So, one year on, has Apple learned its lessons and fixed the problems? Well, the first lesson that Apple has learned is that it needed to release the iPhone worldwide concurrently. No waiting 6 months for the second generation to appear in the UK. 6 months is a heck of a long time in technology! So Apple learned this lesson and released the iPhone worldwide. Secondly, they learned that the first iPhone was too expensive, and so the second generation model is cheaper. Still expensive, but not quite as expensive as before. Still, let's have a reality check here - the iPhone 3G is still the most elite smart phone on the market.
The original iPhone was a defective beauty. It was one of the first touch screen-driven phones, and probably the most user-friendly. It had tons of memory, and was one of the best music players on the market. Other great features included the Safari web browser, Google maps, a brilliant LCD display to make the most of the multimedia features, and WiFi support too. But on the bad side, it was amazingly overpriced and was locked to O2. It had a very poor quality camera compared to the competition. It lacked 3G (a major problem in a multimedia phone, and the only smart phone on the market to be missing 3G) and had limited Bluetooth connectivity, with no filesharing and no support for stereo Bluetooth headsets. Battery life was also poor, and there were a variety of other limitations, such as the omission of MMS. The whole thing clearly demonstrated Apple's lack of incident as a cell phone manufacturer.
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