[General Topics] addicus:
I really love the stereo bluetooth on my hermes. I have a Plantronics over the ears headset I use for calls/music/movies and stuff. I like them so much I got a pair last year for my IPhone loving/having, techno ignorant brother in law. I was insulted he never used them since he rides his bike to work and told me he really wanted to listen to music on his way in.

Well I came to find out the damn things are useless to him because the IPhone doesn't come with stereo bluetooth. I was flabbergasted. All the smack talking I'd heard from the fan boys and the bragging about how awesome the damn phone is and you can't listen to bluetooth stereo???? It's a damn media phone. Why wouldn't that be a staple of the damn thing?

Then I came to find out he couldn't multitask. I always wondered why he'd shut down his picture viewer before he'd move on to something else. I was once again dissappointed. He always had regular phones so he's still ultra excited, but now I'm really losing my luster over the phone.

Then he went on vacation to Disneyworld and took a picture of my favorite animal, a rhino, just 5 feet away from him in Animal Kingdom. I told him to send it to me and he said he couldn't. He has a 2G model and isn't very tech savvy so I chalked it up to not being able to send mms while on a phone convo and his personal inabilites. When he came home and visited I asked for him to send the pictures so I could save them directly to my phone and he explained he had no mms/sms. Now I'm really dissappointed in Apple at this point. Why? I was gonna get my wife an IPhone when the 3G model came available. At this point I was thinking - screw that.

Next thing that happened was file sharing. I don't ever use activesync anymore. I pop my 8GB card into my handy portable card reader or into the other phone and transfer the files (pics, notes, etc...). I knew the IPhone had no expandable memory but didn't realize it had a limited amount of computers it could be hooked up too. He couldn't even plug in with the USB and have me just drop the files onto his phone. Okay - Apple is up to this crap again huh?

More - of course. We're going to a Dodger/Angel game and he wants me to meet him somewhere. His favorites sentence is "I just pull up Google Maps and the IPhone tells me where to go.". Whatever I had Google Maps years ago, but he's a dip. I tell him to send an email (can't text message) of the address we are to meet at and he says he can't remember it all. I tell him to simply open it up in Google Maps, copy and paste it into the email and send it to me. "I can't copy and paste.".

At this point I'm wondering what the hell is the damn device good for. It's suppose to be the ULTIMATE MEDIA PPC but:

1. You can't transfer movies, music or pictures directly to it from another device.

2. There's no text messaging. Hell I text more than I call nowadays.

3. There's no blue tooth headset capability. It's an phone with an IPod. It has 8GB + of internal storage for my music and movies but I have to listen to out loud. Stupid dumb!

4. It initially came out as a 2G phone. We all know edge sucks for streaming, downloading files, etc.... Freaking rip off with ATT and Apple.

Now I know what it's good for. It's good for:

1. Taking pretty good pictures

2. Having a beautiful interface and a nice size screen (even if the quality is now outdated - it wasn't) and

3. Making dipshits like my brother in law feel as if they could have a next level device in their hands while making Apple **** loads of cash since they had no idea how unspectacular the device really is.

It's not unspectacular because the device couldn't handle the things many of us here are used to. It's unspectacular because Apple chose to make it that way since it wanted to have a built in upgrade system with the phone.

I think the phone itself is nice and splendid and my wife would probably love it until she tried to type all those damn text messages we leave each other. She's also hate the size, but would love how simple it is. I look at the IPhone and I see an improved Sidekick on HGH. That's my opinion. I didn't come out the box with it. This opinion evolved with my interaction with it through others. I'm a firm believer these devices should be able to interact with each other. I feel as if there is no interaction with an Iphone if you're not calling it. Same with my wife's Sidekick Slide.