Why I hate the Iphone

I got the iphone thursday. My blackberry curve finally just died. The track ball fell out and is forever lost. The Blackberry Bold is not out yet, so I decided to try the iPhone because they finally added Exchange integration push which is a must have for me. After five days of hell and complaining I am ready to spike this piece of junk. The people at the Apple store were very nice and courteous today as they told me that having 8,000 contacts was my problem and I should cull those down and no their programmer error on how they page contacts in/out of memory is a feature not a bug, but I am rambling…

The reason the iPhone sucks eggs for a long term crackberry addict like myself is actually very easy.

Here are the features that are important to me in a mobile device in priority order, Most important to Least Important

eMail push
Calendar, contact, task wireless sync
Phone
text messaging
Camera
browser
Bluetooth
RSS readers
add on applications
game platform
media player

Here are the features that the IPhone is good at in BEST to WORST

Media Player
Browser
game platform
add on applications
Camera
Phone
text messaging
Calendar, contact wireless sync (no task)
email

Notice that the list is pretty much an exact inverse. The IPhone sucks at all the stuff that is important to me and excells at all the stuff that I don’t really care about. Going back to the Blackberry.