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bassplayinMacFiend
Banging the Bottom End
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
 
2007-07-12, 10:35

I surf everywhere now. This was one of my main reasons to get this phone. I have to drive my 2 year old on the weekends in order to get him to take a nap. So while I'm sitting in the park waiting for him to wake up I can now surf away on my iPhone. I also check out the morning news sitting on the bus on the way to work while listening to tunes. I'll even use it at home when I don't feel like sitting at the computer station and feel too lazy to grab / boot up my MacBook. It's my Internet crack dispenser. I'm wondering just how "unlimited" the unlimited data plan is. I've had my iPhone for 13 days now and my data usage is 8MB up and 61MB down.

Since I was already carrying a bulky phone and a bulky 2nd gen iPod, getting the iPhone allowed me to slim down the weight in my pockets. Sure, I don't have as much space as my 20GB iPod so the downside is I'll have to sync much more often to rotate music through my iPhone. On the plus side, I'll be able to get reacquainted with all of my music because I'll have to delete some of my regularly listened to music to make space for different stuff. My 20GB iPod didn't hold all my music either, but for some reason it seemed more painful to try and rearrange music on it.

I cannot see myself using email on my iPhone in its current state. No rules, no spam filter, painful steps to delete more than a handful of emails = no go for me. I'm lucky I can log in through my ISP's website in Safari on the iPhone if I really need to check an email. This way I can ignore the hundreds of Cocoa & Obj-C mailing list emails as well as all my messageboard emails which get ferried away into proper folders on my home computer. Having to traverse all of that in a single folder, then having to delete one by one (twice!!!) would drive me crazy. So while I could see using this feature IF I could customize which emails were pulled down to my phone, until some serious updates get pushed out I'm not going to even bother.

I use both the stock and weather widgets but both of these widgets need beefing up, IMO. For example, if you want to reorder the weather forecasts, you can't move them around. You have to delete, then reenter each location you want a weather forecast in the order you'd like them to be in. This is silly, and should be remedied.

With the stock widget I have the same lack of reordering problem as the weather widget. I'd also like to be able to break stock info into separate portfolios and flip through them like I do with weather forecasts on the weather widget. For stocks I actually own, I'd like the ability to punch in my buy price so I could see gain/(loss) based on current price. This would make the stock widget much more handy for me. I do use it to check prices, but if I need to check gain/(loss) info, it's back to Safari to log into a site that has this information.

I like the built-in camera. Obviously the picture quality can't compare to my Canon 300D, but the Canon is nowhere near as portable and instantly available as my iPhone is. So for those quick and silly shots, or snapping someone's picture to add to their contact info on my phone, the camera works great. If I want great shots then I'll drag out the Rebel.

I barely use my cell phone for voice calls, and then 99.44% of my calls were to wifey of the "I'm on my way variety" or "What did you need again?" so the visual voice mail and all that other phone-related hoohaa didn't matter to me.

Anyway, this is how I'm using my iPhone so far. I'm really digging it, but also feeling the limitations of a 1.0 release. Still I believe Apple will improve the iPhone over time, and some of my concerns will be addressed.
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