A few days with the iPhone

Its been a couple days and I’ve been using the iPhone as my secondary device.  I have to say that it hasn’t been an incredible experience.  Its been nice – but not incredible.  I hate to admit it but Ti is right about the keyboard or lack there of. My dad liked it  - Its funny seeing an old dude that isn't great with computers pick it up and in a few seconds checked out every feature and gotten a hang of the basics.  One thing that he doesn’t do and wont is text so, he didn’t care about the keys – he pointed out something though – Which I thought was pretty interesting – Once you set everything up – you get all your info in one place – He wont input into the device at all – For him its just a portal, and reference, much like a TV.  Which may be how many people use the iPhone.

Now, I think I’ve gotten the hang of the keyboard  - Speed isn’t bad – probably about the same as the Pearl and just about as accurate so I would say on par with anything else out there without real QWERTY keys.  What’s a bit annoying is that I make mistakes tapping on icons and things of that nature that never happen with a device that has keys and a few buttons. What I think happened here is that its too clean, to beautiful and way to minimal.  I really think that 2-3 more buttons on the thing wouldn’t kill it aesthetically and I think would have really enhanced basic functionality.  

Also.....It gets hot – Really hot!  I’m used to phones warming up a bit and my laptop doesn’t run cool either – But for a phone that I’m supposed to hold up to my skull?  That’s a bit freaky!

I’ve heard some comments comparing the Wi-Fi to the Dash or other devices, but the way the iPhone hands off data is really nice – Makes you wonder why others cant get it right. Every time you access any type of data feature, whether its Google Maps, Mail or Safari it looks for an access point,  In fact, the antenna on the thing is pretty impressive  - I was picking up networks that I hadn't seen before on my laptop.

Now for the work stuff – What I’m really happy about is that all of our cases fit and work great!  All the sensors are open and work fine – The volume and vibrate/ringer button work great and the sleep button is easy to get to as well.  I spent some time this weekend looking through some eBay and Amazon listings – I wanted to see what the all hacks out there had to offer and I was really disappointed.  There are so, so many people that are going to get there  $5 case from the garage operated eBay business and be ticked off cause the iPhone’s screen doesn’t want to come on or that you cant get to the buttons or that they just bought the pimpiest phone in the world and put hubcaps on the thing – Come peeps – what’s the deal?  Spend a few extra dollars and buy from a reputable company that has done some testing and makes accessories as their primary business.  More on this later....