iPhone review
So I’ve had the phone for a few days, downloaded some apps, and have been using it with great success. Here are my impressions so far:
First off, this phone is unlike anything you will ever experience out of a cell phone. I know there is a lot of hype from Apple fanboys and fangirls about how great it is and they can’t see past the flaws, but the phone is hands down the best out there. I owned the HTC Touch, that doesn’t come close to the iPhone.
The immediate upgrades on this phone are GPS and 3G. GPS I have yet to really use from a mapping standpoint; while I have used Twinkle a ton which automatically is finding people around me and letting me converse with them (Houston iPhone users are pretty cool people, by the way, and hi to the guy who found my blog from Conroe), I haven’t used it from the Maps application as much besides just letting it find me. At one point I asked it to pinpoint me and it didn’t, so maybe I just need to reset the phone.
Speaking of resetting the phone, I have had to do that once so far already as the headphones would not work on a call until I did.
Onto 3G, this is absolutely essential for me, especially using Netshare. This combined with Safari is making browsing webpages on a cell phone easy and fun for the first time. Pocket IE sucks, and so do the WAP browsers on regular cell phones. For someone who surfs the net on their phone a lot like me, this is a godsend.
The rest of the phone is really amazing and the great part is Apple will continually support it with new firmware releases. Compared to most phones which never get any support besides updates to fix major bug issues, this is also something I’m looking forward to.
I have used copy and paste on my HTC Touch a lot but find myself not needing to at all yet on my iPhone. I’m sure the need will eventually arise, but so far this has not been detrimental. I also don’t take videos, and while I can see myself needing to send a picture message at some point, I do it very rarely and usually e-mail photos already. So, even though these are certainly drawbacks, I imagine they will be addressed in the future and do not impact me much.
What is surprising though is how many times I will sit there and go ‘Wow, that was easy!’ when moving around the phone. The menu system and tricks it can do are so innovative. Everything is how you think it would be, rarely have I had to look anything up when it comes to navigation or trying to execute an action (I did have to look up how to move icons around the main screen, thats about it).
Two thumbs up to Apple. I knew about the phone and what it could do, but you really can’t even imagine how powerful and well designed it is until playing with it for a few days, and I still am enjoying picking it up and fooling around with it a bit.
-Falaris