UK blog claims iPhone 'the worst ever phone'

In June, the iPhone was highly rated and was picked as the editor's choice but the people at CNET UK are taking those words back.

CNET UK's Flora Graham says, "The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot. It may be the highest-rated mobile phone on CNET UK, rocking the pockets of half of our crack editorial team. It's certainly the touch screen face that launched a thousand apps. But as an actual call-making phone, it is rubbish, and we aim to prove it."

According to Graham, the iPhone, despite being the world's most popular smart phone, is inaudible, unconnected and a health hazard to users.  However CNET UK did acknowledge the iPhone as one of the most advanced handheld computing device available out there in the market but falls short of a fantastic phone.

Graham writes in her blog:

• Poor call quality Call quality on the iPhone is pathetic, and it's mostly because of the tiny speaker. It has to be aligned with your ear canal with the accuracy of a laser-guided ninja doing cataract surgery, or else the volume cuts down to nothing as the sound waves bounce uselessly around your ear shells.
• Dropped calls and data gaps. If, like Will Smith in Enemy of the State, you're trying to avoid the eagle eye of Big Brother, the iPhone could be for you. It drops calls, fails to connect and doesn't even ring sometimes - not for everyone, but more often than any other phone we're currently using.
• Ringtone glitches. Perhaps the worst of the iPhone's problems is its ability to sit there stealthily and ignore incoming calls. With no ring or vibrate to clue you in, your friends and family are redirected to voicemail... or just treated to silence. If you're in a two-iPhone family, it can be a case of the deaf leading the mute.
• The iPhone might burn your face off. According to our ultra-sciencey test, it is extremely unlikely that the iPhone will burn your face off... Nevertheless, pressing a large, flat surface to your cheek is always going to be sweaty...  Thus the current trend for people to walk down the street with their phones on hands-free, yelling into the mike at the bottom while they hold the rest of the phone away from their faces.
• Low battery life. A couple of hours of Google Maps over 3G and you'll be lost in the woods without even the possibility of phoning for help. Compare that to the good old days when your phone would last a week without charging, and you'll wonder why you ever bothered to switch.