5 reasons not to buy an iPhone

Posted by T3 Online on Mon 16 Jul 2007

It's got more bugs than your average MRSA-riddled hospital ward, so why bother?

Dubbing the iPhone the Jesus phone implies that, much like the big guy himself, everything is perfect. No unholy flaws, just pure, angelic goodness seeping from every pore.

Alas, unsurprisingly, this isn't really the case. In fact, scores of bugs have been uncovered since America went iPhone crazy a fortnight ago.

The hard-working gents over at Applehound.com have uncovered 68 of the buggers. So if you were having doubts about spaffing all that cash once it arrives here, then you've got all the reasons you need to hold fire.

We've picked out the 'hound's five biggest reasons, which should be all the ammo you need to ensure you're not tempted to go berserk with the last of your savings. Or at least wait until Apple gets it sorted.

1. Safari loses pages really easily.

The iPhone's web browser is perhaps the most sacred of its features. But once you've tapped that icon and got things moving, you'll find a myriad of niggly faults. Pages get lost if the phone loses power while you're using them. So if you're filling in web forms, all that info is gone. Nada. No more. Pesky considering it's supposed to remember pages you've been to and take you right back there when something like this happens.

2. Web browsing is painfully slow.

Perhaps no surprise considering the lack of hearty 3G goodness. Scrolling and zooming is a nigh on impossibility before a page is fully loaded. So you have to wait until everything's in place. It all becomes achingly slow and simply doesn't seem to work properly.

3. Google Maps hates traffic information.

As if a lack of proper GPS wasn't enough, powering up traffic information can cause Google Maps to throw a hissy fit and not play nice. Focus in on one area of a city then scroll to another and the whole thing decides it's all too much.

4. Editing photo contacts crashes the phone app.

Changing the picture of a mate so you get a ridiculous mug shot every time he blows up your cell should be simple right? Well, seemingly not. Go in and try and change the pic, but once you synced it, you'll be sent back to an unresponsive contacts page. That's a bit weak, isn't it?

5. The iPod crashes after syncing.

If you've got a 'pod, you'll know all about the blighters crashing at inopportune moments. Start a sync while you're in the blower's iPod and you'll find it'll take you back to the original page and stop playing tunes or video too. So not ideal.

Click here for Applehound's exhaustive list of failings. Hopefully, El Jobs will be reading this in his Cupertino bunker, give his monkey butlers a slap, and get them all fixed. In the meantime, can we have a UK release date for the rejigged phone?