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Not more iPhone news!!! yeah, i had to. after getting up before 9AM (must be serious right?) to hit up the Apple store to get my very own iPhone, i was first of all disappointed that they sold out at 9.20AM, about 10 mins before I got there; but what was even more disappointing was when i got my hands on it to try out the functionality, so I HAD to share the iPhone’s really really fatal flaw.

Let me just jump into why I am NOT buying an iPhone. The phone does NOT receive calls when you are using the edge data service. Thats right, google maps, safari, stock quotes, email, they all effectively render the phone part of the iPhone useless. This is not like when Apple released the 5G iPod and escaped the criticism of poor video codec support etc by saying “this is still an iPod meant to play music, we just added this video stuff as a little aside because we could,” No, this is now an iPhone, and its main job is to be a phone, the only way I am going to toss my rather rock solid phone (with zero features) is for a phone that does its main job just as well or better AND has more features. I liked the rest of the phone, even though I could tell the keyboard would take a bit and the mail i hear is deplorable (from engadget’s review) (seemed okay to me).

So here is how I tested the iPhone: first I tried calling the phone while it was doing nothing, worked fine. Next, i turned OFF the WiFi, another call, no problem, next i fired up Safari and loaded apple.com/iphone tried calling again, … … straight to voicemail. What?! Yeah, I tried closing safari, waiting, still no connection, waited and waited, finally the apple rep rebooted the phone, ALAS it received a call. Okay, so fired up safari again, and back to no calls. Sending calls still worked fine. But it would still not receive calls even after having made one. I repeated these steps on another iPhone to confirm the behavior. The apple rep who was re-syncing all the phones for the day was just as surprised and disappointed as I was, as he scrambled through all the settings trying to find an explanation. I looked, I tried to get the phone to answer, I wanted to get this phone, I wanted it to be good enough to switch, but this device needs work before I trade in my brick.

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