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Why isn't there a criticism/controversy section in this article?: While reliable sourced criticisms and controversies can be included in this article, criticism sections themselves are generally discouraged. As a result of this, criticisms of the iPhone have been interleaved throughout the article in the appropriate section. For example, criticism of Apple requiring iPhone owners to pay to have their phone's battery replaced is included in the battery section. See WP:NPOV and WP:CRIT for further information on criticism and controversy sections.
Where are the prices? Is the iPhone available in my country?: Under guideline WP:NOPRICES, street and retail prices are considered trivia items. Pricing concerns over the iPhone, as well as other issues related to carriers are covered in other iPhone-related Wikipedia articles.
Why "the iPhone" and not just "iPhone"?: Dropping the definite article is a marketing technique used by Apple. Unless such terminology is used by a majority of our reliable, secondary sources, our style guidelines require that we use the normal rules of English grammar to refer to subjects, and that requires the use of the definite article when using synecdoche to refer to one subject as if it were the whole group (the iPhone and not iPhones).

Screenshots recoverable Security problem

Where is the coverage of this Security Problem?

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/hacker-says-sec.html

"iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do"

"If you've got an iPhone, everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw in a webcast Thursday." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.97.233 (talk) 19:32, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So does .bash_history. -- Dgcaste (talk) 01:00, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

False Advertising Ruling in the UK

Why is there no coverage of the False Advertising Ruling from the UK?

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=false+advertising+uk+iphone&go=&form=QBLH

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/iPhone-ad-UK-ASA,news-29046.html

"UK iPhone Ad Banned for False Advertising"

"The Authority banned the ad following complaints that it allowed users to fully browse the web with access to “all parts of the Internet,” despite that fact that the handset does not support Java or Flash. The 30 second advertisement includes a voice-over detailing what “parts” of the net you might need, finishing up with the claim that the iPhone has it all."

Password By-pass at Startup Security / Privacy

Why is there no coverage of the Security flaw in the password bypass flaw?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Apple-iPhone-Passcode-Bypass-Made-Public/

"The passcode feature on the latest version of Apple’s iPhone can be bypassed, potentially allowing an unauthorized person to access data on the device if it is lost or stolen"

As I understand it, this was fixed by adding a sort of "Delete all the data in case an unauthorized user gets ahold of it" mode in the 2.1 patch 32.97.110.142 (talk) 15:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Internet connectivity

In the internet connectivity section, this is stated

"Internet access is available when the iPhone is connected to a local area Wi-Fi or a wide area GSM or EDGE network, both second-generation (2G) wireless data standards. "

EDGE is a 3G data standard, not 2G Bam2403 (talk) 05:09, 22 September 2008 (UTC)bam2403[reply]

Edge Is not Widely considered a 3G Standard see [1] "EDGE can be considered a 3G radio technology and is part of ITU's 3G definition but is most frequently referred to as 2.75G." Speer320 (talk) 05:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

While that is true, that still does not qualify it to labeled at 2G.Bam2403 (talk) 03:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)bam2403[reply]

Unlocked iPhone

i don't know if this is important for the article but there are some countries in europe where its forbidden by law to sell the phone with sim or netlock (italy, belgium...). maybe we should add this? LizzzardKing (talk) 10:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)not bad[reply]

I think these countries buckled to the corporate machine's lobbying pressure and the whole "OMG IPHONE!" hype and gave them an exception. They should have stuck to their guns but then all the tweens would stop voting for them because they prevented the iPhone from reaching their country and sim-locking network operators. Towel401 (talk) 17:06, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Either way make sure that whatever you add is sourced. -- Atama ^chat 20:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hsdpa speed

In regards to the section regarding internet access, i work for a Telco and the spec sheets refer to the iPhone as a HSDPA 3.6 device not a 7.2 one. Unfortunately i have found no references externally as all the information i have is for internal use only and cannot be published, but figured it would be worth mentioning in case anyone else could track down a reference for this so we can clarify the point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.12.144.21 (talk) 00:18, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

iPhone's touchscreen

The iPhone touchscreen can also be activated by fruit, wet tissues, or anything that has a large amount of water in it.

Kevin chen2003 (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 "The passcode feature on the latest version of Apple’s iPhone can be bypassed, potentially allowing an unauthorized person to access data on the device if it is lost or stolen"
+As I understand it, this was fixed by adding a sort of "Delete all the data in case an unauthorized user gets ahold of it" mode in the 2.1 patch [[Special:Contributions/32.97.110.142|32.97.110.142]] ([[User talk:32.97.110.142|talk]]) 15:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 == Internet connectivity ==