Sign up with GoogleSo the very first thing I did was to set iTunes to not ask me to update my iPhone. That's done...and now I can enjoy.
After using the phone for a day, it's not the best thing since sliced bread...but it's verrrry nice.
You can't beat a full qwerty keyboard on a messaging device, and this is the phones biggest weakness. I have gotten pretty good at the touch pad, but even with multi-touch, it's one letter at a time. I am getting pretty fast, but where I would write a page long email on my Samsung i600...I might get a bit tired on the iPhone half way through. Time will tell as I get more used to the on screen keyboard.
The rest of the touch screen interface is magical. One of my biggest complaints with touch screen phones was that you can't use it with one hand. There's always that need for the stylus. The iPhone is designed for one hand, it just works, everything is reachable.
The phone works well, and all my contacts "magically syncronised" (Steve made it sound like no other phones can do this). I am a little annoyed that you cannot have Exchange Active Sync on the phone, but MS/Apple...can't have everything. The only issue I've faced so far, is my contacts are stored as 082 888 8888. When I get incoming calls, they come in as +27 82 888 8888 and the phone doesn't pick up the contact (I see the number). It does pick up the contact name in SMS's though. Very strange.
It is the best iPod apple ever made. Luckily for me, I've kept my covers upto date. It's great to just flick the phone over and use coverflow to find the cd you want. It's so real, it's unreal. Video is excellent too, I've got about 2 gigs of TV Series on my phone. The screen is big enough to watch and enjoy something (the Ipod Video was too small IMO).
SMSing is okay...the chat thing is cool, but I will get irritated when I need to delete a single message and I can't. Also, no sms delivery reports.
The Safari Browser is EXCELLENT. I don't think I've ever seen a mobile browser as good as this. It makes mobile internet so easy to navigate and it's just a pleasure to use. A little "held back" by edge, but it seems to be fast enough to not be annoying. I can see my running up huge data charges using this thing.
So all in all, it's not the ultimate phone...but it's a good phone, and good emailing device, an excellent web-surfer and an excellent iPod. Not ideal for the businessman, but 100% perfect for the life-style phone user.
Any questions?
After using the phone for a day, it's not the best thing since sliced bread...but it's verrrry nice.
You can't beat a full qwerty keyboard on a messaging device, and this is the phones biggest weakness. I have gotten pretty good at the touch pad, but even with multi-touch, it's one letter at a time. I am getting pretty fast, but where I would write a page long email on my Samsung i600...I might get a bit tired on the iPhone half way through. Time will tell as I get more used to the on screen keyboard.
The rest of the touch screen interface is magical. One of my biggest complaints with touch screen phones was that you can't use it with one hand. There's always that need for the stylus. The iPhone is designed for one hand, it just works, everything is reachable.
The phone works well, and all my contacts "magically syncronised" (Steve made it sound like no other phones can do this). I am a little annoyed that you cannot have Exchange Active Sync on the phone, but MS/Apple...can't have everything. The only issue I've faced so far, is my contacts are stored as 082 888 8888. When I get incoming calls, they come in as +27 82 888 8888 and the phone doesn't pick up the contact (I see the number). It does pick up the contact name in SMS's though. Very strange.
It is the best iPod apple ever made. Luckily for me, I've kept my covers upto date. It's great to just flick the phone over and use coverflow to find the cd you want. It's so real, it's unreal. Video is excellent too, I've got about 2 gigs of TV Series on my phone. The screen is big enough to watch and enjoy something (the Ipod Video was too small IMO).
SMSing is okay...the chat thing is cool, but I will get irritated when I need to delete a single message and I can't. Also, no sms delivery reports.
The Safari Browser is EXCELLENT. I don't think I've ever seen a mobile browser as good as this. It makes mobile internet so easy to navigate and it's just a pleasure to use. A little "held back" by edge, but it seems to be fast enough to not be annoying. I can see my running up huge data charges using this thing.
So all in all, it's not the ultimate phone...but it's a good phone, and good emailing device, an excellent web-surfer and an excellent iPod. Not ideal for the businessman, but 100% perfect for the life-style phone user.
Any questions?
