| My brother, the cinematographer, is a MAC kinda guy. | | | | cut, and paste |
| So, naturally he packs an iPhone of which he is very | | | | 11. Doesn't have an eBook reader program |
| proud. While visiting me last week he was showing off | | | | 12. No InfraRed--can't beam files, photos, tunes, text, |
| the virtues of his iPhone with a bit of a smug air and a | | | | contacts, applications |
| tinge of superiority. | | | | 13. Doesn't have Bluetooth 2.0 |
| He quickly established that the iPhone makes phone | | | | 14. Can't use wireless Bluetooth headphones |
| calls, surfs the Web, does email and SMS, takes | | | | 15. Won't work with optical eyewear players |
| pictures, and it does it all on a really cool, high-resolution, | | | | 16. Doesn't have 802.11 g/e Wi-Fi |
| finger-friendly touch screen. | | | | 17. Doesn't have universal mini-USB connector for |
| Perhaps a little reluctantly, he let me try it. You use | | | | syncing and charging |
| your finger to scroll around, but you can't use the | | | | 18. Doesn't have real downloadable programs, only |
| keyboard or a joystick 5-way button because they | | | | Web Apps that force you to go online to use. What if |
| don't exist. You can even zoom in or out on a screen | | | | you don't want the expense of going online or there is |
| or photo by pinching your fingers together or spreading | | | | no connection? Apple boasts 600 Web Apps. |
| them apart-very cool. | | | | Windows Mobile has 12,000+ actual programs. |
| This is fine until you get to a Web page that has many | | | | 19. You can't transfer files between devices or even |
| hyperlinks such as a Google search. Try to expand, | | | | to a MAC with an iPhone, and there's no peer to peer |
| contract, or scroll the screen, and the slightest touch | | | | connectivity possible either. |
| invokes the hyperlink and drives you nuts. | | | | 20. There's no removable battery. You have to send |
| By the way, you can not only finger scroll all you want | | | | the unit to Apple at your own expense and suffer |
| to on a Window Mobile device but you can also | | | | downtime. Wow. |
| configure transitions between pages like in PowerPoint, | | | | 21. There are no peripherals for the iPhone such as a |
| which you can't do on an iPhone. | | | | Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, headphones, GPS, printer, |
| During the course of his visit, the true colors of the | | | | scanner, hard drives, storage cards, video eyewear, or |
| iPhone emerged. Here is a condensed list of 25 things | | | | projectors. |
| that I discovered an iPhone doesn't have or can't do: | | | | 22. There are no voice commands for viewing photos, |
| 1. It won't perform simple computer operations such as | | | | videos, files, listening to tunes, or running applications. I |
| word processing, spreadsheets, relational databases, | | | | really enjoy bossing my pocket concierge around with |
| and PowerPoint presentations. | | | | voice commands. You can't talk to iPhones; you have |
| 2. You can't use your own MP3 sounds to make | | | | to poke them in the tummy with your finger to get |
| ringtones. | | | | them to do anything. |
| 3. No GPS | | | | 23. You can't watch and control your home TV DVR |
| 4. No MMS | | | | remotely from anywhere in the world |
| 5. No expansion slots | | | | 24. No FM or satellite radio |
| 6. No flash camera | | | | 25. You can't use an iPhone as an extension of your |
| 7. Doesn't take videos | | | | desktop monitor and move the mouse between them. |
| 8. Doesn't have dual cameras for video conferences | | | | Conclusion |
| and self-portraits | | | | When you want to do serious handheld computing, you |
| 9. There's no QWERTY keyboard or even a phone | | | | need a machine that means business and serves for |
| keypad. Instead, it has a klutsy popup input panel. It | | | | more than poking fun at with your nose picker. I |
| took me five minutes to type my name correctly | | | | appreciated my tour as a stranger in the strange land |
| without any errors owing to my fingers being on the | | | | of the iPhone, and thanks for the finger frolics, but I'll |
| gorilla end of the scale. The input panel is made for | | | | stick with my far more powerful Windows Mobile |
| fingers of a five-year old. | | | | device. |
| 10. Can't even perform the simple operations of copy, | | | | |