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First Gen-iPhone Users Are Ticked Off

Posted by on Sep 28, 2009 | 6 Comments

Like the title is a newsflash for those of you who are using the first generation iPhone. I have been reading posts all over the Internet about how Apple should burn because it is not providing MMS to your iPhone model.

Well I have another way of looking at this. Let’s think of it is this way.

  1. The original iPhone was sold without the MMS ever being an update that was to be available, no?
  2. By smart phone standards in terms of age, it might as well be a stone tablet these days. Sure, it works well enough, but I did not see anyone crawling out of the woodwork when the 3G models came out; you were without that function.
  3. MMS is for grade school kids that have not figured out the magic that is an unlimited data plan, camera phone, and email. Seriously, most people I know these days have the ability to check their email. And magically, I can send pictures with it using my iPhone! Wow! (/sarcasm)

But if that is still not doing for you, might I make a suggestion: Don’t buy Apple’s products anymore. Seriously, the older iPhone has served its needs for you up ’til now. So perhaps your next upgrade should be another phone with a touch screen that will need to be calibrated every two days. Because with the iPhone, this is not an issue.

I own the 3G. I have no intention of spending more money with AT&T to send silly pictures of crap in MMS format to people who clearly have too much time on their hands. Give me a break, folks. It’s a phone! You know, they used to be designed to make phone calls. Give me a good browsing experience and some other apps, and I am a happy camper.

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  • Mike Pacheco

    You are absolutely right. But everything you stated in your article is how YOU use your phone, not the rest of us. Everyone knows we can send pics through email, but mms is much more efficient and less time consuming. Get with the ages, you sound like an old man complaining of what kids do nowadays. Us “grade school kids” are the future and know how use devices the way we want to, you probably are too old to figure that out.

  • http://www.dan-london.com Dan London

    I’d prefer the battery of mine to last at least until 5pm each day.

  • JustinAC

    I think you are being a little unfair to most other smartphones. I have been using HTC model phones (and others) since before the iPhone was released and never had to re-calibrate the screen after the initial calibration, unless I flashed the ROM.

    Also most smartphones, sans Blackberry, had 3G when the iPhone came out as well as support for exchange e-mail and that mid-90s technology, MMS. The iPhone may have had a more idiot-proof GUI but the unlocked nature of Andriod phones and Microsoft phones make them far more customizable. Also, most could be freed from the cluthes of AT&T. Go play with your apps drone!

  • Jeff Cahill

    Once I got my new iphone 3gs, my original edge iphone became my media player for around the house, my remote control for my tivo and apple tv and my mobile game machine. It still has many uses, just not for a phone.

  • AnonaSnake

    That was pretty biased overall. The fact of the matter is you shouldn’t have to buy ANOTHER PHONE to get basic features that even a cell phone 5 years ago from MetroPCS would have.

    The equivalent would be if you bought a car, at a discount, but they didn’t include the radio, or lighter input.

    They also price it extremely high, because let’s say it’s a Ferrari. Now how would you feel instead of just being able to go out and buy a radio for your car, instead you have to buy the ferrari-2, the upgraded model for a higher price..that keeps all the specs the same but adds a lighter input.

    Well, you HAVE some electronics that you can plug in in that lighter port, so why not? You go back to buy it..but now they’re charging you almost twice as much as the initial Ferrari because they already gave you a discount on the first one. But..you sigh, and shell out the money.

    OH DAMN, the new Ferrari 3 is out…and this one includes that radio you’ve been waiting for! Once again, it costs even more then the previous model, and you still get no discount even for being a repeat customer. Well, you don’t have the money for this…so no radio for you, but hey, it’s a ferrari, and it’s a good drive!

    Same logic, but long winded. The asinine way they’re doing things with the iphone requires you to buy multiple models at higher and higher costs, especially since chances are if you recently got let’s say..the 3G and wanted the 3GS, you already extended your contract for that discount.

    No other company would get away with selling you such a high priced item lacking so many features. They could just as easily add the firmware and necessary software on the first gen, but they don’t want to. Just like that Ferrari radio..you didn’t buy the one with the radio, and you can’t add your own.

    Saying to get over it and buy a different product is fanboy talk at it’s highest, anyone SHOULD be able to see the problem with this. Have your TV you spent 2000 dollars only half work, and you have to completely buy a new model every 2 years, you wouldn’t like it either.

  • john

    There is never a shortage of those telling us we should not want what we want, but rather we should want what they want. I did not buy my Iphone until they fixed the MMS issue. Guess, I was not the only one, or they wouldn’t have fixed it. Give them inovation, but don’t forget to give them what they want, not just what you think they should have.