Trapped In An April Blizzard!

Sorry for the lack of posts. I have been trapped in Wisconsin in some kind of a freak April blizzard. And I am not talking about the blended Dairy Queen confection here.









Right now I am playing catch up. I will be back on track tomorrow and I will put up the "what I found in my email" Monday post on Tuesday.

The above pictures are actual photos that I took on the road to my cabin on Saturday. 5 trees were down across the road and the car was dragging bottom the whole way up the road. We were so unprepared, no boots, no gloves, nothing. Luckily one of my neighbors up there came out and loaned us his chain saw. It just kept snowing and snowing.

Be back tomorrow.

 

Problems with the iPhone Battery?

Why does the iPhone bashing continue? I don't know but here is the latest. The battery.

Not only can you not replace the battery yourself, it is estimated that it should last about a year or roughly 300 charges. This isn't sounding good. I know some people that have to charge once a day or more because they are on their phone all the time.

SO, after spending $600.00 on the darn thing, half way through your contract with AT&T , you will have to send your iPhone to apple to have THEM replace your battery. This will cost $79 for the battery + $6.95 for shipping. AND for those people that can't go without a phone for 3-5 days, they will rent you a phone for $29.

Good planning or poor planning on the part of Apple? I say this is a well crafted and planned obsolescence move to gain some residual dollars on the back end.

In releasing quarterly earnings last month, Apple said it expected to sell a million iPhones by the end of the current quarter, and 10 million within the first 12 months.

Maybe you don't always "get what you pay for."

 

Problems with the iPhone?

According to numerous accounts, Apple's new iPhone is rather problematic to activate and has many shortcomings despite the hype. Survey results on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection blog report that only about 50% of iPhone users were able to activate their new iPhone with little or no problems. In his post, Thomas Hawk recounts his own horrible experience in trying to activate his own phone.

Apparently you buy the phone at your local AT&T store, take it home and with your iTunes account (with the appropriate updates) you go through an activation process. This is where the good times end and the buyer's remorse begins. Granted this information is about a month old but a quick search shows that people are still having activation issues. But someone has to love it, right?

An article published today in Information Week says that NASA has nixed the new iPhone in favor of the BlackBerry 8800. Reasons including "...lack of support from major device management and mobile security software suites, lack of removable batteries, and Apple's exclusive contract with network provider AT&T." The space agency deemed the iPhone as "not to be enterprise ready." OK, So NASA doesn't like it either.

Being an EXTREMELY satisfied owner of the Motorola Q, I am a little biased. The iPhone costs more, has little more to offer and AT&T has inferior coverage compared to Verizon's Network. Granted the Motorola Q doesn't have the fancy GUI that the iPhone does, but it definitely gets the job done. It is my understanding that a Q with a memory card, can do anything that the iPhone will do...for less money. Some of you are going to say, "what about WIFI?" OK fine! So the iPhone has WIFI, Verizon has the EVDO in most major cities and it works fast.

So what's the point? There are just as many articles about iPhone Problems as there are about Satisfied iPhone owners. Just do your research before you dive into iPhone mania like a friend of mine did.

Your thoughts?


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