Who is Afraid of the iPhone?

Edgar · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

I have an 8Gb iphone - of course, Im a gadget freak. The interface is simply amazing, parts are slow, some are t0o many taps - both will be addressed Im sure.

My brother "had to have one" and gave me a 8Gb because he is visiting for two weeks unannounced with his fiancee - "least I could do bro for imposing".

The SIM card is easily accessible from the top - havent tried another sim in it yet to see what happens. Covered in HowardForums extensively - I can take my Iphone one and put it in my Blackjack anytime and be supported even with data. Within a mm its about same size of BJ - a bit heavier though. Battery life, seems ok and I used wifi extensively. Cant find an office I cant walk into and find a apple ipod charger.

$20 unlimited data - 'nuff said. Works well enough for EDGE - 50% of the time I am in edge territory anyways - and iIlive in San Francisco which is pretty heavily covered in 3g

The Keyboard after 2 days is pretty damn good actually, Im happily suprise. The predictive text is far superior to my Blackjack

Safari vs Pie - Pie is crap, nuff said.
Safari vs Opera Mini - still superior. Most pages work great and are easily read (and zoomed). And, java/Flash support is already in the works. flipping to landscape just rocks too

YouTube, my gosh I was very surprised on how well this worked on Edge, if you give it a 30sec headstart it didnt force a pause for me on a 3min video. I tried this a dozen times, in different places.

MMS, yes, this one ticks me off, but again, thats just a software update. It's coming

Slow (well not really as bad as a blackjack with 5 things open), ok, so they'll tune it - they have 1M testers now. OS size - who cares, there's space to spare, a strong enough Proc and again, they'll tune it, they are good at doing that vs MS.

This is SO far ahead of what WinMo was in its first iteration. Im opening word/excel PDF now, clearly on a 3.5" screen - I am interfacing with many apps that today Winmo cant. My L2TP and PPTP VPNs both work fine as well.

Mail is better, not sure who said it was worse. Full IMAP/POP support with full HTML as well, clean laid out normal mails (such as the Winmo HTML newsletter came up perfect).

I can carry this and not both my blackjack and Ipod. I use an ipod in my car, and at work - I dont have to now.

BT in car. It supports my BMW, my blackjack didn't.

My complaints. cant unlock yet, I stress yet. The US laws are changing and I suspect they will have no choice.

Price - well, why subsidize if it sells out without one? Also, that is more a USA model of GSM phone purchasing then Europe. In Europe you buy the phone at retail price if you want the cool factor.

3rd party apps, bah people will flock to get apple cerified apps avail - they'll sell them on Itunes

Itunes dependency - sure its propritary - and works better than Active Synch (so far)

Updates - Apple has always been agressive about updating, I suspect this will get plenty of upgrades/fixes. I also suspect by theis time next year Gen2 Iphone will already be out and still ahead of Winmo

So, I'll continue to use both and decide for my work/play which I find better. I am in the mobile industry as an operator, I play with all the latest handsets (All but Nokia, incl RIM). This is a really cool device.

Edgar · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject:

GPS

How are they fitting to E911 laws? Just using LBS from the cell towers? Never looked in to that.

JohnJohn · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

Ok Guys I have one and I really like it. Maybe this is a fad for me, wouldn't be the first time. I bought my first Apple Computer 90 days ago, and now I have two & and an iPhone.

This replaced my BlackJack. I should say that since I got my Blackberry 8800 I have only been using my BJ for phone features. My business is on Exchange and I love the interface between Exchange/BES/BB8800. I won't be replacing my 8800 with the iPhone. Exchange via IMAP is not enough.

As far as my "iPhonethoughts". I really think this was a very, very smart move on Apples part. I'm not talking about marketing BS and all this hype, although it has worked out well. I am talking about lack of third party software. I think it's brilliant! After running everything, and I mean everything from a PalmPilot to a BlackJack I must say that the third part apps are what has ruined every single device for me. I would get a new PocketPC/SmartPhone, run home and load PInformant, Resco and a ton of others to get the device useable. Then after a week or so when the newness wears off it was too slow, or hard reset prone, etc. I don't mean to say that this device won't be that way, but at least not at first.

So Apple releases the iPhone, everyone with a RAZR runs out and gets one, from 7th graders to Grandma's. A few weeks or months pass by during which all the un-techy folks learn how to use this thing, start asking what's POP email and so on. Then Apple lets loose the licensing of third party apps. After your in love with it the buggy software comes out. No one blames Apple when the device starts crashing.

There truly is huge potential here. Yes there are quite a few things I wish I had on my iPhone.

- true MS Exchange
- Quicktime recorder via the camera
- iTunes store via the iPhone
- IM
- weekly calendar view
- wireless sync of Address Book and iCal (after all i am a .mac user)
- a way to access iDisk
- file manager/document sync'r
- GPS receiver inside
- 3G (Denver so i don't have it now, but might SOMEDAY)
- expandable memory
- replaceable battery
- video output (no it does not do video output like and iPod)

All in all I really enjoy it, sorry. Smile

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onlydarksets · Smartphone Thinker Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 348

onlydarksets · Smartphone Thinker Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 348

Also, I'm tired of hearing about the battery life. My 2G WM phones got at least 5 hours of talk time. And, I could bring a spare battery. Try popping 3G in there and see what happens.

JohnJohn · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject:

simpleme · Smartphone Neophyte Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

Actually the OS size is pretty compact. Don't forget "8GB" is marketing-speak. 8 Gigabytes is 8,000,000,000 decimal bytes (1000^3 bytes), which mathematically is 7,450,580,597 bytes (7.45GB, or 8x1000^3 / 1024^3). The iPhone with no content is 7.25 GB. So the OS is only about 200MB, not too shabby I'd think.

rdecker · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

I am glad to hear that you can pull the SIM out of the iPhone and use it in the Blackjack. Knowing that I may just get one and use the BJ at work (for push email capabilities) and use the iPhone on nights/weekends.

Thanks for the information