Jeff Gets An iPhone
Posted on September 10, 2007
Filed Under Wireless |
Having missed out on the Office 2.0 conference goody last week, I picked up an iPhone this weekend, the price drop did it for me. A couple of observations:
- My concerns about the touch screen sensitivity and lack of tactile feedback were unfounded. I still like a keyboard but this is very workable.
- AT&T’s EDGE performance is pathetic
- The lack of copy/paste for text is a huge mistake. One must wonder what the engineering meeting sounded like when that issue was discussed. Quite honestly, not having copy/paste surprised me not so much because it was missing but because in the absence of the feature I now know how much I use it on a daily basis.
- Synchronization to the desktop is really good, and this is not insignificant because I was generally happy with my Blackberry except for the fact that they use a third party software app to sync for the Mac. If Blackberry supported Macs natively, I’d still be using it.
- The Safari browser on the iPhone is good, and the rotate feature is brilliant. I can’t emphasize how much of an improvement web browsing is when you flip the iPhone on it’s side. The form filling smarts are equally eye-catching and make for a much more reliable web browsing experience. Too bad the rotate feature only works in the web browser, being able to do that in email would be great because of the next point…
- The virtual keyboard is adequate but not fast, unless you are in the browser which when rotated to horizontal the keys are bigger and it’s much faster to type. Having the larger version of the keyboard in email would be a big improvement.
- I’m still keeping my iPod video… 8gb is no substitute for 30gb.
- The slide to unlock is brilliant.
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