iPhone Update

I’ve had a couple of people ask how I’m liking my iPhone now that I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d summarize here: I still love it, and have encountered no reason that you should not get one. Two weeks of use have only illuminated even more perfect little details, actually. For example: when you’re listening to music and a new text or email message arrives, the music fades slightly so you can hear the alert sound. Or when you get an incoming call or text from a number that isn’t in your address book, it looks up the area code for you and displays the associated geographic region under the number. Or the way it has swiftly learned to autocomplete my various usernames.

I have discovered that it’s possible to crash the iPhone’s version of Safari if you get a lot of tabs going with a lot of fancy display tricks in each. For example, Slashdot, the World of Warcraft site, and a couple of other Ajax-heavy pages will do it. But when the browser does crash it affects nothing else, and it swiftly relaunches itself while remembering what tabs you had open, so in some cases I don’t even notice.

I guess the only thing that does annoy me slightly is the lack of an iPhone wired remote, like the radio remote I used with my 4G ipod. But I’m sure a whole galaxy of iPhone accessories, both official and third party, will be coming soon enough.

Comments

The email UI still sucks.

Posted by jesse on July 17th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

with regards to the iPhone remote, you know you can squeeze the mic on the headphone cable to skip tracks/ffwd, etc. right?

Yes, but I don’t use the iPhone earbuds because they’re uncomfortable and the sound is underwhelming.

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