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I gots me one of them there iPhone thingies.

Filed under: Technology — Shawn at 10:57 am on Monday, July 2, 2007

iPhone

Beautiful device (the 8GB version). Met and exceeded most of my expectations.

-Activation. For me, painless, less than 5 minutes. Too bad there are some fairly widespread issues out there, but with an estimated 500,000 units sold since 6pm ET, that equates to roughly one activation every 3 seconds. I’m really surprised there weren’t more issues.

-Needs cut/past functionality.

-Needs more ringtone options. The default selection are fun and whimsical, but including a few more that could be ’sanitary’ enough for the workplace would have been nice. As it is, I’m using Marimba.

-EDGE isn’t as slow as I was anticipating based on some of the complaints prior to launch. It isn’t EVDO, but it isn’t a 56k modem either.

-On screen keyboard gets easier with practice. I can one finger hunt-n-peck pretty quick and my thumbing skills are improving.

-Disappointed by the lack of drag and drop music/video transfer in iTunes. To the best of my knowledge, everything has to be done via the syncing interface for the device in iTunes.

-Disappointed by the lack of ability to use the phone like a portable drive.

-Games. Where are the frickin’ games already?

-Maps, Photos, Camera, iPod Functionality, YouTube, Safari, Phone quality. All beautiful and excellent.

-If you are thinking about the 4GB, spend the extra hundy for the 8GB.

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Comment by Steve G.

July 2, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

Just the kind of info I needed to hear. Oh, also… AT&T just bought Dobson Comm which owns CellularOne so they will soon have ALL of their tower power, strengthening the coverage in lacking Cingular/AT&T areas. Pretty much locks in the deal for me. *poof* (the sound of me running to get mine)

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Comment by Shawn

July 5, 2007 @ 8:31 am

Bug Alert
When using the Yahoo push mail, the mobile Safari will lose the setting cookies for keeping the login credentials for a customized My Yahoo! page.

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