This post is written in an attempt to explain to many of you who think I’m a complete idiot to ditch my iPhone for a “mere” Nokia N95. I had no choice but to explain. I hope you can understand why now.

Primary Reasons:

  • iPhone is a great multifunction device, but it is in general a terrible phone.
  • The reception is comparatively bad to many sub RM300 “cikai” (lousy?) phones out there. Once it goes out of reception, it’ll actually take a few minutes to regain the reception back on.
  • No MMS (Picture message) support out-of-the-box. I use these quite often, so it does gets on my nerve to be needing a 3rd Party application just to have this supposedly basic feature
  • The camera is not up to my par of standard. I’m not talking about megapixels here, but rather the camera in general. Very poor performance in low light, not much thing you can do with it out of the box. Yet needing another 3rd party application to make it better. No video recording, no macro. Why I’m such a fuss? because I don’t wanna carry another digicam in my pocket, and I still want to have decent camera with me all the time. No flash too.

  • I almost hit a truck, car, knock a motorbike off the road by trying to respond to an urgent SMS while driving. The on-screen qwerty keyboard is great, but not while driving (I know I shouldn’t be doing that while driving, but sometimes I had to). In this aspect, T9 just rules.
  • Pretty crappy speakers for some ad-hoc music entertainment. Mono one to boot.
  • I had to install iTunes to enjoy most of the features like synchronization. I need my outlook contacts and schedules to be synced to my phone else i might just miss quite a lot of meetings.
  • No GPS support. Sure the mobile-cell tracking feature is quite handy at times. iPhone actually helped me navigate around Melaka once, but not when I’m driving. I don’t think I am able to tap, pinch and search locations while driving with the iPhone. The new iPhone 3G’s GPS is better, but it’s not as good as other GPS device out there.
  • Almost impossible one hand operation. Thanks to the size of the screen and the weight of the device (yes it’s pretty heavy)
  • No copy and paste! omg!

I do miss some features though:

  • The games. Parking lot omg!
  • Full-web browsing experience with mobile safari. Although I gripe the fact that it doesn’t have java and flash
  • The multi-touch screen
  • The big screen

So there you have it. I probably still have a few reasons that I can’t recall, I might update them as I remember them.