6 posts tagged “iphone”
Over a million iPhones have been sold. Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?
I bought an iPhone the day they were released back in June for both professional and personal reasons (after all, I write about tech for a living). Barring a few quirks and lacking features, it is hands down the best and most enjoyable mobile phone I've ever owned. Syncing my contacts with my computer so I don't have to constantly change information between the two is a dream, and having the full internet and my favorite iTunes stuff with me all in one device is darn nice.
Some of the quirks are admittedly a bummer though. For example: you can't text message more than one person at a time (yet), and you can't search e-mail. But those problems are part of the reason I like the iPhone so much (no, seriously, just hear me out). The fact that Apple makes it dead-simple to update the iPhone with new software through iTunes just like the iPod means that it can add new features that owners request. In fact, it's already done this with three updates so far—Apple has added new e-mail features, fixed some of those little quirks all mobile phones have and, more recently, added the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store for wireless shopping wherever you go.
I would definitely recommend this phone for most people, but it obviously won't fit the bill for everyone. People who live and die by having their entire e-mail archive with them at all times (and searchable) should probably look elsewhere. But for most folks who carry around an iPod and a mobile phone for at least part of their daily work (or want to), I think the iPhone is one of the best gadgets available for the money, and it will only get better with time since Apple has openly promised upgrades and new features in the coming months and years.
It's a snippet from the end of Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Soul to Squeeze":
MacNN | iPhone Stylus from iGiki now on sale - The iPhone ushers in one of the most revolutionary user interfaces for mobile devices - and perhaps all devices - of easily the last decade, and this company wants to step backwards with a stylus?
After long negotiations, sacrificing a few things around the house and a lot of 'have your people call my people' with my manager (read: my wife, Jessi), we have been able to green-light the purchase of an iPhone. A triumph of both personal and professional interests since I'll have a lot of iPhone-related blogging to do for TUAW and Download Squad, as well as writing for an Apple-related book I'm contributing to, I am definitely excited for such a (hopefully) rocktastic gadget.
As another perk, I realized that the iPhone might be the first mobile phone that can actually handle the CMS we use to run TUAW and Download Squad, which means I can probably perform at least some of my Assistant Lead-related duties for DLS from the wonders of my phone instead of being glued to my Mac all the time. This, as you might guess, is also a victory for spending more time with my family and on other hobbies.
The fact that the iPhone will be a tax write-off will be another perk, especially since I plan on purchasing Jessi a new Sprint phone she so badly needs around the middle or end of July. It's just too bad it's a Sprint phone, y'know.
While I can't afford Wil Shipley-sized bets just yet, I can say this: I got $10 that says the iPhone is opened to 3rd party development on June 11th, the day of Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC 2007. Now it might be some sort of a managed development process, where apps need to be submitted to and cleared by Apple in order to get listed on some closed iPhone Downloads page, but I'm still throwing down that the iPhone opens up in at least some basic fashion straight out the gate.
All this talk about 3rd party apps 'bringing down the network' is for the birds - developers, start your engines!
Originally published at 1FPS | David Chartier. You can comment here or there.
