Top 10 reasons not to buy iPhone 4G

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When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its nearest rivals. But now the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And it's so ubiquitous it's not even cool any more. Here are the top ten reasons not to buy iPhone 4G:

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 shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that it's customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

3 Flash Support in Safari

iPhone users are waiting since long for Apple to integrate Adobe Flash support into its Safari browser. But Steve Jobs HATE Flash and recently wrote an open letter to cite enough reasons like security and performance, iPhone battery life and more. He blatantly said ‘NO' to support flash content in iPhone firmware and instead suggested others to use WebKit and HTML5 instead.

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. If Apple announces multitasking next it 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.

6 Wireless (Wi-Fi) syncing

Instead of connecting your iPhone and computer with USB cable for syncing, it could have been nice if Steve have provided it over Wi-Fi. Currently, we connect our iPhone to computer for syncing. In order to compete with Android phones that never uses computer for syncing, apple must remove the middleman wherever “USB Connectivity” is required.

7 It comes with offensively bad headphones

Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. It's another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.

8 Installing third party apps

iPhone user cannot install third party applications outside iTunes. In order to install you need to jailbreak your iPhone 4G, making your warranty void. Apple approves the entry into their appstore for apps of their choice only.

9 It charges for satnav

In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.

10 Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies

As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasn't for the iPod and iPhone's ubiquity, there'd be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.