Review of the iPhone
Balind on 05 Jun 2008 | Musings
The iPhone has been out for almost a year now. I think it’s time for my official review.
Overall I think it’s a peek into the future of mobile devices. One day I’ll be setting mine to “stun” while I’m exploring new territory.
WHAT I LIKE:
- Visual voice-mail
Basically you get to view your messages like tracks in your iPod. See how many messages you have, who their from, how long they are and fast forward to any point in the message by dragging the play-head. This feature alone makes it worth it because I hated checking voice-mail the old way.
- Google Maps
It’s not quite like a real GPS but, you can always find out where you are, where you’re going and how to get there. I know the streets of L.A better than if I didn’t have this option available.
- Sync’s with the Address book on my Mac Book Pro
An address book that gets backed-up constantly, so I have the confidence of knowing that everytime I add a contact, it’s there for the rest of my life. Never again will I have to re-create all my contacts from scratch when I change my phone.
- iPod Exercise
I download TV shows like Dexter and watch them on my phone while I do cardio. Jealous much?
WHAT’S MISSING:
- Copy and Paste
It would be really nice to be able to select text and paste it elsewhere.
- Text Message an image
You can take a picture and send it in an e-mail, but you can’t send one through text message.
Jason on 05 Jun 2008 at 9:34 am #
I agree on all accounts - especially the annoyance of not being able to send/receive images via text.
My favorite feature - by far - is using the Google map as a way of looking up business phone numbers. If you’re out boozing and need a cab - go to the map and type in “Kansas City Cab” or where ever you’re at. Then you get the nice list of cab companies, click on one and you can call them from the map. It’s much faster than going through Safari. I use this all the time - especially for ordering take-out food.
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Jayden on 05 Jun 2008 at 10:14 pm #
I’ve had MMS working for a few months now on my iPhone in Australia. http://www.swirlyspace.com/iphone/apps/mms/
It’s pretty basic, but it works.
My phone is unlocked though - not sure if you can install all the hundreds of useful, free apps with a locked one.
P.s. I’m jealous much about Visual voice-mail! Still waiting for an official iPhone down here
Murten Saerbi on 06 Jun 2008 at 2:17 am #
Nice post, I definately agree it is a fine piece of mobile technology.
Here in Belgium we don’t have iPhones available yet and I recently visited every (mac) store in New York to find out they were all sold out.
I always liked the idea of having one device in your pocket that takes care of everything and the iPod is definately on its way to do that.
Bora on 11 Jun 2008 at 9:26 pm #
iPhone is a revolution in mobile computing, ONLY if Jailbroken. A vanilla version of the iPhone experience sucks.
Visual Voicemail doesn’t work in Canada yet, but I hear it’s awesome. It should surface here this summer. Can’t wait.
Lifesaving Advice
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Make sure you BACKUP any important data that you sync regularly. I had a freakshow chain of events which corrupted by Address Book, and I ended up losing my contacts on both my MacbookPro and the iPhone.
To add insult to injury, when I attempted to do a recover sync with my old Motorola Razr - I lost my Razr contacts as well!!! WTF Apple? Very, very messed up. This is definitely a worm in the apple. Hoping these issues have been resolved in the newly released 3G version…
Randall League on 11 Jul 2008 at 7:02 am #
Does the Iphone or the new Iphone support Flash Lite?
Mohd.me on 28 Jul 2008 at 12:53 am #
@Randall League:
http://www.iphonealley.com/news/adobe-announces-flash-lite-3-maybe-for-iphone
=WE HOPE=
