Frustrating at times but overall I’d say its the best phone I’ve ever had. I’ll try and avoid raising common known irritations such as ringtones etc and I’ll refrain from stating the obvious benefits everyone already knows.
Pro’s
The interface, by far the best of any phone I have had, and YES, I have owned an HTC Touch and it is rubbish!
The standard apps like iPod, photo’s, youtube, google maps, phone all work as they are intended to. No lag, delays or crashing….. a welcome change from other pretenters to the crown.
Don’t be put off by EDGE, its actually quicker than I expected and in London there are loads of free wifi hotspots the phone will automatically connect to.
Cons
- Mail doesn’t allow search or list functions, so its basically like SMS 0.1, what the hell were they thinking.
- No cut and paste function. WTF?
- Battery life isn’t that great, you’ll need to be frugal with wifi, bluetooth, videos, ipod etc if you want it to last the WHOLE weekend! I must have played with it a lot because mine did not even last 24 hours.
- Its as slippery as a fish wearing a banana skin jacket! I dropped it in a gooey bowl of icecream within the first 24 hours. I licked off all the icecream and sucked the chocolate sauce out of the cracks - I recommend getting the silicone cover.
- It really takes a long time to charge when synced up with my Macbook, no idea why, but make sure you allow a good few hours for charging if you are charging through your laptop.
- Don’t look at other peoples hacked phones, you will become jealous because yours looks lame and doesn’t have any interesting apps on it (web apps suck ok). Roll on February 2008 when hopefully the true potential of this phone will be unleashed!
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12 November, 2007 at 6:58 pm
carrie
Whaahaahaa. . . sucked the chocolate sauce out of the cracks. Are you still referencing your iphone? Apologies; just couldn’t let that one go by
13 November, 2007 at 2:15 am
Constable Odo
You should try using the wax that surfers use on their surfboards to get a better grip on your iPhone. I won’t go as far to tell you to use pine-tar, however batter’s resin might also work.
13 November, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Brendan Gray
Dave
agree with most of the above but hadnt noticed the slow charge, mine seems fine via my MBP
check this out;
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rumor/iphone-getting-spotlight-search-in-2008-321869.php
Gene Munster predicts that the iPhone’s next major update will come in February 2008, and along with the long-awaited SDK the iPhone will get Spotlight-like search functionality.
13 November, 2007 at 5:59 pm
David
Grayskull, maybe I’m just used to the blitz like charging of my HTC Touch !?
Yeah, spotlight is needed, will be especially helpful for Mail.
Also they need to make the contact search waaaayyy better and maybe spotlight is gonna help with that too!
Constable Odo - Hahaha, but I think I’ll wait until your methods have been fully developed by other iphone users before I try them.
Carrie - C’mon now, its better than talking about the way I sucked it out all the holes!