The good
- Wi-Fi is swell
- Call quality too
- The loupe/zoom feature for text rules
- You can add addresses directly from GoogleMaps to Contacs!
The bad
- Not loving the keyboard
- Non-Apple earphone jacks don't fit
- Single iTunes library sync
- No voice dialing
The ugly
- Ear prints. Ick.
The sublime
- Shiny screen doubles as mirror
- The typography
- UI and UX simplicity
- No learning curve!
The ridiculous
- No bluetooth @#%$#
- Eminently droppable
Would be nice
- Make the loupe universal
- Allow text selection, cut, paste
- Selecting multiple emails (for deletion)
- A simple text editor
- Bluetooth sync
- Direct sync with .Mac from iPhone
So I was blasé about the iPhone
I already had my eye on the Motorola E6 after looking into the Nokia N80 and 6708. They all work on T-mobile, my current service, and have a stylus, on which topic more later. Waiting for iPhone version 2.0 and letting Apple work out the inevitable kinks, crashes and battery issues on other people's time and dime seemed like a reasonable approach. But then it dawned on me: I can make my friend Joe - Mr.look-at-my-latest-gadget - lose a few hours of sleep over this. What splendid motivation! Judging by last night's emails from him - mission accomplished. Bwaahhaa hahah!
All this joy and excitement thanks to Andrew and company's heroic efforts at the Galleria - for which I am in eternal awe, having sat through them at my desk at work tweaking Stellar stylesheets and watching the email updates fly. This was logistical genius, the 1812 Overture of event organization.
Many jokes were made at the iPhone's expense in the days before its release. "There's no cover? If I put it in my pocket, will my butt call New Zealand?" "What if someone calls you halfway through your spare ribs at Red Bones?" Most, it turns out, unfounded.
Then I got one
Day One Summary
- pickup and setup
- pretend to be Linda Damato for AT&T (thanks Linda!)
- sync with Macbook
- call Justin Anderson, across the room
- carry silly little iPhone bag back to NE48 from W92
- feel goofy the entire way
- get beset by co-workers
- SMS Meredith, discuss shoes
- test Stellar, bluetooth, attempt other work
- surf web using EDGE on the car ride home (thanks Craig!)
- email Joe to gloat
- get email back right away and cackle
- more showing off at home
- connect to home Wi-Fi, send email, look at sites
- make mental note of things to write-up
- massage sore digits