Apple iPhone 16GB Candy Bar Touchscreen 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ Great Interface, Easy to use, and brilliant connection speeds on 3G or when WIFI is available.
Apple also seem committed to improving the device. as they have fixed all the bugs from the first release.
Downloadable games, apps and tunes from apple is also fantastic.

- Battery life can be a bit short, especially if you're hammering Wifi or 3G.
The list of Iphone 3G supported accessories is also a bit low at the moment, as its not backwards compatible with the previous Iphone chargers / cases etc.

+ email, design, Internet, iPod, phone applications.

- no video recording as standard phones have, no facility to Bluetooth songs pictures to another mobile telephone, camera facility is poor and no option to zoom in or out when taking pictures.

+ Stylish, easy to use and packed with features. Seamless intergration with my computer and e-mail etc

- No copy and paste. No MMS. No function to send somebody a contact from your address book. What gives?
All other phones I have had over the past few years have had these. Sort it out Apple!

+ I had high expectations and they have been surpassed again and again. A very nice little phone, with bags of extra features. Great for web browsing, music, 3rd party apps, etc. I am still finding new little things it does...

- Battery life isn't great, especially if web browsing with 3G.

+ web browser, interface and features

- camera, no video, no mms, high battery drain and no copy and paste feature within text based apps

+ Good allrounder

- Could do with video cam and better bluetooth

+ web browsing - excellent. Music - excellent (as you'd expect!). 3rd party Apps - great range and many useful and fun. Interface very intuitive and easy to use

- Battery life very poor unless you turn everything off. Texting - doesn't support MMS and also texting limited - can't forwrard texts or send to multiple people Camera very basic.

+ Overall its the best phone i've ever had, life without my iphone is something i struggle to imagine. I can do a bit of everything, which makes it a great piece of kit.

- It can't do anything great, it's ok at everything, apart from music but you would expect that after all. Battery is comparable with other similar phones, so can't complain too much but it's not a business tool.
Camera is a waste of time, just not up to the job.
Web browsing is great, almost as good as using a pc BUT again it's not quite there, you can cut/paste which makes it hard work and you can't save anything from it, like piccies for instances. The worst bit would be the lack of MMS, how can it not have MMS???

+ email, web browsing, facebook, wi-fi access, games

- only a 2mp camera, no video capture, no MMS, limited SMS eg not able to fwd msgs received, unable to handshake via bluetooth to other phones to share data, can't send contacts via SMS or receive them.

+ The combination of email, web access and a great phonebook make this a fantacsic phone. The sync to my mac is seamless and provides an excellent backup facitlity. I havn't bothered to upload much of my iTunes but that works well too.

- The battery life is short but given the size of the screen and what it does it is understandable. The lack of a TomTom styled 'turn left at the next junction' satnav application remains a disapointment. Finally, the lack of an easy way to keep the screen live (eg when plugged ito a car charger) and not turning itself off after 1 minute so that you can use it on the move is frustrating.

+ Everything it does, it does very well!!

- Would just like to see:1) full bluetooth connectivity 2) video capabilities 3) copy and paste/forwarding in texts 4) mms?

+ Fantastic web-browsing, the operating software is an absolute joy.

- No MMS, battery life can be bad, but as with everything it depends what you use it for. Videos, games and web-browsing will drain it quickly (as the screen is on full brightness all the time). General phone use and music will help it last longer.

+ Web browser

- iTunes

+ Most things just work.
Very intuative UI.
Great for web and email.

- Battery life abysmal.
No MMS? wtf
No stereo bluetooth.

+ It does just about everything

- Problems syncing with Windows stuff and it is not compatible with Blueroom

+ User interface excellant

- No video record
No MMS option
Not able to forward SMS

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- not been able to forward texts
no zoom camera
video camera

+ It's an iPod, PDA and phone in one compact unit. I can type (using both thumbs) far faster on the touch keyboard than I ever could on my Blackberry. It syncs perfectly with my MobileMe account and my Apple Mac. Some if the apps are incredible and all are reasonably priced, in particular the VNC client that allows me to access my home computer from anywhere in the world.

- No picture messaging support and the camera could be better.

+ Great for work and pleasure

- Need to recharge battery at least once per day. Has GPS but nativagtion is very basic, lets how a tomtom app is released soon!

+ i-pod, large screen, web browsing, access to i-tunes and u-tube....best gadget i've ever bought

- camera. no flash or video...

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- Can't forward text messages.

+ Like having your laptop in your pocket. New applications available every week. I use facebook and new York times every day

- can't cut and paste numbers etc. Can't send picture texts

+ Brilliant, brilliant bit of kit which I'd expect from Apple. Makes using a phone an absolute pleasure and very easy. All functions as it should and each software upgrade improves the product and is very straightforward. I am a huge fan!

- Battery life needs some work and probably should have been made replaceable but this is a minor niggle

+ Incredibly simple to use advanced features - other phones struggle because they have features but make them too difficult to use (so many of my friends with other phones have given-up with features such as e-mail, MMS, web browsing because it didn't work out-of-the-box)

- Finger prints!

+ Email, Phone, Apps

- Bluetooth, Apple

+ Almost all good, and the 2.1 software update really helped the battery life

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- Not able to recieve or send picture messages

+ The device is exceptional for managing multiple e-mail accounts on the go and Web browsing is made so simple on such a small device. The 3G and wireless connectivity perform extremely well and you can live with Edge connectivity when you find yourself in remote parts of the country. The general availability of standard IPOD functionality, and now new software availability from Itunes are making this a truely great smartphone.

- With Web browsing, e-mail and video playback being so good you can't help yourself in using them. The downside is that you have to charge up your device every evening but this is the same for most devices so can I really complain.

+ really easy to use and a good bright screen if u can charge it every 3 hours!

- Its not a bad mp3/mp4 player but it suffers because it plays so few file types. The battery life is terrible. no bluetooth!! no flash!! no MMS!!! what the hell were apple thinking! there only one speaker yet 2 speaker holes!! would have hoped it owuld have a jack to to connect it via scart of av cables to a dvd player or TV like u can with the n95 Terrible phone, ok media player.

+ Slick and sexy kit!

- Can't select, copy & paste
Can't forward SMS messages

+ ease of use .fantastic Internet .great design

- camera could be better but overall hood in low light

+ Its an ipod n phone in one. On the go internet (thats fast) and e-mail access. The apps. Is the perfect buddy to my imac.

- No msm facility. Can not forward a message to another person

+ does pretty much everything

- crashes frequently

+ great interface easy to use, best phone for web browsing, great sound, gps is ok, plus loads of great apps available.

- Cant copy and paste or forward sms messages

+ music and web browsing are awsome the touch screen is amazing and the overall desighn is very attractive.

- no mms messaging, no video calling or recording

+ Email and browsing second to none.

- no MMS.

+ lots of space to save songs, app store has loads of applications useful for (nearly) everything. The OS is also rather slick, loading smoothly.

- absorbs heat in trouser pockets a lot. Makes keyboard slow at reacting when typing. No consistent 3G in house, nor signal in general downstairs. Basic features missing that aren't available through app store such as video recording. No native connectivity with Linux, or any open source music players.

+ looks great,works well on all programmes it runs

- battery life , missing java, and a lack of devices that charge/work with it, eg car kit, speakers and docks

+ A compact, smart and fully kitted out phone. No problems syncing, easy to use, not bulky and comes with all the things you need and use, none of the things you need to question why!

- Camera a little poor.

+ SMS saved in thread by sender is great. Web browsing fantastic. ipod great. Looks great and other applications you can download from itunes are very useful.

- No Picture messaging or video in a handheld like this is totally unacceptable. They have to fix this very soon!
Not being able to cut and paste text from web into email or being able to forward texts.

+ Looks great and is very easy to use. Like most Apple products it is actually fun to use. Setting up email etc. was just a matter of syncing with my Mac. The GPS features are amazing and have helped me discover new places get places quicker. The games and apps. that are available are great fun and/or very useful.

- Although the features that the iPhone have are beautifully thought out, I can't believe that such a cutting edge device has some really basic features missing. MMS messaging is the most apparent to me. I've heard the argument that email is better but email is a totally different function. you don't get a 'text received' alert with email and so far most of my friends don't get email on their phones (not all phones are as easy to set up as the iPhone).
No video recording! My girlfriend that has an old phone that is years old has to record things when we need to. Quite embarrassing. Proper Bluetooth feature that allows phone to phone communication.

+ Generally just such a nice user experience.

- Battery life is not bad, but could last a little longer.

+ all in one
Intuitive
Sleek

- camera poor quality
No spreadsheet or word writing capabilty
Can't stream flash

+ browser is excellent, loads of useful applications available, multimedia capabilities great

- camera, no flash in browser which would make almost perfect for browsing, no copy and paste between programs!!! Usual apple lockin to their products/software and associated lack of interoperability with other hardware/software

+ Easy to use and has a definite wow factor

- No cut & paste, voice dialing & when reading ebooks, hard to navigate between chapters

+ email iPod and maps

- battery life. No copy and paste

+ Brilliant web, brilliant looks, just very very good !!

- Camera is terrible !

+ The web browsing is truely innovative. The applications from the app store also add to the device.

- The lack of flash is a limitation in the net, it means often flash based restaurant websites and there menus can't be viewed. The closed nature of the OS means applications lack the features you would expect them have.

+ Stylish gadget with the ability to phone, but totally customisable and upgradeable. I used to say what would I do without my mobile phone, now I say what would I do without my iPhone. Great product, thanks Apple!

- BATTERY LIFE

+ A great all round must have as well as a great phone

- RING TONES ARE RUBBISH and unable to use music that mean someone special is calling

+ Easy interfacing - optimum sized screen any larger would have made the pocket experience a no no. Great asthetics.

- 3 things Battery battery oh and battery. ps
Cameras a bit poo too
and the bluetooth seems highly selective
and I hate being tied to I-tunes. Apart from that it gives me much joy.

+ The iPhone applications are so integrated, and it i so easy top set up syncing. I sync between my work, home and laptop computers with absolute ease. The Apps store is fantastic, and there are so many free and low price aps available, it makes the iPhone a real pocket computing device. Unlike most others I find the camera perfectly adequate for a phone camera. The iPhone has very quickly become an essential part of my life.

- I would like battery life to be longer - but this is a problem for all phones with decent screens.

+ No good points
the phone is rubbish and i like the first iphone more

- Set up
battery life
maps
ipod
internet connection speed and 3g co nnection speed
e-mail

+ Beautifully stylish and very functional. Takes mobile phones to a new level.

- It's new technology and its a computer. From time to time it needs restarting - but that said it does it quickly!

+ Great design that works flawlessly with Mac's

- Battery life, no MMS, no cut and paste

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- no cut and paste facility. Camera is bad

+ Operating System, Touch Screen

- Lack of MMS; Poor Camera

+ The touch and stretch screen is brilliant. It's wonderful having the phone, iPOD and WiFi and GPS all in one unit. I also like the headphones and microphone when listening to iPod and getting phonecalls simultaneously.

- The 3G coverage isn't very good yet. The iPOD loses its place when synchronising and it's difficult to remember where you left off. This is especially important with audio books.
Battery life needs to be improved.

+ Couldn't ever go back to an ordinary phone

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+ Ingenious interface

- Buggy operating system.

+ Fantastic device - means I no longer have to carry several things (phone, camera and iPOd) as it is all rolled into one. Brilliant fun and the best gadget I've bought.

- Battery life isn't great especially if you use all the elements of the phone regularly. Also the camera has no flash or zoom although it does take good picture for a 2mp camera.

+ design, email, internet

- video camera, multimedia messaging

+ great gadget - good games

- Battery life - reception, no copy and paste, you cant forward texts, no option to use a different keyboard, its slow and doesnt like having the screen tapped twice quickly, it gets hot and conks out for hours at a time (my phone is 6 weeks old and this has happened 11 times!) The sound from the speaker is awful. 3g is much quicker on every other product i've ever had (and doesnt decrease tha battery life twice as fast)

+ Fantastic user interface

- terrible battery life. Sometimes struggles to go through 1 day of average usage. No MMS.

+ Excellent screen, even in daylight; software very good at rendering web pages and HTML email.

- For use as a PDA replacement, the PIM features such as calendar and Notes support is poor.

+ Supremely easy to navigate and use, and a work of art.

- Battery barely lasts a day without charging.

+ Lots of extra software available through the app store.

- Too desirable to thieves :o(

+ Great built in apps, and huge range of third party add ons, many free, meaning it becomes way more than a phone or an ipod or a web device but a fantastic combination of all three and so much more besides - email on the go, gps tracker, handheld game, alarm clock, organiser, task manager, pocket cinema, photo album, encyclopedia, mobile hard drive, and overall time waster!!

- battery life much improved after last software update but still occasionally drops off quickly; sms system looks beautiful and works fine for me, but won't be as fully featured as some for other people; camera fine, but no mms (except through email) and no video camera (but you can always watch a high quality downloaded movie instead!!).

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- not good with syncing with other ptoducts.

+ the interface

- the camera and not having video

+ Everything is fantastic apart from the bad points.

- Camera - too few pixels and too blurry. No Video. No MMS. No Flash Plugin for the internet.

+ Easy to navigate, great for ipod use, email, internet browsing, BBC iPlayer, Youtube.

- Internet browser doesn't support Flash, battery life could be better.

+ good for phone and music. Loads of features.

- battery life. Often can't connect to Internet yet in area with good signal.

+ Great for music and videos. The app store is fantastic!

- Cannot tether the phone to my laptop to make use of my data connection. Battery life is not great and 3G is not that much faster than edge.

+ Pretty, does lots.

- Battery life

+ User interface

- Battery life

+ A great all in one device: an excellent web browser, email, applications, games, iPod music, phone, camera

- Battery life means you need to charge every night. iTunes isn't the best tool in the world.

+ Interface is excellent with web browsing and attachment viewing in emails being notable pluses. The App store is fantastic with so many useful and free or inexpensive apps on it. Plus it is extremely easy to purchase/acquire these applications and get the on the phone.

- The battery life could be a little better but it is quite decent. The automatic choosing of which data standard is a bit slow i.e. it will try and hang on to a poor 3G signal for too long and then revert to an excellent Edge signal.

+ Apps, email, webbrowsing, looks,

- Battery life, ringtones, ringtone volume very low, camera is rubbish, no flash, no mms, no video camera

+ It's great that the iPhone 3G is now Exchange mail compliant. Also the fact that you can convert and watch any of your Video files on your iPhone via iTunes. Brilliant 3rd party Apps development along with with

- Can't forward TXT messages, can't listen to music via a pair of Bluetooth Headsets, can't copy and paste.

+ converges many functions that I previously used other devices for - phone, text, email, internet, music, movies. It's stylish an integrates perfectly with my mac.

- Battery needs to be charged almost every day

+ Basically it's a great phone just needs a bit more work (see bad points)

- No MMS, No Copy or Paste function, No TomTom release as of yet, No flash for camera, No full version of Flash/Java, Would be nice if you could create & edit word & excel docs etc. But seriously it is a worth it!!!

+ Very easy to use, lots of applications available, having GPS and Google Maps means I can never get lost in London again! Great to have internet available anywhere, any time, with lots of free wireless networks to use, and unlimited data as part of the plan.

- The camera just isn't up to the standard of other phones of the same age. Frustrating that I can't use bluetooth wireless headphones. Hard to text on, especially on the tube! Need a cut and paste function.

+ There is so many features to this phone and you can add so many more through iTunes app store that this phone will continue to upgrade itself.

- The battery life is poor, use it as just a phone and it will last you all day but if you start using all it's other apps the battery life is cut in half, but if you are always near a computer it only takes 30 mins to charge.

+ Everything - even the battery life isn't that bad - just recharge it overnight.

- Battery life could be better