Oh gosh. This, apparently, is fun!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
KTUU 2008 Sarah Palin turkey interview
Monday, November 03, 2008
My iPhone - 1 month in
I got an iPhone about a month ago and I have to say I love it. I thought it'd be fun to lay out some of the things that make me smile about the iPhone, and some of the things I want Apple to fix, so here I go...
Happiness
Happiness
- Safari - The real internet, really. It's so cool, and it's way better for not having flash ;-). The only thing better than browsing the full on internet on you iPhone is using...
- iPhone optimised sites - Remember the Milk, Google, Friendfeed. Silky smooth and super responsive.
- The 'silent' switch - The only physical switch on the iPhone. No need to unlock the phone to go on silent. Great tactile feedback. Just really well thought out.
- Google Maps My Location - The big pulsating blue range finder that zooms into your location makes me feel like I'm in an episode of Spooks.
- Twitteriffic - Great Twitter app. Integrated with twitpic.
- last.fm - Listening to recommended radio streaming direct to your mobile phone is like the future now...
- Google Earth - Enough said.
- Oh, and it's beautiful
- Text messaging sucks - there's no letter count, you can't forward texts, and the app itself takes about 10 seconds to launch which is absolutely unforgivable.
- Mail client is clunky - there's no way to rotate the keyboard into landscape mode, the 'Mark as Read' button is inexplicably hidden in 'details'
- Mail client UI (Mark as read, add attachment), you can't add attachments (hello, photos...)
- Folders on the home screen. Grouping icons would fit my mental model a little better
- There's no Copy and Paste - I genuinely thought this was a joke...
- No background tasks - Given patchy 3G coverage I want all of my apps to go off and cache data while I'm not doing anything with the phone (that's like 90% of the time people).
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