My First Experience With An iPhone
I finally had the opportunity to sit down and spend some time with the iPhone today. It is not a flawless device, but if the iPhone is imperfection I don't want a sinless world. The two flaws I could identify was the average / "meh" speed of AT&T's EDGE network and the fact that I couldn't marry the iPhone with T-Mobile's Free Wi-Fi call plan.
In every other aspect it is a phenomenal device, perfectly executed. Example: the much-discussed "cover flow" interface when "flipping" through photos will, when you reach the last image of a photo album, will "bump" into the edge of the screen and then bounce back to center. Like the man said, the next big thing is a million little things.
Browsing the internet was a delight. I had multiple pages, "coverflowing" (is that a verb yet?) between them, and zooming in and out became second nature. I didn't have an opportunity to see how well it worked with Google Docs & Calendar, which I use constantly due to work.
SMS was great. IM via Meebo was great. YouTube was much faster than dialup but slower than broadband, kind of a quasi-broadband, but it started playing videos right away. The typing took me about 5 minutes to get the hang of, and the auto-complete was like some kind of eerie mind-reader.
But all that aside, the most impressive particular aspect of the device (beyond the general genius of the user interface) was the sharp, bright screen. Watching a movie was a blast; I wasn't even thinking about the fact I was holding the screen in my hand. Clear, crisp, wonderful widescreen video.
Will the average business user trade their Blackberry for an iPhone? Steve Jobs doesn't even care about that question. Apple is playing a completely different game. In a year the price point will drop to around $300, and it'll be the must-have gift for everyone and their grandmother the following Christmas.
| By Josiah Roe | 05:05 PM
Comments
Will the average business user trade their Blackberry for an iPhone?I don't think that'll happen much until Apple opens the iPhone up to third party software--then it'll begin to take off. Also, I think the lack of any external buttons is a drawback. You can end a call or turn off the phone on a Treo or Blackberry with one button press...all without looking. You can't do that on the iPhone. 2nd gen iPhone will hopefully address that issue (I'd like to see a 5-way D pad, too).
Posted by: Scott at July 5, 2007 09:01 PM
Deloitte looked at offering employees the iphone to further enhance our superiority complexes. We currently can get any sort of treo device we want, blackberrys for the high ups only.
Though the decision was made by IT that since the iphone would coexist withour software and servers well enoguh to suit business needs it served litlte purpose. Which i was disappointed, a. b/ci wanted one b. because granted these phones represent the future of phones, they apple also has to realize the biggest market for these multi tool phones is the corporate arena.
I mean personally i don't need an i phone, i got a phone, and i got an ipod and i'm fine without the internet and photos and what not on call. But for work it owuld be great to have a smart phone that was truly smart like the iphone.
Eventually jobs will get it hooked up nicely with us pc laden folk. Granted i still have about 3 different itunes accts and if ic ould figure out how to get that down to one it'd be cool.
Posted by: holton at July 6, 2007 11:47 AM
Hey Josiah- I need you to check out rockcreek on that thing. Wonder what it looks like?
Posted by: mark at July 6, 2007 03:24 PM
I love the tons of feedback about the phone's drawbacks from people who have never used it. The phone does, in fact, have 5 external buttons. The sleep/wake button on top will silence the ringer with one click then send to vmail with an additional click. No touchscreening required. I haven't tried it yet, but I assume that using the volume keys and/or the silence switch would kill the ringer as well.
Mark - rco looks like it does on my desktop. not sure how i feel about that. i will say that loading it crashed the iPod app that was running in the background. my experience is shoddy javascript will kill either the iPod or Safari everytime.
Posted by: dryan at July 9, 2007 02:57 PM
I thought all apple did was release an updated version, discontinue the previous version and keep the price right where it started. I don't think that the price will drop in a year but...here's hoping that you're right and I'm wrong.
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Posted by: Pablo at July 11, 2007 06:06 PM
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