Comments on: iPhone: Brilliant. Frustrating.

By: Mr Blog » Blog Archive » Alec’s iPhone experience

Mr Blog » Blog Archive » Alec’s iPhone experience — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:48:45 +0000

[...] Saunders has a terrific post: iPhone: Brilliant. Frustrating. Alec has pretty much echoed my sentiments described at iPhone – Look but don’t touch and [...]

By: James Body

James Body — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:26:05 +0000

Ken – I have to disagree with you about the quality of the camera on the N95 – it is easily better than any other deployed camera phone and the 30 fps video is better than my old Sony 8mm camcorder.

I normally carry one iPhone on me at all times, plus another two in my personal gear – but still use my Nokia Symbian phones (E61i and N95) as principal real time communicatins devices. The iPhone is the easiest portable e-mail device to use though – even though it’s potential is limited by it’s inability to work with my flat rate 3G data tariff from H3G (so I use the MS Exchange client on my E61i in parallel with the WiFi connected iPhone).

By: MatthewS

MatthewS — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:42:09 +0000

The lack of support of DUN is what really is driving me nuts. I’ve used DUN extensively when a wired or wireless connection isn’t available. Granted it is slow, but if you need to bang out a few quick emails it fits the bill. Why no DUN?

Basically, I’m loving my iPhone though.

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:33:08 +0000

Paul, thanks for the suggestion. I found that feature. It works well for small groups of contacts, but when I reach the letter S, for example, I have to search multiple screens of contacts. There really needs to be a simple search feature, integrated with the address book, and not part of a separate application.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:28:01 +0000

My wife has an iPhone and for her uses it’s perfect. I for one am holding off until a number of the features mentioned by previous folks have either been improved or built into iPhone 2.0. However, what she has shown me, is that in the contacts list you can select the letter on the right to at least get you ‘into the ball park’! Not quite full search but should save a few finger swipes.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:21:31 +0000

Nelson, yeah yeah — I should have dug more deeply. I did a quick surf through the manual. But you know, a simple light grey triangle on the headphone button would have drawn my attention to it. I went looking at the headphones to figure out which was L and R, and something in the same color which looked like a play button on the microphone would have been enough of a clue.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:19:16 +0000

Jason,

I have to say that I have upgraded firmware on my phones many times. Nokia makes a very simple to use upgrader for their hardware. You just plug the phone in, run the software, and it checks to see if there is new firmware and installs it if you want.

But you know what, Nokia has never achieved the visibility for this feature that Apple has, and perhaps that’s part of Apple’s genius. I went to Nokia’s launch of the N96 in Barcelona, and while the N96 is an exciting device, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo doesn’t have any where near the charisma of Steve Jobs.

By: The iPhone Rocks! | LucaFiligheddu.com

The iPhone Rocks! | LucaFiligheddu.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:42:23 +0000

[...] just wanted to share my first impressions with you, after three days of usage. Alec Saunders did the same and while I have to agree with him about many points, I also have to disagree with some of them and [...]

By: nelson

nelson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:48:31 +0000

You cracked it. Check out the 3rd party apps like SEARCH.

Also like others have said, check out the button that’s on your headphones. Well actually, read the manual.

Have fun with the 3rd party programs.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:41:26 +0000

Apple has changed the game because they’ve now made it about the software instead of the hardware.

The ease of delivery of new firmware updates (through iTunes) has allowed them to upgrade the device with new features. When was the last time that you updated the firmware on your cell phone? Before I got an iPhone? Never.

Yes, there are missing things. Personally, I never used those features before, so I don’t miss not having them. I do enjoy having a phone that I enjoy using though, unlike my previous Motorolla RAZR.