I Love My… uhuh
I waited until 7pm before driving to the Apple Store last night. It was busy – customers, mainly gawking and Apple Store employees at the door, greeting passersby and offering the opportunity to try the iPhone.
I poked and prodded one of the units, but in some ways, the first moments of touching it were almost anti-climactic. I’ve been immersed so deeply in iPhone news, comment and rumor that I felt like I knew everything about it already. Of course, I don’t.
Five minutes of fondling the demo model seemed long enough to prove that I wasn’t on a tear to have one of them, so I walked over to a rep with a handheld device and bought one.
The activation was disappointing; Apple’s part worked perfectly, at least for me, but AT&T told me to wait for activation. Having read that it could take up to 6 hours, I went to bed. Activation was finished by the time I woke up this morning, so I’ve been an iPhone user for all of 2 hours.
It’s brilliant; it’s beautiful; it’s a work of art; it works like no other phone I’ve owned. There, that’s done. I hate the EDGE network, but I knew I would; it’s also faster than I expected, probably the result of Project Finer EDGE this week. The keyboard is another big surprise. It’s really responsive to one or two fingers, and within about 20 minutes I was typing with two thumbs with few errors, all of which were corrected by predictive text.
I’m sure that as I use it, I’ll find things I don’t like. Lack of copy and paste will be supremely annoying; I can’t put all 60 GB of my music on it (not sure why that bugs me); I want an iChat program, etc. But for everything I’ve found so far that I don’t like, there are one or two things that are truly captivating.
The only truly captivating thing about my Treo 700p when I pulled it out of the box was how often it crashed. And now the captivating thing about my Treo 700p is how completely stupid it looks. Compared to the iPhone, it looks like a block of wood.
I wanted to enter the star chamber and declare that I wouldn’t buy until iPhone v2 – you know, the version where Apple finally corrects the horrendous mistakes of version one. But when I asked myself what phone I wanted to own between now and then, I decided I’d just try to limp along with the first model.
UPDATE: iPhone accessory of the day: the wooden iPhone case.
Todd,
I bought one too – as you saw via my tweets – and I’m loving it. I really hesitated because of the cost and the EDGE. After a day of using it, I really like it. It wears nicely. The photos are pretty good. The call quality is good, except if you have both headphones on. For some reason it’s superior with just one of the ear buds in. I think I’m going to get the Viba phones and I’m hoping they’ll match the quality of the Shure headphones I have for my other devices.
Oh, and the e-mail portion is fantastic. I like twittering from it too.
Tonight, my son and I were roaming around a local car show casually snapping pictures. The occasional ooohs and ahhhs were gratifying (just being honest!).
Now, when V2 comes out, this one gets handed down to the teen. I don’t have to worry about feeling bad when the Uber iPhone hits the streets! I have another kid too – that will take care of V3 of the Magnum Uber Mini Nano iPhone.
Cheers – Dan
Todd,
I bought one too – as you saw via my tweets – and I’m loving it. I really hesitated because of the cost and the EDGE. After a day of using it, I really like it. It wears nicely. The photos are pretty good. The call quality is good, except if you have both headphones on. For some reason it’s superior with just one of the ear buds in. I think I’m going to get the Viba phones and I’m hoping they’ll match the quality of the Shure headphones I have for my other devices.
Oh, and the e-mail portion is fantastic. I like twittering from it too.
Tonight, my son and I were roaming around a local car show casually snapping pictures. The occasional ooohs and ahhhs were gratifying (just being honest!).
Now, when V2 comes out, this one gets handed down to the teen. I don’t have to worry about feeling bad when the Uber iPhone hits the streets! I have another kid too – that will take care of V3 of the Magnum Uber Mini Nano iPhone.
Cheers – Dan