10 Day Review

I’ve had my iPhone now for 10 days. Overall I love the phone, I love the simplicity. I was shown how to work my new work Blackberry the other day and it scared me, it all seemed so tricky and complicated. My mind is now melded into a lovely, push icon simple mushosity and having to go back into menus and obtuse iconography makes me feart.

That’s not to say it’s not perfect. No way. It’s tiny things, small details that annoy me. What frustrates me more is that some of the details of the iPhone are amazing. Things that are currently ripping my knitting are:

  • Lack of multi send on SMS.  Never thought I used it before I noticed I couldn’t do it on the iPhone.
  • Safari crashes quite often as does the iPod software. Very annoying.
  • Camera isn’t great. Not that I take a lot of images with any camera phone but I really don’t like the camera
  • SMS takes an age to access for some reason
  • No copy and paste. Again not a big deal until you find you can’t do it.
  • Lack of to-do syncing between iCal and iPhone
  • Notes is just way to awkward to use and I’m not entirely sure you can sync between iPhone and Notes on my Macbook
  • The EDGE network isn’t brilliantly fast, I miss my 3G.
  • It’s not the Internet if I can’t use Flash or Java

I could go on. But all these issues are tiny compared to the actual joy of being able to read Google Reader anywhere. I love the fact that I can catch my messages while listening to music or not if I go into Airplane Mode. I am now viewing all my constant websites via iPhone specific versions which is fine and actually preferable than their fully inflated big brothers. I adore how easy it is to share a call, I had Sam on the line and Sean on another line so we could both congratulate him on his new job. It was great. And easy.

So do I recommend one? Yes. Yes. If you have the money. If you use a lot of Internet on your phone (I’ve saved a fortune thanks to the unlimited data plan and lovely wifi coverage, at least £25 in 10 days), if you like gadgets and if you enjoy the new then yes. That’s not a great, overwhelming reason I know but it is good enough to me. It’s just joyous. And, as another gadget fiend put it more eloquently than I, that just can be enough.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 Sorted-ish

1 Comment to 10 Day Review

  1. Well, congrats on your new toy! I was wondering if you’d managed to get one yet. Me, I avoid any phone like the plague, but I can see the appeal. No, it ain’t perfect, but hey, this is such a new thing just yet that I do predict it’ll spread like a supervirus.

    2. pipkin on December 9th, 2007

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