Jan 18, 2010

Got my iPhone

So I decided on the iPhone after my post a few weeks ago. I got the 16gig 3gs and I really like it. I think all iPhone owners are only to happy to show off there phones because once your used to it it's a really slick interface and while I knew of the features but untill I got my own I just didn't realize how slick.

I asked the question of how well I can connect my work email ( exchange ) and gmail side by side and I'm impressed it works perfectly.

The browser is really great and now that I am back in Melbourne the Metlink app comes in real handy so I also love the app store. While on the train on the way to work ( which is where I am right now ) I can listen to music ( or in this case a podcast CFHour rift now ) and I can blog at the sam time. I was told Twitterific was the best Twitter app but I think I like tweetdeck.

What I dont like so far is not a whole lot basically the battery life could be better 2 full days is streching it but then again it is a small computer and that acive sync won't sync across my notes. I was informed about a neat trick for notes here it is:

Make a contact in Outlook called NOTES and in the notes section put the notes you need access to while out and about. Pretty simple really and not a bad compromise.

So what apps should I be using that I'm not let's hear what you got!
Posted by Paul Kukiel at 4:37 PM
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3 comments:

  1. I got a 32GB iPod Touch a few weeks ago, just because it was on sale and I wanted something to listen to music and watch video on. Apart from not having a radio stack, mic (though you can use earphones set with built-in mic), camera and GPS, it does everything else quite well and has given me a good idea about the limitations on the iPhone OS and it's hardware.

    To be honest, the only third party apps I use are Facebook and Tweetdeck (and they both crash from time to time). Most games are a momentary distraction (which coincidentally rarely crashed on me), and most of the utilities have such limited use or are so gimmicky that I can't bring myself to keep them on the device past the first or second run :P

    If Apple would just admit multitasking is necessary with third party apps it would make like a lot easier for users and developers - *so* many times I've wanted to check an email or a web page in the middle of using Facebook and Tweetdeck and been forced to copy and paste a message so that I could come back to it and I've even bumped the home button a few times and just plain lost what I was doing. Not cool! Hopefully the 4.0 iPhone OS will finally work to fix this...

    Until then I think jail breaking is necessary - you get multitasking, and you get other apps that Apple won't approve on the app store (e.g. VLC, terminal, SSH, emulators and more).
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  2. The iPhone is a good smartphone, it has got lots of apps to help you out and nice multimedia features too. Compared to other smartphones in the market the iPhone has done really well..
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