know, "when it's the right time to call someone?".....lame.
ps- please don't respond "good, that makes it easier for me to get one"
Great! One less guy I need to worry about clogging up the line in front of the store.
As for the "serious" part of my response, I'll just point you to this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/5739879/
Paying more for features that should have been in the first iPhone? Well, that's a great observation and all, but what's your point exactly? iPhone 3G is here now, and it has those features. It replaces the old iPhone. That's fair critique, but really has no bearing on the quality or "worth" of the new iPhone whatsoever.
You see more people complaining where? In this thread? Well, for one, it's human nature to love to complain. About everything. Secondly, if you're wondering about how well iPhone 3G will sell, you can't rely on what you see in this thread for that purpose. You need to think of the mainstream iPhone consumer/customer. Then ask yourself, will the masses want this thing? I'd say it's a pretty clear yes when you look at it that way.
Thing is.. the lacking features, with a few exceptions, are very much a matter of perspective. Personally, I couldn't care less about the lack of voice dialling (I don't even have a car..), MMS (I think I've met one person in my life who has ever sent an MMS, and it was that same person that I ever received one or more MMSes from, so uh, this is insignificant to the point of being laughable [to me anyway]). Copy/paste is one of those "exceptions", and I'm sure Apple is working on it. And yes, it's taking them for freaking ever, but it's not like our complaining will make it go faster. Video recording is a neat feature to have.. but if you buy a phone because recording videos with it is so important to you, you're doing something wrong. It would be a neat thing to have, but by no means does it make or break the device for me (and by extension, the majority of consumers out there, I'm willing to conjecture).
And, IMHO, you couldn't be more wrong about the App Store. I
share The iPhone Blog's opinion (independently, I might add, and not just because they said so--I'm genuinely convinced of this) that the AppStore is the "motherload". It's going to make all the difference. As you'll see in the post I linked to above, I also believe that 3rd party apps are the single biggest advantage iPhone 3G has over the old iPhone. 3rd party apps are going to make use of both the faster data access as well as GPS to make for an amazing experience on iPhone no other phone of the past has ever come close to.
And with that I'll end this post. Obviously, all of the above is my own opinion. Feel free to counter-argue. Note that my intention is not to "bash you" for what you think or anything. I'm just trying to give some perspective via my own opinions.
