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In order to quell my rampant hatred of the iPhone and save the readers of this blog from too much anti-iPhone propoganda I’ve decided to setup a new blog. iPhones Suck – every day I’ll publish at least one or two reasons why the iPhone is indeed the worst smart phone on the planet. I’ll especially talk about why iPhone users are morons. Not necessarily always being this way with but after using a device as dumb as the iPhone their brains possibly melted.

Anyway head on over to iPhones suck and please remember to give us a few reasons why. Even if you are a drooling, zombified fanboy.

Apple please send me an iPhone. I hate them and everything they stand for. That is why you need to send me one.

I’ve written many articles about what pisses me off about iPhones, iPhone users and all the features the iPhone is missing. I’d say I’m pretty much in the minority as far as bloggers who talk about the iphone so negatively.

With that being said I can see the positives behind the platform and especially the huge following it has generated in just a couple of years. I’ve even written about how Nokia, the mobile phone giant might find itself outsmarted by Apple and all the great marketing.

Apple – Imagine if you could convert me. I write so much about how I hate the iPhone and what it’s missing. If you could turn me around and bring me into the fold, that passion could be directed towards talking about how much I love the iPhone and even into positive debate about how it could be improved. If I could then, in turn convert just a few of my readers to your platform then that phone would have paid itself off in full, many times. Who knows, I might even end up buying a Mac.

During my trial I would give the iPhone exactly one week which is a long time to decide whether you like something or not. If in that time I miss all the wonderful features of my Nokia E71 too much then you will have failed to convert me. I will send it back. If I am converted and absolutely must have an iPhone with me at all times then I get to keep the phone. For free! Either way, I will write about my experience. If Apple fail to answer my call to give me an iPhone then I will continue to write about it in a objective way having not used one for long enough to forgive its shortcomings in favour of its advantages over other smart phones.

So Apple, please send me an iPhone so I can fall in love with it. It would be a great marketing move. I’ll blog and twitter about my conversion experience daily.

Most of the regular readers of this blog and those who know me personally probably know by now that i hate the iPhone. With a passion. It’s not that I particularly like any other type of smart phone out there (my Nokia E71 is ok). It’s just that the iPhone stands for everything wrong with the world.

The straw that broke the camels back today and hence lead to this rant is an app (no link coz you iphone fanboys will just buy it to spite me) called Birdhouse and while they have done a great job doing up a promotional video for it which has world class production values. The application itself is ….. USELESS. It’s beyond useless in fact. It’s just a notepad for the iphone.  I don’t own an iphone but I’m fairly certain it has a notepad feature already and if it doesn’t then that’s one more reason for it to burn in hell along with all the idiots who bought one.
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This week Apple released a teaser list of what new features we’ll see in the iPhone/iPod 3.0 firmware. While the list certainly looks impressive and I’m sure many of them will be invaluable for iPhone users the list is mainly functionality that should have been released in the initial firmware. There are still a lot missing many of them downright obvious (like video recording) others impossible without the release of new phone hardware (video calling, higher resolution camera, replaceable batteries).

So what I’ll present in this article is an abbreviated list of the most important updates along with commentary covering why they’re so crucial to the success of the phone and even questioning why they weren’t present in the the earlier revisions of the phone. I’ll then wrap up the article with some of the commentary I’ve heard  from various users about what’s still needed to bring the phone up to scratch. Only then can you iPhone users look down on us smart phone users.

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First off – I need to admit I’ve had an on again, off again love and hate affair with Nokia. They’ve sold me many horrible phones over the years but there’s one thing they’ve always managed to get right and that’s user interface (UI). They’re also pretty good on the vast number of features as well. Given that the iphone also has a pretty good UI and may just fix all its feature flaws in the some time to be up and coming third generation this leaves Nokia in between a rock and hard place in terms of compelling things to offer. I also have to admit I hate iphones. I can’t get used to using such a tiny touch screen keyboard and I find the UI a bit like playing with Duplo or Lego.

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