Comments on: Five Things That Suck About the iPhone

By: Martin Theiler

Martin Theiler — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:31:00 +0000

seriously, 5 things are not enough that can be said are bad about the iphone. In fact the list is endless.

By: MalphasWats

MalphasWats — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:46:00 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Someone above mentioned that you can use google's "apps for your domain" to 'host' gmail on your own server, I just thought I'd mention that it doesn't even need to be that complicated (I don't think AFYD is free).

I have a whole bunch of domains with various email addresses for different things and I just use the e-mail forwarding options my domain registrar gives me to point those addresses at my gmail account.

Once it's in there I can set up rules and stuff to automatically put labels on.

Another alternative is to configure g-mail itself to check your email accounts in the pop/imap settings.

I know neither of these options get around the issue of google 'owning' your email, but at least they don't own your email address, you can take it anywhere you want later down the line.

By: William Beem

William Beem — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:17:00 +0000

The lack of spam filtering or bulk e-mail delete really annoys me. My e-mail comes from a shared host that does a great job of marking [SPAM] as a prefix header for stuff it recognizes as junk. So why can't I build a rule to disregard everything with that prefix, or at least route it to another folder? That would be a welcome change.

Edge is a major depressant, but short battery life would also suck. Right now, I'm rather pleased with my battery life. One of the excuses I heard about not implementing 3G (besides the fact it wasn't prevalent around the country) was its drain on battery life.

Speaking of battery drains, I'd really like to have GPS on my iPhone. Integrate it with Google Maps. Let me use it to capture location data for my photography.

The lack of Flash doesn't bother me and I understand the technical limitations. Flash simply sucks up too many resources and this is still a portable device, not a desktop.

By: Patrick Dodds

Patrick Dodds — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:50:00 +0000

Gmail spam filter is great.
Re: pageload speeds: don’t hold your breath for 3g – I don’t have an iPhone but the SE K800i I use has 3g: icon on when 3g available / icon off when not: end result – no discernible difference whatsoever.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:52:00 +0000

I raced over here from my RSS reader to mention the Apps for your Domain, but “Anonymous” beat me too it. I moved my MX record for my domain over to have my mail through Gmail and have never looked back. I love it, and the spam filtering is phenomenal.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:23:00 +0000

At least, you could just redirect your thomashawk.com mail to your gmail account…

if you do not want to change the gmail account you already have..

By: barrettmanor

barrettmanor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:15:00 +0000

If it's any consolation, most smartphones have crappy browsers as well. One reason I have a smartphone is that I can add extra apps like Opera, which is the best mobile browser out there, IMO. Yes, it uses Windows Mobile.

I'm with ya on the picturemail. Sprint has blocked that on smartphones. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

On the other hand, I just put the new ROM update on my phone and now have EVDO Rev. A. ZOMG! It's fast!

I'm with the others on going to Gmail. If your hosting service doesn't do a decent job with spam filtering, then do consider moving to Gmail.

But I'm not here to be a fangurl for my phone. None of 'em are perfect.

By: Erik Persson

Erik Persson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:58:00 +0000

4thing the use of Google Apps for your domain. I’ve been using it since March of 06 and its only getting more awesome.
I get something like 40+ spam messages a day and have yet to get a false positive. It makes email useful.
Plus IMAP support.

By: Bushi

Bushi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:40:00 +0000

All true but the biggest BS and number one issue is one that should not exist IMO.

Crappy blue tooth stack. My god it talks to nothing accept some headsets. There is zero reason for this this the iphone could be, and should be a lean mean blue tooth hub supporting everything under the sun, but especially GPS (come the on are you kidding no GPS on board and no BT support?).
Be nice if it had IR for older printers but if it at least supported printers that would be a big step forward. Hello, why do I need my laptop to print out a PDF? Gimma a break, that shit is just lame.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:24:00 +0000

Bite the bullet and let Google handle mail for your domain. It’s the single greatest move I’ve made with my email, and with the new IMAP features of gmail, it really kicks ass. Spam control, IMAP synchronization across all my computers and iPhone, and a permanent backup of my mail on a reliable Google server – it’s a win all around. There are some aspects of “email privacy” people just need to get over. The bottom line is that even if someone at Google could access your email and read letters from your relatives, order confirmations and flight confirmations, they wouldn’t want to. Our lives aren’t as exciting to other people as we think they are.