At work we got an iPhone as a Christmas present. Things I noticed:
1. Apple expects us to get the phone including a SIM card; it took me a while to figure out how to move my SIM card over.
2. It takes a long time to boot.
3. When the phone is switched off, phone calls are not redirected to my mailbox, apparently. Instead, I get a message saying that I’m “currently unreachable”. Grrrr.
4. It’s tricky to write text on the iPhone. I wonder if it will measure up to my *Nokia 6300*.
5. Without the anti-spam rules of my local Outlook installation at work reading my work mail is a chore. There’s so much spam it’s unbelievable.
6. Google mail just works.
7. The phone has 16G of RAM. Not enough for either music or photo collection. What should I use it for?
More to follow, I’m sure.
Today I also realized that the user interface to *audiobooks* on the iPod is worse than for music tracks. I’m experimenting with the metadata to figure out what the bare minimum is such that tracks play in the right order. Apparently I cannot rely on track name or artists. That leads to the braindead repeating of artist and book name within the track
#iPhone #iPod #Gadgets
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I was chatting with Noufal just now:
Right now I’m enjoying it as an extremely portable multiprotocol chat client, mail reader, and web browser including well defined user interfaces for some services like bloglines, gmail, google earth, Swiss public transport, Swiss phone book, etc. It also features a crappy keyboard and is super locked down. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2008-12-04 15:23 UTC