So I finally got an iPhone. After waiting a full year (and desperately trying to get a 16GB black), I ended up buying an 8GB iPhone. Which pretty much means I’m only a GPS chip and a bit of speed ahead of the previous owners.
Some quick notes on the iPhone. It kicks my Motorola Razr to the curb in terms of call quality. Whereas I could barely make a call from the top floor of my house, before, the iPhone is handling it with aplomb.
Calling this thing a smartphone is seriously undervaluing it as a computing/information platform. It’s really an ultra-portable computing device. Many of the apps I’ve loaded serve to extend my full desktop environment into my pocket. The always accessible nature of the apps and associated data is pretty powerful. Where some people think it’s great to be able to use Word or Excel from a handheld device, give me the whole Internet any day of the week.
The surprise (true with both the original and the 3G) is that these things operate as phones better than any other phone out there (the Razr was pretty much the worst phone out there; so comparison between Razr and iPhone insults the iPhone).
The other surprise is that the iPhone does not quite replace my aging Palm Tungsten C yet…. yes the iPhone is an amazing computing platform; but not syncing notes to something on the desktop and not having cut&paste are still pretty limiting. Though in most other ways it kicks butt. I want one…
The surprise (true with both the original and the 3G) is that these things operate as phones better than any other phone out there (the Razr was pretty much the worst phone out there; so comparison between Razr and iPhone insults the iPhone).
The other surprise is that the iPhone does not quite replace my aging Palm Tungsten C yet…. yes the iPhone is an amazing computing platform; but not syncing notes to something on the desktop and not having cut&paste are still pretty limiting. Though in most other ways it kicks butt. I want one…
Actually, I’m using OmniFocus, and it syncs desktop and iPhone versions.
Also Jott is cool for notes since they do speech-to-text conversion.
Actually, I’m using OmniFocus, and it syncs desktop and iPhone versions.
Also Jott is cool for notes since they do speech-to-text conversion.