Before you choose to go ahead and spend your hard earned cash on the truly feature unique and latest, greatest Apple Gizmo, the iPhone 4G, you may want to check out the new Telegraph article detailing 10 reasons why Apple’s new toy is not all what it’s cracked up to be.

To cut a long story short, The Telegraph believes customers will get more bang for the buck opting for the latest Blackberry or Android handset. They have even gone so far as saying the iPhone 4G “is not even cool any more”!

Let’s take a peep and see what was uncovered to brand the phone “uncool”:

1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.

2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as a Mi-Fi (Mobile Wi-Fi) hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that its customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.

4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. Apple have announced multitasking in the next release of its fabled mobile operating system,  how well it works will be another matter, either way you look at it, anything will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.

5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.

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