On the iPhone: First minutes
First thoughts so far:
CingularAT&T was hammered, and activation was not immediate. Not a big deal for me, as it was only 15 minutes. From Ars and other sites, I read that some folks are taking hours. I did call in to get some answers on my bill, so maybe that helped.- Setting up Mail and Safari on the iPhone was as easy as checking the sync boxes in iTunes. I use OmniWeb as my primary browser, so limiting Safari links to what I want on my iPhone is easy.
- http://reader.mac.com just tells you to put the URL of the RSS feed into the browser address bar.
- The animation for mail deletion is very slick. Eye-candy.
- Calendar on the iPhone is not as fully-featured as that on my Windows Mobile 5 device. OTOH, it is very easy to read and navigate.
- I will be watching a lot more vidcasts now. I download them, but rarely have a chance to watch them. I always have my phone on me, so I will find time to catch up. Sweet.
- Coverflow on the iPhone is beautiful.
- Speaking of which, Starry Night as wallpaper? Brilliant!
- Trust the keyboard auto-correction. I have no problems, but I have always adapted to thumboards and other alternative text entry systems quickly.
- Safari is highly usable. First render of some text is rough, and you can see it quickly adjust. You will have to be careful on passwords – well, I hope you don’t have dictionary-search passwords.
- The slide and unlock sound is a nice touch.
- Mail works well on the phone. I’ll have to dive more into this. I’ll have to set up procmail or leave an IMAP mail client with filtering running to ensure spamassassin-marked email is not pulled down.
- The weather widget does not offer as much information as SBSH Weather, but again, easy to read, quick info.
- Looking at AAPL stock versus TWX stock over the last two years makes me cry. I’m just glad I own some AAPL….
More to come!
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iPhone disassembly pics.
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i’ll prolly get mine later in the week. thanks for the update!
I proxy examined Erci’s this morning, and I want one now too…
My biggest concern would be that this, like 99% of the “smart” phones out there would suck as a phone (half-duplex speakerphone and bad audio and microphone quality). I was pleasantly and delightfully wrong. Apple got it right – call audio quality is freaking awesome and the speakerphone is full-duplex (Yay!).
Only disappointment for me personally so far is that I live on my Palm notes – so not having lots and lots of notes files that sync to the desktop is a show stopper for me as a PDA replacement… hopefully that will come with Mac OSX 10.5 in October. I guess I could do notes via blogs, but that’s a new habit.
Scott – that was one of my concerns as well. My Windows Mobile 8525 syncs notes to Yojimbo, and I like that methodology. However, the really detailed notes are not synced – which means I carry my laptop everywhere, and especially at work from meeting to meeting. I gave up on trying to force the laptop paradigm into a phone.