| iPhone! |
[Jul. 27th, 2007|12:10 am] |
I got my iPhone! My phone ( number. ) Frustratingly, I actually picked up the phone wednesday at work, but itunes took a couple hours attempting to activate till it told me I had to go into a store to get a credit check. So I did that... and they told me I'd need 500$ in cash for a deposit... obviously had I known I would have drawn the cash out before coming to the store in the first place. They only told me this after fiddling on their computer for 20 minutes, so by this time of course they were technically closed... So I had to come back to the store today... did I mention they don't open till 10:30am so I couldn't go before work? Also when I stopped by the atm to get the cash, I forgot that I had given out a rent check, and only had enough funds in my checking to cover that... so I of course received a fee and e-mail at the end of the day that indicated my overdraft protection had kicked in... Thankfully the fee was only 10$ but it's still annoying. Finally after standing at the att store for 30 mins because the people in the morning didn't know what they were doing as well as the guy at the end of the day the day before, I'm told I'm set. So I go back to work and plug my iphone in, and run through a few menus and I'm set! Yay!!!
After fiddling with it for a couple hours now, I'd have to say it's great. I've gotten mail.app to crash a couple times, along with a couple short lockups I'd bet were related to other things crashing, but the iPhone usually silently recovers from those, and just kicks you back to the home screen as if you had hit the home button. So that's cool. The sound quality is great, and the camera surprisingly good, though with no tactile feedback it's hard to tell if your finger is hitting the trigger when you try to take self photos. To help manage my contact lists on all my systems, I've started using http://www.plaxo.com Free, it helps synch contacts and calendar events across windows mac and I think linux as well, made importing my contacts to the iphone really easy, since I instantly had a merge of my work contacts and my personal contacts. Anyways, I never spent much time browsing youtube, but if you must, the iphone is the place to do it. All the videos are sized just about right to look best on the iphone sized screen anyways, so I've always found the website to be more painful. Also, the iphone has no ads, for youtube which is a plus, and the whole experience is streamlined so you can skip from video to video faster than you can on a desktop computer... it's impressive. Also cool is the googlemaps tool, you can highlight addresses in e-mails or on the web, and instantly jump to the embedded viewer application. Similarly anything that looks like a phone number is hyperlinked like a phone number, so if you were to browse facebook, you'd be able to directly click on people's numbers in their profile and have your phone call them. Annoying things: no copy paste, no select all delete on mail. Setting up gmail was frustrating. If you try to delete mail from your inbox so you only see current info, you'll be stuck because gmail will reach back and keep feeding you every single message from your account all labeled as unread until you resign to using their recommended (default) recent mode and just view the messages instead of deleting them. Actually when I wasn't in recent mode, I tried to clean up my e-mails, and I could have sworn that it was feeding me mail I had already deleted (the dates kept jumping back to the 23rd of june when I hit the beginning of june (deleting backwards through time ) )... I think I might have blown its cache of recently deleted e-mail id's. Now however I have it set in recent mode, and I just stepped through to mark all visible mails as read, and it's happy. (No select all mark as read either!) Safari works great too, though there is a maximum zoomlevel that I didn't expect to run into. Final thing to get used to is its photo library handling... Very low configurability, you can't set the order of pictures or anything. It's a bit annoying, but I guess I'll have to get used to it.
The iphone needs to get some more chat applications. One was limited to 10 min sessions. The other I haven't used yet, but didn't look too promising. Why doesn't meebo have one?
Somebody did a mini googledocs called gOffice which looked pretty cool and interesting. The OneStop list looks like it will be useful, I wonder if we can set it up to make the list on the computer, and view it on the iphone. Yay electrostatic touchscreens behind glass, with bright displays! Yay a phone that doesn't suck! Yay a new ipod! |
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