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this is absolutely unbelievable.....i can't hear sh*t with the iphone...maybe only inside a library where it is absolutely silent.....but in the car or a place where there is other people you can't hear anything....and yes the plastic is taken off and the volume button is all the way up....I don't want to return the phone because everything else is phenomenal but then again what's the point of having a phone when you can't hear anything???!!!!!!! I forgot to mention this my second iphone in 12 hours...I thought the first one was defective as did the mac genius....but the same problem is occuring with the second one.....HOW COULD APPLE OVERLOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
so do you think they will come up with an update to fix this anytime soon??? cuz I don't know how much longer I can take this.......
The critical consensus? Buy the amazing device, if you can afford it. We gave scores out of ten -- in ten categories. The number was determined by the strength of a reviewer's language. "Beautiful" was worth 10 points; and "pokey" only 2, for instance. All four reviewers were fans, and the doyen of the group, Walt Mossberg, gave the highest total score, 81 across all ten categories, out of a maximum possible of 100. The average score for the iPhone? 76.75, brought down above all by the sluggishness of AT&T's data network. Here's the chart, full-scale.
There's no memory-card slot, no chat program, no voice dialing. You can't install new programs from anyone but Apple; other companies can create only iPhone-tailored mini-programs on the Web. The browser can't handle Java or Flash, which deprives you of millions of Web videos.
The 2-megapixel camera takes great photos, provided the subject is motionless and well lighted, but it can't capture video. And you can't send picture messages to other cell phones.
Apple says that the battery starts to lose capacity after 300 or 400 charges. Eventually, you'll have to send the phone to Apple for battery replacement, much as you do now with an iPod, for a fee.
Then there's the small matter of typing. Tapping the skinny little virtual keys on the screen is frustrating, especially at first.
Two things make the job tolerable. First, some very smart software offers to complete words for you, and, when you tap the wrong letter, figures out what word you intended. In both cases, tapping the Space bar accepts its suggestion.
Second, the instructional leaflet encourages you to "trust" the keyboard (or, as a product manager jokingly put it, to "use the Force"). It works; once you stop stressing about each individual letter and just plow ahead, speed and accuracy pick up considerably.
Even so, text entry is not the iPhone's strong suit. The BlackBerry won't be going away anytime soon.
The bigger problem is the AT&T network. In a Consumer Reports study, AT&T's signal ranked either last or second to last in 19 out of 20 major cities. My tests in five states bear this out. If Verizon's slogan is, "Can you hear me now?" AT&T's should be, "I'm losing you."
Then there's the Internet problem. When you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, going online is fast and satisfying.
But otherwise, you have to use AT&T's ancient EDGE cellular network, which is excruciatingly slow. The New York Times' home page takes 55 seconds to appear; Amazon.com, 100 seconds; Yahoo, two minutes. You almost ache for a dial-up modem.
These drawbacks may be deal-killers for some people. On the other hand, both the iPhone and its network will improve. Apple points out that unlike other cell phones, this one can and will be enhanced with free software updates. A future iPhone model will be able to exploit AT&T's newer, much faster data network, which is now available in 160 cities.
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