iphone

[easyc]

Anyone know how it works with the becker iPod hack?

[FrayAdjacent]

I picked up a 4gig iPhone yesterday afternoon. I had checked the Apple site to see if any Apple stores would have any in stock. None in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana or New Mexico! I decided to swing into the nearest AT&T store (that was out of stock on the 4th) just to see if they had gotten any. Asked the guy, and he said they may have an 8gig model, but he'd check. Came back out with a shiny new 4gig iPhone box. They JUST got some in.

Got it home and got it activated. Synced with my contacts in Outlook, so I instantly had all my phone numbers. SCHWEET! It imported the one POP mail account I had set up in Outlook (I use Thunderbird as my primary mail client), and imported calendar events. I like the calendar, since I use Yahoo Calendar a lot, and can sync that with Outlook, then in turn sync it with my iPhone.

Everything on the phone runs well... the email client is a bit simplistic, but it works. Text messaging is very neat with the way it groups incoming and outgoing message by who you're 'talking' to.

Typing on it isn't that difficult, actually. On the occasional fat finger, if it's on a word in the normal dictionary, it autocorrects, and it does pretty well.

Google Maps is nice, it's easy to zoom in and out and move around. Would be nice if it had a GPS receiver, or could at least use a bluetooth GPS receiver. Also the map right around where I live is probably 4 years old.

Looking up a business on Google Maps is nice, since it will show you all the locations. You can click on one, it will take you to a screen with the address and phone number. Click the number and it dials automatically. Sweet!

The camera isn't too bad, but there are NO settings you can tweak.

Viewing pictures is nice. The screen is BEAUTIFUL!

The browser is nice, and will load whole pages just like on a PC (although no Flash support).

I have made a couple calls, and the sound quality and volume is good. Not great, but good. Did have some popping and crackling earlier today, but that could have been on the other end since I was talking to a friend on her cell. I was also able to easily pair my Motorola BT headset with it. Got voicemail setup, but haven't received any yet.

I only put about 700MB of music on it. Found how to download the album art so when holding the phone horizontally, you can scroll by album. It runs VERY nicely. Sound quality is on par with the 4GB Nano I had a while back (gave it to my little sister in NYC).

All in all, I dig it bigtime. It wouldn't work well for power users who need a productivity device. Stick with your crackberries if you need that stuff. But for a phone, a music device, and some other communications, it's very nice.

I worked in the computer industry for 15 year before retiring. I would rather have a high voltage line shoved up my culo before owning anything by Apple that could be of importance. Sure, I own 3 Ipods, but those are only for entertainment. A phone is something I consider a business application not a toy so the Blackberry will be just fine. I also consider all Mac computers to be toys for woman and children. Like I said, 15 years in the computer industry and I watched Apple do everything backwards for all of those 15 years.

[panameras]

Originally Posted by cartagena

Like I said, 15 years in the computer industry and I watched Apple do everything backwards for all of those 15 years.

How exactly did Apple do everything backwards for 15 years?

I own both a MacBook and a Sony laptop, the mac does everything the sony does and more, and in better style.

Im very tempted to get an iphone when it comes out in Australia. Great idea as it means I dont need to carry an ipod, a phone and a DC around everyday.

[Perfectlap]

fat finger typing trouble? LOL

be warned you will have to completely discard your long practiced two handed texting method. The buttons are very close to each other so you will have to hen peck the buttons with your index finger. A really uncessary change in my opinion
but this is only Iphone 1.0
there will be allot of changes and it will only get better. This phone is on whole different level to anything by Blackberry, Samsung, LG, Sony-E. etc.
I hope those guys are working weekends to catch up.

[xxxalexxxx]

my GF got the iphone recently so i played with it a bit and i think its great, it has a lot of capablities and is def. way ahead of the other phone companies. Someone mentioned it not being a good business tool, my GF owns two businesses and depends on her phone pretty much 24/7 and so far its serving her good, she did keep the blackberry for just in case but looks like she wont be needed to switch back to the blackberry for work purposes

[FrayAdjacent]

Originally Posted by xxxalexxxx

my GF got the iphone recently so i played with it a bit and i think its great, it has a lot of capablities and is def. way ahead of the other phone companies. Someone mentioned it not being a good business tool, my GF owns two businesses and depends on her phone pretty much 24/7 and so far its serving her good, she did keep the blackberry for just in case but looks like she wont be needed to switch back to the blackberry for work purposes

If you need to manipulate things like Excel and Word... or if you have an Exchange server set up to push mail to your Crackberry - you're out of luck.

If you just need to call people, the iPhone will work OK. It's great for grabbing numbers out of business listings from Google Maps, text messages and emails (a buddy emailed me his phone number... I went to email, to the message and tapped the number and it dialed). It's damn handy if you came from JUST a phone.

Computers are meant to do work. If you want to use it for a toy then lets call it a video game. Computers should not have little happy/sad faces for an error message. If my Unix systems have a problem I can go look at an error message, I do not know what a sad face means.

Originally Posted by panameras

How exactly did Apple do everything backwards for 15 years?

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by cartagena

I also consider all Mac computers to be toys for woman and children.

While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I could not disagree with you more.

I make a fine living in publishing with my Apple computers. And I've been publishing books and a quarterly periodical with it for many years. Apple computers aren't toys.

You may not like the way they come at programming from your own background, but that doesn't mean its wrong or bad. It's just different. Which brings me to an older byline they used to use: "Think Different."

BTW, Apple has always lagged behind PC's in the gaming industry... essentially proving that a PC makes a better "toy" than a Mac.

Just wait... the iPhone will probably become as common as the crackberries seen around airports everywhere, or all the other manufacturers will start releasing phones that are iPhone knock-offs to regain lost marketshare.