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10 things Apple did right, wrong with the iPhone

By PC World Staff , PC World , 06/30/2007
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10 things Apple did right in the iPhone

1. The display, the display, the display. Everything looks good on it.

2. The menu design: It's simple and clean, and the home screen icons look like so much eye candy.

3. Fingertip navigation, zooming and scrolling that's intuitive, effective and fast.

4. Video playback that's so good you can tell when you've done a sub-par job of ripping your movies.

5. Visual voicemail lets you get to the calls you care about faster.

6. Great integrated applications, including Google Maps, YouTube, and a world clock that packs a timer, stopwatch and multiple alarms.

7. Cover Flow. It's incredibly fun to choose your music by visually flipping through album art.

8. It's tough: Our initial stress tests suggest that the iPhone is more durable than you might expect for such a sleek handset.

9. The first Apple music player with a built-in speaker--and it's not half bad for a phone.

10. No disconcerting "do not disconnect" messages when syncing with a PC.

What did they do wrong?

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ConsBy Anonymous on March 21, 2009, 5:21 pm(1)When your browsing the net it will go back to the home page at random moments. (2)When you add to a existing contact when you press save it goes back to homepage...

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DownloaderBy Anonymous on May 16, 2008, 12:06 pm I downloaded this at http://megauploadfiles.com/

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This is something wrong?By Anonymous on July 17, 2007, 3:58 pm4. How are you supposed to use an iPhone with a hands-free car kit? - This is not something wrong, this is a good thing. GREAT. Idiots do NOT need to be driving...

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iPhone work arounds for the average userBy Anonymous on July 17, 2007, 10:14 amWell, most of these problems are real issues, but you can work around the headset issue quite readily by 'trimming' back the rubber casing on most if not all headphones...

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iPhone is very secure, that's what hackers are complaining aboutBy Anonymous on July 17, 2007, 5:49 am>To me, it seems the biggest thing Apple did wrong is that > they did not give the iPhone a firewall All of that stuff is turned off. There is no need for a...

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