Sun, 09 Dec 2007
More on the iPhone
Apparently Angie has a higher opinion of my tech influence than I realize (and deserve). As I wrote, I won an iPhone at work and have replaced my old battered beast the Nokia. I've been a Nokia whore for a long time. I've loved the ones I've had and have tricked them out with blinking antennas and clear cases using parts from Japantown (or Ebay) in the past. Since I didn't pay for my iPhone, I didn't mind switching over, although as I said before I'm sure there will be things I would miss. I didn't frame that as "why the iPhone sucks/has problems" though. So here's my two week review--
good: 1. The keyboard isn't bad, it just takes some playing with to get used to. If you're doing a demo at a store, just keep that in mind and take your time. 2. SMS conversation bubbles. Cute 3. Browsing on a free wifi spot downtown- awesome. REALLY awesome. I've always wanted something for my apartment like a Pepper Pad, and this may tide my over. Although if I won a Pepper Pad at work, I'd be crying with joy. 4. The built in Google map app is really nice, it's 10x faster than the one I downloaded for the old phone. 5. http://sf.munitime.com/ Rules - much prettier (and slightly faster to load) than Nextmuni or Nextbus (for now). 6. Mine was free 7. Google updated their mobile site so I have full functionality of Google reader and all the other apps now. (But that's more of a plus for Google, than iPhone, no?) bad: 1. No mms is a big deal for me. I got a funny pic sent to my phone recently from Kevin who had cooked dinner for his wife Lisa. He took a phone pic, sent it over with a funny comment from Lisa and I lol'd. I took a pic of what I was cooking and sent it back. Cory and Marc sometimes send me pics with funny captions and I reply with pics of my own. That happens a lot. You can't do this on the iPhone- you have to use email. That's very very lame. 2. The SMS bubbles above can't be archived like I could do on my Nokia. FTW? Also, see my previous post about what I wrote about making sure to add http:// before SMS messages. The old nokia would recognize urls better. 3. Battery life is okay, but you have to remember that this is a fancy ipod that happens to have a phone in it. And I think that kind of sums up my views- the iPhone is a really nice iPod that can do some cool web stuff and it happens to have a phone in it. But it's not a kick ass phone that happens to have an iPod in it. 4. Why can't I sync my phone to my desktop wirelessly for iTunes? 5. The notes feature is almost worthless. What am I going to do with the notes? You can't synch them with anything. Oh, but you can email them to yourself. Oh, that's great, but why wouldn't I just send myself an email and save time by not using notes? 6. There's too much delay between clicking the button on the camera and when it actually takes the pic so most of the photos are blurry (and no, that's a lot of people, not just me with my caffeine-shakes™) 7. No voice recorder. Yeah, I used mine once or twice on the nokia. "Note to self, when I get home, pimp out my phone" 8. No video recording- even my crap nokia took small vids. 9. There should be more backup or synch'ing options. Not everyone (who's not using an apple) wants to use Outlook to synch contacts/numbers. Nokia has a nice backup util. Apple should make one too. 10. No built in games? Shit, even Snake on the Nokia saved me on a delayed flight once. Well, at least I can look for (bikini-covered) boobs on youtube. That's about it for now. Shane said he'd write a guest post for me but didn't. Actually he said people don't treat guest bloggers well, but who cares. He's a chicken. The other thing that the phone reminds me of is how much potential Palm had. If they would've just let their Tungstens and Treos browse on wi-fi they wouldn't be in such a pickle today. I have a soft-spot in my heart for their devices. They were the first PIMs I truly liked using. In fact, I even miss their shortcuts and cut-n-paste. What happened there? Did the CTIA and US carriers lean on them? Late night edit- 11. I can't do repeated sms messages- or rather, I can't easily repeat the same message to multiple contacts. The nokia let me set up sms templates and if i wanted to even keep it simpler than that, I could just go back to the edit area over and over again and send to multiple people one at a time. On the iPhone, it seems I have to start over each and every time. That's annoying. --I could be wrong, and if so, please tell me how to do it. And Patrick, no, I won it fair and square -although my VP could've rigged it. I just trust her enough not to check and ruin it for everyone else.
09 Dec 18:21 | /tech | 3 comment(s)
Patrick wrote:
no selenium?
Did you win this iPhone legitimately? I hope that you guys learned a lesson from last time when you just had everyone use a selenium script to fill out as many surveys as possible.
12/09/2007 19:12:41
marc say's wrote:
HA, he got you good scammer.
12/10/2007 16:20:20
insahne wrote:
I should have known you'd call me out on this one. What's more to say than everything you've mentioned? I have yet to hack it myself. I can add two things regarding the stock iphone. 1. They increase your likelihood to becoming addicted to social site frontpages (e.g. digg). 2. You will fit right in at ritual coffee. Now that 1.1.3 rumors are already floating about I am definately holding out on jailbreaking it.
12/11/2007 17:03:07
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