iPhone. Ahs and Ohs
My first instant impression: "wow." when I first looked at it. "damn it feels
heavy", when I first took it in my hand.
This is interesting, because it really felt heavy to me at first. Then i
quickly checked the specs and compared with Blackjack (this is my prior
phone). iPhone weights 4.8 ounces and Blackjack was 3.7 ounces. So yea,
iPhone is heavy but not close to AT&T 8525 (or similar HTC phones)
which weights 6.21 ounces.
Everything else after that was just amazing. Steve job really weren't
drugged every time he bragged about it.
Pros:
Well, there is no point of listing all the features of the iPhone.
Chances are you know them already. I am just listing the ones that
really raised the bar!
- Superb display. I haven't seen any phone's (or any LCD for that matter) that reflects so well under direct sun light. It looks just like as if you are looking at bright colorful printed paper!
- Operating System. Of course this is one of the biggest strength of iPhone, but the way they implemented on this small device is just phenomenal. Every application runs smooth and has cool animation/effects.
- Multi-touch screen part of this phone is of course what makes it so cool and different. It's very intuitive. Flicking, pinching is very natural and works well.
- Visual Voice Mail is, to me, the major revolution in cellphones industry. By few years, most phones and companies will offer this feature, I am sure.
- Software upgradable. When you look at the bottom empty row in the home screen, you know there are room for four additional applications. OR unlimited number of applications... Three additional Apps and one more button to move to "next page".
Cons:
As Apple stated that they will update and add more features through software
upgrades. So lots of complains should be resolved soon. Well,
until then...
- Missing lots of basic text editing features such as selecting texts and undo. These two features already gave me hard time in several cases. Moving through cursor in text also very painful. Most of the time it doesn't work as expected.
- Multi-touch screen also needed to be pressure sensitive. some times unwanted finger touches (very light onces) makes the whole thing every unpleasant. You start jumping to pages when you didn't intend to. If it was pressure sensitive, the iPhone would've been able to detect soft touches from hard and intended ounces.
- Missing to-do (task) from Calendar application. Honestly, why is this feature omitted?
- Call quality isn't the best.
- Missing very basic apps/features: chatting, getting additional ring tones. The built-in calculator is a joke. It doesn't even have % function! come on now!
- Contact List only shows and sort by - First and Last name. It doesn't display Company name in the list. That's a big shame for business users as well as consumers
- It doesn't show any wifi icon to indicate whether or not you are using wifi or edge. I understand iPhone does the "right" thing, but it is satisfying to know what's happening. Because sometimes when i know I should be in Wifi, some basic pages loaded slow... so one can only wonder.
- Battery is NOT that juicy as promised.